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The craziest costume I’ve seen at BlizzCon so far was probably that rideable turtle we saw last year (you can check it out, along with all of the other wild costumes from Blizzard’s big show, in the gallery below). But these little dohickies embedded in a Tauren or Draenei costume might actually take the cake. They’re called “digitigrade leg extensions” (so named after digitigrades, or animals like horses that step on their toes), and were made by a sculptor in Seattle who’s done work for Wizards of the Coast before. They are, as the video says, for “costumers, performers, and actors everywhere.” No idea what the cost is (she offers the extensions on her website, but we’re not sure if it’s a rent/buy/commission type of thing), but come on: can you really wear that Tauren costume around BlizzCon now without having these to leave hoofprints in? We didn’t think so. See you there.

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Paladin blogger Ferarro thinks that the new legendary mace from Ulduar is a Paladin weapon and she explains why in a detailed post over at her nook. While Val’anyr, Hammer of the Ancient Kings is a mace that all healing classes can use, the “discovery” of the weapon’s proc — something that’s been speculated on for a while — puts the weapon squarely in the hands of a Paladin. Even Allison found it something of a bummer (she plays a Druid) when she found out about the proc, and even talked about how to assign it when your guild gets those fragments to drop. Ferarro compares Val’anyr to other best-in-slot competitors, from the Turning Tide from Kel’thuzad to the new Ulduar weapons. Given that the proc seems to favor humongous heals, it seems tailor made for Holy Paladins, masters of nuke healing. The effect also seems to proc pretty often according to Ferraro, who reveals, “for what it’s worth, when I saw it in action a while ago it was proccing 100% of the time”. Not only that, but she points out that the lack of Spirit makes it sub-par for Priests; the lack of MP5 makes it less than attractive for Shamans; and notes that Druids aren’t exactly in the market for Crit Rating, which Val’anyr has. It’s

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Put another entry into the catalog of cute WoW-related dolls, because this plush Moonkin, made by Serthida of Bloodhoof, definitely fits the bill. Unfortunately, Blizzard has only ever released a Murloc plush, but that didn’t stop Serthida from putting this together. It looks amazing. She even wanted to put a voicebox in there that made the moonkin hoot when squeezed, but we’re guessing she doesn’t want to buy a whole case of them from China. She does, however, have mats (see what we did there?) for a second Alliance version — she says as soon as she can figure out the antlers, she’ll get it started. This one is just her personal project, so it’s not for sale at all, and once again, we’re guessing it’s too much work for her to mass produce anyway. But since the Murloc toy was one of the best-selling items at BlizzCon last year, maybe we’ll soon see some more official plush product for sale. Thanks, Xascha

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Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a new UI blog for all classes. Today, Matt teams up with Arcane Mages to deliver some serious pain! It’s not very often I write posts about DPS. It becomes even more rare when I write about Mages. My only wish out of Mages is for them to learn another rank of Conjurable food and water.It’s at the point now where I need to consume two of them to get a full mana bar back nearly.   But Priests, lend me your ears! As I was working my way through Ulduar earlier in the week, I received a whisper from one of them Mages. He requested that I spam him with Power Word: Shield as often as possible. He wanted to try something out on the Deconstructor encounter. The raid got ripped up in the first try but we were able to shut him out on the second. I asked the Mage to stick around after the raid so we can have a chat about what happened and if the effects were what he was hoping for. Here’s what we talked about. Incanter’s Absorption Arcane Mages have a talent called Incanter’s Absorption. Incanter’s Absorption Rank 3 When you absorb damage your spell damage is

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Like Boubouille, I’m pretty surprised to find that Val’anyr, the legendary healer mace from Ulduar-25, is up on the Armory, but there it is [update: it's been removed from the US Armory; still up on the EU Armory], and that means we now know all the stats on it. Just on the off-chance that someone considers this information to be a spoiler, I’ve put it behind the cut, so click on if you want to know what the Hammer of the Ancient Kings has to offer. You can see the item’s tooltip with stats at the right. They took a safe route and gave it a bunch of unobjectionable stats; there isn’t a healer out there who can’t use more Int or spell power, and haste is also pretty universal. Crit is potentially less useful for resto druids than for the other classes, but I’m sure druids won’t be turning the mace down, either. The other interesting thing about the stats is the lack of regen: no spirit, no mana per 5. This means that aside from the proc, there’s nothing healer-specific about it (not that spirit is even really healer-specific these days). Of course, the proc is plenty to guarantee that the weapon goes solely to healers until they’ve all got theirs. What I’m curious about is how long until we see one of these things on

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Most of my mods are working pretty well in patch 3.1, even if it’s no longer as easy to update them. However, there is one bug that bit me that seems to be widespread enough to be worth a mention: various types of messages not showing up in the chat frame. This includes outgoing and (sometimes) incoming whispers, guild member alerts, and wow goldnotifications of discovering new recipes (the last one I find particularly irritating, since it leaves you unaware of what you’ve just discovered if you use a Research recipe). At first, I thought the bug was probably Prat’s fault, since Prat is the most chat-oriented mod I’m using. However, after taking a look at my Lua errors, I traced it down to CraftyGnome, which I have disabled for the time being. I’ve heard of this error being caused by a few mods, though, so if you’re running any of: CraftyGnome An old version of Deadly Boss Mods Tongues Try turning them off (or updating, in the case of DBM) and see if that fixes the problem. And if you’ve found any other mods that you have verified as causing this issue, let me know and I’ll add them to the list.

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The talent calculator was Wowhead’s original feature, and it’s been a good friend through WoW’s development. So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that Wowhead is shutting down the talent calculator. Nah, just kidding: they released an awesome new version today. The new version of the Wowhead talent calculator, in addition to looking even spiffier than usual, has a few added features: Glyphs, like the MMO-Champion calculator has had for a while (but prettier, of course) Auto-updating URL – no more need for a “link to this” button “Restore” button will reset a calculator if you got there from a link and then altered it All talents are now updated for patch 3.1, as well. The pet talent calculator has gotten the same treatment as the main talent calculator, with auto-updating URLs and a Restore button. The only thing I don’t like about the new talent calculators is the way you select your class/pet family; it used to be a text list, and now it’s an icon grid, which I find harder to use quickly, especially in the case of the pet calculator. But it’s a small complaint.

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We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Vodka, currently one of the top raiding guilds in North America, has put out their Ulduar preview video. Give it a watch, then just try and tell me it doesn’t excite you Children’s Week is quickly approaching, and the Hunting wow goldLodge wants to bring the holiday into the real world. Head on over to the Hunting Lodge and give Child’s Play a helping hand! Of Teeth and Claws talks Druid DoTs in Patch 3.1. DoTs of the Feral persuasion, mind. You Moonkin are out of luck on this one. Wonderland has some sweet, sweet baked goods for all of you to salivate over. If you want more cakey goodness, don’t forget that we have our own World of Warcraft cake gallery.

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I worked at Blizzard for close to three years. During my time there I saw a lot of big things happen: the closing of the Console Division and shelfing of Starcraft Ghost, the launch of the first (and second!) World of Warcraft expansion … and one that some people say is the biggest event in Blizzard’s history, Vivendi Games’ merger with Activision. The merger was, of course, a controversial move; and, like any corporate maneuver, it’s generated a lot of misunderstandings, misreporting, misinformation … in general, it’s been a flurry of mis-es. It’s upsetting and frustrating to see so many people not understand what the merger means and, in turn, form stubborn opinions. If you want to help curb ignorance and misunderstanding regarding what’s going on with the merger, you’re in luck. My former employment at Blizzard means I have a lot of information to share to set the record straight. Even if you’re going to continue believing that Blizzard is somehow dipping in quality or in a bad way because of the merger, at least read what I have to say. It’ll be worth it. You can choose to believe these answers or not, that I was fed a corporate line or that I was unaware of things going on in offices on floors higher than mine.

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Blizzard’s merchandising hasn’t stopped with Mountain Dew, no sir. This past week the WoW Insider staff received a lovely surprise in the form of a package from Swanson. Many of the producers of Blizzard-licensed products (such as UpperDeck) tend to send us advance, review copies of new products. Swanson followed suit and has sent us a variety of the new Hungry Man dinners that will be hitting stores this summer. Hungry Man Gamer Grub (which we’ve dubbed ‘Hungry Gamer’) is a line of World of Warcraft themed frozen dinners. It seems this is yet another company jumping on the bandwagon of catering to the gaming demographic, but it would be unfair of us to write this product off from the start. To be completely fair to them, neither the box art nor the documentation that came with our package made any cracks about gamers as these things usually do. Essentially, it just seems like Hungry Man is trying something new. Gaming is ‘in’ now, you know! After the WoW line, I’d bet we’ll see Halo Hungry Man or Noby Noby Boy Hungry Man. Well, maybe not that second one. Anyway, we were given one or two of each of the upcoming dinners to taste test. We took volunteers from the staff to try them out, and in the following pages you’ll find our

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