Possible changes to tabards, backpacks, and banks

In the recent Blizzard developer chat there were several questions pertaining to player storage. They spoke about the issue with storing tabards from all of your various factions, the default backpack falling behind other bags, and being able to access the bank slots of your alts without the need to use the mail.
All three of [...]

Reminder: Battleground Bonanza II today

It came from the Blog is holding its second Battleground Bonanza today:

When: Saturday, January 16th, 4:30pm EST (1:30pm PST, 2:30pm Server time)
Where: The Hall of the Brave (where the Battlemasters are), Orgrimmar, Zangarmarsh U.S.
Who: Any level 10 or above Horde character.
How: Ask any It came from the Blog Lurker or Robinator for a guild invite.
What: [...]

WoW Insider Show live today at 3:30 PM Eastern

The WoW Insider Show returns to the airwaves today at 3:30 PM Eastern time, bringing with it familiar faces Michael Sacco and Matthew Rossi (your host and co-host, respectively), with special guests Tim “Heartbourne” Tusing and Jimmy “DJTyrant” Blocksom of Project Lore bringing their unique perspectives to this week’s top stories, both here and around [...]

Around Azeroth: Good, bad, I’m the cow with the gun

Pokwan of Shadow Council writes in that he’s “one young tauren warrior who’s had enough of dwarven scum invading Mulgore to dig carelessly into the Earth Mother.” Most people just confine themselves to doing a couple of those annoying starting level quests. Violence is never the answer, Pokwan! Wait. In Azeroth, it’s actually always the [...]

Breakfast Topic: What are you doing to protect your account?

While it is certainly nothing new, it seems that you can’t spit without hitting someone who has, or has had, a compromised account. These WoW account predators are getting more clever by the day, with using everything from keyloggers, sham contests, betas and security checks, to even grabbing an account and immediately attaching an authenticator [...]

Warlocks to get a new pet in Cataclysm?

Coming out of the Twitter developer chat tonight was this question and following answer, given by Ghostcrawler and J. Allen Brack:

Q. With the new skins for druid forms, what is the chance that warlocks might see race/faction specific demon skins or maybe a new one?
A. When you look around, there are a lot of say [...]

Better pet scaling promised in Cataclysm

Hunters and warlocks were given something to look forward to during the Blizzard developer chat on twitter this evening. The question was asked: “You mentioned pet scaling being added for patch 3.3 but due to time constraints, was delayed. Will this be in the next patch?” This is something that has been mentioned throughout the [...]

Why so empty, Crystalsong?

Some actual new information from tonight’s developer Twitter chat with Lead Systems Designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street and J. Allen Brack? I’m as surprised as you are. When asked why the resplendent (and glowy) Crystalsong Forest is oddly barren of anything to do beyond sightsee (and, of course, the rare quest), we received some interesting info [...]

Developer Twitter chat transcript for January 15th, organized by category

After the break is the complete transcript of the developer Twitter chat with Lead Systems Designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street and J. Allen Brack. They talked a lot about Cataclysm and upcoming class changes, and reflect on some of the inner workings of patch 3.3. Unlike the last twitter developer chat, this chat was much more [...]

Moonkin may receive a buff soon

Balance druid performance has been noticeably lagging in raids. While moonkin have long had a problem being too easily +haste-capped with Wrath, there’s another issue on the not-too-distant horizon in the form of the “lunar +crit cap.” Essentially, when a lunar eclipse procs and the player turns to the Starfire portion of the rotation, the [...]