Tuesday Morning Post: Ice cold spoilers edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Feb 2nd 2010 at 5:00AM
Of course, a new patch means a lot of downtime. So, While you're waiting through the 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific downtime for the servers to come up and the patch to download, have a serving of some of the hottest news and best articles from the past 7 days, and be sure to stay tuned for lots more Patch 3.3.2 news in the coming days.
Hot News and Features
- Vol'jin clarifies what you should do with the voodoo in last week's Ask A Faction Leader.
- Patch 3.3.2 brings a new Ashen Verdict strength ring for plate melee classes. Check out the stats.
- Patch 3.3.2 also brings some updated states to tier 10 plate tank armor, and we have more details for those as well.
- Patch 3.3.2 brings with it a new mount for raiders: Invincible, steed of Arthas.
- Patch 3.3.2 is also the start of a new arena season. Check out the look of the new season 8 gear.
- Ghostcrawler recently offered some insight into Blizzard's talent redesign philosophies for Cataclysm.
- Ever wanted to show off your WoW characters to your Mafia Wars family? Blizzard now has an official facebook armory app.
- Shifting Perspectives helps your tree be all it can be with a Restoration 101 guide.
- Lichborne looks at Plagueworks loot for death knights. Also, Ghostcrawler confirms that yes, death knights are a melee class.
- Totem Talk has gearing help for the fresh level 80 elemental shaman.
- Encrypted Text has more roguely advice for raiding Icecrown Citadel.
- Pimp My Profile offers help to a protection warrior. We also released a protection 101 guide for warrior tanks.
- Spiritual Guidance wonders if the Hybrid Tax is too high for a shadow priest. We also have a look at discipline and holy gear from ICC-25 and a look at food, flasks, and potions for priest healers.
- Scattered Shots discusses hunter strategy for Plagueworks.
- The Light and How to Swing it looks at Crimson Halls loot for paladins. We also have a holy 101 guide for new paladin healers.
- Arcane Brilliance has an arcane 101 guide for mages.
- Blood Pact has a guide to using SimulationCraft to gear up your warlock.
- We discuss gearing up your tank.
- Blizzard recently offered a behind the scenes look at the making of the Gunship Battle.
- Ready Check takes on Rotface.
- Raid Rx says: Billy, don't be a hero.
- Blizzard wants you to work hard for your trinkets, at least for now.
- Cataclysm is coming, and with it, reasons to make sure you're wearing class-appropriate gear.
- WoW Rookie offers fresh instancing tips for new level 80s.
- The Overachiever looks at dungeon and raid titles.
- Insider Trader checks out the most popular crafted gear on the armory.
- Check out the latest issue of Byron the Tauren Rogue!
- To joy of some and the sorrow of others, the night elf mohawk is gone, at least for now.
- WoW.com continues to welcome new columnists to our fold. This time, we have a new Lore columnist. We also have the first issue of our new Lawbringer column, which covers legal issues related to the World of Warcraft.
- Blizzard recently launched a battle.net account security page.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Justin Feb 2nd 2010 6:24AM
Good Ending Imo
Marcosius Feb 2nd 2010 7:41AM
Wait what, Lich King dies, that is a spoiler in a game where we kill everything that doesn't agree with us?
Guruda Feb 2nd 2010 10:35AM
I think we need to kill you for pointing that out.
outlier Feb 2nd 2010 8:35AM
With all the love around the Lich King ending I feel like I direct the pitch-forks at myself if I voice my honest opinion. I honestly was underwhelmed. Where was Jaina looking for closure with her former lover gone genocidal maniac? Where was Sylvanas who initially joined the Horde as a means to torture her one time master? Where are the faction leaders who spent a year sending thousands of their troops to nearly certain death? My guess or should I say my HOPE is that we see the rest of the emotions and lore settled in some sort of NPC chatter or ideally a second video. I understand team Blizzard at this point wants to go full throttle Cataclysm but this sort of felt like an injustice to all of us who wanted to see where World of Warcraft minus arthas would go.
outlier Feb 2nd 2010 9:10AM
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/02/patch-3-3-2-fall-of-the-lich-king-sound-files/
...and boom goes the dynamite
fiercedeity Feb 2nd 2010 8:55AM
Having played Diablo II, and seeing what happens to Tal Rasha, it seems like things could turn very bad for Bolvar for choosing to wrestle with the Lich King forever. Yeah, it's the only option they could think of, but who knows what will come out of this? I hope we see more of the new Lich king
Gaash Feb 2nd 2010 10:04AM
@Marcosius
And I thought I was the only one that saw WoW as uber fascist.