Your mountable shark will give you the breathing buff as long as you’re on it. Druids get an epic seal form… Engineers get a submarine, oi.

Blizzard will annouce that they will be making a WoW movie. It will be a digital cartoon. Blizzard will have a contest open only to players. They can submit there picture and if choosen their likeness will make it to the big screen. Missmedic and lil her lil one will be choosen to be a mother/daughter priest family. And her older daughter will be chosen to be a human female teenage warrior. The country is moved by their character storylines they will make a mini DVD series featuring only these characters. Possible stories about the rift in the family as lil one wants to follow the way of the Shadow priest to the dismay of her Disc family and the young warrior trying to prove she is a worthy warrior in a manly dominated class. ^.^

I don’t see the problem with dual specs and action bars. A player could create a scroll bar for each spec and scroll out to the right bar. Re-specs may mean one full bar of new abilities/macros at most – should not be an issue….not sure about glyphs though. All in all I predict a very dull 09 for WoW

Machanima – Blind: That was an epic movie. I’m not a big fan of machanima, but that was like watching a Tekken trailer. Really good stuff.

Dual Specs. These can’t come fast enough – but I’m still unsure how much of a hassle its going to be to go between specs quickly. Especially when usually a custom UI. Also, when they do come out, my druid is considering going resto and… resto? A spec for raid healing and a spec for big single target heals? I think we need resto druid talent discussion soon.

3.1 Content – Cleared in less than 2 weeks. I don’t expect the gear jump to be too harsh so gearing shouldnt be a problem. The truly organized and well prepared guilds will simply stroll through anything that is released. Gated content will probably be reserved for Arthas. However, if by “content” you mean all content including those special bonuses like OS/3, then that might take a little bit longer. We tried to do OS/3 last night with a few new members and it was impossible. There is so much going on and the fight starts off with such intensity that people who havent been through the wipes just cant handle it. As a healer staring at your UI is one of the worst things you can do in this fight. Lava walls, void zones, dragon breath, tail swipes, mob adds, huge damage bursts. Even if a group knows that it can’t clear OS/3 its definitely worth a try just to experience it. It’s really the best raid out there right now IMO. And all that action really takes a toll on a PC. We had several people complaining of 10fps or less. Some people actually wound up going out to a LAN center just for the raid.

Sorry this comment wound up being a mini-blog entry. That OS/3 fight just gets me so ramped up.

I sure hope so. I believe its only a matter of time really. Maybe not until a Maelstrom expansion which will put more emphasis on traveling from island to island. Who knows. Maybe they’ll make them sooner.
I can hear the QQ now about new Engineering swimming mount. =O