Pretty much every site will get white-washed with news from Blizzcon once it starts. Here is some other news til then! The calendar of events has been updated to include a ‘preview’ opening session; it’d be either Icecrown Citadel raid or rumoured Cataclysm expansion. WoR also have a floor map which gives you some context of event’s scale.

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News pre-Blizzcon

Eurogamer have a really good article, part one published so far, which talks about how WoW was designed. They’ve interviewed Tom Chilton, Jeff Kaglan and other senior staff to storyline how the game went from a concept to sketch to model to release, and the turns along the way. Gnolls were an original art inspiration, for example, and no PvP at launch was a decision in order to get the game on the shelves.

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Creation story of WoW

The latest PTR build showed very few changes, mostly spell changes, this might be a good sign that fine tuning is taking place and a live release may be soon. Below are the DK changes and some updated tier 8 pics via MMOC

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PTR Build 9733, Tier 8 Stat Updates, New Site?

The blues have been busy today and lots of new information is available. Below are some of the more important blue posts from the past couple days: PTR Information Ulduar testing schedule now available Daelo Ok, we’re going to attempt to have some playtest sessions for Ulduar starting tonight and through this weekend

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Glory of the Raider, Ulduar Testing, and Other Blue News

Some testers where pleased to log into the PTR for the first time and get awarded the Love Fool achievement. Some instantly thought that the Be Mine achievement may have been removed from the meta achievement for the title

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Love Fool Title Achievement Fixed on PTR, Sorta

So today is patch day! But! Nothing for us… Which may be a good thing. 3.0.9 is being deployed today and there are zero DK changes.

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Patch 3.0.9: There’s Nothing to See Here

Boubouille over at MMOC  posted some pictures of a few tier 8 sets and then followed it up with a nice video. He pulled them from the game files and not all are available yet, but the most important (at least to us) is. Below is the video he made as well as the screen shots of the Death Knight set.

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Tier 8 Preview and BlizzCast 7

Patch 3.0.8 hit today, as you all know, and with it came the typical bugs, crashes and needed hotfixes. I’ll start with the Death Knight related bugs and errors. Death Knight creation is not so account wide, fix incoming.

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Post Patch Chaos