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If you've been following along with the podcast, you've heard of the Fandral Staghelm killshot thread over on WoW Radio-- it's a place where those who hate Fandral Staghelm, Archdruid of Darnassus and generally obnoxious jerk, can get their kicks seeing the guy dead on the ground. Originally, the thread was supposed to be a compendium for killshots, but Rembrant on the Moon Guard server has taken it to a whole new level-- he's created a Flash-based kill simulator of the Archdruid. Don't have a whole raid of Horde to go into Darnassus and take him down in game? Just click the "Die Staghelm!!" button, and you get a surprisingly satisfying animation of Staghelm's demise.

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WoWDB launch

A newcomer arrived in the world of WoW databases: WoWDB.com

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Community Manager Bornakk has detailed a few of the changes that Blizzard plans on implementing in the World of Warcraft Battleground Alterac Valley once patch 2.4 goes live.

Most of the changes deal with the balance problem that the alliance players have been complaining about.

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Apparently this has been wandering around the forums for a while, but I haven't seen it before-- Zami the forum troll (and we mean that in a good way) has put together a dictionary of sorts for those browsing the forums. Not quite sure what people mean by QQ or "weaksauce"? Zami's got you covered. Well, he doesn't so much have you covered (we actually have a post for that), but at least he's entertaining.

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This past weekend (before we knew the Pats couldn't go undefeated for a whole season-- that's what they get for beating my Rams in 2001), WoW Insider took to the airwaves of WoW Radio for the 23rd episode of our podcast, and the results are now live over on their site, and ready to assault your ears with a fine mix of insight and insanity. Turpster was out this week, but Duncor skillfully filled in alongside myself and WoW Insider's own Alex Ziebart. We talked for a minute about Groundhog Day, and then ducked into the email inbox (the address is theshow@wowinsider.com, if you've got something to tell us), and then we talked about the most popular posts of the past week:

• Mojo the frog, and whether it was Blizzard's mistake or our exploit.
• Addons and how to raid with (or without) them.
• Your crazy pick for the favorite 5man (Mana Tombs was robbed)
• And that piece of loot that you couldn't live without, but never could seem to live with


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Quote from Blizzard staffAlterac Valley will see a few very significant improvements in the next patch and we wanted to share the details of what we have planned.

The first change will be to move the Horde's starting tunnel back to a more equal distance from the first objectives, which will help evenly distance the starting points for each side across the terrain when the battle commences.

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In the World of Warcraft Patch 2.3.3 known issues list, Endless Rage was listed as not granting Warriors the correct rage generation. Considering that rage is used to power a lot of that class' skills this is a very important problem that needs to be addressed. Thankfully, Blizzard plans on doing in Patch 2.4.

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It seems like they just can't leave Alterac Valley alone. In this case, that's probably a good thing, because there is a lot of discontentment with the state of that battleground right now. Bornakk just announced (and three different people just dropped us tips to let us know) that AV will get some "very significant improvements" in the upcoming patch 2.4:

• Horde starting tunnel moved back "to a more equal distance from the first objectives"
• Each faction's Generals and Warmasters will buff each other for health and damage: the more of them your side has, the stronger they all are. Hopefully this will more strongly motivate killing the Warmasters.
• Balinda Stonehearth will do more damage, but she and Stormpike will have their recent health increases repealed.


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Once upon a time, the "Under Development" page on the official site was a great way to keep up with what was coming to Azeroth in the weeks and months ahead. These days it's pretty infrequently updated, but every once in a while it's still the first place we find new tidbits. Today is one of those days; a bunch of new content was added to the page, and here's what's new as far as I can tell:

• "New Daily Quests and Interactive Quest Hub" will be part of patch 2.4's Sunwell Plateau
• New repeatable Battleground quests
• "Some PvP rewards now obtainable through PvE content" -- say what? I wonder how this is going to work. Badges as equivalent to honor points or something?
• A portal to the Caverns of Time "accessible through reputation with the Keepers of Time."


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The guys over at the Legendary Heroes podcast wanted to form a guild to play with their fans, but they didn't want to actually make it serious-- they figured that by including everyone, they'd end up with some people who were fun to play with, but weren't necessarily the best players. So instead, they formed a guild. And it's been an interesting experiment-- kind of an anti-RP RP guild.

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If you're on a neverending quest to attain 100 Grade-A World of Warcraft geekery, you might want to take a gander at the Mana Energy Potion. This unlicensed supplement drink claims to be able to pump up a gamer with five hours' worth of jitter free energy.

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Blue Posters are back in the office and are currently posting 2.4 info on the official forums.

Newest info at the top.

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The Under Development page on the official website has been updated. We already heard about what's posted here and they're in the compilation below on the homepage, but I think that's the first time they talk about three new features (in bold)

Sunwell Isle - A new area located north of Silvermoon City

• Sunwell Plateau - A high-level 25-player instance featuring six bosses
• Magister's Terrace - A high-level 5-player instance
• New Reputation - The Shattered Sun Offensive is Shattrath City's answer to Kael'thas's operations in the Sunwell; it is comprised of the combined forces of the Aldor and the Scryers, led by the naaru.
• New Daily Quests and Interactive Quest Hub

UI Improvements

• New combat log features and customization

Quest Improvements

• New daily fishing quest
• Maximum daily quests per day increased to 25
• New repeatable Battleground quests
  
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This next machinima, Shpongle - Once Upon the Time of Blissful Awareness, doesn't have the fancy WarcraftMovies intro, or even a thumbnail. It's no Baron or Yume, but what it does have is heart. It's a great first attempt.

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Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.

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Blizzard Entertainment's apparently looking for a few good men (two, actually) as they announce another round of job openings. This time, the company's looking for either a Senior Graphic Designer, or a Senior Tools Programmer for Next-Gen MMOs.

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Reader Quigley, Gnome Engineer and Pearl Diver of the Nagrand server, was taking a trip on the Deeprun Tram and saw an opportunity for some fun. He explains that he "realised, whilst wearing my 'Deepdive Suit' (Helm and some leathers that look the part), there was an opportunity for a lush underwater scene. It all began when I noticed that certain mail gear had the same colour palette as the Helm, then came the matter of finding a suit. Found something suitably frumpy leather set.. voila! Diving Suit. [It] often causes passersby some pause when I trot out of the water."

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Shia of Banana Shoulders has suggested a regular question to the bloggers at Blog Azeroth as an exercise to motivate posting. And her first question is an excellent one. After spending more than three seconds in any class forum on the Official boards, you'd think every class is nerfed, gimped and insta-gibbed in the game. But in reality, many people like their classes very much. Why?

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We don't know if there will be anything new today about the 2.4 patch, however we'll keep our focus on it for the moment with a very huge compilation of the 2.4 known changes, and a few comics to keep busy the people who already know everything about the patch.

Wowhead update
Wowhead has been updated with new features, nothing big but they're definitely useful (especially if you're a hunter)

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