Tuesday Morning Post: Glimpses edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Aug 16th 2011 at 7:00AM
This, of course, has set off a firestorm of comments and theories. Could it mean playable ethereals in the next expansion? Could it be a red herring to distract us from the Pandaren? Could it just be a non sequitur thrown up by a bored CM? Myself, I'm going for the theory that we'll see some new features in patch 4.3 introduced lorewise by Consortium vendors in capital cities. That said, only time will tell for sure. For now, the folks at Blizzard aren't saying any more, and so we wait.
On the plus side, you won't have to wait too long for the servers to come back up this morning. We're dealing with some rolling restarts at 5 a.m. PDT, after which we should be free and clear. While you're waiting out the short downtime, be sure to catch up all things WoW with our usual roundup, after the break.
Hot news and features
- Check out the latest patch 4.2 hotfixes for Aug. 10.
- Someone's managed to grab the first Tarecgosa's Rest.
- Mat speculates on what the Mists of Pandaria title could tell us about the expansion.
- WoW Archivist looks at some of WoW's hidden Z-axis secrets.
- Tides of War is the working title for the upcoming Jaina Proudmoore novel.
- WoW Rookie deals with disruptive and hate speech.
- Tyrande Whisperwind's leader short story is now up.
- Totem Talk takes a look at a restoration shaman's optional talent choices. We also have a discussion of critical strike vs. mastery for the enhancement shaman.
- Encrypted Text offers yet another set of rogue tips for Firelands.
- Spiritual Guidance offers a shadow priest's guide to Alysrazor.
- The Light And How To Swing It offers a guide to healing Majordomo Staghelm.
- Scattered Shots discusses marksmanship scaling.
- Shifting Perspectives offers some tips for the new level 85 balance druid. We also have more advice for the feral cat in Firelands.
- The Care and Feeding of Warriors has a guide to the new level 85 tank warrior.
- Arcane Brilliance offers a list of essential mage addons.
- Blood Pact answers your warlock questions.
- Lichborne offers some quick tips to step up your death knight's play.
- Ready Check takes on Majordomo Staghelm.
- Raid Rx discusses rotating your healers.
- Blood Sport talks about having fun.
- Addon Spotlight answers more mail.
- The Overachiever covers mounts you can purchase.
- Zarhym recently waxed philosophical about the concept of the 15-man raid.
- Gold Capped offers tips for making money with enchanting.
- Know Your Lore begins the story of humanity's greatest hero, Anduin Lothar.
- Be sure to check out the final chapters of Safe Passage.
- About the Bloggers continues with a conversation with Robin Torres.
- World of WarCrafts features some pretty awesome stylized T-shirts.
- The Lawbringer continues looking at what WoW can learn from other MMOs' microtransaction models.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sinthar Aug 16th 2011 7:18AM
Every time i see that image, I look to the pattern on the floor and think thats a version of a chalk line on the floor - but what had they killed???
gewalt Aug 16th 2011 7:50AM
http://www.mrmen.com/sites/all/files/game/files/LM_Naughty.jpg
its just a dead hooker. nothing to see here
Shinae Aug 16th 2011 11:59AM
A naaru.
sylis_phoenix Aug 16th 2011 8:58AM
the problem i have with all the theories about these ethereals is the transmogrification. i have no idea what that could possibly be, but blizzard has said multiple times that the look of gear is just as important as the stats on it. shoulders for instance are an immediately recognizable status symbol without having to inspect somebody. while it would be cool to blast ragnaros while donning the dilapidated cloth set from my bank, it's just not feasible to me that they would so easily go back on their position in terms of the looks of gear. maybe we'll be able to keep some of the effects of old gear, like the fire kitty, or the tarecgosa mount. that would be the best thing, imo. it's sad that we get all these cool effects that have no stat implications but then we lose them in a tier or the next xpac just b'c the stats on the lvl 86 green are better.
Kaphik Aug 16th 2011 9:20AM
The transmogriphier could be a vendor for things that change you into other things, like the furbolg thing, Noggenfogger Eliixir, Halloween wands, etc.?
Amaxe Aug 16th 2011 10:41AM
"Be sure to check out the final chapters of Safe Passage."
So it's done as a whole and is not simply the end of an arc then?
ether Aug 16th 2011 12:13PM
omgomgomgomgomgomgomg
ethereals
omgomgomgomgomgomgogmgogmogmg
Leonnardo Aug 17th 2011 11:10PM
I'm really hoping void storage is alluding to a shared stash. The ability to transfer heirlooms and gold across servers would be awesome, especially if we don't know about it until it's released.