Video Captures (Solo and 40 Man Runs)

Kurushimi has a YouTube channel with video captures of his solo runs on the heroic five-man instances in Northrend as well as other solo runs. There are eleven videos to date.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Kurushimi

The Subatomic guild filmed their Horde Christmas world event, which had 40 costumed gnomes, 40 reindeer and lots of battle.  The video is two-thirds of the way down the page, just above their Guild Policies section.  It's called BB King-For the Horde Christmas.  Watch out, Alliance.  The reindeer run!
http://www.subatomicpvp.com/

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Databases to Make Your Game Easier

Here's a list of essential resources for the WOW player, explained and reviewed by Miss Medicina.
http://missmedicina.blogspot.com/2010/02/resourceful-i-am.html

To sum up and list the most important resources in the article, she loves WOW Heroes when it comes to looking up characters, gear, raid specs, achievements, etc.
http://www.wow-heroes.com/

She finds these two sites invaluable for crafting information, especially recipes, patterns and people selling them.
http://wow.crafterstome.com/home.html

http://freewithmats.com/

She loves the Raider 101 Wiki for its helpful raiding basics per class.
http://www.raider101.com//wikka.php?wakka=HomePage

She uses Gem Finder a lot to, well, find gems.
http://www.wow-gem.com/gems.aspx

WOW Collect helps track mounts, pets and tabards.  You can also browse lists of items like  All In-Game Pets, Korean Pets, Binds on PickUp, etc.
http://www.wowcollect.com/

She used the Alchemist Apprentice when grinding out rep.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/f/f3/Alchemist%27s_Apprentice.jpg

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Find Recipes, Patterns and Sellers of Same Here

Miss Medicina has posted a list of her favorite resource websites.  Two are excellent places for crafters to visit.  Crafter's Tome has lists of all the recipes, where to get them (and the drop rate) and what materials are needed to make each.
http://wow.crafterstome.com/home.html

Free With Mats is a list, by server, of folks with recipes or patterns to sell.  NOTE THE WARNING  in red before you do a search for Patch 3.3 items.  Enter your server, then choose among the professions.
http://freewithmats.com/

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New Vanity Pets (Wind Rider Cub and Gryphon Hatchling)

WOW Insider reports that the Blizzard store will shortly start selling new plush stuffed animals (Wind Rider Cub and Gryphon Hatchling) that come with a code to activate the same pet in-game.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/10/new-plush-pets-with-matching-in-game-pets-coming-soon/

UPDATE:  Photos of the real and virtual pets.
http://kotaku.com/5474899/world-of-warcraft-plushies-on-the-wings-of-cuteness/gallery/

UPDATE #2:  Review from Mania's Arcania of the stuffed animals.
http://www.maniasarcania.com/2010/02/26/my-plush-mounts-have-arrived/

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Blood DPS Death Knights

WOW Insider goes over the Blood DPS Death Knight spec.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/09/lichborne-blood-dps-101/

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More on Planned Battle.net Features

Thanks to the WOWHead blog, I discovered that there is a preview about Battle.net's planned features on Blizzard's Starcraft II site.
http://www.starcraft2.com/features/misc/battlenet.xml

WOW Insider points out the importance of the Real ID part of Battle.net which is the social networking section.  If you are into this, read the article.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/09/battle-net-preview-real-id/

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WOW's Built-In Voice Chat System

Apparently WOW has a built-in voice chat system.  Here's  bit about it.  The functionality is limited (what a shocker) as it doesn't work in the dungeon finder and has bugs.  It also won't switch characters when you do, you have to log out and back in again.  It is convenient and does work in Battlefields.  See the article for how to access it if you want to give it a test drive.
http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2010/02/09/hear-me-hear-me-wow-voice-chat/

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WOW Signups in China Suspended for a Week

WOW Insider pointed me towards this Joystiq story.  Apprently the company handling WOW in China is not taking any new accounts for a week, probably while they await the ruling about their business that was due last month.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/08/netease-temporarily-suspending-wow-account-creation-in-china/

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Finding Useful Macros on WOWWiki

Hopefully this link will take you to many search results for useful macros by character within WOW Wiki. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:wowwiki.com+useful+macro&start=0&sa=N

If it doesn't work, try Googling "site:wowwiki.com useful macro"

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Hunters Are the Topic of the Week

For some reason many folks have posted good information for hunters almost simultaneously.   Pike has instancing tips for new hunters.
http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2010/02/instancing-tips-for-new-hunters.html

Huntsman Lodge explains explosive shot and how survival hunters should use it.  This article includes various rotations (casting sequences) for various situations and gear levels that are very up to date (Patch 3.3.2).
http://huntsmanslodge.com/5663/hunter-basics-explosive-shot.htm

Finally, we have a list of hunter loot available in normal mode from Icecrown Citadel compiled by Lassirra at the Hunter's Mark site.  A list of hard mode loot is promised in the future listed in the second link.
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2010/02/08/update-hunter-loot-from-icecrown-citadel-raids/

http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2010/02/09/hard-mode-hunter-loot-from-icecrown-citadel/

A look at all the hunter stats that are capped.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/08/scattered-shots-hunter-stat-caps-hit-crit-haste-and-armor-p/

The hunters' "jump shot" move.
http://huntsmanslodge.com/5911/hunter-basics-the-jump-shot.htm

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