Last Week in WoW: Card envy edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Jan 14th 2014 at 10:00AM
Downtime today is limited to rolling restarts at 5 a.m. Pacific time, but why not take a few moments to pick out your own favorite news story of the week? The usual roundup is below.
Hot news and features
- Check out the latest patch 5.4.2 hotfixes for January 6, January 8, and January 10.
- Select US Realms will be getting free character transfers.
- Blizzard is planning even more bag space improvements after Warlords, but will offer bigger bags in the meantime. We also got some new information on the upcoming toy box feature.
- The new player character models may also come with new skins and hairstyles.
- Blizzard's planning a new PvP season before Warlords of Draenor.
- We got more information about upcoming crowd control changes in Warlords of Draenor, as well as a glance at diminishing returns changes on what remains.
- Base resilience and Battle Fatigue may be gone from PvP in Warlords of Draenor. Lore later offered some clarification on the original comments.
- Celestalon cautions that while the item squish won't affect soloing old content, old changes still might.
- Dominic Cooper has been officially added to the Warcraft movie cast, and had a few things to say about it.
- Rossi has a wishlist for Warlords of Draenor.
- Lichborne looks back at some of the big 2013 news stories for death knights.
- Scattered Shots makes some hunter predictions for 2014.
- The Care And Feeding of Warriors opines on the current warrior population numbers.
- Blood Pact offers some Weak Auras strings for warlocks.
- Totem Talk asks why you play a restoration shaman.
- We have a 5-second boss guide for the bosses of the last wing of SoO LFR.
- We have a 5-second guide to the battlegrounds Deepwind Gorge, Temple of Kotmogu, and Silvershard Mines
- Want some heirlooms? Not sure what heirlooms are? We have a guide for you.
- We have a guide for getting started on Challenge Mode Dungeons.
- Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazziokostas has joined Twitter.
- Do we need cross-realm normal mode Siege of Orgrimmar?
- Want to get Bloody Coins on the Timeless Isle? Esoth has written a pretty solid guide.
- Will Warlords of Draenor be alt friendly?
- Olivia suggests making daily quests not-daily.
- What needs to happen to professions in Warlords?
- Heartstone beta test season 2 has begun, and with it come some new card changes.
- We take a look at the warlock metagame in Hearthstone.
- Know Your Lore offers part 2 of a summary of lore for Wrath of the Lich King.
- 15 Minutes of Fame checks in on more of the interesting people of WoW from the past year. We also take a look at one of the stars of WoD, Vindicator Maraad.
- WoW Parental Controls will allow you to restrict in-game purchases.
- Blizzard Support is now offering a callback option, so you don't have to wait on hold.
- Razer recently surveyed over 400 WoW players on how they play the game, and the results are out.
- One player has synced WoW to his midi keyboard.
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