The Hunter news- There appear to be two new crab skins in the game’s data. One is for an icey blue crab. I forget the other one. I’m hoping that this means that they’re going to expand the skins of(and we can pray) and abilities for the more normal pets out there.

Other News- They have removed the complex chain quest to start a Death Knight. There will be some very involved questing just to start one out, but it appears that your account must have at least one character above lvl 55 (which appears to be the start level for a Death Knight) in order to create one. There may or may not be a limit to this. There is still some discussion that you will not be able to make a Death Knight on a PvP server if your lvl 55 is on a PvE server. Death Knights will have a summoned mount similar to the way in which a Paladin or a Warlock does. I vote for a white horse. I shall name mine Binkey.

A lot of people on the WoW forums think that the moves made by Blizzard are indicitave of them entering Alpha testing. They did this about the same time as the last Alpha for TBC.

In other news. I have six hunters now. I decided to get a pet on one of them and I didn’t care what anyone thought. Thus, my sixth hunter has a Crocolisk. I haven’t named it yet. This means I have a Greater Fleashripper named Igor, a Great Goretusk named Tonton, a Spingpaw Stalker named Rukia, Ravager Specimin named Demon, and a Deviate Stinglash named Tamari. I may name this Dreadmaw Crocolisk Offler from Diskworld.

We’ll get it on test realms when we get it on test realms. I am eager, and at the same time scared. Most other classes got some really fun stuff last ten levels, but I was a bit disappointed in our fare. I know some/most people swear by steady shot, but its only redeeming value is that it doesn’t reset your shot timer. I do love aspect of the viper, though I miss the mid viper that had better all around regen, though I do understand that its better now for those who just like to switch to it at the end of their mana pools. Snake trap is adorable, and semi useful……if used right. Otherwise it suffers from the same weakness all traps suffer from. Point blank range, they have to step on it, easily avoided, yada yada. And then we have misdirection. The king of jerk spells. Seriously, while this spell is a all around great way to start, I’ve heard so many stories of “Oh, that paladin wouldn’t give me might instead of salvation, so I misdirected onto him and then feigned and laughed as we wiped.” or some such that I am sick of it, and would really rather just have it removed and have to feign if it means lowering the huntards ability to make me look bad.

I’m not going into my pet gripes for TBC. We’ve all hashed and rehashed them. At this point, all we can do is hope they do a better job in Wrath.

I’m not going to speculate as to whether or not they have set a firm date yet. Amazon is listing it as November 30th, though.

EDIT: On second look, the links don’t seem to be out of date (except for the one to report errors), but I am having trouble loading them.