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So this question was actually inspired by the photo Rossi put on his latest warrior column: That of a Worgen warrior wielding Ashkandi. It brought me back to the old days where that sword was pretty the dream in every possible way. It had good DPS, a decent speed, nice stats, it looked absolutely amazing, and it once belonged to the OG of Humanity, the greatest hero the Alliance has ever known, Anduin Lothar. Back in the day, pretty much every Arms Warrior and Retribution Paladin I knew lusted for it. I didn’t, since I played a Druid then, but I sort of wished Druids could use it, just for the look and the back story if nothing else. Fast forward to today. We’re looking forward to Patch 3.2.2, which will bring us level 80 Onyxia, complete with upgraded versions of classic loot from the original raids. Alas, there’s no upgraded Ashkandi in sight. This sort of bums me out, I’d love to let my Death Knight swing around a big old dragon emblazoned sword like that. But hey, I have hope. Cataclysm’s revisiting parts of the old world, so maybe we’ll see more upgraded

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For all those of you out there who don’t have the time to slog through the 100+ articles we published on BlizzCon 2009, we’ve condensed the events of the past few days into the most important things you need to know: THE END OF WRATH: Developers gave some pretty revealing information on what we can expect to see in patch 3.2.2 (the revamped Onyxia raid) and in patch 3.3, where we’ll finally stare down Arthas himself. THE NEXT EXPANSION: Blizzard’s own loremaster Chris Metzen debuted the first trailer for the next expansion, titled World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and that sound you hear is millions of players who can’t believe Blizzard would ever pull a stunt this big. Cataclysm’s basic storyline features the return of Deathwing and the re-sundering of the world in his wake, forever altering Azeroth’s classic landscape and sending players to previously unseen parts of the world like the Lost Isles, Hyjal, Gilneas, Uldum, and Grim Batol. FEATURES OF CATACLYSM: The most important features of the next expansion include two new races (Goblins for the Horde and

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Reader comments — ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week. My significant other arrived home from work today just I was cropping the pictures for this weekend’s [1.Local]. Curiously, he wasn’t entirely convinced that the opening shot should be a horizontal zoom running the entire width of the column – even though I had clearly centered the massive header on the impressively rippling, cobblestone content. /sigh The things we change to please our readers … “Was I the only one thinking of a 300 quote that could be twisted for this article’s title?” wondered Dreadskull after reading this week’s WoW Rookie exhortation for players to Save everything, sell everything.”Leave the corpses nothing! And sell to vendors, EVERYTHING!” More comments rippling forth (heheh, she said “rippling”) from the back room, after the break. So what do you think of Patch 3.2? Let’s start off this week with a

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Our friends at Blizzplanet have posted the official Pocket Books signing schedule for BlizzCon — both Richard Knaak and Christie Golden will be live in attendance and signing throughout the weekend, and you can find the full schedule after the break. Both Knaak and Golden have written popular Warcraft novels, so bring your copies and you might walk away with them signed. As far as I know, this is the first sign of a schedule we’ve seen for the convention. Blizzard usually does announce a schedule of panels and events a few days ahead of time (and of course, when you get your packet there at the door, there’s a program with the full schedule inside), but they usually cut it pretty close. As of this writing, eight days until showtime, there is no official schedule yet posted on the site. But this will give you at least one thing to plan on seeing (and we can tell you for sure that Friday morning will be the official keynote, with Saturday evening being the Ozzy show, if the way they’ve done it in the past is any indication). And as long as you’re making a schedule up,

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Welcome to another edition of Arcane Brilliance, the weekly Mage column where you can find all the latest issues that are important to those of us who can alter the molecular structure of our enemies, conjure great missiles of entwined flame and ice, and create delicious pastries from the very air around us, but can’t seem to negotiate the mysteries of wearing anything more substantial than a fancy bathrobe into battle. Mages: masters of the arcane, failures at dressing. Let me begin with a few nice things. These are things I like–things that do not, in principle, infuriate me. We’ll get to things that do a bit later. I’ll hide them after the jump, I suppose, so as not to annoy those of you who cannot stand to see even the most minor of complaints from any class but your own. For now, we’ll be positive and cheery, and illustrate that–as it ever has been and ever will be–there are aspects of this game that I love, and aspects that I simultaneously do not. Such is life on the class-balance carousel. As a Mage with a pulpit from which to preach, I will never

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Activision-Blizzard held their second quarter conference call yesterday, and in addition to addressing the Starcraft II delay, both Mike Morhaime and Activision CEO Bobby Kotick shared some insight into what the revamped Battle.net will be like. The brand new system (which is currently up and working, albeit in a very skeleton form so far) will have “social networking features, cross-game communication, [and] unified account management,” in addition to features that will let players “share experiences” with each other online (we’d presume that means things like screenshot galleries and leaderboards, but who knows?). Kotick also spoke up, and compared the service to that other popular online community, Xbox Live. Blizzard is still saying the new Battle.net will come in conjunction with the new Starcraft, so we’ll have to keep an eye out for them both in the first half of 2010. It’ll be interesting to see what other features Blizzard adds in, and exactly what form features like “cross-game communication” take — do they mean actual in-game

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Normally, the approach to find an interview for the Colosseum is relatively simple, but filled with some frustrating challenges. I check the SK Arena Rating tools, and scan the highest rated teams for that week. I need to keep a special eye out for which teams are predominately clustered on one server. I try to rotate servers each week, so that we’re getting decent representation across the player group. (We’re trying, anyway. With a single interview each week, it’ll take a long time to get someone from each server.) I then create a Death Knight, kill a few dudes for some mailing cash, and haul my happy kiester off to the nearest mailbox. I then mail almost every person on that server who is in the Top 100. (I encourage them to reply to my WoW.com address, so that there’s no risk of confusing me for a scam.) I regularly max out the allowable number of in-game mails a character can send. For every 35 to 50 in-game mails I send, I usually hear back from one person. However, while canvassing the server Korgath the other week, I was happy to see many more than one person

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