Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky be your host today. Patrick Stewart doesn’t look good in glasses. Many of you asked… “How am I going to do the Kalu’ak Fishing Derby when I raid at 8pm on Wednesday night?” Unfortunately unless your raid cancels or you sit, you’re not going to be able to do it. Yes, it’s not the ideal situation for you. But think of the people who are never able make Sunday’s fishing contest down in Booty Bay; hopefully Wednesday night will work for them. Either way, both events are optional, and having two events means people have greater choices. The selection of 8pm on Wednesday wasn’t a slight on you, it was to help others out. Remember that around 12 million people play the game, only a handful of those raiding every week at 8pm on Wednesday (even if that handful is loud and proud). Zetathran asked… “In battlegrounds I see a (*) after people’s name/guild name. What’s up with that?” You see that when you’re in a battleground, arena, or the soon-to-come cross server instances. It means you’re

I have a confession to make. Most of the time, whenever I do a post here reminding you that our podcast is going to go live this afternoon and that you should tune in and check it out, I usually say something like, “it’s sure to be a really great time.” But here’s the thing: I’m only guessing. Sure, when you have guests like our bloggers, and you have the T, almost anyone would put money on it being a good time. But here’s the thing: today on the podcast, we’re going to have a really good time. I guarantee it, all your money back. So please tune in and say hello. We’ll start at 3:30pm Eastern over on our Ustream page (or even better, just head after the break on this post for an embedded feed). Alex Ziebart will be on board, as well as new blogger Gregg Reece, and along with Turpster and I, they’ll be talking about Hallow’s End and how it’s going, the new LFG system on the PTR, and the developer chat that Blizzard held earlier this week. Plus we’ll answer your email and all of the other shenanigans that we usually do. Trust me on this one: it’s sure to be a really great time.

World of Raids has unveiled an extremely spoiler-filled video of the first quest to obtain the legendary axe, Shadowmourne. The quest, called The Sacred and the Corrupt, is active on the PTR but cannot be completed as it requires items obtained from Icecrown Citadel. The sweet-looking axe (shown above as data-mined by MMO Champion) is an upgrade from an identical but less spooky and icy-glowy epic axe called Shadow’s Edge. The six minute video is pretty cool and epic, with the setting eerily reminiscent for players who played the Human campaign in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne The Reign of Chaos (thanks, Skeeran! Shame on me!). Nothing much to say, really, other than hit the jump to see the video. Oh, and in case I haven’t made it clear… it’s kind of spoiler-ish.

Our podcast is back on the air today at 3:30pm over on Ustream, and it’s gonna be a hum dinger, as the old folks used to say. We’ll welcome Matthew “Matticus” Low on with us, so we’ll definitely be talking some healing, and The T will be back on with us after his absence last week. Should be a great time — we’ll be chatting about the most popular stories in the World of Warcraft, including (but not limited to) the latest PTR build, the Battle.net changeover, and how, probably soon, you’ll be able to send items back and forth between factions. Plus we’ll answer your emails as usual, since that’s always a good time. Be sure to tune in and join us — the show goes live at 3:30pm Eastern today, and you can listen on our Ustream page, via the Ustream iPhone app, or on the embedded stream below. You can also tune in a little early (like 20 minutes) if you want to hear us chatting during the preshow while we set everything up, or stay a little later to join us during the aftershow, where we turn off the recording and just chat live directly with the chat-room. It’ll definitely be a lot of fun, so if you’re around and available, tune in! See you there.

So. Big news guys: The Three Worgen Moon Shirt is here. Seriously. The Shirt that will change your life, I kid you not. I ordered mine, and I have already sensed the presence of beautiful women gravitating toward the aura of self-assurance and wildness created around me by the very decision made to purchase the shirt. Nah, but seriously. There’s been stuff going on this weekend. Mostly, Patch 3.3’s been going on, and we’ve had crack teams poring over the data files and running through the dungeons getting all the latest for you. For example, here’s some video footage of some of the team running The Pit of Saron. Also, you’re going to need to convert your account to Battle.net pretty soon now. There’s much more to peruse of course, so let’s get to it. Here’s a list of some of our best news and features from the past few days. Hot News and Features The Patch 3.3 PTR got an updated build. We have the updated patch notes. Blizzard’s released a preview of the Patch 3.3 Icecrown raid. Emblems of Triumph will be the new base emblems for Patch 3.3. Run a few heroics, deck yourself out in tier 9! Blizzard’s testing haste for HoT and DoT ticks on the PTR in the form of

I don’t care for a lot of music that was made in the last decade. The Killers are something of a breather for me. They’re one of those bands I’m glad exist. When I’m forced to listen to a terrible radio station, and hear change your mind sandwiched in between auto-tuned, unoriginal dross – I’m satisfied there is still music being made that can intrigue. (Brandon Flowers has some epic bard tier 10 shoulders there too) This is part two of part two of a three part article. Confusing? Join the fun! Surprising Patch 3.3 timing, i.e. wrenches in cogs, is a blast! In our first installment, we covered pillars changing shape in great detail, and also mentioned a few other tweaks. Our second article dealt with five classes — paladin, priest, rogue, shaman, and warrior. Warlocks were left out of the 3.2.2 patch notes. This article is going to talk about the other four classes – death knight, druid, hunter, and mage. Being “TheArenaGuy” here at WoW.com lends to forcing myself to a very balanced perspective on classes. It makes me feel guilty if I understand armor penetration less than spell penetration. Well, actually, it doesn’t because ArP is confusing. The main thing