Introduction to Priestly PvP

WOW Insider talks about how to turn from a PvE priest to a PvP powerhouse.  This is probably more for disc or holy priests.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/04/spiritual-guidance-priest-pvp-101/

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25 Man Heroic Lich King Taken Down (without Mages or DPS Shamans)

This article talks a bit about the first 25 man taking down of the Lich King, then turns into an interesting discussion of the raid class makeup.  There were no mages or DPS shamans, for instance. http://www.empoweredfire.com/2010/03/30/sunwelld-again-heroic-lich-king/

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The Stupid Mage Tricks Video Series

This article by Gnomeaggedon brought a series of frost mage videos to my attention.  You may be interested in the link buried in the article and want to see the Faxmonkey in action.
http://gnomeaggedon.net/2010/04/01/trollaggedons-coming/

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Mage Raiding Guide for Patch 3.3.3

Guide to raiding as a Level 80 mage.
http://www.empoweredfire.com/2009/10/05/mage-raiding-guide-3-3/

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New Scam Targets the WOW Launcher

Details from the WOW Insider, including how to tell the fake launcher from the real one.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/31/new-scam-targets-launcher/

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Musical Chairs

Activision has just restructured their top management.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/30/activision-quietly-restructures-senior-management/

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Get That Authenticator NOW

The Solo MMO Player's account was blocked this week due to "suspicious activity."  After about a 45 minute wait on the telephone, he was able to talk to a Blizzard rep who looked at the account and found no signs of anything suspicious at all and apparently freed up the account while checking things.  Why his account was blocked by Blizzard is unknown.

He believes that all the email addresses used as logins have been compromised as his email address/login --which has never been used for anything else-- is being bombarded by WOW phishing emails.  (He doesn't get any other type of spam there.  I personally have never received WOW spam although I get plenty of other types of spam.  However, I do not play WOW.)

In other words, The Solo MMO Player thinks that Blizzard's list of email addresses used as logins has been stolen and is being passed around by gold sellers, spammers and phishing specialists.  The account rep says the credit card information to pay for WOW accounts is kept in another place.  Perhaps this is safe.

The rep told him that Blizzard would use his former login name when they sent emails to his address, except when they didn't.  So being able to tell a real Blizzard message from the fakes is going to be very hard.  Many of them are exact copies of official Blizzard messages except for the fake links they send the unwary to.

Go get an authenticator now.
http://us.blizzard.com/store/search.xml?rhtml=y&q=authenticator

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Story Forum and ICC Raid Buff

Blizzard's set up a new forum about the "story" of the game, which is intended to sell more WOW books serve as a platform for discussion of game lore.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/30/blizzard-introduces-new-official-story-forum/

In other news, the raid buff to make Icecrown Citadel easier has increased to ten percent.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/30/icecrown-citadel-raid-buff-has-been-buffed-to-10/

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Arena and the Arcane Mage

WOW Insider interviews an arcane mage who plays 3v3 in Arena.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/28/the-colosseum-abni-mage-of-malganis/

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Loading Screen Problem Continues

And folks are getting angry about it.
http://manaobscura.gazimoff.com/?p=369

The things folks have tried don't work for everyone consistently, so this is almost certainly an issue on Blizzard's end.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=24038453664&sid=1

http://12.129.242.24/thread.html?topicId=24038453664&sid=1&pageNo=2

This has happened before, too.  Here's a forum posting from 2008 about the same problem.  We have no way of knowing if it is caused by the same thing as in 2008, however.
http://wow.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=417926

Apparently Patch 3.3.3 broke the game for many Mac users.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=882882

Patch 3.3.3a supposedly fixed this issue.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/26/patch-3-3-3a-should-fix-issues-for-some-mac-users/

However, many many people, no matter what type of machine they use, are still getting stuck at the load character screens.  Good luck, all!

UPDATE:  The Solo MMO Player hasn't had character loading screen problems today (March 28) but has had several frozen screens.

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