Azuarc's explorations continue with the northern half of the Borean Tundra. Meet the Taunka'le, a race of buffalo-men. Face off against giant killer toy robots. Ride into battle on the back of a giant mammoth. All that and more, plus an extensive map of the zone, in part 3.

As quoted by "Jimmythenumbers," a blue poster on the beta boards,

As Ghostcrawler has been posting recently, we've decided to make a change in the way we allow buffs and debuffs to stack exclusively in a raid. For the most part, what this change means is that many buffs and debuffs which were previously allowed to stack together no longer can, and that many buffs and debuffs which only a single talent specialization could bring can now be brought by multiple different specializations. The philosophy behind this change shows up in many of the changes we have made in Wrath of The Lich King, such as when we made almost all buffs raid-wide. We want players to be able to form raids and parties based on who they want to play with, rather than who has the correct talents and abilities to min-max their raid performance. Raid composition will still matter to some extent, but without this change, it would have overwhelmed every other aspect of raid planning (as we added new capabilities to each of 30 different talent trees). You no longer need to rigidly control the melee/spellcaster balance of your raid, or make sure every group has all the critical buffing classes, etc.

Blizzard has released the fifth episode of BlizzCast. The highlights of WWI are covered, as well as a chat with Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson. You can listen to the whole thing here .

The winners of Blizzard's Opt-In drawing to buy BlizzCon tickets have been selected. The 1,500 chosen ones received emails yesterday, notifying them of their status. If there are still tickets left after this round, another round of winners will be selected. Blizzard will announce on their websites when all tickets are sold out.

If you have any questions about the process, you can read the ticket drawing FAQ here .

Love WoW? Love machinima ? Dell is bringing them together in the World of Warcraft Machinima contest. You could win some sweet prizes, with the grand prize being a World of Warcraft edition XPS M1730 laptop. So pretty, I want it!

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But please, no "Dude, you're getting a Dell" jokes, huh? That phrase died for a reason.