Big News Of The Week
Human Sacrifice, Dogs And Cats Living Together… Mass Hysteria!
Blizzard shocked the community this week by implementing character transfers in WoW *from* PVE realms *to* PVP realms. It’s a complete reversal of one of their most closely held beliefs: that the gameplay, and therefore the behaviors of the players, on PVP realms are so different that it is unfair to level up a character on a PVE realm and then move that character to a PVP realm.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
All My Readings Point To Something Big On The Horizon
It looks like Blizzard has enabled the PTR character copy utility. This may mean really good news for those who cannot wait for Blizzard to launch 3.0 to the public and hasten the arrival of the 2nd expansion.
Listen… Do You Smell Something?
Suddenly this week, we started seeing reports that pretty much everyone who signed up for the lottery to gain access to the Beta of Wrath Of The Lich King, and had not yet gotten in, received Beta keys and access to play on the PTRs.
Somebody Blows Their Nose And You Want To Keep It?
As expected, the big talent-nerfing patch that follows a long period of beta-testing appears to have arrived. It’s build 8926 for those of you keeping score at home, and it appears to have cranked back many effects for many classes on many talents, too many to list here. But the larger question is ‘what does this all mean’?
Well, There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
If you’ve not run WoW in a few days, you might want to do so to get the background downloader running. According to reports we’ve received from players who have done no beta testing, the total download is going to be one gigabyte of data.
Town Cryer
Matthew C. writes:
I came to WoW, after being out of MMOs for a few years, after the Burning Crusade. I have had an interest in running some of the old world content, especially as I level a character, but no one seems interested… Is this a common occurence? should I even worry about never getting to see some of the older instances?
Drop Of The Week
No Human Being Would Stack Books Like This
As the Lich King’s plague of undeath ravages the human kingdom of Lordaeron, a mighty blade is forged from a dark orb. In the hands of Highlord Alexandros Mograine, the blade will become legend. In time, both blade and man will become… Ashbringer.
In anticipation of the upcoming World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion, Wildstorm and Blizzard Entertainment have created a four-issue miniseries chronicling the Ashbringer’s tale, written by Blizzard’s Micky Neilson and featuring art by Ludo Lullabi and Tony Washington.
- Check out the preview pages now
- Visit Wildstorm for more information
- Locate a nearby comic store
- Subscribe to the ongoing series directly
Additional show content provided by Mean Gene, Patrick from France, Shawn Basic, Darrell the Tipgiver, and the outstanding Instance Community.
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I do not think that most of the people got their beta keys this week. I have talked to many people who have opted in but have not received theirs yet. I do agree that there was an increase and those of us who have been left out would probably be better off waiting for the game to hit the shelves rather than try to download the client if we happen to receive a key before the release.
OK, so what about this? I did not sign up for anything regarding the beta, yet I received an email to my rolecraft gmail account this week which provided me with a key to do so. However, the link in the email and the link shown when I moused over the link were two very different urls, the latter being some create-your-own-website service named Oxyhost. Was I correct in my assumption that this was only a scam attempt, or did I actually toss a legitimate WotLK beta invite?
And thanks for the shoutout Gerp! Spirits bi wit chu mon!
As others have mentioned above.. not everyone has received beta keys… in fact I have 3 accounts with Blizzard (long story) and have not received a beta for any one of them.
I had 2 accounts and recently created third to get the zhevra mount. I don’t really know what I was thinking taking on third account… with first 2 I already have 24 toons and now with 3rd … who knows.
To say I’ve become obsessed with this game is to be kind.. I started playing April 7, 2008 and haven’t missed one day. Typically I play 5-8 hours on weeknights and probably 24-36 hours over the weekend. I’m commonly quoted saying in guild chat when people ask if I ever sleep “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”.
I’ve already taken approximately 10 days vacation from work specifically to stay home and play Wow and I have a week of vacation planned around Nov 13.
I recently found your show… it’s been very helpful and I really appreciate the humor and the format – excellent work.
I’m thinking of forming a support group for WoW addicts… the focus of the meetings will be how to survive work until we can get back to WoW as well as how to shirk “honey do” lists and how to abandon family and friends who do not play WoW.
Anyways.. keep up the good work…
Golgatha
Undead Holy Priest level 70
Caelestrasz Realm
NumLock and Run guild
Grats about the FigurePrint! Coincidentally, they’re working on mine this month too!
I can’t wait to see mine–be sure to post pictures of Gerp on the site!