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2 January 2007 - Happy New Year!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. And a happy 2 weeks until the expansion ships [crosses fingers]. We’ve updated many of our reputation pages with post-2.0 information (had a lot of fun running old quests this past weekend!). Also, the WoW:TCG page was updated because a number of magazines included promotional cards [...]

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22 December 2006 - AddOn News and More Promotional WoW TCG Cards

The busy goblins over at Fizzwidget’s have begun to merge in information from the Closed Beta. Among the updates are: Gemologist and Hunter’s Helper. Norganna’s team is still busy killing bugs in the alpha release of Auctioneer, now slated for a release early next week. Gatherer is now back burnered until next year.
On the WoW [...]

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16 December 2006 - Reputation Still Paying Out for Greys

Since the 2.0.1 patch, even grey quests are paying out full reputation rewards (this may make grinding Silvermoon or Exodar rep less unreasonable once the expansion comes out). This includes repeatable rep quests. Also, as previously noted, many “non-trivial” quests are paying out substantially more (starting area quests have been found which pay out 500 [...]

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14 December 2006 - Honor Bound

After Tuesday’s maintenance cycle, our intrepid PvPers noticed that bonus honor rewards from the Battlegrounds has been reduced by 30%. Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch both yield a maximum of 140 bonus honor (previously 200). Alterac Valley has also been scaled back, with the base honor reward dropping to 14 bonus honor (previously 20); a [...]

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10 December 2006 - More Post 2.0 Updates

Amid signs of realm instability, inconstant Arena Masters, crashing Battlegrounds, and the fact that bosses are now dropping BoP Shaman items (looks like a shard to me!), Patch 2.0 nonetheless has much to recommend it. In general, the graphics are somewhat improved and (modulo some conflicts some people have reported with their sound cards) more [...]

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1 December 2006 - ‘Tis the (Patch) Season!

The word is out that next week Tuesday will mark the roll out of the 2.0 patch. As previously noted, this will begin to set up the engine changes required for the Burning Crusade expansion. This includes a revamp of the Honor system. Since maintenance will start at 1:00 am next week Tuesday, it is [...]

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24 November 2006 - Shopping Coupons

Just a quick note that one of our sponsors (Gamestop/EBGames.Com) has offered MortalKen.com readers a coupon for an extra 5% off PC and video games and accessories. Just use the code “5OFF” at checkout. This is good until 28 November. Happy shopping!

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23 November 2006 - Reputation Changes on the Test Realms

While researching profession changes, our intrepid scouts found some interesting changes related to reputation and quests. Quest reputation gains have greatly increased. Quests which originally yielded ~100 rep now give 250. Originally, we thought this was just a boost for beta, but apparently this is tied in with Blizzard’s stated desire to reduce the amount [...]

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19 November 2006 - PTR Reports - New Recipes for All

A quick trip through the somewhat unstable Test-PvE server has revealed that the 2.0.1 content patch includes the profession changes from the Burning Crusade expansion. Even those who don’t purchase the expansion will see substantial changes. In addition to the 301-375 level recipes, a few recipes have been added at lower skill levels, primarily available [...]

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16 November 2006 - Public Test Realms meet the Burning Crusade!

The Public Test Realms have relaunched with version 2.0.1 - the Burning Crusade engine. All the game mechanic changes that have been part of the expansion are now in. This means that the engine itself is nearly “done”, with (mostly) only the new content still under refinement. It’s a good sign for Blizzard making the [...]

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