Last Week in WoW: Spying on your WoW edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Dec 10th 2013 at 9:00AM
With the patch dropping, downtime is scheduled to start at 1 a.m. Pacific time and last until 11 a.m., so you should have plenty of time to read up on all the new stuff from patch 5.4.2, as well as all the other news and guides from the past week. Read on for the usual roundup.
Hot news and features
- Buying gifts for a WoW player? Here's some ideas.
- Patch 5.4.2 goes live this morning. Check out the latest PTR patch notes to prepare.
- Legendary Pictures has announced some of the actors who will be starring in the Warcraft movie. There's also rumors that Dominic Cooper may be joining that list.
- Robert Kazinsky, one of the actors in the Warcraft film, is a huge fan of the game. He plays a death knight main, proving that he is in fact as smart as he is handsome.
- Patch 5.4.2 brings with it a new chimera mount in the game files. Check the video to see it in action.
- The Patch 5.4.2 PTR ended with yet another new name for Karazhan.
- CM Lore has offered additional clarifications on the upcoming group finder, and followed it up with a confirmation that the tool will let you filter applicants.
- Crowd control may get cut back for Warlords of Draenor.
- Blizzard's Black Friday sale has been extended to January 1.
- Rossi talks about the power of dev feedback.
- Is Azeroth your home?
- The Light And How to Swing It has advice for tanking the bosses of the back half of Siege of Orgrimmar.
- Totem Talk talks about restoration between now and the expansion.
- Encrypted Text examines possible rogue changes for Warlords of Draenor.
- Scattered Shots looks at some helpful hunter addons.
- Arcane Brilliance talks about the arcane spec.
- Blood Pact discusses multi-target DPS.
- It's Rossi's birthday, and he wants some presents for warriors.
- A popular addon, WeakAuras, may allow a gold-stealing exploit unless properly updated.
- Want to get a friend a head start in WoW? Want to get some cool pets or mounts? We have a guide to using the Recruit-A-Friend system.
- Want to start pet battling? Here's 7 of the best battle pets to use.
- The August Celestial world bosses have been hotfixed to allow smaller groups to kill them.
- We could see another PvP season before 6.0 drops.
- Blood Sport talks Warlords PvP and looks forward to Warlords of Draenor.
- WoW Archivist looks back at patch 2.4 - Fury of the Sunwell.
- Adam looks back on the Ghostcrawler Experiment.
- With Ghostcrawler on the way out, his replacement may need some timely advice on forum posting.
- Know Your Lore discusses the mysteries of Draenor and speculates how an alternate Azeroth might look.
- Popular streamer Swifty got a visit from the police during one of his recent livestreams.
- Author Nick Yee has a new book on the psychology of MMO players.
- 15 Minutes of Fame talks to the Sha of Happiness about BlizzCon.
- Check out some of the new card changes coming to Hearthstone.
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