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The official world of warcraft magazine is having a contest to give out to one lucky winner an entire round trip to blizzcon going on this year. The contest ends sept 30th and the winners will be announced around October 4th. To enter just go to the site and share a 100 words of less story of why you want to attend this years blizzcon.
The winner of the contest will get a trip for two to this years blizzcon. The prize includes airfare, 3 nights hotel stay, and passes to the event. For more information on this be sure to check out the link below.
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Account services, including account maintenance, all commerce, and Station Store will be down for maintenance for 3 hours on Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 5:00 am PDT to 8:00 am PDT.
The Station Store and all commerce avenues will be unavailable for the duration of maintenance. This may also affect the performance of the forums and any or all accounts' abilities to log in.
We apologize for any inconvenience and will resume services as quickly as possible.
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Cataclysm – Glyph Interface Preview
The new interface for Glyphs is finally available and it comes with a couple of very interesting improvements.
- The biggest change, Glyphs are no longer a consumable item. You learn them and can swap them at any time after that, without having to buy them again.
- Prime Glyphs slots have been added
- All Glyphs are now listed, including the one you didn’t learn yet.
- You can search for Glyphs, and filter them.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Blue Text – Cataclysm Glyphs
Grey Text – Old Glyphs (Wrath of the Lich King)
Mage (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
- Mana Shield *New* – Reduces the cooldown of your Mana Shield by 2 sec.
- Conjuring *New* – Reduces the mana cost of your Conjuring spells by 50%.
- Monkey *New* – Your Polymorph spell turns the target into a monkey instead of a sheep.
- Pyroblast *New* – Increases the critical strike chance of your Pyroblast spell by 5%.
- Cone of Cold *New* – Increases the damage of your Cone of Cold spell by 25%.
- Dragon’s Breath *New* – Reduces the cooldown of your Dragon’s Breath by 3 sec.
Rogue (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
- Backstab – Your Backstab critical strikes grant you 5 energy. (Your Backstab increases the duration of your Rupture effect on the target by 2 sec, up to a maximum of 6 additional sec.)
- Blade Flurry – Reduces the penalty to energy generation while Blade Flurry is active by 50%. (Reduces the energy cost of Blade Flurry by 100%.)
- Fan of Knives – Increases the radius of your Fan of Knives ability by 50%. (Increases the damage done by Fan of Knives by 20%.)
- Garrote – Increases the duration of your Garrote ability’s silence effect by 2 sec. (Reduces the duration of your Garrote ability by 3 sec and increases the total damage it deals by 20%.)
- Revealing Strike *New* – Increases Revealing Strike’s bonus effectiveness to your finishing moves by an additional 10%.
- Gouge – Your Gouge ability no longer requires that the target be facing you. (Reduces the energy cost of Gouge by 15.)
- Hemorrhage – Your Hemorrhage ability also causes the target to bleed, dealing 40% of the direct strike’s damage over 24 sec. (Increases the damage bonus against targets afflicted by Hemorrhage by 40%.)
- Killing Spree – Increases the bonus to your damage while Killing Spree is active by an additional 10%. (Reduces the cooldown on Killing Spree by 45 sec.)
- Preparation – Your Preparation ability also instantly resets the cooldown of Kick, Dismantle, and Smoke Bomb. (No longer affects Blade Flurry, but affects Smoke Bomb)
- Sap – Increases the duration of Sap against non-player targets by 80 sec. (Increases the duration of Sap by 20 sec.)
- Sinister Strike – Your Sinister Strikes have a 20% chance to add an additional combo point. (50% proc from critical strikes only)
- Tricks of the Trade – Removes the energy cost of your Tricks of the Trade ability. (The bonus damage and threat redirection granted by your Tricks of the Trade ability lasts an additional 4 sec.)
- Vanish – Increases the duration of your Vanish effect by 2 sec. (Increases your movement speed by 30% while the Vanish effect is active.)
- Vendetta *New* – Increases the duration of your Vendetta ability by 20%.
Shaman (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
- Chain Heal – Increases healing done by your Chain Heal spell to targets beyond the first by 15%, but decreases the amount received by the initial target by 10%. (Your Chain Heal heals 1 additional target.)
- Earthliving Weapon – Increases the effectiveness of your Earthliving weapon’s periodic healing by 20%. (Increases the chance for your Earthliving weapon to trigger by 5%.)
- Elemental Mastery – While your Elemental Mastery ability is active, you take 20% less damage from all sources. (Reduces the cooldown of your Elemental Mastery ability by 30 sec.)
- Fire Nova – Increases the radius of your Fire Nova spell by 5 yards. (Reduces the cooldown of your Fire Nova spell by 3 seconds.)
- Ghost Wolf – Your Ghost Wolf form grants an additional 10% movement speed.
- Healing Stream Totem – Your Healing Stream Totem also increases the Fire, Frost, and Nature resistance of party and raid members within 30 yards by 150. (Your Healing Stream Totem heals for an additional 20%.)
- Hex – Reduces the cooldown of your Hex spell by 15 sec. (Increases the damage your Hex target can take before the Hex effect is removed by 20%.)
- Lava Burst – Your Lava Burst spell deals 10% more damage. (Your Lava Burst spell gains an additional 10% of your spellpower.)
- Totemic Recall *New* – Causes your Totemic Recall ability to return an additional 50% of the mana cost of any recalled totems.
- Lightning Shield – Your Lightning Shield can no longer drop below 3 charges from dealing damage to attackers.
- Grounding Totem *New* – When your Grounding Totem absorbs a spell, it attempts to reflect that spell on its caster, but the cooldown of your Grounding Totem is increased by 45 sec.
- Arctic Wolf *New* – Alters the appearance of your Ghost Wolf transformation, causing it to resemble an arctic wolf.
- Shamanistic Rage *New* – Activating your Shamanistic Rage ability also cleanses you of all dispellable Magic debuffs.
- Water Shield – Increases the passive mana regeneration of your Water Shield spell by 50%. (Up from 30%)
Warrior (Forums / 3.3.5 Talent Calculator / Cataclysm Talent Calculator / Beta Skills/Talents)
- Bloodthirst *New* – Increases the damage of Bloodthirst by 10%. (The old Glyph of Bloodthirst is still there, and renamed to Bloody Healing)
- Heroic Throw *New* – Your Heroic Throw applies a stack of Sunder Armor.
- Overpower – Increases the damage of Overpower by 10%. (Adds a 100% chance to enable your Overpower when your attacks are parried.)
- Slam *New* – Increases the critical strike chance of Slam by 5%.
- Shield Slam – Increases the damage of your Shield Slam by 10%. (Increases your block value by 20% for 10 sec after using your Shield Slam ability.)
- Raging Blow *New* – Reduces the cooldown of Raging Blow by 1.5 sec.
And because I know that shamans will ask.
Heroic Shadowfang Keep and Heroic Deadmines released with Cataclysm
Blizzard changed its mind about Heroic SFK and Deadmines, they will be shipped with Cataclysm.
Originally Posted by Valnoth
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Heroic Shadowfang Keep and Heroic Deadmines WILL be released with Cataclysm. You will not have to wait for a later patch.
MMO-Champion – News
Due to unforseen circumstances RL has reared it's ugly head and we are unable to bring you tonight's show. We should be up and going again next week so be sure to tune and catch up with all your favorite stuff.
We want to thank everyone for tuning in each week and making this show what it is. You guys are great!
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NCSoft announced that on sept 1st all character transfer services will be halted until further notice due to the upcoming server merges. Well people are still waiting for a major announcement to when this service will come up again.
Lineage II : The Chaotic Throne
Blizzard today announced a brand new customer service portal launches via the blizzard starcraft 2 twitter page. This gives members quick security updates and ways to help protect your accounts from being taken. Also you can find out about outages quicker than any other place out there via this twitter feed.
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There are a couple of Starcraft II concept art shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan's exhibition Fights, Flights & Frights Inside the Storm that really makes you wonder if they are new units and locations for the Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm expansion.
Artist Peter Lee drew some sort of giant flying Zerg whale. A unit we have never seen before. As a Marvel Comics reader, I can't but find similarities with the kilometers-long Brood enslaved whaleshark-like species: The Acanti.
There is another zerg unit named Behemoth which appears in planet Char during the last Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty mission. It's unknown if that unit will also be playable in the zerg campaign.
The second image below shows what might be a concept art for one of the rooms (similar to the Hyperion rooms: Lab, Bridge, Armory, Cantina). What the zerg interface and rooms will be is a mystery at this point, but we do know the developers will design different ways to interact with the main characters in between missions. Things won't make sense doing it exactly how it was done with the Hyperion, so the art team will have to go through a lot of iteration.
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Shades of green and red are this week's hottest fashions. Personalize your look even more with these new Citizen's Clothing Crates. Or if you're really tired of the same old look, take a gamble and see what the Clawed Wand of Surprises will do for you!
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Blizzard has confirmed Starcraft II has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide in the first month of release.
This follows on from first week sales that made the game the fastest selling strategy game of all time with the game shifting 1.5 million copies in the first 48 hours.
“We appreciate all the enthusiasm that players around the world have shown for StarCraft II,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard Entertainment. He added, “It was important to us to deliver an overall gameplay experience that was accessible, balanced, and fun, and it’s been gratifying to see how strongly the global community has already embraced the game.”
As the game has received critical acclaim it’s little wonder that after the inevitable initial flurry of sales Starcraft II continues to fly off the shelves.
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We found some bugs we want to fix before going live. We expect to have the update ready in the next few days. We will update you with more information when we plan on updating it. In the mean time enjoy the site.

It's time for the Neriak City Festival!
The Far Seas Trading Company is pleased to bring this traveling festival to Neriak once again. The Neriak City Festival is a highly-anticipated spectacle, in which all Norrathians may participate.
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The US servers will come down on September 1, 2010, at 7am PDT for a hotfix. The expected downtime is 1 hour.
Update Notes will be posted in the Game Update Notes forum when available.
Latest topics for the forum “Official News and Announcements”
All servers will be down for maintenance Tuesday, August 31st at 8am PDT / 10am CDT / 11am EDT / 3pm UTC/GMT. Estimated downtime is approximately 4 hours.
Lineage II : The Chaotic Throne
A quick heads-up to the StarCraft: Incgamers community about the server outages. We are aware of the problem and we have been working flat-out to get to the bottom of the issue. Fingers crossed we will have this licked within the next 24 hours. Apologies for any inconvenience this is causing.
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René Koiter (of Twincruiser) updated the tribute page dedicated to his brother Michel Koiter. This extensive update adds short messages sent to him by Samwise and Chris Metzen back on 2003; and spotlights the tribute to his brother with the M. Koiter dog tag held by Jim Raynor when he says: ""…because some things are just worth fighting for" during a Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty cinematic.
It was a special touch added by Nick Carpenter, the Executive Art Director, who is inspired by the work Michel Koiter did for Blizzard Entertainment years ago. The new update at the SonsoftheStorm website is very emotive, showing us the unending love and admiration of this developer for his twin brother.
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