Last Week In WoW: Old-school sounds edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jun 12th 2012 at 7:00AM
My favorite piece of beta news, though, has to be the new Pet Battle themes. As someone who first got into Blizzard games with the earlier Warcraft entries, hearing the dulcet tones of the original series human and orc music just gives me all kinds of warm fuzzy. I can almost hear that footman wishing he were sailing.
Downtime today starts at 5 a.m. PDT and is expected to last for six hours, so why not take a while to read and decide which is your favorite piece of news?
Hot news and features
- The Nomi the cooking apprentice quest line in Mists of Pandaria lets you train your very own student via dailies, while another line sparks another interesting story.
- Heroic dungeons are now open for testing in the Mists beta.
- Take a walk with us through the pandaren starting zone.
- Tom Chilton recently said a few words on the future of PvP in Mists of Pandaria.
- Pandaren flirts and jokes are now in the beta.
- Rossi takes you through one of Mists of Pandaria's new scenarios, Unga Ingoo.
- The Jade Forest zone will be going offline for revamps over on the beta.
- The WoW Insider show says goodbye to Mat. We're going to miss his dulcet tones every week! You can also read his goodbye post.
- Anne looks at some of The Grumpy Elf's ideas for quick WoW improvements.
- We offer some more superhero transmogrification ideas.
- Wondering what to do on WoW this summer? Blizzard's offering up some Summer Challenges.
- Looking to use Diablo III's Real-Money Auction House? You'll need an authenticator.
- Lichborne offers six reasons to play a death knight in Mists of Pandaria.
- Totem Talk has good things to say about level 90 restoration shaman. On the other hand, level 90 enhancement shaman are a little confused.
- Scattered Shots takes a look at the latest changes to hunter self-healing in the beta.
- Arcane Brilliance has more beta mage discussion.
- Shifting Perspectives analyzes the Astral Communion skill.
- Blood Pact takes a peek at warlock minions in Mists of Pandaria.
- Encrypted Text discusses what normalization means for rogues.
- The Light And How To Swing It tells you why your ret paladins need addons. We also discuss the glory of being a tank.
- In The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Rossi continues his Cataclysm postmortem with a discussion of the arms tree.
- Blood Sport helps you use keybinds to heal in PvP.
- The Overachiever offers some advice for hunting rare spawns.
- Addon Spotlight takes a look at some addons that display buffs and debuffs.
- Gold Capped helps you set up some gold making alts.
- Rossi's got a little faction bias to work through.
- This blogger finds real-world equivalents of Azerothian fashions.
- How's this for a brain twister? Now you can play Diablo I in Starcraft II using World of Warcraft sprites.
- Know Your Lore anticipates great things from Mists of Pandaria lore. We also discuss what WoW lore could learn from Diablo III, and Anne lists some reasons why Garrosh shouldn't die.
- Rossi talks about a few game mechanics WoW should steal from Diablo III.
- PrintWarcraft.com now lets you print your character on a shirt.
- Check out this sneak peek of the latest WoW TCG expansion: Tomb of the Forgotten.
- Mat offers some final thoughts on Blizzard in his last turn at writing The Lawbringer.
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