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It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H).

Note: The above is not a live stream. It is the video of Wednesday’s live Cataclysm beta stream, which contains spoilers.

If you want to know what the O-Team is, you have to go a little over an hour into the stream to see. Or you can wait until Wednesday’s story post, when I’m sure Robinemia will have something to say. At least one of the viewers in the chat channel came up with the name. I am just appropriating it.

Adventurers who play when they can

• Fox Van Allen as Foxlight, the level 22 blood elf paladin
• Lisa Poisso as Prupher the level 10 tauren druid
• Michael Sacco as Shockbroker, the goblin shaman
• Christian Belt, as Selfloathius, the level 16 blood elf warlock
• Elizabeth Harper as Faience, the level 24 troll shaman
• Matthew Rossi as Andrenorton, the level 17 troll mage
• Michael Gray as Grayfields, the level 17 tauren hunter
• Gregg Reece as Sandwichdoc, the level 16 troll shaman

Polls are after the break.

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Lolegolas sighed and gulped the last dregs of his wine cooler with great haste. At his well-manicured feet, three humans lay unconscious. While the skilled and graceful blood elf had managed to avoid slaughtering the three, the Alliance members clearly showed the signs of a solid beating.

As Lolegolas collected his things to leave, a strange object slammed into the humans. It looked like it could be a wooden cutout of the letter “V,” but a dozen whirling gears were firing at random and spinning like crazy. Small arms and gadgets rifled through the humans’ pockets before, finally, the object took off back to the air. It landed with a thud in a thick, black leather glove.

“Oh, god,” Lolegolas sighed. “Of course it’s you.”

“Halt, evil-doer! Miscreant!” the newcomer exclaimed. “Thug! Rogue!”

“Of course. All of Dalaran, and this is exactly where you are,” Lolegolas said. “Throgg, what are you doing?”

“I am not Throgg!” the large orc bellowed. He was wearing head-to-toe black leather and a vast sweeping cape. “I am Bat-Throgg!”

“And what was that thing?” Lolegolas said. He gestured for the passing brewmaiden to bring him another wine cooler. “It took all the loot from the humans.”

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Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week, we are delving back into the world of betacraft as we examine what is that is making the balance rotation tick, how there might be some flaws in it, and what might patch everything back together.

Greetings and salutations, friends. Those of you who follow the Cataclysm forums or read either The Moonkin Repository. Instead, I’d rather bring up the theory behind the discussion.

Not too long ago, Blizzard finally activated mastery effects on the beta servers, meaning Eclipse now actually does something for a change. This has given the balance community, myself included, a bit more practicality in how we can test rotations. Previously, we could test Eclipse gains to get theoretical DPS fluctuations, but now we have some actual numbers to work with. This allows us to go into deep theories of Eclipse, such as whether or not using non-Eclipsed spells to extend the effect’s duration is an effective DPS gain; however, there are still a few tweaks that need to go through, particularly reaching level 85, before anything really solid can be configured. There are things that we do know. One of those things is that our rotation is rather bland. The current incarnation of Eclipse is very mechanical, very predictable — which is not to say that’s a bad thing. It does allow for a certain level of “zoning out” while playing, though.

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We’re more than a little surprised that there’s so little talk around these parts about the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. After all, players who’ve been around the gaming scene for very many years tend to have dabbled in card games like . WoW itself would be a very different creation without the influence of games like MTG and the games that inspired it — so let’s talk about WoW’s own collectible card game!

WoW.com is accepting article submissions from experienced WoW TCG players. What does it take to get started? What’s the gameplay like? How do the loot cards tie in, and what’s been available so far? Is the game part of the tournament scene? Your article will give readers who’ve never played WoW TCG a peek into the game and the world of card games.

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Welcome back to Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

Good news, everyone. We’ve had such a good time with The Queue that we’re not restricting it to just Monday through Friday anymore! If all goes well, you’ll see another edition of The Queue on Saturdays and Sunday, too! Cool, right?

bui asked:

“Are there any creepy critters now that the world has been torn asunder? What made me think about the critters, you ask? Earlier today, there was a spider crawling on my face.”

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