The other day, Blizzard announced that they will be requiring players to merge their WoW accounts with Battle.net accounts. They said players will not be able to log in by November 11 unless they do so. To give more incentive for players to do this, they are giving out for only a certain amount of time an in-game non combat pet which will be available to all players who go through the merging process.
This pet has already arrived in the mailboxes (courtesy of Breanni the Dalaran Pet Supplies vendor) of all players who merged their accounts. We now know this …read more

When Blizzard announced the Cataclysm expansion at Blizzcon ‘09, one of the things they also announced was the redesign of Hunters so that they use the Focus resource like their pets use instead of mana. This is a cool announcement especially because hunters have been complaining about their mana consumption and the mechanics of abilities like Aspect of the Viper to deal with this problem. The shift to focus will break their dependence on mana altogether and instead use something more reliable since Focus works something like the Energy resource that rogues and kitty druids use.
This switch to Focus come …read more