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"You know that Gnomish Gearworks and all its really neat little toys?" writes submitter Arugadh of Deep Forest Caravan on Wyrmrest Accord (US-A). "My gnome Pyrabola was playing with the Robo-Rooster and discovered that it had no limit to the amount of chickens you could summon."

Proving that there's no rest for the weary, we've already got our first round of hotfixes after this week's patch 6.1 rollout. On offer: an awful lot of bug fixes. Read on for the complete details.

Officers' Quarters answers your questions! This week we cover PUGs, coaching your raiders, raid sizes, and the expectations when you join a raiding guild.

I tried all of the other classes, and while they were certainly fun, it always came back to shaman. It's always been a class that spoke to me and made me happy to play, and chances are that if you are reading this you feel somewhat the same way.

Though I admit that it took me at least 20 minutes to figure out how to set up and use Twitter in WoW, when I did get it working, it just worked.

"Here we see Shårn of Nesingwary (US-A) relaxing in the Legerdemain Lounge in Dalaran after a long night of battling various dragons and Titan constructs," writes ... our submitter. (I'm not going to try to figure out how to write those characters. Are you insane? Even the Armory can't comprehend it!)

A dark and secret yearning in the soul of a many tanks is the want to pursue “big numbers” just as much as our DPS brethren do. Sure, we deny it, and dismiss DPS as an unwashed rabble more obsessed with chasing bigger and bigger damage numbers at the expense of basic things like not dying during a boss encounter -- but the truth is that deep in the heart of every tank lurks a green-eyed ego-monster that hungers for flashy critical strikes. (Whether tanks admit it or not.)

It seems as though battle pets, bucking under the iron rule of their trainers, no longer heal themselves in battle as much as they should since patch 6.1 was applied.

A quick and dirty guide to all the pets in the latest installment of the popular Raiding With Leashes achievement series.

If you like Pepe, the overly affectionate garrison bird that will happily ride around on your head, there's good news for you in patch 6.1. You can now call Pepe from anywhere in the world with the Trans-Dimensional Bird Whistle, a reward for the new achievement What A Strange, Interdimensional Trip It's Been.