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• Anetheron's Infernals hotfixed

  Filed under: Bugs , News items , Instances , Raiding , Bosses Quite a few raiders, including some of our own here at WoW Insider, noticed one more big change to a raid boss that that came in with patch 2.4.3 : Anetheron , the second boss of Mount Hyjal... Posted Jul 17 2008, 08:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Raiding, News items, Instances, Bugs, Bosses, mount-hyjal, Bornakk, vaneras, anetheron, patch-2.4.3, 2.4.3, bug-fix, towering-infernals

• US PvP realms get free character moves

  Filed under: Realm News , Realm Status , News items Bornakk announced last night that selected US PvP realms will be given free character moves starting at Noon pacific time today, July 10th, and ending on July 17th. As always, Blizzard does reserve the... Posted Jul 10 2008, 02:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: News items, Realm News, Realm Status, Bornakk, realm-transfers, frostmourne, illidan, barthilas, character-transfer, PvP-realms, dreadmaul, character-move, warsong, malganis

• Beta opt-in F.A.Q.

  Filed under: News items , Wrath of the Lich King More beta news for everyone to enjoy tonight. Bornakk has posted what Nethaera promised earlier in the day, a Wrath of the Lich King beta opt-in F.A.Q. The complete F.A.Q. is republished here for your convenience... Posted Jul 03 2008, 04:55 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: News items, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, wotlk, Bornakk, BlizzCon, beta, questions, wwi, tweet-this, world-wide-invitational, FAQ, opt, in, beta-opt-in, july-3rd, opt-in, asked, f.a.q., beta-faq, frequently-asked-questions, frequently, key

• Bornakk doesn't outright deny the July 3rd rumor

  Filed under: Patches , Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Expansions , Rumors Of course, he hasn't confirmed it, either. Ever since that German CM apparently hinted at a July 3rd start date for the WoTLK Beta at the Worldwide Invitational , people have... Posted Jul 02 2008, 12:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Patches, Blizzard, Expansions, Bornakk, soon, Rumors, beta, wotlk-beta, blue-post, blizzcon08, wwi08, announcement, closed-beta, july-3rd, beta-announcement, beta-start-date, wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta, german-cm

• Bornakk on item scaling in WotLK

  Filed under: Items , Analysis / Opinion , News items , Expansions , Leveling , Wrath of the Lich King We're already seeing some significant changes to the way gear works in Wrath of the Lich King . However, in a thread on the official forums about... Posted Jun 18 2008, 01:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: gear, Analysis / Opinion, Items, News items, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Leveling, wotlk, Bornakk, alpha, tbc, item-level, spellpower, ilevel

• The heroic less traveled

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Instances , Forums Branch raised an observation today -- it can be difficult getting groups for instances which aren't the daily Heroic . Of course, in the same post, he claims he gets offers from characters who aren't... Posted Jun 17 2008, 02:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Instances, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Forums, daily-quest, Bornakk, heroics, heroic, daily-heroic, heroic-daily, road-less-traveled

• Instances are for groups, silly solo player

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Instances , Raiding , Wrath of the Lich King We've mentioned solo instances before -- just like more midlevel content, Heroic versions of old world instances, and player housing , they seem to be the kind... Posted Jun 16 2008, 09:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, Instances, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Classes, Forums, Bornakk, solo, request, tweet-this, singleplayer, dungeons-and-dragons-online, ddo, solo-instances

• Blizzcast episode 3: dungeons and raids edition

  Filed under: Podcasting , News items , Interviews , Wrath of the Lich King The long-awaited third episode of Blizzcast , Blizzard's official podcast, has just gone live . Blizzard's US web sites are still down , but you can listen to it and read... Posted Jun 05 2008, 10:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: News items, dailies, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Wrath of the Lich King, interview, Interviews, Podcasting, Bornakk, tigole, nethaera, heroics, blizzcast, boj, naxxramas, naxx, naxx2, podcasts, midsummer-fire-festi...

• The Brewfest Kodo and what it may mean for WotLK's release date

  Filed under: Patches , Analysis / Opinion , Events , Blizzard , News items , Expansions , Mounts , Wrath of the Lich King , Rumors Tipster Graffias pointed out an exciting find in the latest leaked Alpha files for WoTLK : An Icon for a Brewfest Kodo Read... Posted Jun 04 2008, 08:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Patches, Events, News items, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Expansions, Mounts, Bornakk, Rumors, alpha, leak, holiday, holidays, kisirani, alpha-leak, cenarion-war-hippogryph, yearly-event, brewfest, swift-racing-ram, brewfest-prize-ticket, deathchargers-reins, gnome-on-a-kodo, kodo, yearly-events, horde-vs-alliance, baron-rivendare, bloodlord-mandokir, brewfest-kodo, swift-razzashi-raptor, honorary-brewer-handstamp, ram, world-events, rare-mounts

• Making professions easier, on Death Knights and everyone else

  Filed under: Herbalism , Leatherworking , Items , Odds and ends , Blizzard , Classes , Death Knight , Inscription Just in case you were hoping that due to Inscription or any other of the huge profession changes coming in Wrath of the Lich King , you'd... Posted May 28 2008, 08:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Items, Blizzard, wrath-of-the-lich-king, Odds and ends, Classes, Leatherworking, Herbalism, Leveling, Skinning, Bornakk, Death Knight, professions, death-knight, Inscription, tweet-this, draddog

• No new character slots for Wrath of the Lich King, says Bornakk

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , News items , Classes , Alts , Death Knight , Wrath of the Lich King If you're planning to make a Death Knight on your favorite server, and you're an altoholic (I myself am guilty on both counts), you've probably... Posted May 19 2008, 03:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Wrath of the Lich King, Classes, Alts, wotlk, Bornakk, Death Knight, altitis, tweet-this, altoholic, rerolling, main-character, main-server, delete-character, delete-a-character, server-choice, character-slot, character-slots, delete, deleting

• Bornakk speaks on the whole esports thing

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , News items , PvP , Classes , Buffs , Arena So a while back, Tom Chilton talked about turning WoW into a "viable Esports platform" in an interview with Gamespy , and lots of players did not take it... Posted May 06 2008, 11:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, life-tap-nerf, News items, PvP, Arena, Blizzard, Buffs, Classes, Bornakk, lifebloom, esports, esport, e-sports, chilton, gamespy-interview, water-drinking, lifebloom-nerf, arena-water-nerf

• Children's Week in Wrath

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Events , Burning Crusade , Wrath of the Lich King With The Burning Crusade , Children's Week was given a new tier of quests, based in Outland. Either this year or the last, I'm sure most of you have done these... Posted May 03 2008, 11:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Wrath of the Lich King, Burning Crusade, Bornakk, childrens-week, tuskarr, holidays, egbert, nerubian

• Arena Tournament Update

  Filed under: Ranking , Events , Blizzard , PvP , Forums , Arena At the completion of the first f four weeks in the qualifying period, the $200,000 3v3 arena tournament is in full swing, and the field is heating up. The leader board is now topped by teams... Posted Apr 29 2008, 04:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Events, PvP, Arena, Blizzard, tournament, Stormherald, Ranking, Forums, arena-tournament, Bornakk, patch-2.4.2, leaders, Rogue-mage-priest, tournament-update, RMP

• Tuesday April 29th maintenance

  Filed under: Realm Status , News items ...and Bornakk looked upon the World ( of Warcraft ) in its seventh day and said: "Let there be maintenance." And so it was. Bornakk posted on the General Discussion Forums this afternoon that there will... Posted Apr 28 2008, 12:45 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: News items, maintenance, Realm Status, down-time, downtime, Forums, Realms, Bornakk, login, general-forums, scheduled, authentication, scheduled-maintenance, scheduledmaintenance