To say that my return to Elemental has been marked by a large learning curve may be a bit of an understatement. I have always loved throwing lightning as a shaman, but I just haven’t really had the opportunity to do it in a raid environment in a long time. I mean, since Wrath of the Lich King long time.

Today at 2 p.m.

The Strong National Museum of Play has revealed the finalists for the new Video Game Hall of Fame. Among them, none other than World of Warcraft has been announced as a nominee.

I’m really sad that they killed Alpha Prime (Ralaar Fangfire) off in the Curse of the Worgen comic, because I think he’d make a great Alliance-centric end of tier raid boss. One of the things we got in original World of Warcraft that we haven’t seen as much in expansions was that the raids often had nothing at all to do with each other – each was a menace to Azeroth that needed to be stopped, but they weren’t necessarily related at all (although Molten Core did lead into Blackwing Lair).

So I’d love to see Alpha Prime come back and start up the Wolf Cult again. Maybe we could get playable Night Elf Worgen – that would be a pretty sweet customization option for worgen players. And with some worgen bosses, we could get cool new worgen forms, like enormous Epicyon–inspired forms that ran around on all fours and crunched bones with one huge bite and an updated level 100+ Son of Arugal.

Okay, let’s look at some questions.

"I was flying through Outland on my way to do the Netherwing quests (and what a painful questline, oh my God) and the lighting in Terokkar Forest happened to catch my eye," writes submitter Augrumn of Iron Edge Clan on Moon Guard (US-H).

I wrote a post about the WoW Token, and the comments had some interesting ideas. One of them was that we could expand what the token does - you could extend the token or make a new token for things like character transfers, race changes, faction transfers and so on. Allowing people to use their in-game gold more flexibly and allowing people to select the kind of services they spent their real life money to trade in, especially after the initial burst of token activity is over and most people that are going to do it have bought game time.

Tonight we'll be livestreaming the Diablo 3 Season 3 adventures of an intrepid group of Blizzard Watchers (who are mostly not Diablo experts). Want to join us? Tune in to Blizzard Watch on Twitch.tv at 10 PM CDT!

A new release of patch 6.2 PTR patch note updates are now available, including several changes to professions and some tweaks to PVP. Alchemy, Fishing, Herbalism, Mining and Skinning all have new updates introduced, and all three gathering professions are now able to sometimes find Felblight, the new crafting reagent, while gathering materials in Tanaan Jungle.

Creating art based on game characters is nothing new, but the particular trend of making BlizzCon badge art may seem a bit unusual if you've never made it out to the convention yourself. For real world meetups like BlizzCon, it can be hard to recognize your in-game companions — none of whom have names hovering over their heads.

All around Tanaan Jungle are fifteen new Legendary Pets to challenge on a daily basis. The prize at stake is four new pets, plus an achievement (also, glory). This is an overview of all the battles you'll face, plus a map to get you there.