Last Week in WoW: Pandapocalypse edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Oct 9th 2012 at 7:00AM
That said, if reliving the weekend of horrible death and login trouble isn't your bag, don't worry and keep reading. There's lots of nice, meaty stuff to dig into, from hidden daily quests to the latest on Patch 5.1. Downtime today starts at 5 a.m. PDT and only last 2 hours, so you have a nice slice of time to get caught up on the latest WoW news.
Hot news and features
- Hotfixes this past week buffed justice point gear and nerfed honor point gear.
- Check out a complete list of hotfixes for October 1 and October 4.
- Normal Mogu'shan Vaults is now available for raiding.
- PvP Season 12 is underway.
- Blackfallow Ink can no longer be traded for lesser inks.
- Patch 5.1 is already on the way to the test servers. Be sure to check out the preliminary feature list.
- In a future patch, gaining reputation after revered will become quite a bit easier.
- After some debate over the accessibility of pet battles, Blizzard has reduced the training cost.
- Mists of Pandaria has sold 2.7 million copies so far, and the number of active subscribers is back above 10 million.
- We have an interview with Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas.
- Want to look like a real Tiller? We have a costume for you to assemble.
- Tell me. What's your Luckydo?
- Just reached level 90? We'll show you how to get a quick blue weapon upgrade.
- Want one of those cool flying discs? We have a quick guide to getting exalted with the Lorewalkers.
- We offer some tips for reaching Best Friend status with the Tillers.
- We have advice for tanking Stormstout Brewery. While you're there, we have some tips to help you get your very own Hopling pet as well.
- GuildOx reveals the 10 most popular monk names.
- We have a quick list of Mists of Pandaria reputation quartermasters and where to find them.
- We have a quick guide to the process of leveling from 525-600 in cooking, as well a grocery list for the ingredients you'll need.
- Check out our advice for defeating the rare spawn Yaungol, Pandaren, and Jinyu scattered around Mists of Pandaria.
- We give you a run down of archaeology on the Pandarian continent.
- Have you found the hidden daily quest in Dread Wastes?Class news and guides
- Raid Rx helps you prepare to heal Mogu'Shan Vaults.
- Encrypted Text helps you get your rogue ready for raiding.
- Scattered Shots looks at hunter gems in Mists of Pandaria.
- Lichborne looks at Mists of Pandaria reputations for death knights.
- Shifting Perspectives helps you gear your guardian druid for heroics.
- Spiritual Guidance has a Mists of Pandaria priest gear guide.
- The Light And How To Swing It has some retribution leveling tips. We also look at pre-raid tank gear for protection paladins.
- Blood Pact has a guide to warlock PvP gear.
- The Care And Feeding of Warriors have some advice for running Scenarios.
- Popular community site Shadowpriest.com has been revived via HowToPriest.com.
- We have a guide to puzzling out battle pet stats.
- Addon Spotlight looks at still more pet battle addons.
- WoW Archivist looks back at the weirdness that was early talent trees.
- Know Your Lore has lessons on the Mantid and the Sha.
- This week, Blog Azeroth asks about your personal headcanon.
- Season 6 of The Guild has begun, and we have links to the first episode.
- Steelseries has debuted a wireless World of Warcraft mouse.
- We opine on the surreal attack ads against the Maine democratic politician who plays WoW.
- We interview Derevka, one of Mists of Pandaria's Realm First level 90 characters.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
