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Alterac Valley Battle Plan

Armaggedon's coming — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:16:07 GMT

Every now and then I have one those BGs that just grabs me by the short and curlies (lots of short here, not so much curlies). Going back a few days… AV was failfest. While on average Alliance are still winning more AVs than not, there are some days where the keyboard shorts out for the tears floating [...]

PUG with the Blues 2: Electric Pugabloo

Wow Insider — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:35 GMT

If you didn't make it to the party last time, here's your second chance to PUG it up with WoW devs and CMs. Zarhym just announced take two of PUG with the Blues, and it's guaranteed to be a good time.

Just hop onto the Patch 3.3 PTR this Wednesday at 4 PM PST/7 PM EST and put your character into the random heroic Wrath dungeon queue. If you're lucky, you'll get grouped with someone with <GM> before their name and get to run a heroic with a dev!

This could be your only chance to use that funny quip you've been saving for a blue post reply, or to make sure that Ghostcrawler never lives down whatever off-the-cuff comment he made one time that everybody interpreted the way that they wanted. Just make sure to say it while he's busy doing something. Timing is everything.

Oh, and some WoW.com staff will be there too. So get your PTR client patched up and ready to go and let's. Get. Random.

Patch 3.3 is the last major patch of Wrath of the Lich King. With the new Icecrown Citadel 5-man dungeons and 10/25-man raid arriving soon, patch 3.3 will deal the final blow to the Arthas. WoW.com's Guide to Patch 3.3 will keep you updated with all the latest patch news.

Filed under: News items, Wrath of the Lich King

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Last Day to Merge Battle.Net Accounts!

The Wowhead Blog — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:12 GMT

[modelviewer npc=26452 float=right]Mr. Chilly![/modelviewer]For those of you who want their (Item #41133), today is your last day to sign up!

Get your WoW account merged onto a Battle.net account today and get your companion pet�there will be no one around to feel sorry for you if you wait until tomorrow. Head on over to http://www.battle.net/ right now and get signed up, before it's too late!

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The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, I love Gearbox

Spooncraft — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:01:58 GMT

I love Gearbox, and I love Borderlands. Good fun even if the PC versions are downright getting the whole ass to mouth treatment with multi-player. I know for a fact that on the consoles, Borderlands is destroying right now. Here’s a direct quote posted by one of the official forum mods. You won’t see this kind [...]

Why You Should Subscribe to the Aerie by Email

Kestrel's Aerie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:46:32 GMT

How many of you have a feed reader full of unread blog articles? Yeah, so do I; currently, my unread count stands at 163 items, mostly in WoW blogs. And that�s after reading almost all the stuff I really want (or �need�) to read today! Many people who are faced with this onslaught of bloggination simply [...]

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Last day for non-Battle.net accounts to log on

Wow Insider — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:03:36 GMT

Okay, guys. You've had plenty of time to do it, and now the countdown's just about over. As of tomorrow, only Battle.net accounts will be able to log into the game. If you merge your account before the deadline, you get Mr. Chilly, the adorable penguin pet, but if you do it after the deadline, all you get is a permeating sense of failure.

Just go and merge your account(s) while you're on your break and reading this! It takes almost no time, the process is painless, and you get a small flightless bird that serves no useful purpose. If you don't take care of it now, don't say we didn't warn you when you log in tomorrow and you're spending an extended amount of time with Roary McFrostwyrm.

We're not legally liable for the damage that might cause. We've done our part. The rest is up to you.

The account management page is over here. For those of you who've already merged your account, just read the next post. Don't stare. These guys were just busy, that's all.

Filed under: News items, Account Security

Last day for non-Battle.net accounts to log on originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Patch 3.3: The Oculus receives a welcome nerf

Wow Insider — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:02:14 GMT

Ah, the Oculus. The bane of every PUG's existence since Wrath launch. Not a bad instance, just loaded with too many gimmicks and not exactly friendly to ... less erudite players. But, I mean, I have a bunch of 80s and even I still hate running Oculus. And I would never PUG it in its current state. In fact, upon hearing about the new Dungeon System and its daily random dungeon, I thought "well, bad news if you get Oculus."

Well, it looks like all of us are in luck. In the latest Patch 3.3 PTR patch notes update, the Oculus got its very own section! Check this out.

Many bosses and creatures have had their total health reduced.
Several bosses and creatures have had cooldowns on specific abilities increased, effect durations reduced, and damage on some of these abilities reduced.
Ring-Lord Conjurers and Sorceresses now hang out in packs of 4 instead of packs of 5.
Vehicle scaling on the drakes based on the rider's item level has been increased to make them more powerful.

Heck yes! Smaller trash packs, HP nerfs, and even an increase the drake scaling that they already implemented to make them not as much of a pain in the keister. Will it make people not complete abhor the Oculus? Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. But maybe it'll stop people from willingly giving themselves the Random Dungeon deserter debuff just to get out of the place.

Oh, and quick thing. "Oculus" has one C in it. Just the one. Spread the word.

Patch 3.3 is the last major patch of Wrath of the Lich King. With the new Icecrown Citadel 5-man dungeons and 10/25-man raid arriving soon, patch 3.3 will deal the final blow to Arthas. WoW.com's Guide to Patch 3.3 will keep you updated with all the latest patch news.

Filed under: Patches

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The Deathknell for WAR

Spooncraft — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:46:58 GMT

Well I can say now that WAR has been officially shit-canned. Mythic was hit recently with about 80 layoffs reducing their development team by almost half. This news was rumored and confirmed earlier this week and personally, I’m thinking that WAR’s servers will be done sometime soon. The game itself never really held any appeal for [...]

Star Wars: The Old Republic get's a new class!

Spooncraft — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:32:44 GMT

The Imperial Agent has joined the ranks as the newest (and possibly most popular) playable class in the new Star Wars MMO. BioWare revealed the sixth class for Star Wars: The Old Republic on their forums with a Holonet official class page update in the coming week. Imperial Agents are essentially the rogue class of SWTOR. [...]

A Circle of Dee Pee Ess

Aspect of the Hare: Pike's World of WarCraft Blog — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:32:00 GMT

Note: I wrote this yesterday, then wasn’t entirely happy about it so I saved it in drafts and went to bed. Now it seems to be jumping around the blogosphere, which makes me late to the bandwagon, so I did some quick editing, and here ya go: – Anyone who has been lurking around the blogosphere [...]