It's been a pretty busy week here in WoW. With Patch 3.3.2 live and the Frostwing Halls open, we quickly saw our first 10-man Lich King kill, followed by our first 25-man Lich King kill, followed shortly by a ban, followed a bit later by the first legitimate 25-man Lich King kill. But if you haven't managed to get him down yet, you're in luck. Blizzard's already making it easier to get to him by removing the limited number of attempts on ICC wing bosses in normal mode.

Beyond Icecrown Citadel, we also saw some pretty interesting stuff in and outside the game: Blizzard's planning to offer a premium AH app for the iPhone so you can corner the linen market on the downtown bus. The Love is in the Air holiday is active and completely redesigned, with new achievements, easier existing achievements, and a new boss fight with new holiday loot. Check our Love is In The Air FAQ for information on all the new stuff. Arena season 8 is up and running as well.

Unfortunately, even with all this activity, weekly downtime is still upon us. You'll have from 5 AM to 11 AM pacific time to take a break from all this new stuff. As always, I'll suggest that that's an excellent time to read about it instead. Here's a summary of some of our articles from the past 7 days.

Hot News and Features

• The Lawbringer lays down the law on that pesky armory achievement tracker.
• Check out some of the latest hot fixes to hit the game.
• Check out the loot of the Lich King.
• Icecrown Citadel now has weekly raid quests that give fabulous prizes of their own.
• Warning! Huge spoilers ahead: The sound files surrounding the Lich King battle were posted pretty quickly after Patch 3.2.2 went up.
• Daelo and Ghostcrawler recently discussed the Lich King encounter. As a warning, that article may contain encounter spoilers too.
• Watch Chromie fend off the fanboys in last week's Ask A Faction Leader.
• Know Your Lore discusses everyone's favorite Druid and the subject of the next WoW novel, Malfurion Stormrage.

Class News and Guides

• A recent spate of tanking hot fixes has buffed warriors and death knights while nerfing paladins.
• The Care and Feeding of Warriors has a fury 101 guide.
• Totem Talk has an enhancement 101 guide.
• Scattered Shots helps hunters determine just how much gear and skill really affect your DPS.
• Spiritual Guidance looks at spell choice and rotations for shadow priests. We also have a holy 101 guide for you undisciplined healing priests.
• Lichborne checks out Crimson Hall loot for death knights.
• Encrypted Text helps rogues beat out those dirty hybrids in DPS.
• Shifting Perspectives takes a look at the state of the moonkin.
• Pimp My Profile helps out a marksmanship hunter.
• Blood Pact offers an affliction 101 guide for warlocks.

Items, Professions, Dungeons, PvP, and More

• WoW, Casually is having a bit of an identity crisis.
• WoW Rookie is putting out a warning about wonky happenings in low level instances.
• Raid Rx offers advice for helping your healing lead.
• Ready Check takes on Professor Putricide.
• AddOn Spotlight is back. This time, we have an alternative to Recount.
• The Art of War(craft) continues offering advice to take down hunters.
• PvP balancing continues. This time, shielding spells are being reduced in effectiveness for PvP play.

Odds and Ends

• Ever wanted to solo your way to a phoenix mount? This guy could.
• Have you heard about our new WoW.com guest writer program? Already published guest writers include lore scribe Greyseer and moonkin expert Graylo. Could you be our next guest writer?
• We may have to wait a bit longer for the Warcraft movie after all.
• Sorry. You can't be a vampire. Seriously.

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