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We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Serennia discusses the 2v2 arena bracket. Would we be better off if they replaced it with a 4v4 bracket? Too Many Annas answers reader mail regarding a fairly widespread (in my experience) phenomenon: RPers griefing raiders simply because they raid. Are you a Hunter? Are you a Hunter that hates Naxxramas as much as I do? The Hunter’s Rhok shows you how to gear up for Ulduar without it! Episode #115 of All Things Azeroth has been released. This week it features an interview with Cadistra of WoW, Eh? along with a whole load of other topics. Those of you using our WoW.com profile system… we want your blogs! Have you written something that you think is worth being featured on The Daily Quest? Have you discovered another good blog here on WoW.com? Send them in using the link below! No, this doesn’t mean we’re going to stop linking to other sites, so don’t worry! We have enough love to go around.

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We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. BBB’s take on the new druid art. Critical QQ has five facts about Mages. A look at the GuildTax add-on. Lodur over at WoM has some great thoughts on the State of Chain Heals. Kaliope has some ideas about the problem with the World Drop Recipes.

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We had our long-awaited video version of the podcast last weekend, and it was a hoot: Turpster and I dressed up and drank champagne together, Robin Torres showed how to inflate your Frostmourne, Lesley Smith came to us live from England, Duncor showed off his famous gigantic cowboy hat, and Patrick Beja showed that he can out-spiffy us any day. Unfortunately, because of the way we did things, we didn’t end up getting a good recording of the whole thing — you can see a few clips of the beginning over on Ustream, but they only have my camera (and the audio is rough — I didn’t realize it sounded that bad at the time). Dotorion also Frapsed a bit of the beginning, which should give you a little taste of the multi-camera mayhem. But in the end, it was pretty much a one-time thing you had to be there for live. Lightning in a bottle, if you will. The good news is that even if you didn’t see the show, we’ve still got a treat for you: Turpster premiered a brand new video (put together by our good friend Ninthbatter) that we played at the end of the show, and that you can watch online right now. Turpster has also recently updated his own site, where you

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With many of the major features of patch 3.2 having been announced, and a lot of people already somewhat bored with patch 3.1 content, and with the new dungeon/raid instance being a relatively simple “arena” format, many have been hoping that we’ll see a 3.2 PTR soon. However, it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer than hoped. In a recent post regarding adjustments to Druid set bonuses, Ghostcrawler let slip that a change would be coming “long before 3.2.” While it’s possible this could just be slipped in with other hotfixes, it does seem to imply that we can expect another bug fix and minor balance tweaking patch before 3.2 hits the servers. Of course, this is probably good news for those hoping for adjustments and fixes for their class or spec, but for those who just want more new stuff to do: Well, sorry, you may have to make those ulduar trips or Argent Tournament dailies last just a bit longer.

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Yes, that’s Thoralius the Wise from the Howling Fjord starting quests. When I saw him get up and start zoning out to his smoke brazier, the look on his face just meshed too well with today’s subject matter, which is the health of shamans in melee. We talked about shaman health in PvP a while back, now it’s PvE’s turn. I don’t play my shaman in a melee role in raids right now, because I basically don’t have the gear for it. My resto set’s a lot better so that’s what I go as, but that only means I often notice how difficult it is to keep enhancement shamans on their feet. There are several possible culprits for the disparity, although in most cases I believe the killer to be aoe damage, so wearing mail really isn’t the issue: rogues aren’t nearly as hard to keep up as shamans, for instance, because rogues have cooldowns and abilities that allow them to avoid or escape damage. (If you’ve ever seen a rogue go sprinting through several mines on a Mimiron kill you’ll know what I mean.) No, excepting those giant whirlwinding maniacs in Razorscale and Thorim, what’s generally killing shamans in melee is AoE

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I’ve been meaning to write about this WoWcology blog for a few days now, but there’s just so much there — reader Skeuk is guilded up with a PhD in Psychology, who’s writing not only about the guild’s day to day battles, but also about how the deeper tenets of psychology can be seen in our Azerothian gameplay. This post about group dynamics is extremely interesting — if you’ve ever suffered through some bad PuGs in your time, you can see the different stages of group development, and you can probably even figure out where your PuG fizzled out in the “storming” stage or made it all the way through to the “performing” part of the cycle. Fascinating stuff, for sure. Unfortunately, posts aren’t coming too often, and it seems like Dr. Amalea — who for some reason refers to himself in the third person at times — understandably has other things to do besides keeping a blog about World of Warcraft and psychology. But maybe if we send them a little traffic, we can convince him to keep it up regularly, as what’s there now makes for some really interesting reading. It’s really interesting that a

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We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Graylo of Gray Matter talks stat weights and spell priorities for the second in a pair of Moonkin builds. Rogue-Rogue reacts to the Nitro Boots stealth nerf from patch 3.1.2. Shields Up! pulls together a few essential macros for Shaman of all flavors. Hunter DPS has changed significantly since The Burning Crusade, shifting from a shot rotation to more of a shot priority system. If you’re not sure what that means, you should probably read this. Do you have something you’d like to blog about, but you weren’t sure where to say it? Make use of WoW.com’s new blogging system! It’s free, and we’d love to see what all of you can do with it. Silly or serious, we want to hear about it!

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We noted an error earlier this evening which was causing the Lake Wintergrasp PvP zone to be reset prematurely. Since ending epic battles early is a bad thing, Blizzard has gone ahead and “shut off Wintergrasp” completely for the time being. This is change is effecting all realms. There is no word when a fix will come through, but we’re hopeful it will happen sometime soon. Disabling an entire part of the game is a big thing, and an error that usually is correctly quickly. Some speculation points to the change in daily (now weekly) quests that just went in, however there is no evidence to support this.

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Reader comments – ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week. The comments section is usually a cacophony of voices seeking to agree or disagree with the main post, discredit previous commentors or make some pointless point (“first” — /facepalm). This week, readers pulled together in a more truly interactive relationship, offering up questions, tips, insights and well thought-out suggestions and ideas. Take a trip through the pickings this week on ways to make professions more interesting, more Star Trek Easter eggs, getting real about DPS, copyright issues, snappier headlines … and even a post devoted exclusively to guild and player recruitment notices. Assessing the gear-crafting trades BWJ seized the opportunity to present his vision for more robust professions in World of Warcraft. “God, where to start?” he began. “Professions really got the short end of the stick, in Wrath, with the exception of Jewelcrafting. I have a lot of alts and I make stuff for them leveling up, but most of the time I just

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If you’re a raiding healer, chances are you use or at least have heard of Grid, the popular raid frame mod. It makes the essential task of staring at health bars significantly easier. However, Grid is a darn complicated mod. So complicated, in fact, that Llyra over at Healing Way has written a blog post all about how to configure it. I’ve been using Grid for years, ever since Molten Core (in fact, one of my first posts on WoW Insider was about Grid), and I still learned things from this article. The way Grid composites information onto its little squares is not intuitively obvious, so it’s probably worth taking a look just for that. There is also a video on how to configure the mod, which might give you a hint just how complex it can get. The post ends with a list of some useful plug-ins for Grid; I fully agree with the author that GridStatusThreat, which shows which raid members have aggro, is a must-have (although I can’t find a working link to it at the moment – is it included with Grid these days?).

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