Kind of late but I've been busy this morning.

2.2 PTR Summary

That's right guys, they're making 100% sure that when 2.2 hits, you can listen to DJ XI pumping out the phat beats in AFK Valley. I expect any Alliance farming honour will become intimately familiar with the Scboo song (link NWS for explicit lyrics). A new era of WoW griefing has begun.

• EJ Discussion Thread
• Test Realm Post

Illidan Off-Hand Drops

Drama has gotten the world first off-hand, all hail the random number generator.



Blizzcon Tournament Brackets Announced, amongst other less important things

Check out the fact that 7 out of 8 teams have Warrior-Paladin-Shaman in their lineup and Pandemic's terrible lineup due to DQs. Also of note, two double-Warrior teams and two teams with Hunters on them, TFO pretty much has a bye on the first round.

Also, the panel listing and event schedule have been posted on the main site, but no one really cares except maybe for Elendril because he'll actually be on one of the panels (the TCG one). Hopefully this year's Character Sound-Alike contest will have more Deckard Cains, Battlecruisers and That-Troll-Who-Always-Laughs-In-Org, versus fat people trying to do Murloc sounds.

• Blizzcon Brackets
• Elitist Jerk Discussion Thread

The Next Expansion is Wrath of the Lich King

Internet detectives have determined that Wrath of the Lich King will be the name of the next expansion. This is backed up by the fact that WoW Insider has found information that the Video Games Live Orchestra will be playing songs creatively titled "Northrend 1, 2 and 3" at Blizzcon. Good job on hiding it, guys.

Also, if you go to www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/ you get a 403 error, whereas any other imaginary subdirectory, e.g. www.worldofwarcraft.com/thegnomishinquisition/, leads you to a 404 error. Clearly this is further evidence (or it can just be Blizzard screwing around with internet sleuths).

• WoW Insider

The Simpsons was a pretty mediocre movie

Sort of like a glorified TV episode with Futurama-style CG. I suppose it didn't help that I saw the Code Geass season finale (episodes 24-25) the next day, which significantly outshone the Simpsons movie in amazingness.

Amusing Armoury Link of the Week

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If you frequent the Hunter forums (but really, who does aside from bored Hunters who want to troll stupid people?), this is probably old hat, but for everyone else, this is fresh and original. It's a testament to how idiot-friendly this game is, really.

e: Also, I loved Defense Gems as much as any other Hunter does, but this guy takes the cake.

I'm a little disappointed there is no quest type thing to get the Off Hand.

That is an amazingly skilled hunter. He only had to fire 6 shots to get from 1-70, I wish I knew how to do that. Obviously he hacks.

Incorrect, Dwarves start with 6 Gun skill because of their racial bonus to guns.

Hahaha he has 3 pieces of battleground gear as well, yet another testament to the wonders of AFKV.

Leet skillz. Are they planning on fixing inactivity in BG's? Is there a way?

Well the 6 ranged weapon skill means that he has never actually fired a ranged weapon in the history of his character. Since one ranged attack would probably have skilled him up to 2. So yeah he got to level 70 doing nothing but melee attacks.

Bookmarked that armory page to show the guildies before tonight's raid. Thats the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time.

Yes, I know of the afk mechanism. How about perhaps some kind of minimum stat threshold for earning points. Depending on the length of the game, if a player didnt achieve 5k healing or 10k etc.. they recieve no points.

Well the hunter is on a RP server so I could see the lack of ranged weapon skills, painfull but doable if you really want to RP. But the defense gems, no idea.

My mistake. Even better.

It's still no bigger deal to sit there reading or watching a movie and hitting space ever 4 minutes (its on a 5 minute timer AFAIK). That's what he's referring to.