Not many changes but one signifigant one.

Paladin
Seal of the Crusader: Fixed a bug where damage per swing was increasing instead of decreasing when Seal of the Crusader was active. This resulted in a dramatic increase in damage per second (DPS) that was unintended.

The rest of the upcoming changes can be seen here.

Heh, that's right folks. Once again, Phantim was kited to Orgrimmar last night.  Only this time, I was online with my level 52 Shaman in Un'Goro, and the lag was unbearable.  At this point, no one really knew what was going on.  It wasn't until the dragon was in the city that I started hearing about it. 

Unfortunately, I missed out, for I need to complete a quest, and by the time I hearthed out, he was already slain.  However, I did find some nice screenshots for you who missed it! 

Check em out here!

For those who're not aware, Onyxia is the first tier raid boss. While she's meant to be the easiest raid boss, no one has slain her till now... and she drops 3 epic items. Find it here.

High level instances... it's where all the loot is, and where all the action is. With no battleground, and no reliable loot soloing, here's no way to get good loot or have fun at Level 60 other than venturing into instances....

And yet, a lot of classes are missing out. In the first part of a two series, Infoceptor reveals the problem and how it has come about from the machanics of WoW. Be sure to have a read:

By Uldaman your finding that a warrior is very helpful for beating
the last boss...

By Zul'farrak you realize that AOE has become quite a necessity...

By Sunken Temple you realize that to beat Eranickus before Level 5, your going to need a Priest or Druid as the main healer...

By Blackrock Depth, you find that not any AOE will do, by only
mage AOE, and only instant Arcane Explosion will get you through Lyceum.

Find the details here. Be sure to post your comments, and your experiences....

While Magmardar is not the final boss of the Molten Core, and has being killed several times. Players have finally managed to print some screenshots of the loot he drops. With the news being dry lately, thought you guys would want to drool on this.

Me? All I have is level 58 blues items! One can only dream on what the actual raid bosses drop!

First of all screen shots of Mt Hyjal. Mt Hyjal is where the Burning legion attempted to consume the world trees power and use it for themselves. Lured into a trap by Malfurion Stormrage, Archimond does not succed and is killed, at the cost of the world tree. Although Mt Hyjal is off grounds to players a few still venture here. I do not advise other players look for ways in as doing so may result in desciplinary action from Blizzard.

Next, having troubles saving for that epic mount. Perhaps you're not undead and you just love the undead epic mount. Good news, it drops off Baron Rivendare. The final boss in a high end instance named Stratholme. Sure the drop rates not great, but it's the exact same as an undead epic mount. See a screeny here.

So in this week's poll, we ask the question, which class would you least want in a party? Vote wisely, for we'll be writing an article on this in future!

What Faction is your Main Character in World of Warcraft?
Horde	284	35%
Alliance	220	27%
Don't have WoW	221	27%
Rrrggrr...Murlocs!	93	11%
TOTAL	818	100

Looks like despite popular trends, Infoceptor breaks the norm by having the majority of viewers as Horde players. Not too surprising, given that all the staff members here play horde, and Clan Infoceptor horde side in well known in Warsong as having some of the best players.

Remember, if you ever want to join the clan, whisper Winters, Ceptorshock and Frostbite, and you'll be given a place!

First off they have two new community representitives, Fangtooth and Eyonix. They will help you with questions and anything else that pops up into the forums. You can see their introductions here. (Beware Murlocs)

Secondly, players on the twenty servers which did recieve unexpected downtime have been gifted a total of 7 free days on WoW for the completely unacceptable downtime. to check if you're one of this sites and to see the official message click here.

On the artsy notes, they have also released 5 fan art updates. Fan art usually being a pleaure to view. I'm sure we're all interested in the Goblin Blademaster.

Finding it difficult to cast your spells? Find you mess up often? Well that's because you don't have a ZBoard keyset. The ZBoard key set is like your standard keyboard but with a few customizations to make using your hotkeys easier to use. Check that out here. It requires a ZBoard to run it.

Tyren has come forward to say that the servers maximum capacity has been increased. They are now running the populations at 90% of normal and are monitoring for any degradation in gameplay. Again they thank you for your patience.

Read here to see which servers are being affected.

The interview can be found here and covers general Blizzard information, their direction and some goals. It's quite nice to see where they think the company is heading.

The article summarises that playability on these realms should be restored but the maximum amount of players has been reduced by 30%.

This means better gameplay with longer queues. They continue to work diligently on the issues and will release more information when they can.

Several months after its release in USA, World of Warcraft has finally stepped through the beta phase and has now launched in full in Korea.

Korea is one of the most well known Blizzard fanatical countries, hosting Starcraft TV shows and selling Hydralisk flavoured chips. Their reception for World of Warcraft is so far very promising:

The launch follows a period of beta testing in Korea. "After receiving amazing response from the Korean community, we look forward to the official launch of the highly demanded World of Warcraft," said Jungwon Hahn, managing director of Blizzard Entertainment Korea.

Details can be found here.

For any newbie to Maraudon, the instance can be sprawling maze, multiple entrance locations, six quests to complete, and no idea where any of bosses are. To make matters worse, there are slimes that do mad damage, groups of elites that can silence...

Yet the instance is also filled with great loot... where are the four bosses the drop guaranteed blue items? Where is Noxxion and the Princess? How does one get the Cerebrus Rod, so he can go straight to inner Maraudon? Find out!

• Maraudon Walkthrough
• WoW Instance Walkthroughs

Be sure to give it a read!

If you're still in the process of buying WoW, you might have to hold that thought for a while. Due to the huge popularity and the game and Blizzard's inability to keep up the server bandwidth in demand, they have actually decided to temporarily halt production of the game!

Till Blizzard addresses server issues, the only copies of WoW you'll find are on Ebay, going for average of $75 a piece...

Jay W has sent word of an interesting TV Documentary featured on Tech TV regards to people selling WoW Items for real money. There's some intersting information, here's an excerpt:

The average price for a lvl 60 WOW character was
disclosed to be around $400 and the playing time
required to bring a character to that level was given
at around 200 hours.

Read the rest over here.

Warrior... doing damage? Oxymoron? But for many good warriors, who specialise in 1 handed weapons and shields so that they can most effectively tank high instance dungeons, soloing has being a real problem due to the speed in which they kills mobs....

In today's tip, Infoceptor reveals a nice trick you can use with your protection warrior to have him deal some decent damage:

• Dealing Damage with Protection Warriors

Be sure to give it a read.

As instances rise above the Level 50 mark, they become exceeding long. Indeed, a journey into Blackrock Depth will make you realise how manay elite 5 man pulls you need to do. Typically, this is met with much complaint, for 5 elite mobs do take a while kill... and the same standard polymorph, tank, kill rest gets quickly boring.

In today strategy, Infoceptor presents an alternative method of killing mobs in high level instances, designed around AOE spells. This might seem a little strange, as a typical high level group would yell at a mage for casting AOE...

But provided everyone knows what's going on, it can actually work very well, doubling your speed and making instances a fun experience again:

• The AOE Formalism for High Level Instances

Be sure to give it a read!

It's a new week, and time for a new poll. Without delay, here's the results to the current one:

What class do you consider the most overpowered in WoW?
Mage	29	6%
Warrior	20	4%
Warlock	33	7%
Rogue	77	17%
Shaman	68	15%
Paladin	150	33%
Priest	29	6%
Hunter	35	8%
Druid	17	4%
TOTAL	458	100

Interesting results, and it appears that Paladins are far on top of the list! Indeed, we here rumors that the hatred for Paladins are so great on some servers that people sell Mithril Spurs to Paladins at up to 4 times the price they sell them to anyone else! Perhaps it's because these guys can go invulnerable and heal, perhaps it's their free mount, or maybe the fact that they wear plate and yet can perform far more functions than a warrior....

It's also worth noting that the Horde Counterpart, Shaman, while getting its own fair share of nerf complaints, is nowhere near as high... coming, in fact, behind the Rogue.

My take on things? The Game is quite balanced, stop nerfing anyone. The only major balance change required is buffing the Warrior so he can do something in PvP, and giving the Warlock some viable end game pets!

Voice your opinion on the forums!