70% of Trial Accounts Abandoned Before Level Ten

From the quarterly report to investors.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/11/70-of-trial-players-quit-wow-before-level-10/

Tobold's thoughts on this issue.
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/02/really-really-casual-players.html

And a final comment pointing out these numbers mean little.
http://www.ixobelle.com/2010/02/70-of-blah-blah-blah.html

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Lunar Festival Guide (Feb. 14-March 7, 2010)

The Lunar Festival overlaps Love Is In The Air.  Here is WOW Insider's achievements guide.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/11/the-overachiever-guide-to-lunar-festival-achievements/

UPDATE:  WOW Insider provides links to good Lunar Festival assistance available online.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/16/the-daily-quest-the-lunar-festival/

Here is WOWHead's guide to the event.  I usually prefer their guides to anyone else's.
http://www.wowhead.com/?guide=lunar-festival

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Mages in PvP

How to play a frost mage in PvP.
http://spicytunas.com/2010/02/frost-mage-pvp-101/

http://spicytunas.com/2010/03/frost-mage-pvp-102-spell-penetration-and-resilience/

Guide to fighting mages in PvP.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/11/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-mages/

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Tips for Dungeon Finder Raiders

WOW Insider has written a long article about how to raid via the dungeon finder. It's meant for lower level novice raiders.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/11/wow-rookie-pro-tips-for-lowbie-dungeon-runners/

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Big Bear Butt Compares Feral Druid and Paladin Tanks

BBB has played both classes and now that he has them geared up fairly evenly, he compared how they tank.

Part one (feral druids)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/11/tanking-test-druid-vs-paladin-i/

Part two (paladins)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/11/tanking-test-druid-vs-paladin-ii/

Part three (comparing aggro)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/12/tanking-test-druid-vs-paladin-iii/

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Can Beast Mastery Hunters Raid?

Scattered Shots says no.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/11/scattered-shots-can-beast-mastery-raid/

A rebuttal by Lassirra at The Hunters Mark.
http://www.thehuntersmark.net/2010/02/11/the-beast-mastery-debate/

And one from Eddie at The Hunting Lodge.
http://www.brigwyn.com/2010/02/11/dear-frostheim-sorry-sir-but-beast-mastery-is-raid-viable-just-not-raid-optimum/



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Teaching Warriors to be Paladin Tanks

This article was written for warrior tanks who wanted to learn to be paladin tanks.  It is highly recommended by Honors Code who plays as a paladin.  Apparently the two tanking styles are very different and the author covers both well.
http://wowinanhour.gameldar.fdns.net/2010/02/pally-tanking-for-warriors.html

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Leveling Tips for New Trees (Resto Druids)

Good advice from a long time resto druid player.
http://www.aspectofthehare.net/2010/02/trees-do-it-with-flailing-arms-leveling-tips-for-new-resto-druids.html

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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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