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We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Miss Medicina explains, exhaustively, why the Oculus experiment was a failure. Blame Squelchy explains how Heartpierce works and why Mutilate rogues should be all over it. Cold Comfort provides you the reader with a great post showing time-to-Emblem ratio in Heroic dungeons. WoW in an Hour explores the best class choices when you only have a small amount of time to spare.

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This week’s list is compact, but don’t let that fool you; many of the usual suspects have delivered despite the holidays. You can bet that next week’s list will be massive! Torment of the Week: Frozen Investments. Check out Guilded Age’s 2010 Preview. Teh Gladiators: Enter the Eerily Familiar King. Daily Quests: In the Spirit of Giving. Daily Quests: Resolution: Impossible. NPC: Of Avatar and Avatars. NPC: A New Service. NPC: 2010 Predictions. That last line got me laughing! For the history behind it, see an earlier Sunday Morning Funnies published in May of 2009. Beyond the Tree: What We Need Is More Noise. LFG #317 and #318. Cru the Dwarf: All Choked Up.

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Brewmaster Arshley of <Thunderbrew Guard> on Steamwheedle Cartel discovered a stray giant rat hanging out in one of the Dalaran kitchens. After an extensive period of pleading for its life, the rat managed to persuade him to leave in peace so that it could fulfill its dream of becoming a master chef. The rat even gave Arshley a piece of its delicious mandarin and watermelon tart. Unfortunately, the next day, Arshley and half the city had contracted the bubonic plague. I guess there’s a reason rats are generally not welcome in kitchens. 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@wow.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 spam bin. We strongly prefer full

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Only five days left to WoW.com’s 12 Days of Winter Veil contests. Today we are giving away two BlizzCon 2009 goodie bags, including all original contents. Winners will recieve, among other things, a code for Grunty The Murloc Marine in-game pet, the Noobz Raynor action figure and an official BlizCon 2009 authenticator. You can view the full contents of the goody bag in the gallery below. The contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), and everyone who enters must be 18 or older. To enter, leave a comment on this post before 12pm ET (noon) Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Please be sure to use a real email that you check often to enter, so we can contact you should you be one of the winners. You may enter only once and two winners will be selected randomly. Each winner will receive 1 BlizzCon 2009 goody bag with a retail value of US$125. Click here to read the official contest rules.

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Our podcast reached the end of part one last weekend, as both Turpster and I announced that we’d be leaving the show. But we didn’t let it become a sad affair — Matthew Rossi and Chase Christian both joined us for some Warcraft discussion (including when it’s ok to votekick someone, and lots of Battered Hilt discussion), and we finally were able to have one of our favorite guys stop by: Scott Johnson from The Instance podcast. It was a great show, and as usual, you can tune in at all of the links below. Thanks again for everything — even though Turpster and I are moving on, the podcast will continue, so be sure to come back and see what they brew up for you. But it’s been a heck of a ride these past two-plus years, and we’ve had measurable metric tons of laughs and fun together. Thanks so much for listening and chatting with us and all the emails and excitement. Enjoy the show, and don’t forget to grab your sword and fight the Horde. Get the podcast: [iTunes] Subscribe to the WoW Insider Show directly in iTunes. [RSS] Add the WoW Insider Show to your

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Gnomeaggedon happened to post something so interesting the other day that I thought it merited a bit more discussion. He actually posted it almost as an afterthought (I guess he’s moving in RL — good luck with that), but it’s quite an idea just the same: “Make it all BoA,” he says. Blizzard has added in some more Bind-on-Account items, and most recently made it possible for BoA items to go across factions. But Gnomeaggedon says it’s time to stop messing around: mounts, emblems, tier and arena gear, currencies, vanity pets, reputation items, anything that would be useful across toons should be able to be traded freely between them. Why, he asks, should there be limits on which character you decide to play with? And actually, while the possibilities there might make some players’ heads spin (imagine how many badges you could earn on your geared-out pally for your newly 80 warlock), I think that Blizzard is probably headed that direction. They may not want to open the floodgates completely, but look at where we’ve come — we just heard Frank Pearce

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A small patch that corrects some bugs has just been deployed on live realms this morning. This patch coincides with short realm restarts. We’re not entirely sure what the bug fix patch does right now, but we’re looking into it and will update this post shortly. Hopefully it fixes at least a few of the problems that have come along with The Fall of the Lich King last Tuesday. If you notice in the image above a link to patch notes, well, that link doesn’t work. Apparently something was or will be there, but no such luck right now. This patch brings the game from version 3.3.0.10958 to 3.3.0.11159. The patch file is about five megs in size.

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And I think it’s gonna be a long long time ‘Til touch-down brings me round again to find I’m not the bare they think I am at home Oh, no no no I’m a ROCKET BARE Rocket bare! Bottom full of boom out here alone! Hats off to Tree Bark Jacket for capturing this utterly magnificent video from Icecrown’s gunship battle encounter, and a plea to any and all developers reading this; you can never go wrong combining lolbares with explosives. Or rocket launchers. Or laser gun-sights with auto-lock targeting on the rogue who just stole our new tanking belt.

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Patch 3.3 has been out on the PTR for quite awhile now, and we’ve seen a ton of changes that will significantly alter the way the game is played. Everything from the new Dungeon Finder Tool, to the highly anticipated confrontation with Arthas. The sheer amount of content is hard for anyone to keep up with, and we’ve been steadily updating the WoW.com Guide to Patch 3.3 with everything we’ve written about the patch (over 250 articles now). This weekend we went through and did a large updating, sorting through a few things and polishing it up. We heard last week from a few sources that patch 3.3 will be deployed tomorrow, if Blizzard was able to fix the last few remaining bugs. We haven’t heard any updates on that yet, but will let you know as soon as we hear anything. Check out the guide for all your patch 3.3 goodness, and be sure to keep an eye on WoW.com over the new couple days!

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World of Warcraft and Philosophy got released a little while back — it’s a book by Luke Cuddy and John Nordlinger that examines WoW-related topics like roleplaying and the Corrupted Blood plague, and ties them into philsophical ideas and thinking. TechFlash has now posted an interview with Nordlinger, and it’s a good read as well. Nordlinger says that one reason they chose to talk about World of Warcraft in this way is that it’s so incredibly big — when you have 12 million (give or take a few at this point) people playing a game with a GDP larger than some smaller nations, you’re going to touch on all sorts of interesting ethical, moral, and other philosophical ideas. He says the book has been pretty popular, and a few universities are currently considering teaching courses based on the material, not only because it’s interesting, but thinking about the game in this way helps improve abstract thinking in general. And perhaps most interesting, he says that reading the book could help players better make ethical and moral decisions in the game. Just ninja-ing

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