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Welcome back to [hide]The Queue[/hide], the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. [hide]Alex Ziebart[/hide] will be your host today.

This is all your fault, Blizzard. I hope you can live with yourself after that title.

Garghle asked:

Um… Mists of Pandaria? Is that really the next expansion? Pandaland?[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Panda-monium 2: Electric Bamboogaloo[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Panda-monium 2: Electric Bamboogaloo[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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The morning after the annual Horde/Alliance dance party in the Plaguelands is always a bit awkward. This hungover blood elf and human are desperately trying to avoid each other’s gaze on the long «carriage ride of shame» home to their respective cities. Sitting between them? A vast silence. (Thanks to Amallia for the screenshot!)

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Take the long way home[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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This [hide]Breakfast Topic[/hide] has been brought to you by [hide]Seed[/hide], the AOL guest writer program that brings [hide]your words[/hide] to WoW Insider’s pages.

I’m not a roleplayer. Oh sure, there are times when my actions in the game can be considered of a roleplaying nature, but I don’t play the game that way. I know all about roleplaying, as I played Dungeons & Dragons back when Gary Gygax used to lead DnD games in the basement of the store in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where he lived.

WoW really doesn’t get to me. It’s 1s and 0s contained on computers, and by pushing buttons, I cause those 1s and 0s to align in a certain way. Just because that certain way has not yet delivered my T2 gloves is not cause for me to get upset. It just means more runnings of Blackwing Lair. I’ve seen guild members lose 40 straight rolls on items and then turn around and win the next 40. As I remind my guild members, «Some days, you’re the pigeon. Some days, you’re the statue.» It’s nothing to get upset about.

This patch, however, caused a collision of the roleplaying and the computer worlds. Having read [hide]The Shattering[/hide], I knew what happened to Magni Bronzebeard, his sacrifice for his people. I was rather sad that when Cataclysm was released, there was no way to see what happened. When it was announced that Old Ironforge would be opened in Patch 4.1, I knew where I had to be the day before the patch.[hide]Continue reading Breakfast Topic: When emotions catch you by surprise[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: When emotions catch you by surprise[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Blizzard Entertainment [hide]зарегистрировала[/hide] новую торговую марку «Mists of Pandaria», обозначенную в интернациональной классификации кодами 009 и 041. Это значит, что новый тайтл не является книгой или чем-то еще, а относится к линейке онлайновых игр компании. Возможно, «Mists of Pandaria» — это название нового дополнения к MMORPG World of Warcraft, а анонсировать его могут 21-22 октября 2011 года на выставке BlizzCon 2011.

Напомним, что в мире Warcraft [hide]Пандария[/hide] – это легендарная страна, являющаяся родиной панд. Ранее Blizzard выпустила небоевого питомца [hide]пандарена-монаха[/hide], а слухи о том, когда эти существа появятся в WoW, муссируются в среде игроков много лет. Возможно, час панд наконец пробил.

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Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It’s not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site [hide]Massively[/hide] can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around — past, present and future.

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[hide]EA proclaims SWTOR preorder breaks records[/hide]

Star Wars: The Old Republic has set the new bar for EA’s preorder sales, according to the notes for EA’s Q1 Fiscal Earnings Release. The previous bar was set by Battlefield 3, but according to President Frank Gibeau during an investor’s conference call, SWTOR far exceed BF3’s preorder sales. In fact, according to Gibeau, the sales exceeded the company’s expected sales curve, therefore breaking records no one at the game developing company could have expected.

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[hide]NCsoft’s Carbine Studios to reveal new MMO at Gamescom[/hide]

NCsoft announced that Jeremy Gaffney, executive producer of NCsoft’s Carbine Studios, has confirmed that the studio’s latest project is to be revealed next month at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Gaffney has many game titles to his name, having worked on Asheron’s Call, City of Heroes/Villains, and a number of other online titles.

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[hide]Top 10 MMO mascots[/hide]

Weekly top 10 list The Perfect Ten tackles MMO mascots this week, lining up the best the genre has to offer. Who is World of Warcraft’s mascot? Is whoever it is on the list?

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[hide]HoN goes free to play and Diablo 3 meets eBay[/hide]

Not So Massively is your weekly guide to the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) genre and other significant non-MMO multiplayer games. This week, Heroes of Newerth has gone free-to-play, Blizzard announced Diablo 3’s real-money auctions, and League of Legends hit 15 million registered accounts.

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[hide]Massively Speaking episode 158[/hide]

Massively Speaking, Massively’s MMO podcast, returns this week with Shawn and Rubi being joined by Justin Olivetti for some laughs, innuendo, and the occasional bit of MMO news. Topics include RuneScape’s new Clan Citadels, APB’s second open beta, and of course, SWTOR’s record-breaking preorder.

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[hide]Massively’s week in review[/hide]

Don’t let WoW Insider do all of the talking when it comes to Massively’s best content of the week. The Massively staff themselves have picked out what they think is the best content their site has to offer, in their own weekly roundup.

Filed under: [hide]MMO Roundup[/hide][hide]MMO Roundup: Gamescom, SWTOR breaks EA records, and more[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide] Lichborne[/hide] for [hide]blood[/hide], [hide]frost[/hide], and [hide] unholy[/hide] death knights. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Let’s show the other classes how a hero class gets things done.

As far as raid content goes, [hide]Firelands[/hide] does feel a little short, in theory, with only seven bosses. That said, there’s still enough gear to make it just difficult enough to figure out exactly what to wear. This week, we’ll check out the various ilevel 378 tank gear you can pull out of Firelands, then figure out exactly how it all fits together and what pieces you should be aiming for.[hide]Continue reading Lichborne: Patch 4.2 raid gear for the death knight tank[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Death Knight[/hide], [hide](Death Knight) Lichborne[/hide][hide]Lichborne: Patch 4.2 raid gear for the death knight tank[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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[hide]Wowcrendor[/hide] and [hide]Jesse Cox[/hide] teamed up to create this comedy spoof, [hide]Molten Front Ganker[/hide]. It’s been a year since [hide]Bed Intruder[/hide] swept the internet up in its Auto-Tune glory, and the duo chose to celebrate that anniversary through a WoW parody. This music video feels like such a great idea that I almost wonder why it took this long to produce.

Of course, it’s a good thing that the appearance of this parody happened just now, because Wowcrendor and Jesse have put together a tone-perfect video. The «Hyjal kids, Hyjal wife» pun couldn’t be better suited to lampooning the source material; I can’t think of a better lyrical pun at all.

Interested in the wide world of [hide]machinima[/hide]? We have new movies every weekday here on [hide]WoW Moviewatch[/hide]! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an email at [hide]moviewatch@wowinsider.com[/hide].

Filed under: [hide]WoW Moviewatch[/hide][hide]WoW Moviewatch: Molten Front Ganker[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide] | Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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Welcome back to [hide]The Queue[/hide], the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky, senior D1 editor, will be your host today.

The D3 questions getting asked in relation to WoW are quite numerous lately, and it’s important to remember one big thing:

Blizzard loves to share technology amongst the games.

Diablo 2 had a lot of precursors to WoW, as did all their other games. Even some WoW elements are in StarCraft 2 (achievements, Battle.net integration). Will some of this tech eventually make it into WoW? Almost assuredly.

But … not everything is a technology decision, as we’ll see in our first question.

Yours95 asked:

I understand this isn’t exactly Wow-related, but it concerns Blizzard’s real-money auction house: Isn’t Blizzard afraid that this might allow players to cut corners, take out the effort required to work for rewards, etc. Also, if Blizzard is willing to implement this in Diablo, do you think it might reach WoW and/or Starcraft?[hide]Continue reading The Queue: In which Diablo is questioned[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: In which Diablo is questioned[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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«One of our members was late to log on for raid night,» writes [hide]Hidr[/hide] of [hide]Arisen[/hide] on Ner’zhul (US-A). «So with a pet biscuit and shrink dust, we figured we could split our boomkin into two DPSers and go ahead with it, since he has more than enough DPS to spare. The little guy was great, but hadn’t learned to stay out of the fire!»

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Transmogrification error![/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]

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The [hide]WoW Archivist[/hide] explores the secrets of World of Warcraft’s past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW’s history? What secrets does the game still hold?

Who says every content patch needs a new raid tier? Patch 1.8, released Oct. 10, 2005 (just slightly under one month after patch 1.7), laughs at your raid tiers. It was actually quite a small patch as far as content goes, and there wasn’t anything particularly world-shattering in it, but it still did something interesting: It built up future content. Patch 1.8 implemented the following:

The Dragons of Nightmare world bosses

A revamp of Silithus

The groundwork for holidays such as Hallow’s End and Winter Veil

None of these things, on their own, were very large events. They were cool pieces of content, but they weren’t supported by a raid or dungeon. Quite the opposite — they laid the groundwork that would herald a raid coming in a later patch.

Let’s dig in, shall we? First the patch notes in full, then the analysis.[hide]Continue reading WoW Archivist: Patch 1.8, Dragons of Nightmare[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]WoW Archivist[/hide][hide]WoW Archivist: Patch 1.8, Dragons of Nightmare[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]