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This week the comic corner is back…in full force!!  I have managed to find several great comics…some new some old for your enjoyment!

First up is one from newcomer Sparkly Doom.  I love this one because it’s just putting out there what I know we all thought when we started doing our Sons of Hodir dailies!  Haha!

Next I found a few from Daily Quests that tickled my funny bone.  The first, called Goblin Ingenuity, shows the possible result of improperly installed rocket packs!  The next one called All’s Fair in Love and Warcraft is just plain funny…boys can be so gullible! The last one from DQ teaches us a valuable lesson…to Always Listen to Your Elders.  Love it!

The next couple for this week are from another newcomer, K’s Grab Bag. The first one from this artist shows a triumphant pair looting their kill, it’s amazing what forest animals carry on them sometimes! Next from this artist we have Insults to Injury which teaches a valuable lesson…do NOT pick on your healer before a major fight!!  HAHA

Next up is one from Complex Actions that is a great showing of just what desperate players might resort to when farming mats. Neckrokleptomania is simply hilarious…oh and I love the word!!

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This week’s movie is one from Silverlined Productions and I think it’s quite suiting considering the proximity to the release of 3.3.  Revenge Act 2 is another teaser vidoe for the Revenge movie which will hopefully be coming soon!  In this video, our hero is finally getting the chance at a show down with the Lich King, which is truly appropriate since patch 3.3 is releasing to day to live realms.  This is an excellent video just like the first one and I love the way our main character, Nixxiom, is idealized into the perfect hero!  I cannot wait to see the final film once it is all done…but isn’t that the point of the trailer?  To keep us wanting more?  Well it has worked!

3.3 is releasing today to live servers!  Below are the latest patch notes available at the time of this post!  Enjoy!

General

• Icecrown Citadel
  • All three wings of the 5-player dungeon are currently available for testing.
  • Select encounters in the 10- and 25-player raid dungeon are available for limited testing.
  • Additional Icecrown Citadel raid content will be made available in future test builds. For more information and testing schedules please visit our Test Realm forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=11572&sid=1
• Quel’Delar Quest Chain: The Battered Hilt, the item needed to start this quest line, can now be purchased from all glyph vendors on the public test realms.
• Character Creation: The descriptions for races, classes, and race/class combinations have been improved to provide new players with a better idea of the roles and advantages of each class and race.
• Dazed: Creatures attacking a player from behind can no longer cause players level 1-5 to be dazed, and have a reduced chance to cause players level 6-10 to be dazed.
• Knockbacks no longer dismount players. If on a flying mount, you will be knocked back a short distance before being able to resume flying.
• The existing /welcome emote now greets/welcomes targets (character says “hello”), while the new /yw is for saying “you’re welcome.”
• Many of the tail sweeps with knockback effects will no longer hit players’ pets.
• Level 1 characters no longer start with food or water in their inventory.
• Attack is now called Auto Attack. The tooltip has been changed to reflect that the player will continue automatically attacking a target.
• Meeting Stones: To use any Meeting Stone, it is only required that the character’s minimum level be 15. There is no maximum character level requirement for any Meeting Stone.
• Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.

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In the Path 3.2.2 PTR files, a number of new race/class combination NPC have been discovered by data-mining WoW enthusiasts.  The data mined seems to indicate that several races will have the ability to roll classes previously unavailable to them.  I have included a list of these new possible combos below:

• Human Hunter
• Orc Mage
• Night Elf Mage
• Dwarf Mage
• Blood Elf Warrior
• Dwarf Shaman
• Undead Hunter
• Tauren Paladin
• Tauren Priest
• Gnome Priest
• Troll Druid

Now unlike our confirmed addition of the new races, these class/race combos are merely speculation at this point, but man this sounds great!  Another Shaman for the Alliance, another Paladin for the Horde, two more Hunter capable races, another Druid for the Horde, a Gnome healing class, fire slinging Dwarves and bad-ass Blood Elf Warriors!

I have but one comment…Holy Cow!  Ya know…Priest/Pally plus… Tauren…equals…oh never mind…bad joke…!

Ah, yes it is patch time again folks!  The much anticipated patch 3.2 is arriving on all realms today and bringing with it some pretty awesome new content as well as changes to currency, mounts, classes , professions, pets, glyphs,  items, the UI, etc…

So, during all that maintenence today, make sure you take the time to read over the most recent patch notes, which I have conveniently listed below.  These notes came directly from the Blizzard updater, so they are the most current at the time of this writing.  If Blizzard releases an update to these later today, we will also update this post.

Call of the Crusade

• Since the opening of the Argent Tournament in northeastern Icecrown, adventurers have journeyed from across Azeroth and beyond to prove their worth in the heart of the Lich King’s domain. Under thundering skies the tournament’s participants hone the arts of war and face off in bone-shattering jousting matches to earn the right to be called champions. Yet these heroes have yet to face the greatest challenge of all: the Crusaders’ Coliseum. Formidable Horde and Alliance champions, ferocious beasts, and Scourge lieutenants are just some of the opponents awaiting adventurers in this gladiatorial arena. Few will survive the coliseum’s perils, but the Argent Crusade is confident that the worthy heroes who do emerge victorious will be ready to join the offensive against Icecrown Citadel and end the Lich King’s reign of terror.

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Blizzard has released the new bear form models and graphics that will be added in the next major patch. New graphics and models are being added for both Tauren and Night Elf animal forms. The fur color for the animals can be changed in the barber shop just like the character hair styles and colors. The official Blizzard development page is available here: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/druid-forms.html. In addition to the minor shape and color changes, some new animations will also be added. A noteworth animation addition will be to allow the bear to close its mouth – no more slack-jawed bear. Click on the graphics below to view the full size images.

If nothing else – it will at least be a change of colorings when staring at the bear butt at the front of the raid

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Players will now receive a Zhevra Mount whenever they recruit a friend to the game! I am going to invite all of my friends so I can get one for every single character…find out details below from a post on the Blizzard Forums.

Other bonuses include TRIPLE experience rates when partied with your linked recruit account. If they upgrade from the free-trial account to a paid account you will also receive a free 30 days of gameplay.

What is “Recruit-A-Friend”?
Our new friend referral system allows you to recruit some of your friends to join you in World of Warcraft by sending them an invitation email containing a trial activation key. With this key, your friends will be able to set up their own trial accounts.

To start this process log on to the Account Management section and click the Recruit-A-Friend button. This will take you to the actual friend referral page, where you can enter a friend’s email address and name one at a time. If you want, you can also enter a message that will be included in the invitation email.

What in-game benefits do we get while the accounts we play are linked?
1. Characters on both accounts can summon each other once per hour.
2. While adventuring with your linked friend/family member, you will each gain triple experience.
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Racial Abilities

• Arcane Torrent (Blood Elf) global cooldown removed.

Death Knight

• Death Knight spells that cost runes will now display the rune cooldowns on the spell buttons.

Mage

• Arcane Blast effect duration reduced to 3 seconds, and now increases damage by 15/30/45% instead of reducing cast time.
• Arcane Impact renamed Spell Impact and now affects Blast Wave, Fire Blast, Cone of Cold, and Ice Lance.
• Arcane Potency now applies when Presence of Mind is active, talent prerequisite changed to Presence of Mind.
• Conjured mana gems no longer disappear from your backpack after being logged out for more than 15 minutes. Higher ranks of Conjure Mana Gem will recharge an existing mana gem to maximum charges.
• Empowered Arcane Missiles renamed Arcane Empowerment and no longer increases mana cost. It now also increases damage caused by Arcane Blast. Read the rest of this entry »

Blizzard has just announced that they will be hosting Blizzcon 2008!

Blizzcon 2008 will be hosted at a convention center in Anaheim California on October 10th and 11th.  This time the convention center will be able to support up to 50% more visitors for Blizzcon.  Tickets will be $100 and are set go on sale August 11th.

For those of you who may not know what Blizzcon is here is a quick rundown of things you would expect to see there:

• You would get the chance to using gaming stations and play many of the upcoming betas, most likely to include; Starcraft 2, Wrath of the Lich King (Most Likely New and Upcoming Raid Dungeons), and possiblly some Diablo III coverage!
• You will hear the Game Developers give talks and presentations about upcoming plans for game releases and the like.
• There will definitely be a major gaming tournament set for this event too, you can count on that.
• Those who attend are usually given a large grab bag too, that includes many neat and valuable items for Blizzard Gamers.
• Last but not least Blizzard usually saves one big announcement for this event.

There is a confirmed project that Blizzard is currently working on they have not announced to the public at all yet.  This would be about the right time frame and the perfect setting for Blizzard to announce what this project is.

On the contrary, will Blizzard really want to release details from this before they even release WotLK?  It may be hard to keep an interest in so many developing projects all at once… as always with speculation… only time will tell!

The last interesting Tidbit is taht Blizzcon will be broadcasted through DirectTV on a Pay Per View channel.  With a customer base of 20 million plus this is a rather interesting idea, and we will have to wiat and see how successful it is.  I know I would much rather enjoy the sunny skies of Cali in October!

Well I found some HUGE news this morning on the WoW forums.  It was a thread started about the pains of the current talent respeccing system. 

The argument that was brought to light was comapring PvP to PvE.  They said for a raider to get the most out of raiding they have to be a certain spec, but they have off nights and may enoy to PvP…so they have to spend 50 gold to respec PvP in order to get the most out of it.  Then the next raid comes the following day and its another 50g down the drain for a respec again.

Its really time consuming to have to remember where every single talent point goes, and I know I usually go work it out on Wowhead before I put any points in.  One mistake and you just cost yourself another 50g for no reason at all. This also works both ways, if a Harcore PvPer were to try and get the most out of PvE they would also need to respec.

So in response to this “problem” Bornka (A Blizzard Community Poster) said this:

“We talked about this recently at the Worldwide Invitational actually. We are looking into allowing players to basically have two talent specs that they can switch between but we are still working out the exact details so we will have to wait and see exactly how it will function in-game.”

At first this sounds great, and to me it is fine, but there are drawbacks to this too!  If you take away the respeccing costs then there will be more gold in the economy and we will see a significant rise in prices over a short period of time… much like when the mass amounts of daily quests were introduced.  I know I am sick of paying 15-20 gold for Shards now…can you imagine 35g?

Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love the idea of being able to respec on the fly, and have a second talent spec waiting in the wings.  However there must be some sort of sunk cost associated with it.  Will they charge players 5,000g or more in order to have that switch on the fly talent spec?

Secondly, how will they restrict the changing of the talent specs?  Will you need to be in a major city to do it… will they allow you to simply switch in the middle of an instant or raid?  All things are left to ponder right now as Blizzard is being extremely vague about how this will work.

In the end I love this idea, and I really hope it can be implemented in a way that is proper for everyone involved in the game.  I trust that Blizzard will keep all these things in mind as they move forward with this great idea!