This Q&A was one of the few I was looking forward to, because I have a warlock in hiatus right now that I've been wanting to play for a while.

I personally liked the interview. It looks like Blizzard wants to improve the class as it is right now, but not necessarily buff them. Before I go into details and spoil it for you guys, I'm going to quote the interview entirely after the break, or you can read the original one linked below:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/warlock.html

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By MasterOfDisguise 1 day ago

On Tuesday, July 7th, Wowhead's database will be undergoing maintenance from 2am-5am Eastern time. During that time, the site will not be accessible. Users are advised to begin panicking... now.

In all seriousness, we're upgrading the firmware for our database server's RAID array. If you don't know what that means, then just know that we are making the site dataz safer.

By TheOnyx 2 days ago

On Monday, we brought you the news that Netherea announced a Faction-Change Service was in the works. Well today, we have another update to bring you—Blizzard's decided to make a Q&A to answer any questions they're currently able to provide an answer to. We'll definitely know more information in the near future!

You can read the Q&A in its full entirety after the break.

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By MasterOfDisguise 2 days ago

Wowhead has been hard at work in our continuing effort to update the site with new PTR information and data as we receive it. There are a few updates that I would like to bring to your attention:

We have added 4 new zone pages to cover new areas in 3.2, and Vault of Archavon was updated with a new map which shows you the placement of the upcoming 3rd boss.
15 new icons that were in the latest PTR build (10048).
80 new items have been discovered in the latest PTR build (10048). This brings the total of items discovered in 3.2 to 903.

For a collection of the icons discovered in this build as well as a list of zones with updated information, please continue below.

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By TheOnyx 3 days ago

I NO RITE?

The Summer of Prizes on Wowhead continues with a 3rd birthday Fiesta! Come and check out our latest contest page here, and enter for a chance to win Loot Cards (including the fabled El Pollo Grande mount!), and WoW Miniatures!

The contest page is linked below. Enjoy!

http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=fiesta

By Malgayne 4 days ago

Hey, everyone—MasterOfDisguise here with some big news! The Engineering profession will be undergoing some MAJOR changes and, for once, it's actually mostly awesome! Before I get to the break and share the good news, I just have one thing to say: Engineers rejoice!

You can read the full details after the break!

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By MasterOfDisguise 4 days ago

Nethaera has just announced on the official forums that we will soon be receiving the ability to change our faction.

Holy crap.

This may be the most radical, fundamental change to the game dynamic that I've seen since the game came out. I admit i've always wanted this for my own characters, but really...I guess it was one of those things I never thought would change. Now that it's changing, it's kind of...scary.

The full quote from Nethaera is after the break.

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By Malgayne 4 days ago

Hey there, this is our sixteenth Wowhead Weekly Review! We're still continuing our coverage of the upcoming changes in Call of the Crusade (Patch 3.2), but we're focusing on it a little less and paying more attention to other aspects of the game.

DISCLAIMER: Opinions presented in the Wowhead Weekly Review are not necessarily those of Wowhead.com or its staff members.

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By MasterOfDisguise 4 days ago

Ladies and gentlemen, we have chosen a winner for our Killer Summer Fun contest...and that winner is Skatzx!

Congratulations, you are the proud owner of a brand new Dell XPS 625 PC!

Thanks to all who participated in the contest, and hold on to your horses, because we've got more on the way...

By Malgayne 4 days ago

Welcome to my new series in the Wowhead Blog - the Strategist! Malgayne has heard me, on many occasions, complain how the Overview section on all of the Ulduar bosses is just...not enough. They are all too complex to be explained by a single paragraph or by a list of their spells. This worked well with Naxxramas, because many people were familiar with the fights, and the actual fights were not overly complicated. Unfortunately, Ulduar is far from simple...

And this is how the Strategist was born! Partly inspired by Discover's The Eye of Eternity: A Raid Overview blog entry, party my own musing, the Strategist will present you with a strategy (or multiple strategies when applicable) for each of the bosses in the titanic complex... and other raids as well, if things go well. Hard Modes will be covered as well, but knowing that my own guild is still struggling with about half of them, those sections may be a little vague, or even missing.

But enough with the introductions! Read on, and learn about the first boss in Ulduar - the Flame Leviathan.

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By ArgentSun 6 days ago

I know you guys are eager to see the new items in the Public Test Realm build. Well, you better set aside a good bit of time, because you have 823 new items to review, including the new Heirloom Chest Pieces!

We've also updated our filters to include the 'Added in Patch 3.2' filter so you can filter for quests, NPCs, objects, and of course items in the PTR - although you'll probably want additional filters for that last search. ;)

Enjoy!

By TheOnyx 7 days ago

I know, I know—caps lock. But every now and then, an announcement is a big enough deal to be worth it. It's been over 2 years of work. It's been created, scrapped, and re-created six times, by 2 different developers. And now, just when it looked set to become the Duke Nukem Forever of Wowhead, the time has finally come.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Wowhead Profiler is here.

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By Malgayne 8 days ago

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but this is the Q&A I was waiting for.

Ghostcrawler has posted his Q&A about the Death Knight Class! You can read all about how they're not overpowered (we swear) after the break, or in its original form on the official site here:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/deathknight.html

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By Malgayne 8 days ago

The PTR always brings us new goodies, and this one is no exception. A total of 98 icons were added in the current build (3.2.10026).

Of course, all of these icons are available by browsing the individual database pages for items, spells, etc. You guys seem to appreciate seeing them all in one place, though, so here they are. :)

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By TheOnyx 8 days ago

The PTR Site is up!

Sorry for the slow update rate on this one—it's been a busy week. :) The talent calculator is already prepared, and we'll be updating with item data as we collect it.

Make sure that those of you who are have characters on the PTR are running the Wowhead Client—or, if you're feeling like a hacker, you can directly send your itemcache.wdb file to feedback@wowhead.com!

By Malgayne 9 days ago

Because of Blizzard's recent announcements that mounts and other speed-boosting forms will be attainable at lower levels, I have finally found the motivation to do something I probably haven't done in a very, very long time: Log onto World of Warcraft and level up some characters which I thought were going to be in permanent retirement.

That's right. Up until recently, I haven't been playing World of Warcraft mainly because of school, but also because I haven't found the motivation. With the exciting upcoming changes, however, it looks like that long-lost motivation has finally come.

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By MasterOfDisguise 9 days ago

Hey there, this is our fifteenth Wowhead Weekly Review!
This week, we are continuing our coverage of the upcoming changes in Patch 3.2. Read on to see all the topics we have in store!

DISCLAIMER: Opinions presented in the Wowhead Weekly Review are not necessarily those of Wowhead.com or its staff members.

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By MasterOfDisguise 10 days ago

Midsummer is here! World of Warcraft's Midsummer Fire Festival begins at 4:00am server time on June 21 and runs til 4:00am server time on July 5, and this year's festivities are better than ever! Acquire flaming threads, a sweet tabard, a fiery companion and more! Complete achievements to earn a new player title - Horde players can obtain the title 'Flame Keeper' and Alliance players can obtain the title 'Flame Warden.'

There are bonfires located in each major capital city, which are surrounded by questgivers, Midsummer Celebrants, and a Midsummer Supplier or Midsummer Merchant who sells items in exchange for . There are 'Commoner' NPCs of all races (including goblins!) that can be found lingering around the major cities and will give you a short (though unnecessary) quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps.

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By Miyari 12 days ago

These things are coming faster than we have time to post them. :)

So this is the second entry in the class Q&A, series, this one about mages. Ghostcrawler answers some interesting questions, and some uninteresting ones, and gives us some clues about the future of the mage class.

For those of you who play mages—and maybe those of you who don't—read on! The text of the interview is after the break.

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By Malgayne 15 days ago

That's right, our BlizzCon Contest is over! The final entries have been filed, will be tallied and the winners will be announce on the contest page tomorrow at noon. That's three BlizzCon tickets: Two to go to the Grand Prize Winner (along with free airfare and hotel, as well as dinner with the Wowhead team—or at least all of us who could get tickets), and the third will be awarded at random to one of our Wowhead Prize Package winners!

But for those of you who aren't satisfied with just one contest, guess what...we've got another!

This time, we're giving away a kickass Dell XPS 625 Desktop PC, another stack of Killer Network Cards, and (of course) another batch of Wowhead T-Shirts. Head on over to the contest page and take a look!

http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=killer-summer-fun

By Malgayne 16 days ago

Well the updates are just coming fast and furious now. The latest update is about the newest tier in raid content—tier 9—to be released in Patch 3.2!

Apparently the next raid tier to come out will be the Crusaders' Coliseum. No info released yet on what the actual encounters will be like, but there have been a few interesting tidbits—apparently there will be four difficulty levels on this one: a normal and heroic 10-man, and a normal and heroic 25-man. They're unlocking one encounter at a time, one per week, Sunwell-style. They're ALSO creating a system (which has already generated some controversy) which limits the number of attempts you get on each boss per raid lockout, and increases the quality of rewards based on how many "tries" you have left when you down him.

Add in a new 5-man dungeon that rewards s, and new Alliance-only and Horde-only skins for gear, and this one sounds ESPECIALLY interesting. The blue post is after the break!

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By Malgayne 16 days ago

Mount changes...check!
Class mount spells changes...check!
Profession changes...check!
Class changes...class changes...loading...check now!

That's right, Call of the Crusade is getting juicier and juicier! Must be because of the word "crusade" in it...crusade -- paladins -- awesomeness! Hmm...

Anyway, it looks like the Shamans are getting some love now. I myself have a shaman, and one of the most annoying things in the world (you can all confirm that) is dropping totems, pulling them back, dropping again, making sure none of them is dead, and if there is one, drop it again... It's a pain, brothers and sisters! Well, Blizzard has heard our cries of pain, and is about to make our lives a whole lot easier -- the totem bar awaits us in 3.2, along with spells like Call of Fire, which drops all of our totems at once, Totemic Call being renamed to Call of Earth; and two more, Call of Air and Call of Water, which work like the Fire one, just using different presets of totems.

For details and healing juiciness -- read on!

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By ArgentSun 16 days ago

Looks like Patch 3.2, Call of the Crusade, will a patch that brings joy and happiness to many, if not all of us. After the Argent Tournament Changes, now we get Profession Changes! Long story short, all of the professions are being buffed.

On a slightly side note, a lot of information starts to leak. Something like this happened about...I believe 2 months before The Secrets of Ulduar was released. Do you think we can expect 3.2 around the end of the summer?

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By ArgentSun 17 days ago

Update - Check the second quote panel.

Content patch 3.1 brought us not only Ulduar and its secrets, but the Argent Tournament as well - a place where brave heroes of both the Alliance and the Horde fought and still fight for recognition from the Argent Crusade. But more important than any of that (for many players) were the nice rewards - weapons on par with Heroic loot, mounts, pets, tabards, banners... and in the upcoming patch, even moar! New seal-rewarding dailies, new mounts, pets, tabards, heirloom items, and even a (costly) upgrade for your squire! In exchange of 150 Seals, your loyal follower will be able to serve as bank, mailbox or vendor!

Read on, and find out about the other changes in the preview!

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By ArgentSun 17 days ago

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the Wowhead Weekly Review! This week we have lots of threads to share about the upcoming changes in Patch 3.2, as well as some updates from various members of the Wowhead Staff. Stay turned for the exciting news after the break!

DISCLAIMER: Opinions presented in the Wowhead Weekly Review are not necessarily those of Wowhead.com or its staff members.

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By MasterOfDisguise 18 days ago