Tuesday Morning Post: Burning for you edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jun 22nd 2010 at 5:30AM
It's been a relatively slow news week the past 7 days, but the Midsummer Fire Festival is in full swing, complete with a level 80 Frost Lord Ahune bearing new ilevel 232 loot -- and lacking his scorchling pet, sadly enough. There's more news to peruse as well, and you'll want to keep an on eye on the site throughout the day and coming weeks for more news and guides on the coming Patch 3.3.5 content.
Hot News and Features
- Blizzard has an official preview for the upcoming Cataclysm 5-man dungeon, Grim Batol.
- The upcoming Cataclysm novel The Shattering, by Christie Golden, is now available for preorder on Amazon.com.
- Ghostcrawler had some things to say about the evolution of raiding in Cataclysm.
- Ghostcrawler also opined on guild management and organization in Cataclysm.
- Gameplanet recently posted an interview with developers Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and Cory Stockton.
- Shifting Perspectives discusses the official Cataclysm feral talent preview and the feel of the balance druid.
- Totem Talk discusses the possibilities of dual wield restoration in Cataclysm and enhancement cool downs in the Lower Spire.
- Lichborne demystifies Death Grip.
- Encrypted Text takes a deeper look at some of the new subtlety stuff coming in Cataclysm.
- Spiritual Guidance discusses starting a shadow priest from square one and some dos and don'ts of priest healing.
- The Light And How To Swing It has more advice on gearing a new retribution paladin and key bindings for the holy paladin.
- Scattered Shots discusses the history and usage of traps.
- The Care and Feeding of Warriors discusses clearing the level 40 hump.
- Arcane Brilliance previews Ruby Sanctum mage drops.
- Believe it or not, it is possible to fish with explosives.
- Insider Trader discusses building your trading empire.
- WoW Rookie has more random tips and tricks. Even veterans might just find something new in this list.
- Gold Capped discusses selling glyphs.
- Ready Check discusses getting that important raid member to show up.
- Raid Rx entertains the idea of addon-free healing.
- Our Wrath retrospective series looks back at Ulduar and the Trial of the Crusader.
- Officers' Quarters looks at what might have been with guild talents.
- Blood Sport looks at the Wrath arena system.
- Check out the latest installment of Byron the Tauren Rogue!
- Know Your Lore discusses the Vykrul.
- Coincidentally, KYL also slogged deeper into the quagmire known as human politics.
- *distracted by emo puppy*
- We review the latest Warcraft manga.
- The Lawbringer looks at the new Battle.net Terms of Use.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Helston Jun 22nd 2010 5:47AM
3.5.5? Did Arthas and Yogg both pull a "merely a setback"?
Lupusian Jun 22nd 2010 5:55AM
Patch 3.5.5: Return of Archavon. Wintergrasp was merely a setback.
uncaringbear Jun 22nd 2010 6:04AM
The Ice Stone melting was also a mere setback.
NRD80Y Jun 22nd 2010 6:04AM
LOL! WIth 1 minute before the server shutdown I just got my 'What a long Strange Trip It's Been" achievement and the Violet Protodrake :)
Yay :)
Blain Jun 22nd 2010 6:04AM
So 3.3.4 was what again ?
d1ckjustice Jun 22nd 2010 6:13AM
3.3.4 was an internal alpha build only that they did not release. It never even hit the PTR. The next public release after 3.3.3 was 3.3.5 PTR which is being released now or soon.
Not every build revision makes it out for general release.
crschmidt Jun 22nd 2010 7:17AM
Actually, 3.3.4 was nothing. They never named anything 3.3.4; it was just a number they saved for themselves in case they needed it.
d1ckjustice Jun 22nd 2010 6:11AM
3.5.5 should be when Deathwing rattles all of Azeroth and knocks down a few buildings in the capital cities. As long as Elling Trias cheese shop stays standing I'm set for cheese. The zombies couldn't stop the cheese. Please, Deathwing, not the cheese!
Back to the likely patch...
3.3.5 does seem likely today.
Remember: No Ruby Sanctum until the other regions get the patch too.
May as well enjoy Operation: Gnomergan or Operation: Echo Isles for what they are worth.
d1ckjustice Jun 22nd 2010 6:16AM
Zalazane's Fall on the Echo Isles I meant. (Posted before the trolls hopefully...)
Helston Jun 22nd 2010 6:17AM
Interesting that you mention Elling and his cheese, I was doing the Unsent Letter quest (drops of VanCleef and has you going to Stockades) and the chain predicts both the re-opening of the Dark Portal and Deathwing being alive and attacking Stormwind (that one is actually said by Trias himself). Unfortunately there doesn't look to be any other expansion predictions.
d1ckjustice Jun 24th 2010 7:27AM
Bah I wasn't paying attention to the PTR notes closely enough.
No Operation Gnomeregan until 3.9 makes me a sad Panda.
I suppose the Ruby Sanctum, soon, will do. Hehe.
Fletcher Jun 22nd 2010 6:16AM
I levelled a gnome to 80 entirely for the Operation Gnomeregan event. She's ready with tabard, title, banner and Bonechopper. For Gnomeregan!
d1ckjustice Jun 22nd 2010 6:24AM
That's some serious dedication, hehe.
**Possible spoiler alert** I hope the actual event is longer than it was on the PTR. It took a whole 15-30 minutes to complete the PTR events.
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As for Gnomes, my first Gnome (and Goblin) will be a Priest (and Warlock) in Cataclysm. Add in a Worgen Warrior and I'll have my hands full with heirloomed alts. Until then... waiting for SC2.
Cerein Jun 22nd 2010 6:44AM
patch is indeed live and smaller then I expected only 23.7 megs
Tayla Jun 22nd 2010 7:09AM
Well it's not like a whole lot dropped.
Tayla Jun 22nd 2010 7:10AM
And you guys do realize that Gnomergan/Echo Isles stuff is *NOT* in this patch, right?
>_>;;
Fletcher Jun 22nd 2010 7:35AM
I do now. ;_;
russfriedrichs Jun 22nd 2010 7:17AM
Even though the scrochling isn't available this year at least the new non-combat pet is, I think it is called the frost shardling.
Wolfdog Jun 22nd 2010 7:19AM
Yes, indeed patch 3.3.5 is here. Also this comes with battle.net maintenance. So please be aware you will not be able to access your battle.net info at this time.
Rozom Jun 22nd 2010 9:39AM
Blizz, I love you with all my heart and soul...
But why, why, why, do you always drop a patch in the middle of a holiday?