Tanking as a Feral Druid Bear (Part One: Gear)

Big Bear Butt is writing an introduction to tanking as a lower level bear feral druid. Part one is up at this link. It covers gear. I'll update this blog entry as more information is added to BBB's blog.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/08/24/how-to-bear-tank-the-lower-levels-part-1-gear/

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In Game Event Will Introduce Cataclysm

Oh, Lord. Remember the zombie invasion before the Lich King hit? Another "event" will introduce Cataclysm.
http://www.wow.com/2009/08/24/in-game-launch-event-for-cataclysm-confirmed/

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Battle.net Will Become Mandatory "in the not too distant future"

WOW Insider pointed me to this BlizzCon interview that talks in part about Battle.net being the mandatory way to logon into the Blizzard games. There is a lot of Starcraft 2 material also.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/1552233/Blizzard-Answers-Your-Questions-and-More?art_pos=5

Later on WOW Insider looked at the information from Blizzard more closely and discovered cross faction (and server) chat will be enabled. Note what security measures there are.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/27/battle-net-2-0-to-allow-cross-faction-communication/

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Extended Maintenance Realms List

Blizzard has posted a list of realms that are undergoing extended maintenance today. Apparently this is to fix the long waits into instances.
http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert

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