Blizzard has changed their mind on reseting honor and bg tokens with the release of WotLK! PvPers and BG grinders all rejoice!

Posted by Bornakk (Source )

We had hoped that the introduction of some new Honor rewards in the upcoming patch would give players a great opportunity to spend any of their remaining Honor. However, many players would still be surprised by an Honor and token reset as it isn’t something we’ve done in the past. As such, we’ve decided to not reset Honor or tokens upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King. Players who save their Honor will be able to spend it on level 80 rewards, although those rewards will be significantly more expensive than their level 70 counterparts.

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Filed under: News items, PvP, Wrath of the Lich King

Bornakk has announced on the forums tonight that the honor points wipe they were going to do before Wrath of the Lich King will not be happening after all.

Once again for clarity: honor points and PvP tokens will not be reset when WotLK is released. According to a post by Zarhym today, Arena points and teams will still be wiped immediately prior to Wrath’s release.

This is a very interesting change of policy. Blizzard announced last week that all honor points and tokens would be reset. Since that announcement, there has been significant outrage by many players that have saved up large amounts of honor and tokens. With this change players will be able to stockpile points and purchase level 80 PvP gear. However this gear will be “significantly more expensive” than current level 70 gear.

We’ll bring you any updates that develop on this breaking news.

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Filed under: Fan stuff, Realm Status, AddOns, Instances

The realms are back up now, but we’ve all been through that wait before — you’ve got things to do in Azeroth, but Blizzard is doing their updating, so you’re stuck browsing around WoW Insider in Firefox. And here’s a handy little tool to help you get back in the game as soon as possible — the Realm Status Tool Firefox plugin will let you see the status of all the realms from right in the browser’s toolbar, or even monitor a realm for you, and drop a note when its status changes.

Of course, if you just need to see what’s up and down, the Realm Status page on Blizzard’s site will do it for you, but the plugin will actually put up a popup when your selected realm is back up. So you can browse all you want, and know exactly the right time to log back into the game. It’s been around for quite a while, though it’s only at version .4, but I haven’t had any problems with it yet. And it supports both US and EU realms, so no matter where you are, you can have it keep an eye on what your realm is up to.

Thanks, Berg!

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Filed under: Mage, Odds and ends, Expansions, Humor, Classes, Forums

In a startling announcement, European CM Vaneras has confirmed that Blizzard has no plans to remove the Mage class from the game. “Current plans,” the CM later clarified. “Please remember that the expansion is still in the middle of extensive beta testing, and many aspects of the game are being balanced. If we find that a crappy talent or class is not working, we will remove it.”

The statement was met with mixed reactions among the playerbase, as many have agitated for an existing class to be cannibalized and its sweet innards redistributed in order to preserve raid balance in Wrath of the Lich King. Other, less pointless ranged DPS classes saw much debate concerning the issue. While Hunters could regrettably not be reached for comment as it was dinnertime and Mom was calling, the Warlock community, found at their collective den of iniquity, replied, “Nerfing us is not the answer. Buff other classes.” When asked about Mages, they thought for a moment and said, “Classes worth buffing.”

WoW Insider has thus far been unable to confirm with a developer that Mages will indeed remain in the game through patch 3.02. Reached at his office late Tuesday afternoon, Jeff “Tigole” Kaplan responded, “The what class?”

Disclaimer: the author of this post may possibly be bored and prone to making things up about expansion hysteria.

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