Looks like another mistake's been spotted for World of Warcraft's Public Test Realms patch notes, this time for the Paladins. According to Dangnabitt over at the WoW forums, the current notes indicate that the Paladin's Judgement of Light debuff now regenerates mana. Here was the particular note:

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As requested, we're going "husky" on Phat Loot today, with a cool two-handed, midlevel sword that anyone can get. Plus, if you ask me, this sword has one of the best names ever. Puns FTW!

Name: X'caliboar
Type: Rare Two-hand Sword
Damage/Speed: 98-148 / 3.30 (37.3 DPS)
Abilities:

• +20 Strength, +8 Stamina
• Unfortunately, that an added enchant on the pic above-- the sword doesn't glow when you get it.
• A decent sword for Warriors and Paladins of the level (around 35-40). The Strength is very nice, obviously, and although you'll replace it soon (just like any other weapon in the early 40s), it's good to have around if you need to do any two-hand slicing.
• Plus, the name rocks. Obviously it's a play on Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur, but it drops from Razorfen Downs, so courtesy of Blizzard's witty item creation team, you get "X'caliboar." Funny.

How to Get It: Take a trip through the aforementioned Razorfen Downs, another one of my favorite instances in the game (I especially like the Undead rave going on in there). Ragglesnout drops it, and he's a rare spawn that appears near that rave (in one of the huts on the spiral). Apparently he is pretty rare, so if you really want to the sword, you may have to restart the instance a few times to see if you can get him, and then just hope the sword drops-- it's seen at about 20% which isn't bad, but when you factor in the chance that Ragglesnout appears, it's a little more rare than that.

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Insider Trader is your weekly inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.


What's in store for your profession in patch 2.3? Without further ado, Insider Trader is here to update you on what craftspeople should be looking out for, now on the test realm. (Sure, you could read the official PTR patch notes -- but then you wouldn't get links to all our helpful posts at WoW Insider!)

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Blizzard is apparently captivated by Griftah, the snake-oil sales Troll in Shattrath, because they've changed him yet again in 2.3. He's back inside the city, so apparently that investigation the Peacekeeper was doing dug up nothing. And he's gotten a bigger role in the game than ever-- not only does he now have a quest for you to do (that leads into Zul'Aman), but apparently one of the ingredients for the Engineering mount, a hula doll (don't ask), is sold by him for a whopping 100g.

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Look at the screenshot. It's like Christmas came early courtesy of Patch 2.3. Seriously, that is one of the coolest flying mounts in the game. And if that's not good enough for you, click here to see an animated gif of it in action. This mechanical wonder can all be yours if you have the skill.

MMO-Champion was able to get a scrounge up the recipe for the two Engineering Flying Machine schematics:

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Greetings, Azerothians! It's time for another Friday edition of Ask WoW Insider, where we publish your questions for the world (... of Warcraft) to answer. Last week we looked at how to find a new server, and this week we examine the curious and culturally diverse practice of marking targets in instances. Djinni on Anvilmar-A relates the following tale of falling down the rabbit hole: I was in a 5-man the other day with 4 members of one guild, and me, the non-guildy. Not exactly a PUG, since I know 2 of the people, and they asked me to join. For the first 10-15 minutes of this instance, I was getting crazy aggro and had either died or had to Vanish on every pull. I also noticed that I seemed to be the only one doing damage to my target. Finally, I stopped the group and asked what was going wrong...telling them that no one else seems to be attacking Skull. And that's when this became the weirdest instance run ever. They dropped the Kill Order Bomb. Square, X (if it exists), Triangle (Sap), Skull, Moon (Sheep). And this didn't seem strange to any of them. To this day, it remains the only group I've ever been in that didn't make Skull first target. For the next hour or so, I was in Bizarro world...as if the water in the toilet would spin backwards (and maybe up) if I flushed it. I wonder if anyone else has had a completely unintuitive Kill Order imposed on them? What's your Kill Order? To some it seems obvious that the skull symbolizes death and death quickly, but to others, X marks the spot. Still others have been thrown into a murderous rage at the mere sight of the orange nipple. What's your preferred kill order when marking instances, and have you ever been subject to one that seemed particularly daft?

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Yes, it's almost Saturday again, and you know what that means-- the WoW Insider Show is set to take to the airwaves of WoW Radio once more. Episode 7 kicks off at 3:30pm EST (8:30pm GMT), and you can listen live over on our site, as well as chat with us in IRC at irc.wowirc.com in channel #wowradio. Our email address is theshow@wowinsider.com, so if you've got feedback for us before or after the show, we're all ears.

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Tom Chilton aka Kalgan has been promising buffs for Ret Pallies since BlizzCon. He specifically has stated that there would be changes made so that Retribution would be more than just a leveling spec, such as sustained DPS instead of just burst and less reliance on Spell Damage as a stat.

Retribution Pallies are definitely getting some love in patch 2.3, but is it enough and is it balanced? Many Paladins on the forums say no to both. They want Spell Damage to go away as a need for Pallies and a way to manage threat and they want these changes in 2.3.

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We now are starting to see just how big patch 2.3 really is. It's turning out to be almost as big as the heralded Before the Storm patch that led to The Burning Crusade although as of yet no hints have been dropped that this is leading up to Wrath of the Lich King.

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It looks like there's been a slip over the change notes for World of Warcraft's Public test Realms. According to Trivonus over at the official WoW forums, Blizzard has apparently removed the buffs for the rogue's Dirty Deeds talent from the most recent PTR patch notes.

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A few players have noticed a really interesting change hidden way down in the patch 2.3 notes. Inspect has been updated-- the range on it has now been increased to 30 yards, which is fine, and when you inspect a player, you can now see their talent choices. Which is... whoa. So much for privacy-- now you don't even need to alt-tab out to check the Armory to see every talent choice every player has made.

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Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter a comment (on the other post, not this one) to get a chance at winning this striking Thargas Anvilmar toy... sorry again-- "Action Figure" from WoW Insider and DC Unlimited. Brewfest ends on Tuesday, and this figure doesn't release in stores until October 24th, but we here at WoW Insider are making the best of the drinking festival and hooking one lucky reader up with this baby, a Dwarf Warrior outfitted in Tier 5!

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The Care and Feeding of Warriors is confused and irritable this morning. Matthew Rossi does not understand the purpose of the changes to warriors in 2.3 and, like all warriors, his first response to confusion is to hit things. Well, okay, that's also his first response to most situations. Hey, it works surprisingly often! Anyway, this time he has decided that today's column will be discussing them, as perhaps out of our shared discussion will come enlightenment. Or at least an idea of how he's going to have to respec.

So, yeah, I am at a loss for words. Go ahead and check out the changes and then come on back.

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At BlizzCon, every time someone mentioned Warlocks during the panels, the crowd would boo. On the forums, the cries of "Nerf Warlocks!" were loud and frequent. Now, in patch 2.3, some Warlocks are saying that Blizzard has listened and nerfed them.

Danakha posted a breakdown on the forums of the Warlock changes and his analysis of them, stating that Blizzard listened to all the complaints and acted on them. His main problem with 2.3 is this change:

Drain Life and Siphon Life now reduce the amount healed when the warlock is affected by healing reducing effects (e.g. Mortal Strike, Wounding Poison).

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You may wonder how this relatively drab shot, sent in by reader Conak of Stormrage, made it into our Around Azeroth location. It's not an impressive locale or an interesting site -- however, this little doll is found in just one part of Azeroth and it is the hallmark of one of the game's saddest quests, the Sister Pamela chain. In this short series of quests, a ghost sends you to Darrowshire in the Eastern Plaguelands to find her younger sister. The sister is easily found, but a ghost herself, wandering around and wanting only her doll, which we see above.

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Those crazy Europeans and their in-game events! Last time they were partying with a Naked Troll (and I heard that was extremely popular and crazy), and this weekend they're at it again-- a guild on EU Doomhammer named Malfunction is hosting the AzerothCross, a running/boating/flying naked race from Hammerfall to Orgrimmar. It's going to be tough, too-- they're planning on running under Blackrock Mountain and by Stormwind, and PvP flags must be on for the entire thing.

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Here's a whole mess of screenshots from the highly-anticipated patch 2.3 for Blizzard's World of Warcraft. After 2.3 went live on the PTR server, MMO Champion and World of Raids have lovingly provided us with nearly 30 screenshots of the different models the new patch has.

New weapons that players from the WoW forums have been clamouring for and demanding for the past few months will now come to reality with the new set of toys the developers from Blizzard will be providing. In addition to that, you can't ignore the new mounts and monsters that they will be throwing into the mix.

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Quite a few World of Warcraft Paladins on the official forums felt slighted when the class didn't receive a threat reduction for their spells. The outcry has expectedly been louder from the Retribution side of the class since they are the ones who will be reaping most  of the benefits from this buff.

Blizzard Community Manager Drysc addressed this angry group of holy warriors saying that they gave the Ret Pallys a few "nice damage increases" in patch 2.3. He added that Blizzard is still looking at the possibility of adding a passive threat reduction to the class.

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I've been doing the daily quests a lot lately (for time invested vs. reward received, they are great), but I kind of agree with a comment one of you readers made earlier this week-- sooner or later, they just feel like a job you're doing. I'm still glad Blizzard is down with the idea-- patch 2.3 is going to bring cooking and PvP daily quests to do.

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Blizzard Entertainment's Hortus has released the 2.3.0 patch notes for the World of Warcraft PTR server. This update implements multiple changes and additions to the MMORPG including guild banks, experience tweaks, and various bug fixes.

Players will finally get a chance to try out the highly anticipated Guild Bank in the PTR. Essentially a shared storage space, players will be able to deposit and withdraw items via a new NPC called the guild banker. Each guild can purchase up to six tabs which have 98 item slots each. To protect each player's stored personal belongings, the guild master has control over who can get/place items from/into the bank.

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Playing a cool MMORPG is good, being part of a team that makes cool MMORPGs is even better. For those of you who dream of working with the folks who brought us World of Warcraft here's good news: Blizzard Entertainment has just announced a job vacancy for an Associate Localization Producer for its line of MMOs.

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As the World of Warcraft Brewfest event winds down, some players have been asking if there will be another way for them to get the ram mount for their low-leveled alts. A scenario was proposed where a sub-40 character would start the quest now, and then redeem the ram later when it can finally use the mount.

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2.3 is up on the PTR, and both MMO Champion and World of Raids have broken out the Model Viewer and are ripping the new patch to pieces. Man, that bear mount looks awesome. And the engineering mount! And Zul'jin!

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Shamans in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, versatile enough to be healers, mages, or warriors, may also finally get more crowd control capabilities when Wrath of the Lich King goes live. According to Blizzard poster Eyonix, shamans may soon be able to clear mobs come the next WoW expansion.

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