Last Week in WoW: What is Pandaria edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Feb 14th 2012 at 10:30AM
That said, there was still some prime WoW news in the pipeline over the last week. We had the Activision Blizzard investor conference call, where we learned that WoW lost only 100,000 subscribers since last count, mostly on the strength of the WoW annual pass. Lead Systems Designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street held a discussion on class roles. We also got a new Blizzard representative on the story forums, Nyorloth, who's already starting things off we a bang with a shipping thread. Heck, we even heard that a Warcraft Monopoly game is in the works. There's a downtime filler for you.
Downtime this is week is from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. PST, so in lieu of Warcraft Monopoly, we have plenty of stuff for you to read, both in the paragraph above and in our usual roundup below.
Hot news and features
- Check out the latest hotfixes for patch 4.3.
- Need something to do while you wait for more Pandaria news? Why not try the WoW Ironman challenge?
- WoW Insider is looking for a warlock columnist again.
- Should you be able to hide from your Real ID friends?
- Hearthstone on cooldown? Don't worry, there are other ways to teleport, and we have a guide to finding them.
- Want to look like High Inquisitor Whitemane? We have a transmogrification guide.
- Should legendary weapons come from class quests, story chains, or something else?
- Anne discusses telling your family about that computer thing you do.
- Rossi really loves Ashkandi.
- Taste the rainbow with Throgg and Lolegolas.
- Rossi looks at the possibilities of journeying to the Lost Isles of Draenor.
- Spiritual Guidance diagnoses bad shadow priest DPS.
- Lichborne offers a guide to death knight consumables.
- Shifting Perspectives looks at the state of tauren druids at the end of the expansion and speculates about a trim to druid abilities in Pandaria.
- Encrypted Text looks back at the lineage of the rogue.
- Scattered Shots points out five things other classes can learn from hunters.
- The Light And How To Swing It has some tanking wishes for Pandaria. We also take a look at some new evaluation tools for holy paladins.
- The Care And Feeding of Warriors takes another look at Single Minded Fury.
- Arcane Brilliance looks forward to some fun mage stuff in Mists of Pandaria.
- With the monk class on the horizon, Raid Rx wonders if healing can be diversified any further.
- Gold Capped discusses the best days to buy and sell on the Auction House and beating the Auction House campers.
- We light a candle for those long-lost addons that we all miss.
- Save your money for a rainy day with the NazScrooge addon.
- Blizzard helps you get into PvP with the War College.
- The Overachiever is looking to update our list of the worst achievements.
- WoW Rookie helps you kill those pesky healers.
- Ready Check discusses how raid accessibility affects raid progression.
- Blood Sport has a Pandaria PvP wish list.
- We heard you liked Minecraft, so we put some WoW in your Minecraft so you can game while you game. Seriously though, we fit a whole continent in here.
- Know Your Lore begins the story of the orcs and continues our recap of Cataclysm lore.
- In some games, players are disciplined by a council of their peers. Would this approach work for WoW?
- 15 Minutes of Fame interviews an official Blizzard forums MVP.
- Layla Rei has created some pretty cute button-eyed WoW dolls.
- The Lawbringer talks about those awesome new WoW cups.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TonyKP Feb 14th 2012 3:45PM
"where we learned that WoW lost only 100,000 subscribers since last count"
There's something a little sad about that statement being good news...
aspectofthedork Feb 14th 2012 6:08PM
Only in that wow is always going to lose numbers as the expansion ages, it's just the way it works. Wow also had the highest ever numbers at the start of cata, of any MMO ever in the history of everything, so they had more to lose.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.