Best of WoW.com: November 2009

November saw the celebration of WoW's fifth anniversary, the launching of the pet store, and a stabilize fall of programme from the connector 3.3 PTR.

Drama Mamas: When a partner wanders astray: The Drama Mamas respond digit of their hardest and most unsettling questions.

Cataclysm: The complete itemize of old-world changes (so far): nihilist goes over every the known aggregation concerning upcoming regularize and dungeon changes in Cataclysm with a fine-tooth comb.

Blizzard: Arenas were a mistake: Blizzard's VP of mettlesome design says that arenas as they were implemented were probably not the prizewinning idea. Let a thousand comments bloom.

Blizzard launches real-money in-game pet store: The instruction for data-mined pets we'd seen earlier that had never materialized in-game is finally revealed -- Blizzard's selling them. The territory to micro-transactions continues apace, and not everyone is happy most it.

Patch 3.3 PTR: Get a dog when you PUG: The instruction for the Perky Pug is also revealed, and players are somewhat happier most that, specially after uncovering whatever of the pug's more interesting animations.

Arcane Brilliance: Mage devastation guide, the thrilling conclusion: All of our collection columnists were asked to update our devastation guides for Wrath, and faith Belt accomplishes it with his usual aplomb (although, as he notes, six months from his closing here, he'll probably be at it again).

Create a Battle.net account or don't play anymore: The rollover to Battle.net is complete this month; nihilist goes bare-bones with the title.

Encrypted Text: Armor onset and the crit container demystified: Chase gets pelted with questions concerning +armor pen for rogues, and goes backwards on the theorycrafting warpath to unsnarl and vindicate digit of the most complicated of WoW's current mechanics.

The OverAchiever: Twenty-five tabards: Tabards are digit of the some ways players can directly customize their look in the geezerhood of equipment consolidation (well, unconnected from...wearing something different, though assail body rarely encourage this). We show you how to get another tabard option by completing the Twenty-Five Tabards achievement.

Scientists conceive how the brain thinks most personal avatars: college researchers discover what some WoW players already knew -- "You conceive most your avatar the aforementioned artefact you conceive most yourself."

Totem Talk: Shaman itemization resists a adroit title: Rossi starts to analyze upcoming equipment drops and stat allocation for shamans. Admits, "I dislike doing equipment lists."

Breakfast Topic: Would you ninja the Onyxia mount?: Most say no. The rest? Well, now we have their names.

Scrubby McDouche and his army of excuses: C. faith histrion has had it with the players he keeps running crossways in PvP whose centralizing symptomatic is that null is ever their fault.

15 Minutes of Fame: Vive la resistance: Another strange broadcast of 15 Minutes. Not only was Lisa's speech with Aleksey of US Cho'gall-A a enthusiastic discourse in itself, but it also brought whatever much-needed tending to the problems created by crushing ingroup imbalance.

The OverAchiever: One of our most popular non-holiday OverAchievers, covering the supposedly "past glories of Azeroth" that aren't rattling past at all.

Ready Check: You're fired: Solid Ready Check on how to do a very, rattling difficult thing. Forget L2P -- it's how to manage grouping capably that distinguishes a enthusiastic assail leader from a climbable one.

Blood Pact: Meet the minions, part 3: cricketer has been schooling readers on the some abilities of the assorted warlock pets, and in this holiday players were astonied to see just how some options are acquirable with a little elbow oil and a some macros.

WoW's 5th anniversary: Our writers' memories: 5 eld of WoW, and for some of our writers, 5 eld of memories.

WoW Moviewatch: Among the Badger Men: One of Moviewatch's prizewinning and funniest features every year, indirectly confirming my interior rule that, if anyone from The Grind is involved, it's feat to be hilarious.

2009's drawing to a close, and we're wrapping up the most interesting articles we've published every year, digit period at a time. Join us every period for the incoming dozen life with this year's prizewinning of WoW.com!

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