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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

Last week, we talked about the Mists of Pandaria talent calculator and the class and spec abilities it reveals. This week, we’ll be discussing the new talents and their general design philosophy.

One of the design changes for Mists that I’ve found compelling is the removal of “idiot talents.” These are the talents that you simply have to take. A protection warrior without Bastion of Defense isn’t really a prot warrior; at the very least, he or she is a bad prot warrior. Now, while I applaud the intent of the talent changes, that doesn’t mean I love each and every one of them. However, since it’s still patch 4.3 and we won’t see these talents in game until patch 5.0 at the earliest, it’s hardly time to panic (or applaud, for that matter).

These talents are divided into six tiers, one at each 15 levels from 15 to 90. Three talents are available at each tier, meaning that you can take More >

Is Dexter playing WoW nowadays? Submitter Aaron was just tooling around Borean Tundra when his mount suddenly exploded, showering the area with gore and keeping local glue factories in business for weeks to come. The Stormwind Police Department’s search for the madman who planted timed bombs in bags of oats would turn out to be fruitless, and Aaron was forced to finally shell out the cash for a flying mount rather than just having a priest cast Levitate on his horse.

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Kaivax posted:

Against my better judgment, we’ve just published “A Day in the Life… Micah Whipple” on our 20th Anniversary website, chronicling a single day in the life of our most-senior community manager. In this unauthorized autobiography, Micah gives you an inside look at what it’s like to be Bashiok, what it’s like to not be Bashiok, and what it’s like to write an essay that is almost entirely devoid of facts.

You can, if you really have nothing better to do, read the full article here http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/b20/interviews.html#thirdInterview

Micah Whipple A Day In The Life – Micah Whipple Community Manager / Editor 8:00am

I hit the snooze button. 8:10am

I hit the snooze button. 8:20am

Normally I’d hit the snooze button a few more times, but I manage to roll out of bed, abandoning the soft warmth of my sheets for the cold, bitter world. I’m not a morning person. Some mornings I’m also not a shower person. This is one of those mornings.

I tend to get into work, most days, at around 9:00 a.m. I’m a community manager, which isn’t my actual title (that’d be editor), but it refers to the work I do. These days I go by my super-secret name “Bashiok,” and More >

Have you ever wanted to email Ghostcrawler? Maybe send him a message ranting about the state of enhancement shaman AoE, or send him one of those awesomely tacky ecards to thank him for giving rogues their 8 billionth legendary? What if he actually responded to your emails? If your name is Micah Whipple, codename Bashiok, this dream is a reality. Blizzard’s A Day in the Life series just published A Day in the Life of Bashiok, one of Blizzard’s community managers. CMs can have the dubious distinction of being the third most oft-cursed names by World of Warcraft players, next to Ghostcrawler and possibly Mike Morhaime. They’re the players’ links to the world-spanning organization that is Blizzard Entertainment and thus the easy target of a lot of hunter angst.

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Balance news comes at you every Friday — learn how to master the forces of nature, and know what it means to be a giant laser turkey! Send questions, comments, or requests for something you’d like to see to tyler@wowinsider.com or on Twitter @murmursofadruid.

Hail, druids, and welcome to the wondrous world of a new patch! This patch didn’t hold much for us in the ways of personal meat. We got a wicked-awesome new Hurricane animation and a neat new Wrath one as well, but otherwise, things trudge along as normal with our lot. That’s perfectly dandy in my book. We’re still going along strong as a solid DPS choice, and things are good.

This week I’m dedicating to gearing ourselves up in all of that lovely new content that has just been released. Whether you’re a dungeoneer or a hardcore raider, there’s tons of new loot to look at, and that’s exactly that we’re going to do. As a side note, I do have to say that I am super-excited about having patch 4.3. The content so far has been gloriously fun, and though I’m sure I’ll change my More >