Last Week in WoW: Return of the pirate king edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jun 19th 2012 at 5:00AM
In addition to welcoming back our favorite salty sea dog, there's plenty of other WoW news to catch up on from the last seven days. Realm maintenance this week starts at 3 a.m. PDT and is expected to last eight hours, so you'll have plenty of time to catch up. Read on, won't you?
Hot news and features
- Datamined info suggests that everyone gets a legendary in Mists of Pandaria.
- The Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition mount and pet may have been uncovered in the beta game files. There's also evidence you'll get some Diablo III goodies with your purchase.
- Ghostcrawler recently outlined the dungeon difficulty changes coming with Mists of Pandaria.
- Ghostcrawler also had a few words to say about class design in Mists, including some stuff specifically centered on holy paladins.
- Pandaren females now have more character customization options.
- Wowhead offers a preview of Dread Wastes, another Mists zone.
- The Midsummer Fire Festival is coming up soon, and we have an achievement guide.
- Blizzard recently updated the official Mists of Pandaria talent calculator on its website.
- Jaina Proudmoore got a model update in one of the most recent beta patches.
- The Jade Forest is currently closed on beta, but if you still miss it, we have a gallery of all the best sights and sounds of the zone.
- We offer part two of our pandaren starting zone walk-through.
- Anne analyzes the new Mists of Pandaria endgame.
- Blizzard's bought down the ban hammer on a bunch of Diablo III cheaters.
- The Diablo III Real-Money Auction House is now live in the U.S.A.
- For our transmogrification guides this week, we have a sweet twist on the Stormwind Guard outfit and a vanilla raider's plate clown suit.
- We have a beginner's guide to playing a windwalker monk.
- Spiritual Guidance takes a look at the level 90 priest talents.
- The Care and Feeding of Warriors takes a look at the level 90 warrior in the beta.
- Lichborne offers a set of suggested quick fixes for death knight woes in the Mists beta.
- Encrypted Text compares Preparation and Shadowstep.
- Shifting Perspectives has had enough of bad tanks.
- Hunters have fewer crows now.
- Arcane Brilliance bids a sad farewell to four things mages will be missing in Mists of Pandaria.
- Blood Pact does a little testing of warlock tanking skills in Mists of Pandaria.
- We count down the top five Cataclysm raid encounters. Do you agree with the list?
- Gold Capped takes a first look at inscription in Mists of Pandaria.
- Rossi talks about PvP gear and the barrier to entering the PvP game.
- Know Your Lore speculates on the possible true end boss of Mists of Pandaria. Also, Anne still thinks Varian Wrynn is a jerk, but she loves him anyway.
- 15 Minutes of Fame interviews an all-death knight guild.
- Fox's account got hacked. Learn what happened and how you can avoid his mistakes.
- South Korea has banned botting in online RPGS.
- Sometimes WoW friendships bridge the gap to real life, and it is a beautiful thing.
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