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From the rumor mill:

Sunwell Isle

* Sunwell Isle will be located off the coast, north of Silvermoon, and will be patched in with patch 2.4
* Sunwell Isle will be a major questing hub with a 5-man Normal and Heroic Instance (Magister’s Terrace) and a 25-man raid (Sunwell Plateau). The goal with Sunwell Isle is to close the Burning Crusade storyline before the release of the next expansion.
* There are still a few scenarios left that could be released to provide the players with more content if WotLK gets delayed for any reason.
* At the release of the patch, players will access a small expedition camp where they can start questing. However as the questing progresses, players will expand the camp and make it grow to a small town by retaking building to the enemies (running daily quests mostly). You can consider it as a AQ Gates opening event, the more daily quests that gets done, the faster the whole server will progress.
* The quests will end the Tempest Keep story arc.
* “The Shattered Sun Offensive” will be the new faction of this quest hub. It also seems that Aldor and Scryers will finally start fighting together against the new threat.
* Both 5-man and 25-man dungeons will be accessible from the start, but some bosses will have to be unlocked by running the daily quests (server-wide) and/or leveling your reputation. The 5-man instance will most likely requires Honored reputation with The Shattered Sun Offensive, the first three bosses of the 25-man instance will be accessible from the start, while the three last ones will have to be unlocked through questing.

Sunwell Plateau

* Kael’thas will be one of the boss of the 5-man dungeon, he’s still alive and he’s now got a huge green crystal etched to his chest.
* Kil’jaeden will be the final boss of the 25-man instance. The other bosses include Brutalicus, a giant Pit Lord who has lost his wings, Kalecgos, a blue dragon enslaved by Kil’jaeden, a Fel Dragon, the female Eredar Twins, and a Dark Naaru.
* The 25-man instance will be slightly harder than Black Temple, and is tuned for Tier 6 geared players.
* There will not be any “real” Tier 7 set, but some of the drops will be set pieces (not necessarily class specific). The drops quality will be above T6.

Daily quests

* Patch 2.4 will raise the cap of Daily quests allowed in a day from 10 to 25.

PvP

* Balancing actions will be taken in regard to PvP for certain classes.
* Blizzard have large plans for, and they will be aiming to bring it closer to e-sport acceptance.

I’m guessing a Tacoma is epic or legendary. Just a guess.

Just ignore this if you don’t play WOW:

Yeah. I went there.

I’ve been playing around with this voice chat in WOW, and I don’t really like it. The voice quality is relatively low; I’d equate it to the Counterstrike voice chat. It’s probably useful for public groups, but far below reasonable standards for guild and private use.

I’d use it for a 5 man public group, but I wouldn’t raid with it. Likewise, it’s ok for a public Counterstrike server, but I wouldn’t use it on the CAL level.

It does, however, provide evidence for the computer gamer saying, “male until proven female.” You’ll finally have some evidence that AWPgirl83 is really a dude. Or, strangely, her mic is always broken.

I guess with a third post, I’m beginning to convince myself that I’ll actually keep up with a blog. Within the next week I hope to start doing promotions (read: give away free stuff) but I’d like to get a little more readership first. I tend to judge that almost exclusively on unique page hits, so be sure to tell your friends to visit this page, if only to run up the hit counter and make me feel good about myself.

Lastly, I’m thinking about making my undead priest go hybrid discipline/holy for end-game raiding, because we already have another holy priest but I don’t like how deep-discipline looks. If you have any thoughts, please let me know at blog@darkstarllc.com.