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It’s the week after Thanksgiving, and Hornwood of <Collective Conscious> on Zul’jin is still working on cleaning out his leftovers. No matter how much beef he eats, there always seems to be more on the table the next day. Maybe holding Thanksgiving dinner underneath Thunder Bluff this year wasn’t such a good idea. Hopefully, next year’s bash beneath the Aldor lift in Shattrath City would go better. Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@gmail.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing — use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val’kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran. Older screenshots can be found here.

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The @warcraft twitter account has been posting a few carefully taken pictures of something the past couple days, and today it’s been reveled what the object is — a Pandaren Brewmaster Figure that you can buy from the Blizzard store. The little guy is “on sale” for $50, and there are limited quantities available. Everything is first come, first serve, so if you want one I suggest getting getting it quickly. The figure is of Chen Stormstout, who left his Pandaren home world to find better ingredients to make his brew with. These figures are usually of pretty high quality, and by the looks of it this one is exceptionally detailed. It’s also not a small figure. It’s over 8 inches tall and 4 pounds in weight, which makes it quite a nice desk statue. Should be a good collectable for this who want it!

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WoW’s 5th Anniversary is still rolling and we have even more great stuff to give away to our loyal readers. This time it’s a gift certificate that will give you $100 credit for merchandise ordered at Swagdog. We have 5 of those codes to give away and you can enter for a chance to win one of them. The contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), and everyone who enters must be 18 or older. To enter, leave a comment on this post before Tuesday, November 24th, at noon eastern, and please be sure to use a real email that you check often to enter, so we can contact you should you be one of the winners. You may enter only once and five winners will be selected randomly. Each winner will get a code for credit at Swagdog.com with a retail value of US$100. Click here to read the official contest rules. If you don’t qualify for this contest, be sure to enter our Loot card giveaway and look for more WoW.com giveaways over the next three days!

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There’s a distinct lack of crazy drama on the servers lately, and I think it’s not necessarily because the raids are easy (guilds are still hitting hardcore achievements as they should be), but just that there’s no guildbreaker raids out there right now. If you can beat ToC, you beat it, and if you can’t, you can go back and do Ulduar and heroics, gear yourself up, and move on. I will say this: it seems much easier for a guildleader to avoid drama and issues later in the expansion cycle, when gear is plentiful, rather than right away. That said, there’s still lots of good drama, downed, and recruiting news in this week’s Guildwatch. Click on to read more, and don’t forget to send us your tips (especially drama) via email at guildwatch@wow.com. DRAMA Cohesion recently left Terrokar. Our tipster says that their problem wasn’t the server — it was raiders not showing up to raids, and any progression runs “scraping the bottom of the barrel” for people to come with. We’re told that lots of raiders left the guild on their own, transferring off to other guilds. The GM’s solution? Leave the server himself. Everyone’s over on the realm forums saying goodbye, We’re not quite sure it’s the

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I’ll be up front and admit that I don’t play Upper Deck’s World of Warcraft TCG. If I had oodles disposable income and the time, though, I totally would. It’s just that between the MMOG and, uh, real life it seems pretty difficult to find time to collect cards, build decks, and find people to play with or compete against. That said, I think Upper Deck’s card game looks awesome and I had fun in the short time that I played it back when it was launched. If I wasn’t playing WoW, I think I’d be playing the card game. More than any other licensed WoW product, I think, the WoW TCG feels extremely tied in to the game world. The art, along with a lot of game references such as NPCs, locations, and spells, make it feel like an extension of Azeroth. In many ways, some of the things that are featured in the card game are canon. I thoroughly enjoy the artwork in particular. They blow me away and I use every opportunity (such as this one) to include WoW TCG card art into my posts. I can’t praise Upper Deck’s graphic design team enough — everything from the cards to the website to associated merchandise feels 100% World of Warcraft. When the WoW.com office in the clouds heard the rumor that the WoW TCG was about to die a sad and

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Yesterday’s Breakfast Topic asked about the new Alliance race, but today we’re here to ask about the prodigal Hordies, Cataclysm’s newest Horde race, the goblins. The announcement of the race was a bit of a surprise, but one that made a lot of sense upon further examination. I wasn’t at all excited for goblins at first, but the more I look at ‘em, the more I kinda like ‘em — especially all of the cute hairstyles that the women get. So, I know that I’ll be rolling at least one goblin. I’m thinking a warlock and … I have no idea. I’m running out of classes I don’t already have an 80 of. But it might be fun to faction change one of my existing 80s to a goblin too. They’d be my first high-level Horde character! I never fell prey to infectious rerollbelfatosis. So what about you guys? Excited to blaze new trails and be Kalimdor pioneers with your little green man (or woman)? What are you going to roll? Does your goblin have a backstory you’re building? Let us know in the comments and in the poll below!

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WoW.com is pleased to announce a new and unique addition to our staff — Kelly Aarons of WoW, Eh? fame! Kelly will be joining us each Tuesday morning posting a new comic, in much of the same style as WoW, Eh. Kelly produces some great hand-drawn art, and will no doubt give everyone something to look forward to during those boring maintenance periods. We’ve recently interviewed Kelly in our 15 Minutes of Fame segment, which provides a good insight into how she goes about her business. You can see more of Kelly’s work over at WoW, Eh? and at her Deviant Art page. She also just won the World of Warcraft: Comic Contest in September. So check back tomorrow for the first installment, and be sure to give Kelly a warm WoW.com welcome!

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Everyone needs a binky sometimes, even miniature Scourge leaders. We’ve been getting a lot of pictures featuring Blizzard’s new pay-per-pets, including this submission from Loz of Terenas-EU. “Kel’Thuzad’s reputation has had an effect on Lil K.T, and he’s finding it hard to make friends,” Loz writes. “I decided to make him a doll as he keeps freezing and killing all of the other animals he finds … but I don’t think the doll likes him either.” Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@gmail.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing — use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val’kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran. Older screenshots can be found here.

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Feeling a little disconnected with Day of the Dead? Is your head not fitting on your neck exactly right? No, it’s not because of my lame attempts at two puns right there, but it is because of a series of known issues being acknowledged by Blizzard today. The major ones are as follows: Macabre Marionette disappearing when changing zones (Fixed!) Players being disconnected when retrieving Bread of the Dead or Candy Skulls from the mail, auction house, and guild banks (Fixed!) The Day of the Dead costume may not last the full 12 hour duration Blizzard doesn’t want you to contact them about these issues, since the GMs can’t help you with them. And while the disconnection issues, if it happens to you, could hinder your ability to complete the quests associated with the one day event — it will not stop you from dancing with Catrina to get the achievement. The full announcement from Blizzard after the break. Update from the blues: “Update: Novermber 1, 2009 – 9:15 AM PST – A hotfix has been applied which will prevent various Day of the Dead items from disappearing while changing zones or retrieving items from the mail.” From Aredek: As you may be aware, this weekend we will be celebrating the memories of those we’ve lost by

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