A Blizzard employee that goes by the nickname Drysc posted some info about the upcoming Rogue talent and skill re-spec in World of Warcraft. He makes it clear that the changes aren't final and complete though. Changes, if made, will most likely be made after patch testing phases. He will keep everyone up to date with new information from the developers, so stay tuned for more.

Here's what he posted:

• The following talents have been removed: Improved Deadly Poison, Improved Distract, Throwing Weapon Specialization, Improved Vanish, and Rapid Concealment.
• Improved Instant Poison is now "Improved Poisons" and increases your chance to apply ALL poisons by 2/4/6/8/10%.
• Rapid Concealment has been merged with Camouflage, by combining these talents you not only get a great talent to start off the tree, but obviously it frees up a number of points to be spent elsewhere.
• Murder will now also apply to all finishing moves. The benefit this will provide to output and attack combinations is fairly straightforward.

Check out the Full Article for even more changes for the Rogues!

Before you spam the comments again, I know this isn't news; it's just a good laugh. Anyway, a guy (I assume it's a guy) that goes by the name of 'Artmonkey' made a World of Warcraft dub of the classic Who's on First? baseball comedy act by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Their act has been translated into a dozen of different languages and used to be in theaters all over the world.

Now Artmonkey is bringing it back to this generation using the oh so popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. I admit it's very easily done but it's a good laugh if you like comedy acts. Check it out below:

Wondering which North American university has the most World of Warcraft playing students? Well, MapWoW.com made a comparison list based on their site visits, showing the numbers. It turns out that the University of Washington is number one, followed up by the University of Michigan (2nd) and the Rochester Institute of Technology (3rd). According to MapWow the reason for that is because the University of Washington is very technology oriented, and is known for game development and other computer software.

Although the university who ranked second - the University of Michigan - isn't really like that, they got so many results simply because they're so big (same goes for several other universities).

Here's the top 10:

1. University of Washington
2. University of Michigan
3. Rochester Institute of Technology
4. Stanford University
5. University of Minnesota
6. Purdue University
7. Georgia Tech
8. University of California, Santa Cruz
9. The University of Texas
10. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The official North American World of Warcraft site states the following:

"In order to address an issue affecting realm stability, we have disabled pre-existing character transfers and templated characters on the public test realms. We have isolated the issue and we are currently working on a solution; however, until the matter is resolved character transfers will not be available."

As you can see there's a problem at Blizzard, and it's US specific because it doesn't say anything on the European or Asian websites. Too bad if you were planning on 'testing' the patch.

The upcoming patch, 1.11, will feature a new high level dungeon (Naxxramas), upgraded high-end armor sets, revised Shaman and mage talent trees and as always, more flight paths. This patch is rumored to be the last patch before the highly anticipated expansion; The Burning Crusade.

The demon race you might know from Warcraft III (Eredar) has been announced to be the new Alliance race under the name of Draenei in the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade. This has just been announced by Blizzard at E3 in Los Angeles.

A lot of rumors have been circulation for a while now about this new race, ranging from Pandaren (panda's) to rats and Murlocs. They started after Blizzard announced the Horde race for the expansion, the Blood Elves.

The huge screen at the Vivendi booth at E3 currently shows a trailer of the Draenei in full gear and action. In a press release Jeff Kaplan, lead designer of World of Warcraft, said: "Lots of players have wanted to play demons, and Draenei are the closest you can get to looking like an Eredar."

A new password-stealing Trojan is invading Azeroth. The Trojan carries the name PWS.Win32.WOW.x and steals player's passwords, and then uses them to transfer items from that players inventory around the game. These stolen goods are then sold for real cash online, where the trade in MMORPG goods is huge.

"Win32.WOW is a clear indication that malware writers are targeting anything that involves money," said MicroWorld chief executive Govind Rammurthy in a statement. "Bucks may be smaller compared to a Trojan that steals bank accounts or credit card numbers...[but] cyber criminals are not complaining as long as the target is soft and numbers are high."

The Trojan wreaks havok via traditional vectors, such as e-mail and peer-to-peer file sharing. It has also been sighted while it installs in a drive-by download from gaming sites' pop-up ads. More info about this as it develops, so for now, be wary.

Blizzard Entertainment today released a new patch upgrading World of Warcraft to 1.10.2. The patch fixes many minor bugs which includes the improvement of the Guild Recruitment channel functionality and some minor class ability changes for the Priest, Mage, Paladin, Warlock, Warrior and Rogue. Players should also no longer become dismounted while riding through certain areas of the Undercity. This was one of the annoying things about Undercity in my opinion.

View the full changelog after the jump!

In the latest issue of TIME Magazine Rob Pardo, Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment, made it into the Top 100 of "men and women whose power, talent, or moral example is transforming the world." Also on the list are the standard people like George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Matt Drudge and the like. Rob Pardo appeared in the Top 25 of the Artists & Entertainers section.

Not only is Rob Pardo Vice President of Blizzard, but he's also Lead Designer for the game we all know and love... World of Warcraft. TIME says "Pardo didn't invent this kind of game ... he merely perfected it." Fair enough (although it does get a bit boring at level 60).

That aside, Pardo apparently credited his team too: "generating from scratch history, geography, anthropology and ecology of a fully realized fantasy world spread over two continents." And yes, if the game gets any more popular (it will, trust me), "it may be up for a seat in the U.N."

How about 10 gold for everyone in Azeroth to celebrate this, eh?