BG daily quest rewards and PvP trinket

The bad news of the day. That's what a blue said about the 4k honor reward for the PTR BG daily quest...

It's off by a factor of 10. Battleground Daily quest bonus honor is supposed to be equivalent to 20 player kills at your level, ie 400 honor at level 70.

It's more or less a free battleground worth of honor, and that's what we've intended it to be. A bonus for hopping in that day's battleground.

There's a lot of concern that AV isn't providing as much honor as it is on live due to the changes on the PTR. Some changes have already gone in but we're still keeping track of and willing to make additional changes. We want the time/honor ratio of AV to be as close to what it is now as possible, and if it looks like that's not the case even after bumping the honor and decreasing the amount of resources then we'll make additional changes.

I was dreaming of doing only one BG/day... but it was too good to be true. At least we'll be able to get the PvP trinket with honor (30k honor and 40 AV marks), so I can use my badges to get the cloak or something else.


Screenshot from MMO-Champion.

Guild banks preview

Ah.. I was waiting for the guild bank preview to see if I would finally have only one mule to bank my items. Looks good, but a bit expensive (not a bit maybe.. it's REALLY expensive to free everything you can). My plan is to create a guild, only with my mule and have tons of bank space with the guild bank.

The PTR guild bank is divided in 6 tabs that can be configured to restrict access individually. Each tab will cost gold to be able to use and has 98 slots.
1st tab: 1 gold
2nd tab: 10 gold
3rd tab: 100 gold
4th tab: 1k gold
5th tab: 5k gold
6th tab: 10k gold (as if 5k wasn't expensive enough)

Well.. nobody will pay for more than 3-4tabs just for a mule (IMO.. but I know some people have A LOT of money..). But 3 tabs makes 111 gold to get 294 slots (38silver/slot, 2,8g/slot if you get the 4th tab). I feel sorry for non-hardcore raiding guild's GMs (it's 16,111 gold to free all 6 slots).

Compare with a normal bank. A normal bank starts with 24 slots and you can pay to free more tabs to put bags.
1st tab: 10 silver
2nd tab: 1 gold
3rd tab: 10 gold
4th tab: 25 gold
6th tab: 25 gold
7th tab: 25 gold

It's ~85 gold to free all tabs, then you have to buy the bags. Considering 16 slot bags, you can get 136 slots. Each bag cost ~6.5g, so ~46g. Total of 131g (97silver/slot). Getting 18 slot bags (or bigger) would give more bank slots but would make it more expensive.

You can get more info HERE about all features.

Well.. seems like my mule will /gquit with 2.3. I already paid for the normal bank slots, so I'll have 430 slots, enough to kill my second mule and stop stocking things on alts I play ^_^. I just hope Blizz will not restrict the number of tabs per guild member or do something bizzare to piss me off when 2.3 goes live. Now I need a name for my guild.. hmm..

Locks forum signatures

Some signatures Adresa copy/pasted from forums and sent to me and Pyra sometime ago.

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"Playing a Warlock in WoW is like being the US in the Olympics
If you win, everybody hates you
If you lose, you're terrible and everybody still hates you"
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mages =walk on air
priests= walk on water
warlocks= walk on corpses
its all balanced you just didn't see it
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"There is nothing to fear but Fear itself...and Death Coil...and Howl of Terror."
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I think every one has a little god in them...If your a lock
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When i bang your mom and she gives me the clap, I still have the Clap after she dies. Why should my DoT's be any different?"
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"My mana bar is green"
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How can a warrior manage to uncork and chug a potion in combat wearing plate gauntlets while juggling a sword and shield yet a bearform druid cannot. You'd think the bear could just eat the flask. No, no locks mentioned here.
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One Time, In Av. I Killed a Warlock, All the sudden Credits rolled and it said i Have Beaten World Of Warcraft.
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Nerfing warlocks is like duct tape, It fixes everything....
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"I soulstoned Jesus"
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"I saw a rogue kill a pally once, so nerf warlocks!"
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"I just keep reading to see what kind of stupid happens next"
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One day, functions were having a party. x^2 heard they were gonna get integrated there! So he goes to e^x and says"lets go get integrated!"
e^x replies"whats the point,it doesnt make a difference" No, no locks mentioned here either...
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"Let him play a warlock then cut him out a mask of bubblewrap and watch him roll his face around the keyboard owning everything."
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"In the arena of logic I fight unarmed."
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Destruction warlocks laugh even when they're on fire.
Demonology warlocks laugh even when they're stunned.
Affliction warlocks laugh even when they're dead.
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Welcome To My Shardbag
Your Grandmother is over in slot 12
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Soul Shards are like air, they're no big deal until you dont have any.
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I have finally acquired enough QQ tears to fill the salt-water tank for my baby whale ^_^ Many thanks to all who contributed.
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a mentally deranged gorilla angrily smashing a keyboard with a dead fish could get a 2000+ rating playing a warlock. grats anyway though
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Flamethrowers are just proof that somewhere, sometime, someone though to themselves, "I really want to set those people on fire over there, but I'm not close enough."
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Oh no, it's the dreaded 41/41/41 Warlock with all pets at once =O
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Any one can be a good warlock
it takes skill to be a great warlock
no way! or your a warlock or you dont have skill
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....................../´¯/)
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............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸
........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\
........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') Nerf this.
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I once Deathcoiled an old lady out of the path of a speeding bus.
True story.
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You /who Orc Warlocks you get about 15 results
You /who Undead Warlocks you get about 40-50 results
You /who Blood Elf Warlocks you get herpes.
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Keep Detect Invisibility and Unending Breath up at ALL times. Nothing worse then being obliterated in an invisible tsunami without even knowing it.
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"My other mount is a succubus"
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In the world of virtual paper-rock-scissors you're a twat
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Don't piss me off..... I'm running out of room to hide the bodies.....
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Mage: Our QQs will block out the sun!
Warlock: Then we will fear in the shade
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to win everything, every time, all you have to do is this:
1. Be a warlock.
2. Bind every key on your keyboard to deathcoil.
3. Apply both hands to keyboard forcefully.
4. repeat as necessary
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and how do you expect us to win against warlocks with 100+ dots and unbreakable fear???
-tankme, 70 warrior
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Welcome to the intarweb, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are federal agents.
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If you want to get drunk before raiding I strongly suggest you improve rep with your local AA faction.
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...in fact, four out of five doctors agree: SHUT THE HELL UP
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PvPing as a Warlock is like having sex with Keira Knightley, first you're all weirded out because there are no tits, then you realize it's @@%#ing beautiful.
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I don't think I've ever been grouped with a warrior who didn't think "O.O.M." meant "Alright lets pull this boss and go home!"

Apparently, I roll my face on the keyboard and people die.
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"You cheated! We were playing rock, paper, scissors and you threw Jesus!"
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I Suck.
But I'm still better than you.
"Im a Warlock, Herbalist/Tailor" TRANSLATES:
"Im an emo kid, Flowerpicker/Nitter"
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Only warlocks own so hard that they get their nerfs as hotfixes.
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'm sorry, I'm just a little high this morning on a drug called "THE TRUTH"...I didn't realize it was banned...
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Rogues do it from behind. Warlocks do it slowly with no downtime.
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Unlike when mages clash (giant explosion) when warlocks clash a rift is opened to the dimension of beer and hot topless women, I've heard it takes days to close~ nittal
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Felsteeds don't need a saddle. The fel flames emitting from our fiery steed only burn the righteous. To the wicked, they gently massage your buttocks.

Fear doesn't kill people. DoTs do.
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Zul'Aman, the next 10man raid instance

Tigole posted about the new raid instance in Ghostlands (blood elf area north of Eastern Plaguelands) that will go live someday... I looks really cool. I think it'll be a 3 days reset like ZG.

"I've been following a lot of the reactions on the WoW forums as well as the fansite forums to our announcement of Zul'Aman. I've noticed that there's a little bit of confusion as to some comments that were made in various articles that said that (I am paraphrasing here) "Zul'Aman will be more casual than Karazhan."'

Of course, what most of us in the WoW community have come to realize over the past few years is that the term "casual" means different things to different people. In fact, I am at the point where I try to avoid using the term at all. I've come to discover that most players consider themselves "Casual" when it supports their argument and likewise, they think of themselves as "hardcore" when convenient. We have the largest Casual Hardcore (or Hardcore Casual) community of any MMO out there!

All joking aside, the clarification is this:

--Zul'Aman will be a 10-person raid zone
--Zul'Aman will be on a quicker reset than 7 days (some might call this "casual")
--Zul'Aman will be MORE difficult than Karazhan and drop better loot (some might call this hardcore)
--Zul'Aman will feature 6 bosses and it's our goal that you can kill them all in one night -- perhaps 2-3 hour clear times (some might call this casual)
--Zul'Aman will not have a key requirement. Nor will it have an attunement quest\ (some might call this casual)
--Zul'Aman will have a VERY challenging timed quest for those who choose to participate in it. This *will be* hardcore and will be very rewarding. Players do not have to engage in the timed run (very similar to the Baron run in Stratholme)
--We're tuning the first boss in Zul'Aman to require less raid coordination than some other raid bosses. He will still hit very hard so you'll need to be geared properly but it won't take 15 minutes to explain the fight. It will be a simple yet challenging fight. The other boss fights get more complex and challenging from there. If players want a basis of comparison, imagine the tuning of ZA started around Nightbane/Prince difficulty and ramped up from there.

ZA is a very cool looking zone. It will feature brand new troll models -- Forest Trolls. They are very impressive looking. There will also be a large amount of brand new item art in the zone. We'll get screenshots of this out soon.

I know this question is going to come up so I'll answer it now -- Yes, you can totally skip Karazhan if you're an amazingly elite guild who doesn't have time to key up for KZ yet can face the challenges of ZA without gearing up in KZ. Have fun storming the castle." - Tigole

More information can be found here (IGN) and here.

Spectral Tiger Mount

New mount and all I can say is.. WOW. It makes me want to play some WoW TCG...


The video was made by MMO-Champion.

Best way to clear low level instances FAST

When I created my paladin I was discussing with Adresa what was the best class to clear low level instances. I said mages was better than locks, a mage can use Arcane Explosion rank1 to get the mobs together then Frost Nova, Flamestrike/Cone of Cold/Blastwave all of them, while a warlock have to use the void to group them together and use Seed of Corruption. And mages are really faster... for VC, Stockades and Gnomer... then...

How can a lvl70 get into SM Cathedral with 1/3 health and mana and finish it with full health and mana without drinking and eating and pulling mobs non-stop with at least 5 mobs hitting all the time? Well.. that's a warlock clicking just 3 buttons (tap, curse of agony and syphon life)... I know prot paladins can do that too (they can get all the instance mobs together I bet)... this is broken, why I can't do that with my holy priest? =P.

The fact is that VC mobs dies fast even with the nerfed AoE spells (they was nerfed sometime ago to reduce damage if you hit more than 10 mobs or so). That not what happens in SM. Mobs there actually hits the mage and getting hit by 15 mobs = death, and I don't have mana to kill more than that. I remember that at lvl60 it was possible to get into the Cathedral, pull Mograine and kill all the mobs together with a frost mage (I saw a video.. even though I couldn't do that). That's no longer possible.. =(