Archive for June 2009


22 June 2009 - Happier Midsummer

Posted in the forums this afternoon by Bornakk (Blizzard Poster):

6/22/09

We are in the process of applying an in-game fix that will restart all of the quests associated with the Midsummer Fire Festival event and allow players to complete them once again. If you are in the process of completing an achievement such as Extinguishing Kalimdor, [...]

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22 June 2009 - Happy(?) Midsummer

The Midsummer Festival of Fire started yesterday morning. This year, a set of bonfires for both Horde and Alliance were added to Northrend. Other than that, the event was left unchanged. This has resulted in a number of problems:

If you honored/desecrated all the bonfires last year, you can’t interact with them this year, so you [...]

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13 June 2009 - Mount Changes in 3.2

We found this thread on the forums from Blizzard Poster Zarhym detailing the reduction in requirements for mounts in the upcoming 3.2 patch. For those of us who still have lower-level alts in the pipeline – you might want to hold off on buying those skills for a few weeks! You can wade through the [...]

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10 June 2009 - Mountain Dew Brings Us the Battle Bot!

Players who sign up for the Mountain Dew Game Fuel promotion can get a free in-game pet – a Game Fuel powered Battle Bot. You will need to sign up and link your World of Warcraft account to a Battle.Net account. After you complete that, your next login (using the Battle.Net account) will issue a [...]

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2 June 2009 - Patch Day 3.1.3!

Another bug fix and tuning release, Patch 3.1.3 focuses mainly on tweaks to Ulduar and a few reductions to armor bonus talents (Druids and Death Knights get tapped with the nerf stick). Currently, the Blizzard site hasn’t updated their patch notes as of this morning, so as a public service, they’re included here.

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