The Tuesday Morning Post: Wrath Beta is live edition
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. It's a light maintenance week tonight, with nothing but rolling restarts this morning. US Servers will see the restarts at 5 AM PDT, while Oceanic servers will see them at 5 AM AEST. As usual, each server should be down for no more than an hour, and the whole process should be about an hour.
While you're sitting around waiting for your server to come back up, I think this a perfect time to remind you to check out (and maybe bookmark) our Wrath of the Lich King directory page, which is being updated daily with the all our articles, sneak peeks, guides, and analysis from the Beta, which was announced this week. Beyond that, why not take a peek at some of the other stuff we've been working on this week? Welcome to the Tuesday morning roundup!
Need Wrath of the Lich King news? We got it, of course, especially with the Alpha ending, the Beta beginning, and the information floodgates opening. Here's some of our articles from the last week:
Be sure to check out the weekend beta information roundup for all the class, trade skill, and achievement info you may have missed while you were out at that barbecue this weekend.
The official Wrath talent calculators are now live! See what new talents you'll be getting on your favorite character.
Now if only they could do so well with the other parts of their website.
If you're even a tiny bit interested in playing a Death Knight, you owe it to yourself to check out Jadefury's videos. Here's two of them covering the Frost and Blood trees.
Have a 2007 BlizzCon beta code? Congratulations, you're in the Wrath Beta!
Check out our preview and analysis of what Enhancement Shamans can expect in the expansion.
See video of Wrath's shadows in action.
Check out the new Hunter pet family abilities for the expansion.
Achievements are coming, but will they be retroactive? Mike explains.
Eliah Hecht brings you a detailed explanation of the new Inscription trade skill. Find about about Glyphs, Runewords, and penguin Polymorphs!
Will WotLK have gold sinks? Bet on it.
We also saw our first sneak peak at the new Barbershops this week.
Patch 2.4.3 went live last week. Although it's been overshadowed by all the Wrath news, there was some pretty cool stuff in this patch. Check out our coverage:
You can find the full official patch notes and highlights of 2.4.3 right here.
Stormwind's started the preparations for Wrath of the Lich King. Be sure to check our guided graphical tour of the construction chaos.
Likewise, The Grim Guzzler has started preparations for Brewfest a few months earlier. Check out the new patrons and employees of the Guzzler in yet another guided graphical tour.
Resilience is now require for Cheat Death. Zach discusses the implications of this change.
Robin Torres walks you through using the new time management features of 2.4.3.
Sunwell Plateau saw some pretty big nerfs this patch.
If you have a code from Paris, find out how to claim your Mini-Tyrael here. If you don't, here's a video to show you what you're missing.
While we're at it, here's some of the other news of the week, now featuring 1000% more legal wrangling news!
Blizzard won their case against the makers of the MMOglider bot. Was it a blow against unfair play practices and gold farmers, or was it the opening of a Pandora's box that could destroy our digital rights? There's arguments on both sides.
Alex Albrecht, podcaster and G4 TV star, is trying to break into the World of Warcraft scene. But is Project Lore a helpful tool, or just cheesy?
Wondering how you can be like the Arena pros and slip away from a battle to do some eating and drinking? Check these tips out.
Latin American WoW officially launches on July 25th. Read all about some of the special events accompanying the launch.
