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Welcome to Blood Pact, Blizzard Watch's regular column for affliction, demonology, and destruction warlocks. This week, your hostess Megan O'Neill (@_poneria) accepts her soulstone resurrection and rejoins the class column raid...with a loot list.

Whether you love or hate PvP, Carbot understands your woes, and the latest episode of WowCraft shows us how to cope — or maybe how not to cope — with corpse campers when you're just trying to mine an ore node.

Another day, another set of updates to the patch notes for the patch 6.1 PTR. Tonight's patch notes, which are likely closing in on their final iteration ,include a number of class balance tweaks, so you'll want to read carefully to see just what's in store for your character come 6.1.

First it was a nomination by the International Film Music Critics association, and now it's the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Composers' Choice awards, with Warlords of Draenor securing another big nomination for video game score.

The Queue, The Queue, The Queue is on fire.

Players are reporting extreme motion sickness for the room mechanics involved in the Hans'gar and Franzok fight. Some players have no history of motion sickness in other scenarios, like traveling by boat or car, and yet are reporting headaches, confusion, vertigo, and nausea from the moving conveyor belts that make up the room's floor in the fight.

Another round of hotfixes for patch 6.0.3 have been released, with more raid adjustments for Blackrock Foundry. The Blast Furnace, Kromog, Beastlord Darmac, Operator Thogar, and the Iron Maidens have all had adjustments made. In addition, a couple of minor bug fixes were applied to battlegrounds, battleground achievements, and the tier 17 set bonus for death knights.

Blizzard just posted a preview of some upcoming graphical improvements for patch 6.1. These include new anti-aliasing options, a new SSAO (screen space ambient occlusion) option, and a new point lighting option.For

After writing yesterday's article on tank representation in the level 100 Proving Grounds, I got curious about whether the lopsided statistics there were similar to what you'd find in other roles, and started digging further.

It's official: Twitter is coming to the World of Warcraft in patch 6.1. But will we all be using it? After a decade of using World of Warcraft completely Twitter free... we've got to wonder if we really need social media seeping into our favored form of escapism.