Zarhym has revealed that you will be able to get chest piece heirlooms in patch 3.2, and that they will give a 10% XP boost that does stack with the boost from the shoulders. So that means, recruit a friend trickery aside, the well-appointed alt can get 10% from shoulders, 10% from chest, and another 100% from rest (at times), and they all stack.
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With all these announcements about the 3.2 Patch being released. WoW.com has been sitting idly by gnawing at the bit and tempted to shout out, "Ghostcrawler! What are you going to do about the Hunters! Show them some love already!"

Well it seems that your favorite Lead Systems Designer must have had the same thought as he posted up some insights over on the Official Forums in the Hunter's Questions and Commentary thread.
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Blizzard released new information today about the updates for World of Warcraft that will be coming to the Argent Tournament in patch 3.2, "Call of the Crusade."
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WoW.com has talked about the limits and benefits of totems before, but Shamans have pretty much agreed that, especially since totems are starting to see some shared usage with other classes' spells, they could really use a revamp in terms of base mechanics. The main issue is simply mobility -- totems are designed to be dropped and immobile, and that on its own starts them at a disadvantage when compared to buffs that are placed directly on players. There have been lots of ideas passed around about how to get out from under that limit -- a "relay" totem that could spread buffs around, a mobile totem attached to the Shaman him/herself, or just a kind of totem pet that could be directed by the Shaman as needed.

But Ghostcrawler just plain says no. In response to many issues with the totem mechanic, he chooses to focus on mobility, saying the fact that Shaman totems have limited range and must be placed in certain places is intrinsic to the way the class functions.
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A Blizzard community manager has commented on the content behind a currently-locked part of the World of Warcraft map, sparking off the hottest speculation yet that the lost land of Gilneas will make an appearance in WoW's next expansion.

The timing of the comment couldn't be better, as Blizzard's massive fan event in LA, BlizzCon, is coming up. Is Blizzard gearing up to announce the next WoW expansion?
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World of Warcraft needs more war, so team Blizz have unveiled the 'Isle of Conquest' which pits Horde and Alliance against one another in teams of up to 40.

To achieve victory players will need to "make use of the island's unique strategic locations" that reward special bonuses. It uses a reinforcement system similar to Alterac Valley.
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Vaneras has just released the details for the Isle of Conquest, the new battleground that will be appearing in Patch 3.2, Call of the Crusade.
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This includes Druid Travel Form (was level 30), Hunter Aspect of the Cheetah and Shaman Ghost Wolf (was also level 20).
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A very big announcement this evening from Zarhym. In the "next major content patch" (which means Patch 3.2) the mount system in WoW will be having some significant changes to it. The highlights are as follows.
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Another patch 3.2 announcement today, this time from Zaryhm concerning a few travel options in Azeroth.
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Destructoid writes: "Veteran players can attest: it's getting easier to do things early in World of Warcraft. As the MMO ages, Blizzard continues to tweak the game softly so the newcomer can get in on higher-level action faster. The next patch -- 3.2 -- won't be an exception to the friendly trend. Changes to the mount system are coming.

Zarhym, World of Warcraft's community manager, threw down a list of mount changes coming to the MMO with the "next major content patch." From it, we see that Blizzard is lowering the training levels, increasing speed across the board, and cutting the cost of training and purchasing the little buggers. Nice."
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Just a brief blog about the announcement of upcoming mount changes to the World of Warcraft. The appropriate blue post is linked within.
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Russian porn star Anna Morgan has inked a deal with an MMORPG gold-selling website, in which she will have the company's name and URL tattooed on her ample DD-sized boobs.
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You love in-game fixes, right? Blizzard blue poster Bornakk has announced a couple new in-game fixes. The updates are as follows.
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NetEase.com has taken over online game, which will be unavailable until end-June. As previously scheduled, Shanghai-based online game company The9 Ltd. officially ceased operating World of Warcraft, or WoW, in China on Sunday (at three minutes past midnight, to be exact). Now, its NetEase.com Inc.'s turn to take over WoW in China. Except it's not quite ready.

On Saturday night, tens of thousands of Chinese WoW fans gathered online to witness the server shutdown. A new online bulletin board for WoW players, wowbbs.163.com, recorded peak traffic of 20,294 visitors within several hours of its launch that night, Chinese media reported. Chinese Web portal Sina.com featured a live broadcast of the closure process starting at 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and The9 set up a countdown clock in the game 15 minutes before the closure, according to QQ.com (in Chinese). Meanwhile, players filled other online bulletin boards and forums to discuss the closure, with the QQ Games Forum receiving more than 10,000 WoW-related comments that night.
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A hotfix is in the works for the Retribution Paladin talent Vindication. When the fix goes live ("as early as this afternoon"), Vindication will no longer reduce the Intellect or Stamina of affected targets. It will continue to reduce Agility, Spirit, and Strength. As usual, tooltips will not immediately update to reflect this change; the tooltips will be incorrect until they can be fixed in a content patch.
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Mana regeneration has been a hot issue for raiding healers during this expansion. Basically, they had far too much of it in tier 7 content, to the point where they could ignore their mana bars in many situations.
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Zarhaim has released the current color association of skin tones and night elf hair color to the new druid forms that are coming in the next patch for World of Warcraft. Here they are for your comparing pleasure . . .
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On the heels of February's launch of the annual Guinness World Records 2009 Gamer's Edition, representatives were on hand at the E3 Expo this week to honour gaming publishers with brand new records.

Guinness World Record recipients included Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario franchise and more recently Wii Sports, who received the record for the Best Selling Video Game with sales of 45.7 million to date.
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Blizzard has revealed the new graphics for the Night Elf Druids in its smash hit MMO, World of Warcraft.
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