Blizzard Europe  have recently sat down with World of Warcraft lead producer J. Allen Brack and art director Chris Robinson to discuss some of the ideas that influenced the development of Fury of the Sunwell, the most recent content update for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

While they were at it, they also picked their brains about the lessons learned from The Burning Crusade and how they’re influencing the design approach for Wrath of the Lich King.

Check out the full interview here. 

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This guide is designed to help players with castable crowd control (Mages / Priest etc).  It makes use of the focus system which for those that don't know is a hidden target you can set which can have spells / abilities cast upon it without the need to keep selecting it first. 

It can be used in both PvE and PVP.

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The makers of World of Warcraft are locked in a legal battle with a firm that has produced a tool to automate many actions in the virtual world.

Blizzard is suing Michael Donnelly, the creator of the MMO Glider program, which performs key tasks in the game automatically, such as fighting. Both sides have submitted legal summaries to a court in Arizona.

Blizzard says Glide is a software bot which infringes the company's copyright and potentially damages the game.

Source: BBC News Online  

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Once again the official European website has got the better of the US one - this time being first to confirm speculation that patch 2.4 is indeed going live this week (today for the US, tomorrow morning for EU servers).

From the EU Realm Status page:

Weekly Maintenance - 26/03

This Wednesday there will be an extended maintenance to apply patch 2.4.0. Please note that all European realms will be offline from 03:00 until 11:00, Paris time (CET).

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

So the good news is, all the lovely new patch 2.4 goodies will be available and live by the time you are able to log into the European servers tomorrow.

The bad news is, with the UI changes included in the patch - it's highly likely all your nice UI mods are going to be broken/in need of an upgrade.

To our readers in the US - happy patch day!
To members in the EU - prepare yourselves, for tomorrow it begins!

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Blizzard has added a new page to the official EU WoW website, dedicated to "Fury of the Sunwell " - also known as patch 2.4.

The page contains information about the key features being introduced in the soon-expected patch, including:

• Sunwell Plateau
• Sunwell Isle
• New Daily Quests
• Arena Tournament
• UI Improvements

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It looks like patch 2.4 could well be coming next week (Tuesday 25th March for the US, Wednesday 26th in EU) - at least, according to this screenshot a US Game Master responding to an in-game ticket.

Fingers crossed that this is real - if so, we could be enjoying all the new patch 2.4 goodness!

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We have received word of some further changes to the 2.4 test realms, some of which are major!

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