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9pm PST and still no pet or achievement on central time zone server. Did I miss something?
So is this thing gonna appear on US servers anytime soon? 7:45PM PST right now and no pet or achievement yet...
Wish I had a blizzcon bear. Taurens already have such a hard time getting the 50 mount achievement, this would help a lot.
I would highly recommend killing Vashj and Kael. The fights are not THAT hard. If you guys are more than 1/2 thru Hyjal and you are 3 or 4 bosses into BT, you can DEFINITELY kill both Vashj and Kael. Our guild was in a similar situation a while ago. We had killed Vashj (which really isn't that hard with all the badge gear that is available today). We had cleared Hyjal and were 3 or 4 bosses into BT. At this point, we had never even attempted Kael. We decided it was finally time to get it done. So we went in and stuck with it until he was dead. It took us only 3 nights of attempts total. And it was SOOOOO worth it! Its a tough fight but it was definitely the most fun and rewarding fight of any fight we have done in Hyjal/BT. Our guild was extremely glad we took the time to kill Kael.
Wow.... you completely fail at researching the best bag addons.

Baggins ftw.
No, the Darkmoon Faire is NOT the first week of every month.

The rule is that on the first Friday of each month, the Darkmoon Faire begins setup and actually begins the following Monday.

March 7th was the first Friday of the month. March 10th was when it was supposed to start. This is how it was on the official calendar. This was correct.

The error occurred because of the leap year. Feb 29th was a Friday. The dev team accidentally programmed the Darkmoon Faire to begin setup on Friday Feb 29th because normally, in non-leapyears, that Friday would have been March 1st. Which would be the first Friday of the month.

So ya, Blizzard screwed up. I could have sworn I read March 10th on the Calendar, only to log in today and see it had come and gone. Missed my chance for my card i bought :-(
"Odds: Left, Evens: Right"
Blizzard completely screwed up the audio in the game with the 2.2 patch.

They integrated their new FMOD sound engine, which forces everyone's computer to process the audio with the CPU. If you own any type of sound card, WoW will now pretty much ignore it.

What this means is that you get lower quality audio and lower framerates because your CPU is now processing the audio instead of your sound card. Since the CPU has to take on the entire load of regular processing and now audio too, it makes for worse performance.

Blizzard really made a mistake by disabling hardware audio acceleration.
@10 I hope you enjoy virus', spyware and malware and slower page loading times! Sorry, but there is not a single thing about IE that is better than Firefox.
LoL Blizz is way late on this one. There was a user created Armory search plugin created months ago!

You'll find it here:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=wow+armory&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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