Ghostcrawler respondes to balance questions

Our buddy Ghostcrawler has appeared on the forums answering (or re-answering, as he says) a few concerns about the balance of the game. Most of his answer is about PvP: he says that Death Knights and Holy Pallies are overpowered, but that while Blizzard does believe there are more imbalances, debate is still raging about [...]

The Daily Quest: There is nothing Nobel about Noblegarden

We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
Everyone has something to say about this lovely little world event going on, and we’ve selected some of the best blog entries from around the net for you to enjoy today:

Mend Pet has [...]

Revamped Noblegarden revealed

The seasonal revamped extravaganza that is Noblegarden is due to start tomorrow and the Blues have revealed a little more about the new week-long festival. Yesterday night Zarhym posted on the official forums, revealing some new details as well as linking to a revamped festival page on the official site.
The new Noblegarden (which starts tomorrow) [...]

US Arena qualifier results in

Blizzard has announced the final results of the qualifier rounds on the US Arena Tournament realms, and there they are — you can see that Death Knights are probably the most dominant class in the lineup. Their teamup with a Paladin and a ranged DPS (specifically a Warlock, though there is a Hunter in there) [...]

UPDATE: Blood of Gladiators Loot Card EU giveaway

Hey, European players, psst! I know it’s the crack of dawn and to make things even worse it’s patch day! Pretty miserable, huh? Well, I have something that might cheer you up! Upper Deck International here in the UK have given WoW Insider a set of shiny, brand spanking new loot cards from the Blood [...]

Patch 3.1 maintenance extended an extra two hours

Today’s maintenance period has just been extended an extra two hours according to Datth, one of Blizzard’s Tech Support posters. He specifies that the reason for the extension is unrelated to the Battle.net login server ‘issue’ that’s being discussed heavily on the forums. What the reason for the extension is, we don’t really know, but [...]

Blizzard sets May 19 deadline for add-on policy compliance

Last month, Blizzard released a new add-on development policy. There were several contentious points in it; notably, authors can no longer charge money for add-ons, nor can they solicit donations in-game (asking for donations on web sites is still OK). In-game advertising is also not allowed.
In the wake of the announcement, the authors of several [...]

WoW Insider Show live this afternoon on Ustream

Your Saturday seem kind of boring? Could you maybe use a little cheering up with a side of Warcraft insight to go along with that? Then we’ve got just the thing: our podcast is live this afternoon, Sunday, Apr 12 at 3:30 AM in your time zone (GMT+8) over on our Ustream page, and as [...]

Phat Loot Phriday: Black Ice

Today’s item comes to us from the wild and strange land of Twitter, where Jezriyah suggested this might be the prettiest item in the game. Maybe — but only if you don’t count characters, as my Night Elf Hunter is pretty hot. Also, if you’re not following WoW Insider on Twitter yet, now’s the chance [...]

Are we being teased about the next expansion?

So there’s been a feeling in the air lately that some of the blues have been in a bit of a teasing mood. Sure, that’s not neccessarily new, but what is interesting is what exactly they may be teasing us about. For example, here’s a recent post in which one Sulmus of Aerie Peak asks [...]