Last week, two bosses entered a neutral Arena, the Old God C'thun and the bane of the Black Dragonflight, Gruul. Which one survived and which one got slaughtered in this battle of the boss mobs?

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Besides news here at WoW Insider, one of my favorite places on the web is over at WoWWiki. The site is a virtual treasure trove of World of Warcraft lore, class information, formulas, and strategies. Back in October the site passed 45,000 articles, and today it stands around 53,000 articles. That's A LOT of content, much more then anyone could possibly hope to read.

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The best WoW database site (in my opinion) just got better. Several features have been added to Wowhead over the past couple days; as the site's "Adorable Bearcat Overlord" Miyari notes, they are perhaps not strictly essential (her term is "icing"), but nice to have anyway.

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The folks at WoWJutsu provide a great little competitive tool that ranks guilds according to the PvE raid content they've completed. The site is pretty popular, and a lot of guilds use it in their advertising over at the Guild Recruitment Forums. My guild has been known to pay pretty close attention to the number. I have to admit that about once a week I find myself checking our ranking against those of other guilds my friends are in.

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It never really gets old speculating about what Blizzard has hidden away for the future, whether it be for the Sunwell Plateau, Wrath of the Lich King or something else entirely. The topic of Warlock pets comes up every now and then on the Wrath forums and while I don't play a Warlock, its an intriguing topic. Warlocks currently have five baseline demons, two of which have a slightly different summoning process. They can get another through being specced deep Demonology. If you count the Felguard as their level 70 addition in the Burning Crusade, they get one roughly every ten levels, so its safe to assume they have something coming in Wrath.

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I've noticed lately while running around and doing my daily cooking quest that some flames are not the same as others. This seems rather silly to me. After all, a flame is a flame, right?

For those of you that don't cook in WoW, I'll fill you in. You need to find a cooking fire every time you want to cook something. Everyone has the ability to make a simple fire, but this requires reagents, and is not something that people normally waste space on. So instead of making your own fire, you can find a premade fire, stove, kettle, etc... and cook your food there. These heat sources are spread out all over major cities and out in the wild.

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Today is Groundhog Day. I would recommend you all go watch the like-titled movie with Bill Murray in it while doing your dailies. A quick scan of my TV guide reveals its on just about every cable network. For those of you that haven't seen the movie, I'll give you a spoiler: Bill Murray repeats the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over again, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,650 times.

Sound familiar?

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While not a new site, Gankbang has recieved a push on a few different realm forums recently and it seems few know about it. A shame!

Gankbang pulls character stats from the Armory and compiles them into a fun little searchable tool. It gives you the option of breaking down your search by class, talent spec and specific stats. You can also choose to search by specific realms, factions and battlegroup. You don't have to pick through those things if you don't want to, a WoW-wide search works as well.

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Those of you who are hard up looking for cheap Large Prismatic Shards to help forge those godly high-level items, then we have some good news. The developers at Blizzard are already planning a new recipe which may help lower the market price of the much sought after item.

The good news was confirmed by Blizzard Poster Drysc after a post on the World of Warcraft forums was put up regarding the possibility of an alternative way to get Large Prismatics. The process was described as splitting the more common Void Crystal into two Large Prismatic Shards through Enchanting.

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Just a friendly reminder for those of you who have Friendly or better reputation with the Consortium that it's that time of the month again to collect your gems.

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Here is all of our weekly content from the past seven days, all wrapped up in one big post. Enjoy!

Two Bosses Enter: Gruul vs. C'thun
Will they see eye to eye? Ha!

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Once you are familiar with the daily quests offered in Skettis, you will begin searching for more dailies. After all, you can complete up to 10 of them per day. By completing only two or three, you are bypassing a large amount of guaranteed gold. Unlocking these quests will also increase your grind toward a nether ray flying mount.

The next step then is to set your sights on Ogri'la and the Skyguard Outpost in Blade's Edge Mountains (see map above). Unfortunately, you won't be able to fly up there, do a little dance, and expect them to hand you out the quests. In fact, you might as well buckle in, because the upcoming chain is long and involved. Fear not; by following this guide, and consulting the map, you should be welcomed by Ogri'la in no time.

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It's taken Shepiwot only 10 months to create 26 How to Paladin videos, as well as several spinoffs. He's received countless death threats and plenty of discouragement, but he keeps on going. Love or hate them, they're like an accident that you can't look away from. If I had to categorize his movies, I'd place them in the "WTF" genre.

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Its the weekend, we wont be getting any more 2.4 info until Monday, therefore we made a recap of yesterday 2.4 info. Expect 2.4 patch notes to be released earlier next week.

2.4 info recap

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Having been a full-time machinimator in Second Life for about 1.5 years now, I can definitely appreciate the plight of the WoW machinimator. They produce work that is easily 10 times the quality of what comes out of SL, yet have a hard time making any money off of it. However, it looks like Oxhorn has found a way.

Oxhorn has landed a gig with WeGame, a video sharing site with a twist. WeGame not only allows you to upload your machinima, it also provides you with a free desktop client for filming. If you can't afford to pay for Fraps or any of the other options, WeGame is your best bet.

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Reader FrostLapin of the Ursin Server snapped this shot of the Orcs latest ammunition strategy in World PvP. I can't wait to see how they are going to attack destructible buildings in Wrath's Lake Wintergrasp. Taurens perhaps? Flaming Warlock imps? The mind boggles.

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Blogger Amava is having a bit of a crisis in his guild. They have just hit Karazhan and the question of who gets in on the 10-man team and who sits out destined to spend the evening begging for a pick up group in Shatt has caused much drama.

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If you've been keeping your eyes on the World of Warcraft bestiary lately, you may have noticed that it hasn't been updated since it was first released. That's exactly what Blizzard forum member Foambeard has been doing, and now the WoW player is wondering what happened to all the updates.

Most of the other WoW forum members suggested that Foambeard simply wait patiently  for the next update. Blizzard blue poster Bornakk, however, responded with this:

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We've got another bit of information for you related to World of Warcraft patch 2.4 that should make the whole business of looting dead enemies faster and easier. Drysc has outlined two of the changes that'll be arriving to the looting UI come patch 2.4, and they're certainly very helpful.

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The European World of Warcraft forums are abuzz with excitement today as some new information regarding WoW patch 2.4 has been revealed by Blizzard representative Thyvene.

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More money doesn't necessarily equate to having more problems. In the case of raiding in World of Warcraft, you might just get more money for doing the same amount of work. This is one of a small number of changes that Eyonix recently announced for WoW patch 2.4, and the official announcement is certainly exciting enough if you're a raider.

Here's what Eyonix said:

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Yesterday, we heard that a new PVE realm, dubbed Ghostlands, has been set up on the US side of the World of Warcraft servers. Quite a number of players raised questions regarding the new realm on the WoW Forums and Blizzard poster Drysc dropped by the said thread to answer the queries.

The opening post noted that the name is a bit ironic and well, it somewhat is considering WoW's population problems. Anyway, Drysc reiterated that the Ghostlands is a PVE server, which is now open for character migration.

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