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Weekly Blizzard Community Updates - Forums Posts, News, and Dev Posts of Interest!

Posted May 13, 2009 by DoranM
Filed in Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Community Manager Ancilorn has seen it fit to send us some recent EU & US forum posts that are worthy of a second take! Ancilorn has also included some of the latest important Developer posts and recent news topics for all things Blizzard!


Here's the update:

BlizzCon 2009 Exclusive Pet - 13/05/09

Want to do your part to protect Azeroth from interstellar invasion? Everyone who attends BlizzCon 2009 or purchases the BlizzCon Pay Per View event via DIRECTV will be joined by a new World of Warcraft in-game companion, Grunty the murloc marine. This tiny terror is fully armored and comes equipped with a gauss rifle, which he’ll occasionally fire into the air to make sure no invisible spacecraft are swooping in to attack.

BlizzCon 2009 takes place on August 21-22 in the Anaheim Convention Center. Tickets go on sale on Saturday, May 16, with a second allotment to be released on May 30. For further details, check out the recent press release.

 Win A Trip To BlizzCon In Our Costume Contest! - 13/05/09

Warm up your sewing machines and start selecting the best fabrics you can; the Blizzard Costume Contest is coming soon! The best costume-maker will receive a grand prize package filled with great loot from our partners Panini, SteelSeries, and Upper Deck as well as an a trip for two to BlizzCon 2009! Check out our contest information page for details.

This contest will launch on May 20 so get your costumes ready!

 New Wallpaper From Wildstorm! - 12/05/09

We have just added a new wallpaper to our Official World of Warcraft Wallpaper Gallery depicting scenes from the World of Warcraft comic series!

This wallpaper features artwork from Wildstorm's monthly comic series. If you like what you see, you can visit Wildstorm on the web for more information or to subscribe to the series directly.

 Blizzard eSports Channel - 11/05/09

The Blizzard eSports Channel by ESL TV is a new streaming video service, available to World of Warcraft subscribers. This channel will showcase live eSports events using Blizzard Entertainment games, in addition to airing scheduled and on-demand programming. Active World of Warcraft subscribers can find the Blizzard eSports Channel underneath Free Services within Account Management.

EU Forums:

 Here are some of the most recent blue-posts made on the EU forums: 

·         13/05 - Recent In-Game Fixes

·         3.1.2 PTR Patch Notes

·         Win A Trip To BlizzCon!

·         BlizzCon 2009 Exclusive Pet

·         06/05 - Realms and Migration

·         06/05 - BlizzCon Tickets On Sale May 16

·         New Wallpaper From Wildstorm!

·         Blizzard eSports Channel

·         Lightning Overload buff hotfix

·         Wintergrasp Quest Changes

·         Stop the Nerf Madness

·         Wintergrasp latency & Instance latency issues

·         Ulduar HM loot info

 US Forums: 

·         It's in the Details

·         Races and their differences

·         Weapons and Tools of the Trade

·         Blizzard Shop Talk - BlizzCon 2009

·         Arena Rating & Requirement Changes

 Developer Posts: 

·         On arena brackets

·         On the interaction in the forums

·         On Feral DPS

·         On balance direction

·         On healing in Ulduar

·         On Moonkin DPS

·         On hunter DPS

·         Balance Question 

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