Alliance To Northrend & Problem   For Alliance to get to Northrend you need to go to Stormwind, look on your map, see the new harbor area and go to it. I believe it is to the north.   Once to the new harbor area and as you enter into it, go to the right-most dock and to the end of it to board the ship to Northrend.   There is a bug. There is no ramp or platform. So, the best way I have found is to get down onto the lower pillar to the left. From there you can jump onto the boat when it comes.   If you do not get it right, and it takes a little practice, you will have to swim back to land, which is a distance, and start over, and by then the ship will be gone.   Getting off the ship is fine once in Northrend.  

 Tuesday Morning Post: The BlizzCon cometh Yeah, believe it or don’t, BlizzCon time is nearly upon us. This coming Friday and Saturday, we’ll be on the floor of BlizzCon itself, up close and personal with everyone and everything from the new non-computer WoW games to the cast of The Guild. I myself will be leaving on a jet plane early Thursday morning so I have plenty of time to get my ticket and hang out with some of you at the Lost Bar that night. While we wait for BlizzCon , there’s still plenty more news to report on Wrath of the Lich King and the World of Warcraft in general, and considering that WoW’s down for maintenance from 5 AM to 11 AM PDT today, you’ll have time to read it, right? You can start browsing using the links at right, or check out our roundup of the biggest and most interesting news from the past few days

 BlizzCon 2008: Fun in the badge pickup line   We’ve all got our badges for BlizzCon now — badge pickup was a little less chaotic than last year, if memory serves us correctly (though they really need to split up the “S” names — our line was longer by three times as much as any of the others). There were lots of people waiting outside right before they opened the convention center at 4pm, but once they opened up the doors, things moved quickly. We didn’t notice any recognizable Blizzard staff around, but we’ve heard rumblings from vendors that they’re setting up inside, and there’s certainly plenty of activity going on back there. None of the rest of the center is open until tomorrow, obviously, but we also grabbed some pictures of the art we could see posted inside. No, there aren’t any big exclusive

It was a heavy-handed way to disallow those without TBC to train Jewelcrafting, though I think it’d be fine now to spread them around. This. There is no “flag” currently to disallow training a profession because an account lacks an expansion. You can (could? Haven’t tried it since BC’s launch) get First Aid to 375 without an expansion. I was waiting by the Dark Portal for my copy to arrive, my friend went through, got the First Aid book, and ran out to give it to me. Most likely why they swapped First Aid back to a trainer for Wrath. The only thing keeping you from getting your profession higher or gaining a profession at all when you lack an expansion is the location of the trainers. The probable only reason they allowed Inscription Trainers in all major cities is because of the need of everyone using those books to activate glyphs

Two useful ideas, I just though up. One is for melee and the other for range/healers. They don’t provide any damaging effects, but have useage in both PVE and PVP. [Goblin Rocket Powered Belt Lasso] 1 min cooldown 5 to 20 yd frontal cone usage Shoots a rope lasso out to a target and yanks then to the user and [Gnomish Force Repulse-ation Belt Buckle] 1 min cooldown 10 yd frontal cone AoE Sends a pulse out in front of the user, sending any enemies flying (15 yd knockback)

At the end game, players do tend to respec frequently for raids, PvP, soloing… I know I shift between Resto and Balance on my druid quite frequently, depending on what is needed for my raid or if I want to solo without tearing my hair out (I’m primarily Resto). Having said that.. what percentage of the WoW population is affected like this? I’m not certain. I can definitely see this being a valid issue to bring up. It’s part of why many of us testing the profession would like to see another dimension added. Glyphs are an amazing addition to the game and being able to craft them is new and fun, but in the long term, the materials are easily attained and the turnover quite low. As it is, the profession is still in development so we may not know what the devs have in store for us in the future. For the moment though, it just feels like there is