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Hey there WoW.com readers! You’re probably wondering who the hell this guy is. And by this guy, I mean me. I’m a writer over at Joystiq, where we sometimes jealously watch all the fun stuff our sword and spell-wielding counterparts over here get to do. Luckily, and only by means of geographical location and the fact that they were showing off Starcraft 2, I got a chance to tour the Blzzard campus and take a lot of snaps if you know that I mean. Wink wink, nudge nudge. These will be featured in a story over on Joystiq at some point today, but in the meantime here’s a sneak preview just for WoW.com readers. You may already know about Blizzard’s massive courtyard Orc statue that’s in the process of being installed in the front of the main building, but you might not know about the tenets engraved on each of the eight compass points that tout Blizzard’s mottos. There’s a peek at all of ‘em in the gallery below, and they’re also listed just beyond the break. Read on for more, check out the statue and points gallery below, and stay tuned today for the

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Bornakk hinted about this awhile back and we knew what the reward pets were going to be but when this years Children’s Week came and went with no new content, a lot of players were a tad disappointed. Well now that the PTR is up in order to test patch 3.2, testers can find the Northrend incarnation of Children’s Week in full swing and that means lots of shiny new quests. The new quests see you taking around a Wolvar orphan named Kekek or little Roo of the Oracles to meet certain famous people or visit various landmarks in Northend like Wrymrest Temple, Vordrassil, Dalaran and the Bronze Dragonshrine. You then have to take them to a toy shop in Dalaran and buy them each a gift. If you’ve ever done the classic or Outland Children’s Week quests then you’ll know the drill and it still looks like a lot of fun. Check out our gallery below to find out more about what the quests involve.

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The unofficial rainbow realm of Proudmoore held a Pride celebration on Saturday, and according to Riege of <The Tainted Ones>, the event went off without a hitch. “The after party at Booty Bay was the perfect end to a day of just enjoying the game,” Riege wrote. “Alliance and Horde, gay and straight, ogre or human or gnome…it didn’t matter. We were just a bunch of people who were having fun. How often does that happen?” But Riege, where are the feral druids? Everyone knows you can’t have a good pride parade without bears. *rimshot* Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@gmail.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the

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Great news for collectors of pets and mounts in the Patch 3.2 notes! Not only will the long-desired Ravasaur mount finally be available — for Horde players only, mind you — but dinosaur fanatics will be pleased to discover that they can find Raptor Hatchlings from rare and elite raptors throughout the world. For those unwilling to farm, you can also buy Obsidian Raptor Hatchlings from Breanni in Dalaran! But that’s not all. Besides those two, Blizzard says that there are six other new unannounced non-combat pets available, not including Argent Tournament rewards. But even that’s not all! Northrend Children’s Week will start with the new patch, which means that we’re likely to see the Gorloc and Wolvar orphans we’ve known about since Wrath launched. All that’s on top of the new paladin mounts from the Argent Tournament, the Sunreaver and Silver Covenant mounts, and the new as-yet-unnamed Argent Tournament pet. Nice patch for you pet and mount collectors, eh?

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TweetMyGaming is a site started up by our friends over at gamerDNA (they routinely contribute to our sister site Massively, including sharing some great information on WoW’s demographics), and while the site is designed to track all mentions of video games on Twitter, one game has more or less dominated the discussion since the site debuted about a month ago. Well, actually, it was The Sims 3 — apparently as big as World of Warcraft is, it still can’t stop EA’s Sims series for sheer popularity (or top the series in sales). But still, WoW is sitting at a respectable number two in tweets, and watching the feed go by over on the game’s page lets you in on all the different slices of the game’s community, from the hardcore raiders to the folks just trying to grab some time to play. Of course, all of the values on the site are constantly changing, and we’re sure they’re still tweaking the formula of how games move up and down the list — The Sims 3 is coming hot off of its release a few weeks ago, and while WoW has a vibrant twitter community for sure,

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We haven’t done a dagger in a while, if my memory serves. Plus, this one is made of stars. Name: Fang of Oblivion (Wowhead, Thottbot, WoWDB) Type: Epic Unique One-hand Dagger Damage/Speed: 271-407 / 1.80 (188.3 DPS) Attributes: +47 Agility, +54 Stamina, and a Yellow Socket, which will probably let you add to crit, hit or haste, depending on what you need more of, with a +4 Agility socket bonus. +1869 Feral attack power, so you can do more damage in your new kitty form. Gallery: Phat Loot Phriday Improves crit by 29, haste by 24, and attack power by 80. So yes, this is a damage dagger all the way. Rogues get the edge (get it? “Edge”?), but anyone who can wield daggers and likes stabbing with them will benefit. Hunters, you could use it, but there’s better stuff out there for you — even dual wielding with something else, there are polearms that will give more agility and more stats you want. How to Get It: Drops from the Assembly of Iron in Ulduar on 25-man mode. Get your raid in there, down all of the bosses in the group, contending with their abilities along the

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When I saw slashdance vs. Ulduar for the first time, I wasn’t sure whether I should laugh or cry. This is slashdance’s version of a raid-patch trailer, something to help get its members riled up and ready to go raid. Of course, it’s obviously more of a parody about those kinds of similar movies. But this piece is much more tailored to the “rest of us.” You know, those of us who struggle a bit more with the content. I can’t really discuss too much about the movie without spoiling the plot. But it’s slashdance, who’s very well known for the Redshift movies. The author’s eye for quality is definitely apparant here, and I like the wry sense of wit. I also have to admit, I’ve been the guy to say “You are not prepared!” [Via WarcraftMovies.com] If you have any suggestions for WoW Moviewatch, you can mail them to us at machinima AT wowinsider DOT com.

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Welcome to Ask a Lore Nerd, where each week blogger and columnist Alex Ziebart answers your questions about the lore and history of the World of Warcraft. Ask your questions in the comments section below, and we’ll try to answer it in a future edition. I didn’t intentionally choose today’s Scourge theme. Really. These things just happen. That Dragon-specific one I did all that time ago? I didn’t plan that, either. I’m just awesome enough that these things come together all by themselves. Yep. It’s my pure, radiant awesome. What? What do you mean current game content dictates what wow goldtopics are hot or not? Pssh, that’s crazy talk. That can’t be it. It’s all me, y’all. Briz9 asked… “Who built Icecrown Citadel and the accompanying structures? Did Arthas build it after he became the Lich King, or was it already there?” The massive Saronite structures that make up Icecrown as it is today is all fairly new, from what I understand. Most Scourge architecture is based on Nerubian architecture (as you can see in

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I don’t PvP, so I’m going off the reports of others here, but apparently Warlock and Hunter pets are often proving ineffective and short-lived in PvP. Until recently, this was often the case in PvE as well, but pets have much more avoidance now in a PvE environment. It looks like an improvement will be coming in PvP as well: Ghostcrawler said last night that they “think it’s probably time to let pets scale, to some extent, with resilience and spell pen.” In fact, he says they have a new pet scaling system, and “assuming it works” (which seems like something they ought to be able to make work), they should be able to make the pet scale off of “all relevant stats” of the master. Players have been asking for more pet scaling for a long time, especially resilience. Obviously how big of a change it will be depends on what “to some extent” ends up meaning, but it can only help pet classes.

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