Running through Drak'Tharon Keep, learning druid's new skills

Tonight, I ran through Drak'Tharon Keep in Zul'Drak on druid Calnar.
An interesting instance, I also discovered druid's new skills added in the expansion.

Now, all weapons have a weapon attack rating for druid, even for weapons such as a sword, which druid cannot use.

One of the bosses in Drak'Tharon Keep, looks similar to the boss in Scholomance.

Druid's in cat form can use swipe to attack multiple targets, a nice AOE ability.

Druid's in cat form can do feral charge also, and cat automatically is behind the target after the charge.

Seems druid is a capable dps class in the expansion.

No Lich King for China?

According to multiple sources, it seems The9, official publisher of World of Warcraft in China, has not been given the ok to release WoW's latest expansion "Wrath of the Lich King". Even with multiple changes including the removal of the well known Death Knight, the governing body which was in charge of assessing WLK still rejected the newest proposal. This latest denial was possibly due to additional content which was not removed, as quoted here,

"The applications were rejected due to content that didn't meet requirements, including a city raid and skeleton characters;"

Rumors detailing problems between The9 and Blizzard regarding contractual issues and a possible meeting between The9's President Chen Xiaowei and top executives at Electronic Arts to discuss Warhammer now seem to have greater validity; as with this latest delay and the supposed removal of a link which connected WoW's simplified Chinese website with the North American one it seems as there may indeed be a fracture in these two companies relations.

If The9 continues to bring forth proposals on Blizzards behalf, it will be interesting to see what other things Blizzard must delete from the official version to get approval, and how much of their IP they are willing to butcher to comply.

What do you think is acceptable for a company to do when appeasing the government of a country in which they desire to do business?

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-03-11/20090311185015572.shtml

Latest patch messed up the arena system

Apparently, the arena system is messed up after the latest patch 3.0.8.
As shown on the picture, both teams received negative PVP rating increment after an arena match.

Looks like Stormwind has a harbor now!

Stormwind got expanded in the expansion, now a port city.
The ships in Stormwind tranport to Valiance Keep in the Borean Tundra and to Auberdine in Kalimdor.

Epic drop from Scholomance

Me and Ryan were running Scholomance for Achievement, the boss dropped a really rare bop epic.
This would be great two years ago.

Level 72 Blue Items For Sale in AH

First day the expansion pack comes out, there are already Level 70+ items for sale
in the Auction House.

A lvl 54 purple epic drop

I was soloing Stratholme scarlet side for fun.
A level 54 epic item drop from a random trash mob.
I killed Balnazzar and got the "key to the city" from this run.