Last Week in WoW: Rabble rousing edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Nov 6th 2012 at 7:00AM
There's more stuff going on, of course, and with maintenance scheduled to start at 5 a.m. PST and last at least 6 hours, you should have time to get caught up on it. Read on for the usual roundup.
Hot news and features
- Patch 5.1 keeps rolling out the goodies, including a new model for Vol'jin and spoiler-filled sound files for Varian, Wrathion, and Vol'jin.
- Check out the latest patch 5.0.5 hotfixes for November 1.
- Check out our preview of some of the new old world raid dropped battle pets.
- Want to know what raid zone is going live when? Check out the raid schedule.
- Blizzard is sticking to their guns. If you want an AH in Pandaria, you better become an engineer.
- Blue poster Rygarius posted Blizzard's current thoughts on cross realm zones.
- Ghostcrawler recently had a few words to say about Mists PvP.
- We have a guide to using the Terrible Turnip to take the guesswork out of pet capturing.
- We continue our reviews of the Mists reputations with a look at the Klaxxi and the Golden Lotus.
- Check out the top 20 guild names in WoW.
- The Quest for Pandaria short story has concluded with part 4.
- Blood Pact explains why you should cap spell hit and why the stat is so reviled as of late.
- Encrypted Text looks at each rogue spec's damage and rotations.
- The Light And How To Swing It answers your retribution paladin questions. We also have advice for controlling your active mitigation for protection paladins.
- Lichborne has a guide to death knight gear from the new Heart of Fear raid.
- Scattered Shots takes a look at tier 14 raid gear for hunters.
- The Care and Feeding of Warriors analyzes the problems with Execute.
- Next time you do your Mists dailies, try these little tips.
- We interview Method on their world fist raid kill of Heroic Will of the Emperor.
- We have a list of 20 great addons for hunting Mists of Pandaria achievements.
- We also take a look at some archaeology addons.
- Gold Capped talks about the economy of making and selling the perfect gem cut.
- WoW Archivist looks back at Blizzard's treatment of in-game weather.
- Rossi philosophizes on persistent worlds in MMORPGs and how that plays out in a game as old as WoW.
- Sure, Hallow's End is over, but this real life Sinister Squashling is still pretty awesome.
- Know Your Lore sings a lament for the most downtrodden race on Pandaria and speculates on the true nature of the waters of the Well of Eternity.
- 15 Minutes of Fame interviews Olympic hurdles gold medalist and WoW player Aries Merritt.
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