For a long time in the Burning Crusade days, npc Haris Pilton in the World’s End Tavern was nothing more than an obvious parody of the famous socialite. She sold items that were nothing more than expensive money sinks that did nothing. Then during the later days of the Burning Crusade expansion, Blizzard made her a bit more useful by selling the “Gigantique” bag, which was a pretty expensive (for that level and those days) 22 slot bag. the aim of the bag was that it was something that wasn’t really a necessity but was a useful money sink for …read more

A new set of updates have been released into the patch 3.3 PTR recently and one thing caught my eye more than the other things listed. It seems like the new Quest Tracker feature which was supposed to come out in patch 3.2 will finally make it in patch 3.3. it didn’t make it before because there were some problems with it at the time and it just wasn’t ready for release. Better to have something come out late but working rather than early but broken right?
Basically this new Quest Tracker feature will change the current user interface to be …read more

Data mining the game files every time a patch is in the PTR is a great way to find out cool things Blizzard has in store for us. It’s the way we got a hint that Worgen and Goblins were the new races for the next expansion. MMO Champion has been doing this for as long as I can remember and they have another surprise for us.
MMO Champion was able to uncover a new character model called the Lava Man which can be seen by following this link. It looks like a stony looking character wearing some pieces of plate …read more

If you’ve seen the preview Blizzard recently put out for the Icecrown Citadel raid dungeon that’s coming out in patch 3.3, you probably were pretty impressed at how epic and interesting raiding that place is going to be. If you’re one of those guys who belongs to a guild ready to take it on when it comes out then you might want to try it out when testing begins in the PTR today.
Lead Encounter Designer Daelo announced in the WoW US forums that today October 15 will be the start of the Icecrown Citadel raid testing in the PTR. Testing …read more

I was just looking over at the PTR patch notes for patch 3.3 and I saw what looked like a new addition to the entries. Under the user interface section in the patch notes, there’s an entry that reads “Any party member may mark raid targets”.
As it is now, only the leader of the whole group can mark targets. Since it’s now usually the tank who marks the targets, this creates a problem when the group leader isn’t the tank. That person would normally have to pass leadership to the tank eventually (or at least whoever is marking). Of course …read more

One by one it seems like the items mentioned in the leak before the Cataclysm was announced are coming true or at least partially confirmed. Garrosh Hellscream was said to be the next Warchief in the expansion and that was confirmed by the article that came out in in the latest edition of PC Gamer UK magazine.
According to MMO Champion, Blizzard is preparing to add a few changes to the Patch 3.3 PTR that will basically make Baine Bloodhoof assume the title of High Chieftain, which his father Cairne currently holds. Even quests that Cairne used to handle will now …read more

A while ago, someone asked about whether Blizzard would ever address the problem of doing or completing quest lines that involved the dreadlord Varimathras. As you most probably already know, the events at the Wrathgate and Battle for Undercity led to the downfall of the traitorous Varimathras.As of right now, if you killed Varimathras already and still have some quests involving him, tough luck!
Blue poster Kisirani did say that a replacement would be made available by patch 3.3. This announcement caused some stir because he gave out a clue that this replacement would be a “B”, causing some people …read more

While patch 3.2.2’s main feature will be the revamp of the Onyxia’s Lair to tune it for a level 80 raid encounter, we’ll see a bunch of other nice changes in that minor patch. They already said that they’re going to deal with the problem in the first encounter of the Trial of the Champion so that players will no longer feel the need to exit the dungeon after the dismount. Well according to MMO Champion, Trial of the Champion has a nice surprise that’s already in the PTR.
Basically what they found out was a new nifty looking dagger called …read more

The patch 3.2.2 is already in the public test realm and the PTR notes are out already. Aside from announcing mostly some class changes, these notes also clarify a few things about the Onyxia raid comeback that was announced recently.
As was announced, Blizzard is bringing back the Onyxia raid dungeon and retuning it for 10/25 man raiding instead of the original 40 man one. It has been made 100% clear that this will be a level 80 raid and therefore, being a permanent update, the level 60 version will no longer exist when patch 3.2.2 is released. They will be …read more

After reading some of the updates to the patch 3.2 PTR notes, I found some quite disappointing news that was dated a few days ago. Again I’m late with a piece of PTR news but at least this time it’s not that bad. A while back we received news that there’s a new feature that Patch 3.2 is adding to the user interface that will act sort of like a Quest Helper. It was supposed to help players with quests by showing in the map the location of whatever the quest needs you to do, whether it’s an npc you …read more