Mania’s Arcania

Blizzard Poster Crygil posted a short note on the beta forums just a bit ago:

We would like to thank everyone who has participated in the Wrath of the Lich King beta test. We greatly appreciate all of the feedback and you have given us during this critical phase of World of Warcraft’s development. In preparation for the launch of the game next Thursday, November 13, we will be bringing down our beta realms at 12:00 AM PST. Thanks again, and see you soon in Northrend!

As I type this, it is after midnight PST and the beta realms are still up, but I don’t expect that situation to last much longer. So I have reluctantly said goodbye to my test bed and started frantically wishing I’d done more pet testing the past week instead of messing about with Hallow’s End content. Ah, well. I’ll just have to do my testing on live, I suppose.

Final Names:
Cherixion: Astura
Hemingway: Kilimanjaro

Now here’s a pet that would make a good bouquet! And yet somehow moths, while elegant and beautiful, aren’t nearly as soft as you might imagine … at least not when they are gnawing on your face!

Anyway, we have two new moth-owners who are looking for names today. First up is Cherixion from Boulderfist, with a simple (but enthusiastic) request:

I need a new name for my pet Moth! I saw it on the PTR and KNEW that it had to be mine! It is a very beautiful pet, and I would like you guys to name it for me! Any names that refer to it as fuzzy, cute, buglike, or pretty.

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Achievements are going to be the (WoW) death of me. Don’t get me wrong — I like the achievement system. But … I’m a completionist. I can’t help it; I’m just a little bit OCD. And I also have a lot of alts. A lot of alts.

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Final Names:
Zinagaro: Neretzek
Luminial: Sharpjaw
Knyghtlander: Dizz
Nessima: Nefertiti

I was going to call today’s post “A Bouquet of Silithids”, being that we have four lovely creatures in four different vivid and beautiful colors. But silithids are perhaps a little bit too deadly to be going around calling ‘em delicate flowers.

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[edit: Please see the update at the end of this post.]

So Blizzard has announced that they will be shutting down the official class forums and replacing them with three role-based forums: Tanking, Healing, and Damage Dealing.

(Actually, it looks like the EU will be keeping their class forums, and Tyren posted later in the same thread to say that depending on feedback, the US might keep theirs as well.)

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Final Names:
Belysior: Arktos

I love the variety of pets that are coming in with Name That Pet requests these days. Sure, some people have always had the less-popular pets, but so often it was lion-lion-raptor-lion. (Not that there’s anything wrong with lions and raptors, of course.)

But look what we’ve got today: not one but two blood elf hunters who have chosen to hunt with a white bear from Dun Morogh! And both of these hunters have stories to tell about how they chose their new companions.

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Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot of exciting news lately. (Some of you have even e-mailed me to see what’s up.)

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Final Names:
Torgar: Netherfrost
Nelmug: Amethyst
Ethgri: Maelstrom

Apparently there’s just something about chimaeras and dwarves. Or maybe it’s Nuramoc in particular — maybe having a huge flapping purple monstrosity by your side is just the bee’s knees for a dwarf. (I guess I shouldn’t really make fun — I mean, Kaet likes crabs.)

At any rate, we’ve got three hunters today that need help finding the perfect name for their purple monstrosity — two handsome dwarven fellows and a very stylish blood elf. The dwarves are up first.

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Final Names:
Torthrasher: Atalzin
Cronoras: Abaddon

As you might imagine, the plethora of new pets in Patch 3.0 has lead to an veritable flood of Name That Pet requests. So I’m gonna cheat and double some up. Today: that sexy black devilsaur!

First up is a request from a troll hunter named Tukuta:

Hi, my name is Tukuta and my pet is a devilsaur. I’m looking for a great name. His name on the PTR was Jaws, but that was a placeholder until I can get him on the real servers. I don’t role-play but here is my devilsaurs story.

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Final Name: Toruk

Sometime it’s the simplest requests that are the most fun. Forbeef, a Tauren hunter from Scarlet Crusade, sent me this request:

Since I’m a Tauren I’m big and gentle but not afraid to fight. So I decide to find a pet that was mean.

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