We’re glad to announce the winners of the Taiwan regional final of the 2009 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament. Below you’ll find the final rankings from the participating teams at this year’s event. Teams “D K P” and “all pass” proved their worth this weekend, rising above an elite field of competitors to claim the top spots in the tournament, winning $15,000 and $6,000 respectively. Their greatest challenge, however, still awaits at this year’s BlizzCon.

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As a part of our class Question & Answer series, we are looking for any questions you may have concerning your class and ask that you post in this thread. For more information on our Q&A series, please click here- http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17223094467&sid=1

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When will the questions being asked here be answered?

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The mage Q&A will be second after shaman. We're compiling questions from all of our regions around the world, so it might take a couple of weeks to complete.

I've read just about all of the posts in this thread up to page 9. There is a lot of great feedback here! I appreciate the extra discussion and debate occurring over some of the concerns being raised.

Please keep it up. :)

Warm up your sewing machines and start selecting the best fabrics you can; the Blizzard Costume Contest has arrived! The best costume-maker will receive a grand prize package filled with great loot from our partners Panini, SteelSeries, and Upper Deck as well as an a trip for two to BlizzCon 2009! Check out our contest information page for details: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/contests/costume09/

Also, be sure to check the Terms and Conditions for entering: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/legal/contests/costume-09.html

We’ve added GAVade’s latest creation, Lich King: http://eu.blizzard.com/screenshots/thumbnail.html to the Blizzard Fan Art Gallery. The Lich King is waiting, watching for his time to strike!

We're always looking for new fan art and if you're an artist, you can submit your work to us here: http://eu.blizzard.com/en/inblizz/fanart/rules.html

We update the Gallery regularly and encourage you to check regularly to see what new and talented submissions are on display.

The developers believe hunter dps is too low, so today we are implementing a change to ranged weapon damage to improve dps across the board.

Bows, crossbows and guns of item level 226 or higher (which means weapons from Kel'Thuzad, Ulduar and the Furious Gladiator pieces) will do around 30 more dps. This should translate to a hunter damage increase of a few percent.

We don't think this will be quite sufficient in boosting hunter dps to where we think it needs to be and we have another ...

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Can we get GC to please post back and explain why the buff is only for lvl226 weapons/better, really makes it more depressing for some of us hunters who haven't been lucky enough to get better weapons be left out.

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Hunter dps was where we wanted it to be in Naxx. Two problems arose in the Ulduar tier. First, we improved the dps of other pure classes, especially rogues. We have a small change coming up that should slightly improve hunter dps to make up for this and will ...

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After applying the new patch 3.1.2, when reaching the login screen you may receive the message, "Your video settings have changed." This is because the Projected Textures option in the Video Effects menu will now default to being turned on instead of turned off.

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Super! I just hope this won't force-reset my current existing settings though. But as always I'll backup first just in case. ;)

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It shouldn't change other settings (I just had a try and everything remained the same except this option).

As a part of our class Question & Answer series, we are looking for any questions you may have concerning your class and ask that you post in this thread. For more information on our Q&A series, please click here- http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17223094467&postId=172212650675&sid=1#0

It appears that some people have gotten a little off track with what they should be posting in this thread. Keep in mind, we are looking for your questions and not feedback/suggestions in this thread. Feedback and suggestions are always welcome, however, just please post them in a separate thread.

We are currently investigating an issue which has resulted in the Arena tournament vanity pet Murkimus not getting sent correctly to characters on Bloodlust, Rampage and Ruin battlegroups.

In order to help us with the investigations, please visit the following thread in the In-Game Customer Support Forum and supply the details requested in the opening post:

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9158151156

All issues should now be resolved.

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We are currently experiencing some issues with the authentication system that is preventing some players from logging in. We are actively investigating these issues and will provide further updates as soon as we can.

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We are concluding the final steps of the extended maintenance and all realms should be online and playable by about 2:00pm PDT. Thank you for your patience.

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All issues should now be resolved.

Previous thread: http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9158126907&sid=1

Recommended realms
Normal/PvE: Chamber of Aspects, Eonar, Saurfang
PvP: Dentarg, Vek'nilash
RP: Steamwheedle Cartel
RP PvP: Scarshield Legion


Free Character Migration (FCM)
There is currently no FCM available.

Please note: FCM is opened based on realm population tracking and analysis, not by request. If you're looking for a specific migration (from realm A to realm B), you are in most cases better off using Paid Character Transfer, or you could end up waiting for a very long time.


Paid Character Transfers (PCT)
All English realms follow the regular PCT rules, found here:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/paidcharactertransfer.html

The following are a list of changes that have been hotfixed to 3.1.2 or are in the process of being hotfixed. All changes are to both 10 and 25 player versions of the instance, unless specifically noted.

Trash

• Storm Tempered Keeper’s Supercharged ability will no longer increase the damage of Storm Wave.
• Some Ignis and Freya trash has been removed. If your instance was already open when the hotfix was applied, the trash will still be there.
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After several attempts to balance the Nitro Boots ability in the arena, we have decided that we currently do not have an acceptable solution. Until we are able to better balance this ability it has been shut down in the arenas. We fully plan to continue working on this item to ensure that it is still worth the investment made in it and we intend to adjust it in upcoming patches.

After several attempts to balance the Nitro Boots ability in the arena, we have decided that we currently do not have an acceptable solution. Until we are able to better balance this ability it has been shut down in the arenas. We fully plan to continue working on this item to ensure that it is still worth the investment made in it and we intend to adjust it in upcoming patches.

There is an open thread in the PvP forums should you wish to discuss this change - http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9158361169

The following are a list of changes that have been hotfixed to 3.1.2 or are in the process of being hotfixed. All changes are to both 10 and 25 player versions of the instance, unless specifically noted.

Trash
- Storm Tempered Keeper’s Supercharged ability will no longer increase the damage of Storm Wave.
- Some Ignis and Freya trash has been removed. If your instance was already open when the hotfix was applied, the trash will still be there.
- Ice Turret’s Ice Nova sp...

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What is your favorite Alliance male dance?

We have shut off Wintergrasp on all realms while we investigate an issue which caused the games to reset prematurely. Thank you for your patience, and we will re-activate Wintergrasp once the issue has been resolved.