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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

They burn worlds to ash. They render the verdant uninhabitable. Theirs is not the evil of mad chaos, leaping to corrupt for amusement or decadence. They are the means by which the mad Titan seeks to unmake everything. They are the Burning Legion, and it is their purpose to end existence. Nothing less will satisfy Sargeras.

Yet even within the seemingly monolithic forces of the Legion, there’s room for political intrigue of a sort. While Sargeras has seemingly caused his own exile from the seat of power, his former lieutenant Kil’Jaeden now leads the Legion, a position he seemingly aspires to hold indefinitely. And Azeroth is directly in his crosshairs.

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So yeah, I’m tanking again. There are a few reasons for this. Reason #1 is my experiences testing prot in the beta. Quite frankly, I think it’s going to be much easier to level to 90 as a tanking warrior, what with the spec working quite well on the beta at the moment. Since I expect us to be doing so by August at the latest, I wanted to get a jump on things.

Another reason is simple necessity. We needed a tank; I happen to be capable of doing the job and doing it well. Even back when threat was harder than it is now, I always knew I was a respectable tank. I pay attention to my positioning, I know how to use my cooldowns, and I’ve got a lot of experience with the role. When my guild found itself short a tank, it seemed like the right thing to do. It’s just plain easier to recruit a DPSer and have someone established doing the tanking.

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I spent a long time trying to come up with the perfect word for what’s happening to shadow priests on the beta right now. At first I thought up déjà vu, but that didn’t seem quite right (and shut up, I know that’s a phrase, not a word). Then I got bored and played Civilization 5 for a while. Then I made a sandwich.

I don’t know where I’m going with any of that, but I did eventually settle on a word: backtracking. That’s what happening with shadow priests — Blizzard is revising the class and hastily making a retreat on just about every unpopular decision it’s made over the last few months in the beta. Two weeks ago, Blizz did it by backing down on its decision to axe Devouring Plague. This week, it’s backtracking again, giving us back yet another thing it had axed going into MoP.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? In a sense, both. But we’ll get into that shortly.

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In the original WoW beta, rogues were designed to be off tanks. Complete with a high dodge coefficient from agility and Feign Death to lose aggro. Obviously, the developers scrapped both of these ideas before launch.

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“Gunis was a typical dwarf in that she loved brew, and she felt the best things in life could either be aimed, built or formed in a forge,” writes submitter Dwarven Fishing Pole throughout the city’s canals.”

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