Last Week in WoW: We fell for Blizzard's trap card edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Mar 26th 2013 at 5:00AM
Downtime today is limited to rolling restarts at 7 a.m. PDT, but trust me, a lot of stuff went down this week and you'll want to read about it all. Our usual roundup awaits you below.
Hot news and features
- Check out the official announcement cinematic for the new Hearthstone online CCG.
- Read the first set of PTR patch notes for patch 5.3.
- Dawn got a chance to play Hearthstone at PAX East, and has some impressions. She also got a chance to sit down with the developers and ask some burning questions about the game.
- We have roundup of all we know so far about Hearthstone.
- Item upgrades will return for PvE gear in patch 5.3, but not for PvP gear.
- Patch 5.3 will have some major PvP gear changes, but don't panic.
- Patch 5.3 features new battle pets and a new pet battle hit rating system.
- A possible third talent spec option has been datamined in the latest PTR files.
- Want some patch 5.3 lore spoilers? Check out the latest datamined sound files.
- Check out the latest patch 5.2 hotfixes for March 19 and March 21.
- Oondasta's health pool has been nerfed by 50%.
- Raiding the Forgotten Depths in the Raid Finder? We have a 5-second guide to the bosses therein.
- Automatic flight path discovery is gone as of patch 5.2.
- Mumper clarified the spawn times of seasonal pets on twitter recently.
- Have you ever lost almost half a million gold because you had to go AFK? Someone has.
- What made the Molten Core so great? We have some musings.
- Need to kick someone out of your random group? We have some steps that will make that vote more likely to pass.
- An Oondasta wipe looks slightly different on chinese servers.
- Scattered Shots has a guide to marksmanship in patch 5.2.
- The Care And Feeding of Warriors discusses the early state of warrior DPS in Throne of Thunder.
- Lichborne discusses tanking skills.
- Encrypted Text looks at the rogue's survival skills.
- Shifting Perspectives rounds up some interesting links to druid news and guides around the web.
- Blood Pact gets philosophical about the role of warlock pets.
- We have advice on getting started with arenas.
- We have some tips on running newbie dungeons like a pro.
- Want to get a dungeon done fast? We have some tips on how to be a perfect chain puller.
- Sometimes, damage meters don't tell the whole story.
- Wowhead's released some new battle pet tools for getting the most out of your menagerie.
- Our PvE twinking guide continues with advice for levels 35-60.
- The Overachiever looks at 13 titles that are no longer obtainable.
- Know Your Lore recounts the story of the Great Masquerade, and has some more wild theories about the true nature of Azeroth.
- Here's five classic WoW machinimas you may want to watch.
- The creator of the Crash Bandicoot series has some interesting things to say about WoW.
