World Of Warcraft

Listen, if you want to dangle your feet in the forbidden waters of interspecies love, go for it. I wish you the best of luck. But if you're married, do try and use a little bit of discretion -- and a lot of protection.

A small new build was released this afternoon that may result in some realms being listed as incompatible. If this is the case for you, you'll want to shut down World of Warcraft and the Battle.net launcher and restart them to download and apply the patch.

"I recruited a follower at the Lunarfall Inn yesterday, and it turned out to be my long-lost twin!" writes submitter Aelussa of Cenarion Circle (US-A).

I have to admit, one of the first things I did when logging in for patch 6.1 was work on putting my very own B.O.O.M.

A new batch of hotfixes have been released for patch 6.1 today, including a whole host of adjustments for nearly every class, bug fixes, achievements adjustments and much more.

The Enhancement problems come down to three basic issues: too much emphasis on area damage, not enough meaningful and impactful cooldowns, and too many buttons to rotate through normally. As cool as the spec is, we wind up feeling unwieldy and tuned for a role we didn't really ask for.

"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."

"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!)

Today's submitter writes, "In this first-time crossover of WoW and APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), shadow priest and part-time stargazer Carina of Zirkel des Cenarius (EU-A) presents the very recently discovered constellation of the Hearthstone-Pegasus, a very dynamic, if not outright fast-moving “star" pattern.

Welcome to the first edition of the Blizzard Watch mage column: Arcane Sanctum. This week, we break in a brand new mage tower and discuss the upcoming changes in patch 6.1.