Hallow's End and the Headless Horseman

Hallow’s end begins today and we can now farm the Headless Horseman. The headless horseman is a mob that can be summoned in Scarlet Monastery, drops epics and need a 5man group. You also need someone with a daily quest to summon it. Considering that you have someone in the group with the quest, you should be able to farm it over and over (remember the 5 instances/hour limit).

The loot table and strat for him can be found HERE. Some people will want the epics, but I think that what most people wants is the Sinister Squashling and the Swift Flying Broom/ Swift Magic Broom.

You can find a guide to the Hallow’s End quests HERE.

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.

Guild ranking

Someone posted on my realm forum this very interesting site that tracks guild progression. It scans the armory to see what each guild can kill based on gear. Top guilds are updated daily but most are updated weekly. It also tracks the loot from raids and if someone changed from one guild to another.

WowJutsu

Mage guide for arena

Sk|Tarde posted a article explaining mages on 5v5 arena. Nothing really advanced, only basics, good for newbie mages. Here if you want to see.

For more advanced tricks and tips, go to RadikalNoise. His blog is updated frequently and has some good strategy guides.