Darkmoon Faire dates will show up in your in-game calendar on the first week of every month. Barkers and displays will also appear in every capital city to herald the arrival of the Faire. Darkmoon mages in capital cities and on Darkmoon Island will also be around to help you travel between the Faire and your faction’s capital cities — for some coin, naturally.

This month’s Darkmoon Faire runs from May 6 until May 12.

source from: battle

Zarhym has thrown a spanner in our preconceptions with the following post to the forums, reproduced in its entirety here.

This is very interesting because it creates an entirely new future direction for the Horde. We saw tensions rise between the various factions in Cataclysm, and with Garrosh’s ultimate fatenot terribly rosy, this leaves us with a potential power vacuum and several individuals who might seek to fill it. Will Sylvanas make a power play? Will Baine, who is seen stretching his muscles in Mists sending missions to Pandaria, repeat his father’s course and challenge Garrosh for the throne? Will Vol’jin seek to rule? Will everyone show wisdom and beg Rexxar to become warchief?

Time will tell. But for now, get your best crazy speculating hat on.

source from: joystiq

Are you a veteran Gladiator with countless victories tallied? Are you new to World of Warcraft and striving to improve your PvP skills? In this weekly feature, we invite players of all skill levels to ask questions, share tips and tactics, and join a conversation dedicated to surviving and thriving in World of Warcraft PvP.

Don’t forget to up-vote forum posts that are on-topic and helpful!

This week, the topic of discussion is:

Focus  - Designating a target as  your focus can offer significant advantages, especially in organized PvP like Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds. What kind of targets do you designate as your focus, how do you make the most of it, and what are favorite focus related macros (or addons) for your class?

source from: battle

Reporting a Player

If you encounter a player using an offensive name or foul language, violating our chat policies, or cheating, you can quickly right-click on their name in chat, and select Report Player For.  If you have the character targeted, you can right-click their portrait and select Report Player.

Submitting a Bug

If you have stumbled upon a bug, you can report it to the World of Warcraft Development & Quality Assurance teams, directly through the Customer Support window.  In the Customer Support interface, click Submit Bug and fill out the requested information.

Note: If a bug has seriously affected your character in a way that requires Game Master intervention (lost items, reputation, raid progress, etc.), Open a Ticket so we may investigate the situation.

Submitting a Suggestion

If you wish to provide feedback to the World of Warcraft team, you may do so directly through the Customer Support window.  In the Customer Support interface, click Submit Suggestion and fill out the requested information.  Be sure to be as specific and constructive as possible.

Note: By submitting a suggestion, you confirm that the suggestion is your own idea, the idea is not confidential, and you permit Blizzard Entertainment to use the idea publicly with no obligation to compensate you.

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Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader’s Handbook, available from No Starch Press.

It’s not often that I get questions from PvP guilds. Your questions are usually quite different from those of raiding guilds, so I’m intrigued whenever I hear from you. This week’s issue, however, may be all too familiar to those who raid.

Hi Scott -

I’m really struggling right now with a Guild member who wants to be included as a member of our Rated Battleground group, but seems to be unwilling to put in the necessary time and effort to become a good PvP’er.

Some background…two in-game friends and I run a small, casual PvP Guild on a medium population server. The Guild consists mainly of working adults who PvP for fun. We’re a friendly group, not elitists, and are happy to accept people into the Guild who are new PvP’ers, or who choose not to PvP at all.

A few months ago a long-term WoW player with almost no PvP experience joined the Guild and decided to start gearing up for PvP. She thought the idea of Rated BG’s sounded fun, so we were happy to explain the concepts of acquiring Honor and Conquest Points to her… As soon as she acquired the Resilience minimum, we added her to our twice-weekly RBG sign-up roster. Also, a few of our members took her under her their wings and began helping her do Arenas for points.

The Arena sessions didn’t go too well, and a few days later I get a whisper from one of my co-GM’s that the new player had complained about one of the people trying to help her, saying that he was “impatient” and “pushing her too hard.” I knew the player in question and sincerely doubted that this was true.

I’m a female gamer, as are several others in my Guild who are dedicated PvP’ers, and my impression was that this new Guildmate was playing the “female” card and trying to elicit sympathy from the highest ranking male member in the Guild. The strategy worked, and my friend began helping her in Arenas, losing match after match after match. I mentioned to him that she was missing seven enchants, three gems, and two major Glyphs… After she’d done several RBG’s with us, I asked her nicely to get the deficiencies taken care of, telling her to let us know if she needed help with that. In the meantime, she quit doing Arenas because they were just too hard.

Fast forward…. The player in question isn’t performing well in RBG’s. I realize that I never see her running any Battlegrounds. I don’t see any love for PvP, or desire to better her skills, coming from this player.

Two nights ago I mention in Guild Chat to the member, who’s on an alt, that since she’s still so new to PvP, I’d be happy to run some of the maps used in Rateds with her so that she can get some practice in. The response I got was “Huh?” Whoosh. I asked again if she would like to do some Battlegrounds, going into some of the smaller maps since, again, she was new to PvP. The response I got this time was “Yup, lol, I’m a PvP noob,” and she proceeded to pop into a dungeon on her alt.

By this point I’ve had it. I go to the Calendar and cut her from the next night’s Rated’s, and put her on stand-by for the weekend. It’s clear she has no interest in PvP’ing and just wants to do Rated’s to be part of the group. This results in a tearful mail from her the next day stating that she’s done everything we asked – gotten Resilience, maxed her gear. She just doesn’t understand why she’s being treated this way!

Scott, we have a nice group of people in our Guild which, up to now, has been drama-free. I guess my question to you is – is it time to cut this woman before she goes on an angry rampage behind the scenes? Or do I cross my fingers and hope she’s gotten the message that, if she wants to be a PvP’er, she actually needs to, well, PvP?

Thanks so much for your help!

I’m sorry to say I don’t foresee a happy ending to this story. She seems like the type of player who wants to be carried. That never works out in a team environment, whether you’re fighting the Horde in a Battleground or Deathwing’s lava-hands at the Maelstrom.

The vowel that’s not in team

It’s an attitude that raises red flags – I need you to help me, but I won’t help myself. That behavior just won’t fly. It goes beyond gaming and extends to any situation where you have to work with others.

Your priest sounds like someone who doesn’t understand that. She’d rather blame othersinstead of looking at what she could do to help the team and herself. Until she gets over that attitude, she’ll never be able to contribute. And she’ll likely drag everyone else down if you let her.

Put it on paper

It’s exactly for these types of situations that guilds should put their policies in writing — policies that all new members should understand and agree to. I realize it’s annoying to formulate these guidelines and type them all out. For a casual PvP guild, it probably never seemed necessary. However, it really does help prevent drama.

All it would take with your problem priest is a policy stating, “Players who show a lack of teamwork, preparation, class knowledge, or motivation to improve may be placed on the standby list or banned from future RBGs.” Then when someone like her comes along, you point to that statement — and they have no ground to stand on.

Hopefully, you won’t have to invoke this clause very often. You can also make it clear, in plain English, that your guild is willing to help players, but only if they are willing to learn.

Stating consequences

Putting this player on standby was the right move. However, in the future, I’d recommend stating consequences before you act. Allow the player to make a decision. By reacting the way that you did, you caught her off-guard. Thus, her reaction was more heated than it might have been otherwise.

It would have been kinder and easier on you if you had told her up front if she doesn’t practice in BGs with you that week, you’re going to put her on standby. That way, she has a choice, and she can’t complain when her choice has precisely the consequences that you told her.

She hasn’t done anything to warrant an outright gkick that I can see, but keep her on a short leash. If she starts throwing tantrums in guild chat, that would be high time to ask her to leave the guild.

Until then, my advice is to extend an invitation to help her improve. Keep her benched till she accepts that help and shows that she’s motivated to learn. One way or another, the situation will work itself out.

source from: joystiq

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Fox Van Allen and Basil “Euripides” Berntsen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Feed Fox’s ego by emailing him, tweeting him at @foxvanallen, or sacrificing your first-born to him.

As we approach the end of the Cataclysm expansion — there are maybe four months left — playing the Auction House gets a bit trickier. There’s less enthusiasm on the part of buyers. More scary, though, is that the launch of Mists of Pandaria is about to render a lot of markets obsolete. It happened in Wrath and in The Burning Crusade too — those potions and flasks that were top of the line suddenly became worthless. Gear that once cost thousands of gold could be had for hundreds. It’s the nature of our in-game hobby. If you sit on stock, you’re going to lose a fortune. (Shamefully, it happened to me out of laziness.)

But not everything is set to crash. A few select items are going to increase in value, if not in the days leading up to MoP, then shortly after launch. These are the items you need to fill your bank tabs with. But which ones are they? What should you sell ASAP, and what should you buy?

3 markets set to crash in (or before) Mists

Some of us have a natural urge to hoard materials and crafted goods. It’s a good idea in general — short-term shortages can and do happen, and by having a reserve of the most useful materials, you can avoid short-term price spikes.

But this late in the expansion, you have to be careful. Like a game of fiscal hot potato, the prices of a large number of items are set to fall through the floor. If you’ve been stocking up on any of these three, well … the time to sell is now.

1. Queen’s Garnets were absolutely untouchable when Dragon Soul first launched. At issue was supply. You’re only guaranteed an epic gem by beating Deathwing on normal or heroic mode. Few raiders were completing the content, and those who were used the epic gems to prepare for heroic-mode raiding. An epic gem cost thousands of gold.

Fast forward to April 16, 2012. The Dragon Soul raid has been nerfed, nerfed, and nerfed yet again, allowing more casual players the opportunity to kill Deathwing on normal (and heroic) mode. More people are getting epic gem tokens. The price of red Queen’s Garnets have fallen lower than 1,000 gold on many servers.

From here, the price will only go down. The 10 extra points of your primary stat of choice mean less with each passing day, and when Mists of Pandaria launches, a whole new selection of better gems will be available. Anyone looking for a Cataclysm-era gem will just go with the cheaper Inferno Ruby.

2. Mysterious Fortune Cards are one of my favorite things to make. The demand almost always outpaces supply. They’re fun. They’re useful. They sell for a profit. What more could you ask for?

But here’s the thing — shortly before MoP launches, ink trading is going to undergo a reset. You won’t be able to trade Blackfallow Ink for lower-level inks anymore. And since that’s where a large amount of Blackfallows wind up going, people with supplies of Blackfallow are going to need to do something else with their stores. At that point, Mysterious Fortune Cards are going to be the only real outlet left.

Will MFCs stay fun? Yeah, they will, and there will likely always be a market for them. But in the short term, they’re a lousy investment. Don’t hoard them. Keep your on-hand supply low, and make them as you need to sell them.

3. Maelstrom Crystals are the backbone of the Cataclysm enchanting market. They’re used in just about every high-level enchant imaginable. And when maelstroms aren’t needed, they’re shattered to make the just-as-needed Heavenly Shards. Any enchanter worth his salt has a decent stock on hand at all times to churn out enchanting scrolls.

But of course, their usefulness is limited to the Cataclysm expansion. Enchanters will be churning out thousands of MoP enchants at a loss just to level their profession, replacing all the existing scrolls. And at the same time, all those absentminded hoarders with huge stocks of Maelstrom Crystals will be unloading them on the market. The price will crash, just asVoid Crystals crashed and just as Abyss Crystals did.

3 markets set to spike before (or after) Mists

We know that most materials will fall in price. That’s almost a given. But not everything will crash. In fact, a few markets will spike. Here’s what you should stock up on:

1. Embersilk Cloth is used for a handful of things right now in Cataclysm. It goes into the caster leg enchants. It goes into PvP starter gear. But most importantly, it goes into creating bags.

If the opening weeks and months of Cataclysm have taught us nothing, it’s that the bag market is nearly insatiable. Every character needs four at a minimum for questing and a whopping 11 to fill a bank vault, too. There will be a lot of pandas rolled in those opening days, weeks, and months, and a lot of new monks too. Simply put: There is no way us sellers will be able to overserve this market.

Because demand will outpace supply here, bag prices will spike. And if bag prices are spiking, you sure know the cost of materials will spike too. Chances are we’ll still be buying Embersilk when MoP launches at 10 gold apiece, and chances are we’ll still be able to make a profit. No reason to not stock up now while they’re relatively cheap.

Oh, and here’s a free tip: Hypnotic Dust will get really expensive, too.

2. Low-level inks are easy to obtain right now. Mill some cheap Cinderbloom, make some Blackfallow Ink, and then convert it into what you need at the ink trader. But as we’ve already discussed, that won’t last. Ink of Dreams will be the new Blackfallow. There will be weeks where there’s high demand for new glyphs but no ability to trade down to get low-level inks.

Without a question, that means low-level herbs will get more expensive. That might be a good way to play this, but it’s hard to argue with making low-level ink — it takes up way less space in the bags.

3. Vanity pets are typically expensive now, but as they say, you haven’t seen anything yet. When Mists of Pandaria introduces Pet Battles, there’s going to be increased interest in pets. Not much is known about Pet Battles right now, so it’s hard to say which pets will sell best — surely, that aspect will be well theorycrafted. But for now, just about any rare pet is worth picking up. After all, they’re not going to get any less rare.

Here’s the neat thing about vanity pets here: In MoP, all the pets currently soulbound to you will become sellable. That means if you find a rare pet, you can add him to your collection and trot him around Orgrimmar until launch. No point wasting bag space when you could be having a little bit of fun instead, right?

source from: joystiq

While you’re at it, try and win some World of Warcraft and ampm loot by entering the ampm Sweepstakes before April 2. It’s easy, free, and you could win all sorts of official Blizzard and World of Warcraft swag. Read the official rules and visit the contest page to enter.

source from: battle

I should clarify that the systems we’re introducing are actually pretty simple in practice. I’m only going into a fair amount of detail because those are the kinds of questions we are getting. You don’t have to understand all the particulars to participate, and we’re certain that it will just all make sense once you are experiencing it in-game instead of hearing it described (that whole “show, don’t tell” thing). Let’s begin:

Personal Loot
Here is how looting works in today’s Raid Finder groups:

• The boss dies.
• The game randomly decides which items off of the boss’s loot table drop.
• The group rolls Need, Greed, or Pass on each item.
• If you were raiding with a group of friends, you might discuss who should get each item. Even if you ultimately lost, hopefully you are happy that a friend got an upgrade and that your group as a whole is now a little bit stronger.
• But if you’re in Raid Finder, you are quite possibly alone with a bunch of strangers.
• So, if you can Need, you probably do, because there’s no time for discussion, some of the rollers may be AFK, and even if you piss someone off, you aren’t likely to have to pay the social cost of doing so since you’ll never see them again.
• The highest roll wins.
• Drama ensues.

Here’s how the new Raid Finder system will work in Mists of Pandaria:

• The boss dies.
• The game automatically decides who won some loot, and gives those players a spec-appropriate item.
• Some players may still get mad, but hopefully they are mad at the laws of probability and not at the rest of the raid.

So, realistically, that’s really all you need to know to understand how it’ll play out in-game. For those looking for more detail, here’s what’s happening behind the scenes:

• The boss dies.
• Each player has a chance to win loot, independent of the other players.
• For each player who wins loot, the game randomly assigns them a spec-appropriate item from that boss’s loot table. This subset contains only items that the game (meaning the designers in this case) thinks are appropriate for your class and current spec.
• Notice that you aren’t rolling Need or Greed. You don’t have an option to Pass. The game just says “Take this.”
• You can’t trade this item, or that would defeat the purpose of removing the social pressure on groups of strangers. If you don’t want the item, you are free to vendor, delete, or disenchant it.

The big difference here is that instead of kill -> loot -> roll, the new system uses kill -> roll -> loot. The loot is not determined until the winners are determined. It’s all automatic, and you’re under no obligation to pass or roll — these choices no longer exist. The game decides who gets loot, not the players. The end. Nobody is going to be a callous jerk and take the item that you rightfully deserve. Nobody is going to try to talk you into trading an item to them because they are down on their luck and can’t ever win a weapon. No DPS dude is going to ninja the tanking shield that you need for your guild to progress.

We understand some players are interested in off-spec or transmogrification loot, and we will consider future changes to the system to accommodate those desires. However, we’re not sure fundamentally that Raid Finder is the best avenue for acquiring that loot. You would either need to take it from another player who actually desires it for their main spec, or a conversation would have to take place to make sure nobody else needed it more than you do. In other words, you would have to stop people from just rolling Need whenever they could. I’ve seen some suggestions that we allow an option for essentially “I’m happy to get loot beyond just what my main spec can use,” and maybe that’s the kind of approach we could take, but let’s make sure the basic design works first. For now, there are other avenues, such as dungeons, faction gear, normal raids or older content to provide off-spec or cosmetic gear.

Here is a model I’ve seen some people say they want:

• The boss dies.
• I get the exact item or items I want.
• I never have to come back and kill this boss again.
• I politely ask Blizzard when there will be new content for me to run.

I added that, somewhat tongue in cheek, to point out that the intent of the new system is not to make killing bosses or getting loot more efficient, or to let you choose buffet-style which items you get. We like random loot being random, as long as it isn’t so frustratingly random that you stop enjoying the experience. The intent of the new loot system is really to relieve social pressure on a group of random and anonymous strangers. We think it is reasonable for groups of friends, such as the typical raiding guild, to have a discussion about how to divvy up loot. That discussion is a tried and true RPG tradition going back to D&D or earlier. We don’t think that is a reasonable expectation for Raid Finder, though.

The personal loot system will initially be used for Raid Finder and for world bosses. We want to use it for world bosses because we want it to be fairly easy to form PUGs to take down these bosses when they’re up. If my raiding guild is about to take on a world boss, and some lonely hunter is asking to join the group (it’s always a lonely hunter, isn’t it?), it would be nice to be able to bring him on without worrying about that jerk taking loot away from me or my friends. We want to foster a “the more the merrier” attitude with world bosses.

This is why it’s so important to us that the size of the group shouldn’t matter. We don’t want guilds to try to kill a world boss with the smallest number of players necessary in order to maximize loot per player. When everyone has their own chance at loot, why not make the group as large as you can? Note that you still have to be a member of the group that taps and kills the boss. We want to have a little bit of competition for world boss kills, especially between the Horde and the Alliance. We think that is part of the fun of world bosses; otherwise, why not just stick the gronn in a cave? (That sounds dirtier than I intended.) We don’t want everyone in the zone to get credit just by lurking around. We want you to cooperate with other players, and we’re trying to remove barriers to cooperation by eliminating loot drama.

Bonus Roll
We have one other new system that will use part of the personal loot model. This is what we’re calling the bonus roll.

Once upon a time, raiders had to invest a lot of time and effort every week preparing for a raid. This felt kind of cool in the abstract because it built anticipation, rewarded players who prepared for raid night, and otherwise just added a little more ceremony to the act of entering the dragon’s lair to seek glory and treasure. The reality is that you spent your time killing mobs to farm flask materials or gathering Whipper Root Tubers. The reality didn’t match the fantasy and we eventually greatly minimized the need to farm consumables altogether. Of course, that led to another problem, as raiders would log on for raid nights, finish, and then have nothing to do the rest of the week. The bonus roll is intended to give those players something to do that is hopefully more enjoyable than grinding elementals or Blasted Lands boars. We want to see players out in the world doing stuff, and we want that stuff to be a little more interesting (if not downright fun) than farming mats.

The way it works is like this: We have two major Pandaren factions, the Elders and the Craftsmen. Completing daily quests and scenarios for each group earns you one of two currencies. The Craftsmen tokens are spent mostly on cosmetic items. The Elder tokens are spent mostly on power items. The intent here is to let players who want some optional content to be able to devote time to both Craftsmen and Elders, while more min-max focused players or players who don’t want such a time commitment can stick to Elders. The Elder tokens can be used to purchase head enchants, some nice purple items, and the kind of gear you’ve come to expect from factions. However, they also sell an item called a Charm of Good Fortune. Imagine you can complete a quest once a week to buy one Charm for 25 Elder Tokens. You also might be able to save up a few charms, but you won’t be able to hoard them until the next tier of content.

If you have one or more Charms of Good Fortune, then whenever you kill a raid boss (in Raid Finder, normal or heroic) then a new UI window will pop up asking if you want to spend your Charm on a bonus roll. If you click yes, then you’ll instantly get another shot at that boss’s loot table! You will always win something from the bonus roll, such as a pile of gold, gems, or flasks. However, you also have a small (but not miniscule) chance of receiving a piece of epic loot. As with the personal loot system, the item will always be something designed for your current spec. Also, just as with personal loot, the game doesn’t analyze if you already have the item, if the item would be an upgrade for you, or if you prefer axes to swords or anything like that.

Most importantly, winning a bonus roll has no effect on what other players win on their bonus rolls or what the boss drops normally. If you have saved up several Charms (this will probably happen when you play but don’t raid every week) then you can use one per boss, but you can’t cash in multiples on a single boss kill. If you want to save up all of your Charms for the final boss because he (or she in the case of the mantid raid) drops weapons or whatever, that is your prerogative, but you’ll only be able to spend one per kill. If you want to save up your Charms for heroic bosses, go for it.

Here is an example of per-person loot and the bonus roll in action:

• Stan is a death knight.
• Jim Bob is a warrior.
• Naomi is a hunter.
• The three friends run Raid Finder together and tackle Mogu’shan Vaults. They get matched with a bunch of random folks from across their region. On the fourth boss, the Council of Kings, the game decides that Jim Bob wins an item. Jim Bob is a Fury warrior, so the game is either going to give him a two-handed Strength axe or a Strength bracer, because those are the two Fury-appropriate items on the Council of Kings loot table (in this theoretical example). Regardless of what Jim Bob wins, Stan might also win the same items. Naomi won’t ever be offered those items, because they aren’t appropriate hunter loot. If she had gotten lucky and earned loot for the kill, it would have been hunter appropriate.
• Let’s say Naomi is frustrated because Bob and Stan both won loot and because the trinket she wants won’t ever drop. So, she decides to use a Charm of Good Fortune. Let’s say she gets lucky and the game decides that she won an item instead of gold, flasks, etc. (Thanks, game!) She might get the trinket she wants, or she might get an Agility neckpiece that is also on the Council of Kings loot table. Her winning an item doesn’t affect Stan or Jim Bob or anyone else, even if they use their Charms as well.

Okay, we’re almost done here, but I did want to mention two other relevant changes.

Area of Effect Looting
Yes, we are doing area looting. After killing a group of enemies, you may have a bunch of corpses lying around (perhaps because you went all Bladestorm on a bunch of hozen).  If you loot one of the corpses, the loot window will include items from all of the nearby corpses for which you have loot rights. Some recent games have incorporated a similar feature, and it’s one of those things that players just want in their MMO these days. It’s already in and it works fine.

The Future of Valor
The second change I want to mention is that we plan to adjust the role of Valor points. Valor (or the various other names that the currency has had over the years) was originally added to WoW for two reasons: it helped to mitigate really bad luck, for those times when the boss just refused to drop the item you wanted, and it helped encourage players to stay with the group even if they didn’t need anything off the next boss.

Over time, we have felt like Valor has taken on too prominent a role, to the point that it risks becoming more important than actual boss loot. This is particularly the case when the tier sets are available on the Valor vendors. We think killing dragons and ransacking their hoard is more epic than shopping at the magic armor store, so we want to shift back toward boss kills being the primary source of epic PvE gear.

In Mists of Pandaria, Valor will be used to power a new feature that allows you to increase the item level of your existing epic items. This means that each week, you can become a little more powerful, hopefully allowing you to kill that boss that has eluded you thus far. There will be a bit of a game in trying to decide when to upgrade your gear versus hoping for a new piece to drop from a raid boss, but our plan is that even heroic gear can be upgraded slightly in this way.

We won’t allow you to upgrade Raid Finder gear so much that it becomes better than normal gear, but imagine if you can increase your item level by around eight points. At this time, we’re thinking there won’t be gear on the Valor vendors at all, but we’ll see how that shakes out. Valor will come primarily from dungeons (including challenge modes) and scenarios. You might earn a little from daily quests and raiding as well, but that won’t be as efficient.

Final Thoughts
That’s a lot of information to absorb all at once I know, and I’m sure it will lead to dozens of questions. It’d be more helpful to us if you were to focus your discussion on how things will feel, and the basic rules of the system, instead of immediately leaping to the conclusion that you’ve figured out some exploit and ergo the whole thing is doomed to failure. We’ve stitched up a lot of the egregious loopholes already and the system is a little more complicated behind the scenes than I figured was worth getting into here.

Check it out in beta if you get the chance. Let us know how it feels. We have time to iterate and refine this stuff. Good luck on getting the loot you want, too. . .but not too quickly.

source from: battle

There’s a lot of detail to be had, including details on how the Pet Battle abilities are broken up (it’s not quite grass type vs. fire type) and how to command your pets to be the very best. So head on over and check it out.

source from: wow.joystiq

While we don’t have much more information other than the bit that’s been reported, one of the key factors could be the clauses in her contract governing what happens to things employees create while on the job. Many companies have such invention policies in place to capitalize on employees’ ideas and give them a place to go with said ideas to potentially make them real.

The interesting part of the complaint, and for me the most heartwarming because you could tell a lawyer wrote it, is that Lewis is claiming the baby murloc has become the de facto mascot of World of Warcraft. What do you guys think? When I think Warcraft, I think orcs, humans, war, yadda yadda — not baby murlocs. If you’re interested in a bit more of an in depth analysis, look forward to my Lawbringer column next week.

Here’s hoping for a quick settlement or summary judgmgrlrglrglrlglgglrrrllll

source from: wow.joystiq