Registration for the College Gaming League’s Back 2 School Battles Competition is now open, with one of the five tournaments featuring World of Warcraft 3v3 Arena matches. Entry is free, and more than $40,000 worth of prizes are available, so if you’d like to compete, head over and
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Tournament Registration: August 21 – September 11
Tournament Competition: September 15 – October 5

Three Alienware m15x laptops

Three Microsoft Zune MP3 players

Three $50 Dell gift cards

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Filed under: Machinima, Contests

Earlier today, I posted a huge roundup of links to get you started on your first machinima, or just polish your current work. The reason behind that post was to announce the incredible contest that Dell is having! They’re offering up not one, but two systems as prizes, but I’m getting ahead of myself. WoW Insider is lucky enough to have two of their staffers, Dan O’Halloran and myself, as judges for this event.

How to enter:

• Download the Dell XPS asset package from their site.
• Create a World of Warcraft machinima under 3 minutes long that features their system.
• Upload the video to YouTube and put it in this post on their forum.
• The submission deadline is September 23rd, 2008 by 11:59pm EST.

The prizes:

• Grand Prize: Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition laptop
• Second Prize: Alienware desktop, Dell monitor, and Logitech gaming mouse, keyboard, and surround sound system
• Third Prize: Complete first series of World of Warcraft action figures, plus a Logitech gaming mouse and keyboard

Read on for the fine print and some things you should know before entering …

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Filed under: Shaman, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Burning Crusade, (Shaman) Totem Talk, Wrath of the Lich King

Well, this week we found out that we’re going to get a taste of the new talents and skills for Wrath of the Lich King, which wasn’t exactly a surprise, as we got a similar content patch before the launch of The Burning Crusade. However, as we’ve been getting quite a bit of mail asking what, exactly, it means for shamans when patch 3.0 goes live. While I always try to avoid Wrath spoilers, in this case I feel like we’re not talking about expansion secrets: there are changes that will be affecting you in your day to day playing before you set foot in Northrend. So a brief overview out in the open seems warranted.

For starters, we know that the new skills and talents for each class will be implemented. What does that mean for your shaman? Well, as best as we can tell at this point, this will be your talent tree.At level 70 (since new levels and skills that require those levels will not be unlocked) you will be able to spend 61 points, placing the 51 point talents within reach. It means that the spell power changes are certain to be implemented, since many of the talents require that new mechanic. (This is of course subject to change, but there’s been no sign that Blizzard’s thinking differently about the change.) It means that totems will most likely be raid wide, that Windfury Totem and Wrath of Air Totem will change to the haste mechanic, that enhancement shamans will now gain 1 AP per point of Strength, 1 AP per point of agility, and will be able to gain 1 AP per point of Intellect as well, changing their ideal itemization. (This may actually increase the attack power of some shaman tier gear.) And there will be entirely new abilities open to shamans of all three talent builds.

Please keep in mind that there will be changes to these trees. There’s already discussion of changes to Anticipation, Shamanistic Focus and Windfury Weapon in recent blue posts and any such changes are inherently going to be reflected in patch 3.0.

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Today, one of the Blues made a post that they will be wiping the Achievements for all Beta characters during more realm maintenance.Per Bornakk, a “Blue”, this will be taking effect today so you beta testers may have to redo some things. Read on for more info…

Filed under: How-tos, World of WarCrafts

Every Thursday, Shelbi Roach of The Bronze Kettle guides you in creating WoW-inspired crafts using real world mats with World of WarCrafts.

Until now, this charming technique has been a well-kept secret, passed down through the ages to only the most devoted crafters and dark magicians. Use the knowledge contained herein to fabricate your very own WoW Trinkets.

Here is what you will need:

• Shrinky Dink paper
• Ink-Jet Color Printer
• Image Editing Software
• Scissors (tiny manicure scissors work best for me)
• Clear Acrylic Spray
  
• Jump Ring
• Jewelry Pliers
• Brown Paper Bag
• Foil

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