Yooohoo, you well-proportioned charmer, you!

I think Belbi Quikswitch could very well be the best thing about Brewfest.

Player: What's with your crazy goggles?

Belbi: I understand that many individuals seek romance in taverns and festivals like this one, but alcohol dulls the senses and makes calculating the difficulties of daily life all fuzzy! But I've found a solution! Through many trials and tribulations, I've engineered an extraordinary device that gives you all the benefits of alcohol with none of the drawbacks! With these goggles on, ANYONE looks attactive! Mmm... including you, cutie! Tell you what. I'll give you a discount!

First Real Look at Female Worgen

I'll say first off that it's nice to finally have a female model that dares to try to look more ferocious than sexy.
Good Things:

• Ferocious (Though I think they could definitely turn up the ferocity dial).
  
• Hair options are variations of a mane.
• Unique animations.
• Cool customization options (facial colouring patterns, asymmetrical ears).
  

Now, that said, there are still some issues.

• Half of the ear options are stuck under their mane.
• Their faces don't move.
  
• There are chunky polygons that do not match the rest of the model (lower torso, butt).
• They look a lot like an edited female Draenei model, which is where I think the out-of-place polygons come from. If you look at them from the side, their belly sticks out as far as their tits (yes, tits, not breasts), and the shape of their butt suggests that there should be a tail, but there isn't. From the thigh up, it looks like they're going to have the same arc posture that Draenei do, but then they tried to amend it by just sucking the mid-torso in. Baaad.
• Their breasts are huge! I'm not asking for natural or average, it's a video game and doesn't need to represent real life... but these are beyond ridiculous. It looks like there are balloons trying to rise out of her chest. Are they supposed to be huge to compensate for the 8 or so that dogs usually have?? Joking....
• They don't have as many skin tone options as the Stormwind Humans, but the "reason" could be geographical.

Anyway, considering female Worgen still can't be played on the beta (only looked at in the create-a-character menu), I'm guessing they're still working on these models. But it was nice to have a preview of what they're working on!

Loremaster Xylia

Got Xy's Loremaster achievement tonight! :) It's too bad that the tabard is kinda ugly, but the title is of course awesome.

Ahhh Shark!

I just won the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby on Draenor!!! :)

Picked up the Dread Pirate Ring for my soon-to-be Dwarf shaman.

And a guildy of mine found the sea turtle mount during the competition... and another guildy just now found the giant sewer rat as I was typing. It's a good day to fish in my guild!

Sunflowers?!

Oh my gosh. I will be so excited if this turns out to be a sunflower pet.

Sunflowers are the best.

Lookin' Good.

Thought my warrior was looking pretty bad ass tonight, with her pumpkin head, awesomesauce boots, Scarlet Crusade tabard, and 2H swords.

/flex

Release Date Predictions

Kinda late to post these now, since a few other sites already have, but my guess for the Cataclysm release date is November 2nd, or December 7th, if things get delayed. You can never know when "soon" will be, even when you're Blizzard.

Nov. 2nd = two weeks on a Tuesday after Blizzcon ends.

Hop hop hop!

I almost don't want to train "old weather flying"... it's too much fun hopping around on flying mounts that don't fly.

I guess there's always Dalaran....

Troll-speak experts.

I bet dey be havin' troll-speak experts at da Blizzard headquartas, where der whole job be ta translate quests an' dialogue inta troll-soundin' voices. Dey know da ins an' outs of bein' a Troll, as if dey were Trolls.

Pretty sweet deal if ya be askin' me, mon.

Test realm invites, ho!

So I finally got a beta invite for Cataclysm as the PTR realms for 4.0.1 go live. Go figure!

Rawr.

The Cataclysm alliance guild mount is pretty cool. Blank space is for the tabard.

Still waiting.

One of these days they're going to finish the female worgen model. Eventually. Maybe.

Soon.

Operation: Gnomeregan!

A VERY cool questline. :) I won't say much since it's on the short side, as far as quest chains go. However I will say that the new music is very fitting; it's uplifting and heroic, while still very gnome-esque. I'm also sporting my very own Gnomeregan Drape. Hooray, science!

Help retake Gnomeregan! Enlist today!

In-Game "Armoury" - Gear Storage Feature

Good evening all,

I just made a post on the WoW Suggestion forums, proposing a feature that we could use in game to store and view hard-earned gear without the use of our banks.

Sound interesting? Head on over!

-Desukar

A moment, please.

This is a screenshot of a previous guild of mine after our first Hakkar kill; posting it as a tribute to ZG, which will no longer be a raid instance in Cataclysm. :( Enjoy it and its lewtz while you still can. <3

I understand that ZG will still be a questable area, but there will be no more raid instance.