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As you will have noticed by now if you’ve entered an instance in progress since patch 3.1, Blizzard’s new binding notification system is in effect. Whenever you join an instance in which bosses have already been killed, you get a warning that staying in there will bind you to that instance — thus hopefully preventing you from accidentally sticking to an instance you don’t like. However, as a few players have noted, there’s still some functionality missing there. While the notification will tell you that bosses have been killed, it won’t yet tell you which ones, so a malicious or confused guild could invite you a Naxx in which only one wing has been downed, when really all they’ve got left is Sapphiron and KT (or no bosses at all, if they really wanted to ruin your week). Fortunately, Zarhym agrees, and says that discussion about adding a little bit to the notification is incoming. It seems a little bit weird to just have a list of killed

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The blues have just announced today that “in an upcoming minor patch” (probably patch 3.1.2 or so), the faction mounts that you can get from the Argent Tournament will “have their visual appearances improved,” apparently to better match in color their factions. Mounts already purchased will be automatically replaced; if you want to get the original mounts, you’ll be able to buy them for 5 Champion’s Seals and 500 gold (discounted by faction). In other “upcoming minor patch” news, the in-game Equipment Manager is coming, as they have been promising. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, it’s basically Blizzard’s answer to Outfitter et al., and was originally meant to be included in patch 3.1. Some bugs kept it from coming out on time, but apparently we can expect to to soon (or rather, “Soon™”) be able to switch gear sets without mods.

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Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. With Ulduar proving to be more difficult than Naxx, raid leaders are focusing more and more on performance issues. Raids are finding out that they can’t just carry their weakest players through this ancient Titan stronghold the way they could through Kel’Thuzad’s floating magical loot pinata. One raid leader in particular has a performance issue with a bit of a twist: The problem player is the wife of one of his best raiders. I warn people that this is a long e-mail, but it is well written and the details are important to what follows. TLDR version is after the break! Hello, Scott I am an officer in my guild and a raid leader for a semi-casual raid (non-Heroic). I am facing a problem that seems perhaps not too uncommon for this type of environment, but it is one I do not know how to fix. One of the best raiders in our guild has ended up in my raid.

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Reader comments – ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past. Dislocated but not disconnected Lileya of Lightbringer-EU, the subject of this week’s 15 Minutes of Fame, has a rare, lifelong condition that can make even the simplest tasks impossible (let alone healing an endgame raid). From her ankles to her knees, from her fingers to her shoulders, Lileya’s joints dislocate at the drop of a pin. The first installment of our interview with Lileya inspired an outpouring of support from readers. “im on lightbringer (eu) as well,” wrote Lynxx. “if your ever lookin for a group then just ask any1 in Misery. Your story touched me but im rly struggling to put into words what i want to say, but your story touches me =). Craig” You may have been struggling for words, Craig, but I think Lileya and the rest of our readers got the

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Kalon at ThinkTank touches on a subject near and dear to my heart — missing out on loot upgrades because you forget what you’re supposed to want. While on an Ulduar-10 run, he passed on the Kologarn drop Mark of the Unyielding, which is close to being the best-in-slot neck for bear tanks, for one good reason (the other tank raids more than he does at the moment) and one bad one (he couldn’t remember just how good the piece really is). Particularly galling, he notes, is that he recently wrote an excellent guide to tanking upgrades in Ulduar in which Mark of the Unyielding was singled out for especial commentary. Ouch. For myself, I don’t think anything quite approaches the sheer agony of having accidentally passed on Idol of Worship from Grand Widow Faerlina just because I wasn’t paying attention at the time. I don’t do much cat DPS, but losing the best-in-slot idol directly affecting the attack (Rip) that contributes the largest share of feral DPS

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One of the hardest achievements in the game is like a day at the beach to Felblood and <PhaseTwo> of Draenor-EU. Felblood took a moment to relax, kick off his shoes, and bask in the glory after his guild’s first kill of 25-man Sartharion with all three drakes up. Too bad he decided to kick off his shoes in a lava pool. He’s going to have to get some Antiseptic-Soaked Dressings on those feet. Do you have any unusual World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see it on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing —

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We’re not out of the woods with this patch yet. I’m seeing this message on a North American realm, and lots of other people are seeing the same thing. At least one of our bloggers is still in the game, though, and Blizzard is saying the Authentication wow goldservers are still up and running, so this should be fixed soon. We’ll keep you updated, stay tuned. Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Update: A login server died. If you try signing in with a Bnet account, you should be able to get in. Otherwise, everybody PANIC hold on and they’ll be back up soon. Update 2: Everything seems back up. That was relatively painless. Thanks for playing, everybody!

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Servers are still down for maintenance due to Patch 3.1, so now would be a great time think of the list of things you’ll have to do once you log in. Let’s see … you’ve bought all the gems enchants you need; you’ve got your talent calculator all ready to go; you’ve parked yourself in an old-world capital city to buy dual-spec as soon as you log in. You’re ready to go! But the question may remain — what exactly are you going to pick for your offspec? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! We’ve compiled dual-spec guides for each of your classes. Death Knight • Druid • Hunter • Mage • Paladin • Priest • Rogue • Shaman • Warlock • Warrior Get crackin’ and be ready to raid (or whatever it is you’ll be doing) when servers come up. Remember: being prepared takes class!

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Ever feel like you’re being stalked by an NPC? In Wrath of the Lich King, it seems like Arthas is everywhere. Ebon Hold, Voltarus, Gjalerbron and of course Icecrown — the dude’s more pervasive than death knight/paladin arena teams. You can’t even escape from him in an alternate dimension, as Manatee of <Adaptation> on Arathor recently discovered. Arthas followed her into the world of shadows (available in the Horde quest The Power to Destroy) and taunted her with the pointlessness of her existence. Stay in your own universe and stop interrupting our questing, freakazoid! Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player

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Blizzard has made a nice cinematic tweak to the forums today — as you can see in this impassioned Engineering QQ thread, they’ve added a little bit of font flavor and some roleplaying text to everyone’s posts. Instead of just whining about Engineers, “Aurainsoph’s brow furrowed in concentration” before speaking, and after every paragraph, we get a much clearer picture of what our characters are doing, whether that be “putting on her robe and wizard’s hat” (yuk yuk yuk) or “liberally applied his custom fragrance, which was made with bits of real nightsaber.” Wait — eww. And every post ends with a nice RP finish as well, most of them more silly than dramatic. All in all, it’s very well done — not only are there lots of different combinations, but the syntax works, and each post really does read like some bad fanfiction. Players seem to really enjoy it, even though their hair was a bird, and they

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