The best of WoW.com: September 1-8, 2009

Cats and dogs, sleeping -- well, you know the drill. Blizzard introduced faction transfers to World of Warcraft last week, and as you might imagine, it has us WoW.com folks in a tizzy. Trolls becoming Humans? Night Elves becoming Tauren? It's one big scandal all around. Here's that story, and nine more popular ones, from Joystiq's World of Warcraft-obsessed sister site WoW.com.

News

• Faction change service now available
  For the first time in the game's history, players can switch from Horde to Alliance or vice versa.

• Patch 3.2.2: 5-man Coliseum jousting woes addressed
  The next patch will smooth out some issues folks have been having with the new 5-man instance.

• Play safe, because a trojan can get you banned
  Blizzard's Warden isn't just working for you: if it finds some malware, you might be asked to leave the game for good.

• Garrosh is not well-liked
  There are rumors going around (spoiler) about Garrosh Hellscream, and players aren't real happy about it.

• Yogg-Saron in blues
  Think you need epic gear to be great? Think again.

Features

• Spiritual Guidance: 12 reasons you don't want to play a Priest
  Our Priest columnist looks at the bad side of the clothy healing class.

• Officers' Quarters: Loot rage
  And how to deal with it.

• WoW Rookie: How not to be a noob
  Just imagine if this was required reading when you first started playing games. No more noobs!

• Ask a Faction Leader: Genn Greymane
  It's an advice column and a lore story all in one!

• Survey: Figuring out the faction transfer numbers
  Breaking down who's transferring where.