Tuesday Morning Post: Not looking at explosions edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Dec 14th 2010 at 7:00AM
With that in mind, if you're still confused by all the changes in Cataclysm or you're still struggling to level your character, don't worry. We've got you covered. You can always check our Cataclysm coverage page for a roundup of the best guides and latest news, or you can read on now as we cover everything we've reported on since last Tuesday. Don't worry, the servers are down from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. Pacific time, so you'll have plenty of time to read.
Hot news and features
- Guild experience is no longer awarded from guild achievements.
- We have more guides to the new dungeons this week, including Stonecore, Grim Batol, and the Halls of Origination.
- Confused about archaeology? Try our Archaeology 101 video guide.
- Come Season 9, you'll be able to challenge your buddies and your rivals to war games.
- I hope you didn't try to grind a new level in Icecrown. Level 80+ characters will now only gain 10 percent experience from Wrath mobs.
- Blizzard has new online WoW game guide of its own.
- Check out the latest round of Cataclysm hotfixes.
- Alex Afrasiabi and Tom Chilton have a few things to say about Cataclysm.
- Winter Veil is just around the corner, and we have an achievement guide to get you on your way to that drake.
- Scattered Shots offers a look at preraid gear for hunters and heroic optimization for hunters.
- Check out our roundup of the new hunter pets.
- Lichborne helps you get started with your new or leveling death knight.
- Shifting Perspectives offers a treatise on balance leveling in Cataclysm.
- Arcane Brilliance has a level 80 to 85 mage leveling guide.
- We also have a Cataclysm 101 guide for restoration shaman.
- We also offer a Cataclysm 101 guide for retribution paladins, as well as one for holy paladins.
- Encrypted Text offers a Cataclysm 101 guide for rogues.
- Spiritual Guidance looks at early Cataclysm for shadow priests.
- The Care and Feeding of Warriors has a warrior reputation gear guide for Cataclysm.
- The Art of War(craft) has a guide to warrior PvP talents.
- Raid Rx looks at Cataclysm healing trinkets.
- Wondering which new reputation to grind first? Check out our Cataclysm reputation rewards guide.
- WoW Rookie offers some tips for grouping in Vashj'ir.
- Speaking of Vashj'ir, the whole zone may be hinting at something.
- Check our guide to the Cataclysm PvP changes.
- Blood Sport has some arena Season 9 team composition predictions.
- 15 Minutes of Fame got to sit down with Cataclysm music composer David Arkenstone.
- The Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftains have a new song.
- Know Your Lore looks at the history of Gilneas and of the Bilgewater Cartel.
- TavernCraft is selling new Stormwind and Orgrimmar mugs.
- The Drama Mamas let you know that sometimes it's time to cut and run.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has destroyed Azeroth as we know it; nothing is the same! In WoW Insider's Guide to Cataclysm, you can find out everything you need to know about WoW's third expansion, from brand new races to revamped quests and zones. Visit our Cataclysm news category for the most recent posts having to do with the Cataclysm expansion.Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
The Lesser Evil Dec 14th 2010 7:38AM
Fastest-selling computer game of all-time, not the best-selling computer game of all-time.
Fletcher Dec 14th 2010 8:23AM
I'm pretty chuffed right now - I spent an hour or so earlier waiting for Humar to spawn on my hunterblin, got bored, went to level engineering, switched to my skinner to go farm some critters, happened to fly over Humar's spawn point and he was there! Got to Ratchet as fast as the wind rider could flap and finally tamed him three minutes before the servers went down. A pretty kitty is mine! =^_^=
Gath Dec 14th 2010 9:40AM
Lol, have fun! ... all my hunters have Echeyakee AND Humar,( one is KataKlysm and the other is KittyKlysm) lolz, but blizz has this way of pissing everyone off, like ME for instance, as they conveniently ceased the title "Elite" from the rare pets we so eagerly and monotonously tame. seems to me when people bitch about things like that, Blizzard gives in to their QQ whining and "VWalah! no more "elite in pet titles.
People who "cry more" should be shot on site and never allowed to play wow again. IMO ...the people who play WoW are the ones who stopped pet elite titles because of their crying to blizz about it, what harm was there having a pet you so diligently tamed and waited for hours for, (in some cases days) to tame, the elite title wasn't harming anyone, it's not a racial slur, and is in no way bigotry, so wtf blizz???
These whiners need to go play something else. they are just creating more lag for the rest of us.
SongBlade of Orgrimmar
Fletcher Dec 14th 2010 3:08PM
Caligulla, were this the site I moderate you'd be warned for memespam, as your post adds entirely *nothing* to the conversation. Bad form.
Gath, I'm a little confused as to why you're upset. Sure, Humar is Rare and not Elite now ... but it's not like him being elite would have challenged hunters out to tame him, and it's not like he'd stay elite after you tame him. There are some pets which take skill, and probably insanity, to tame - the Grimtotem Spirit Guide or Worgen Garwal spring to mind - but the run of the mill rare spawns aren't it. It seems like a quality of life thing for people randomly out questing, so they don't get accidentally run down and killed by an elite they were unprepared to handle ... except the (now Rogue) Son of Arugal is still romping around Silverpine, so I don't know.