In our continued efforts to support fair gameplay in World of Warcraft and to provide a positive experience for players, we have taken steps to ensure fair and enjoyable competition in the Arena by actioning players who have exploited the Arena system to gain artificial victories to purchase Arena gear. Our support team identified several hundred of the most abusive win traders, and action was taken against those accounts in the form of a 72-hour suspension, as well as removal of all Arena gear purchased in...

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Back by popular demand, and now with 50% more hall space for your convention-going enjoyment, BlizzCon officially returns to the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, on October 10–11. Join us for another epic celebration -- meet your guildmates and fellow gamers from around the world; spend some quality time with current and upcoming Blizzard games; and partake in the contests, tournaments, and developer discussion panels that make up BlizzCon. Check out the press release to learn more, and stay tuned for further updates.

http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080512.html

We will be providing more details on the event as we get closer to it. When a set date is determined for tickets to go on sale I'm sure you'll see it all over the forums/website.

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What is the rainbow?

The test phase for patch 2.4.2 has concluded and the PTRs are brought down.
We want to thank you for your participation in testing this patch.

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OCR - Online Community Representative (German)
Das Wandern ist des Worgen Lust.

I wanted to give a very early head's up to all of you Zul'Aman raiders out there:

Once Wrath of the Lich King goes live, you will no longer be able to obtain the Zul'Aman bear mount by saving all 4 prisoners in the timed run. The Bear Mount will be replaced by a very good, epic item that is level appropriate for people doing the zone. To be clear, the Zul'Aman bear mount is supposed to be an item of very high prestige. We want players who have earned it during the appropriate era (aka before the lev...

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Q u o t e:

Please give me a purchasable mount in WOTLK, which is a bear then. It can be a more crappy looking bear, with like junkyard stuff on it.

I'm a subscriber too, so giving me some kind of a time limit to get in a guild right now where I can accomplish this to get a bear, when I've been in your game since beta phase 3, is really irritating. Thank you, loyal subscriber, but you are denied a bear unless you get with people who can get it right away.

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Polar Bear sound cool?

Back by popular demand, and now with 50% more hall space for your convention-going enjoyment, BlizzCon officially returns to the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, on October 10–11. Join us for another epic celebration -- meet your guildmates and fellow gamers from around the world; spend some quality time with current and upcoming Blizzard games; and partake in the contests, tournaments, and developer discussion panels that make up BlizzCon. Check out the press release to learn more, and stay tuned for further updates: http://www.blizzard.co.uk/press/080512.shtml

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Behold! Witness the glory of my epic beer container... More commonly known as The epic Mug of Vaneras : http://epicmug.ytmnd.com/

The Alebringer...