While World of Warcraft's Public Test Realms (PTR) have taken the backseat in favor of the Wrath of the Lich King beta, it doesn't mean Blizzard has totally ignored the test server altogether. The European servers have recently been wiped to make room for the new 3.0 build of the PTR, according to Blizzard poster Tigole. More details after the jump.

Logged into Blizzard's World of Warcraft lately? You may have noticed that leveling characters in the 60 to 70 range has been made easier. Quite a number of gamers have been asking if this is going to be a permanent change, a question, which Jeffery "Tigole" Kaplan was more than willing to answer. To find out what he had to say, head on over to the full article.

Perhaps you've been wondering as to why the people in Blizzard wait for major patches in order for them to tinker with the bugs, alignments, and even balances in World of Warcraft.

This was also a concern of Sttheresa from the Spinebreaker realm in her post. Find out Tigole's detailed response after the jump.

Well, the floodgates have opened and updates for World of Warcraft's Patch 2.4 just keep on coming. Here's another batch of updates, including changes to the Hunter, Paladin, and Druid classes, the removal of the Essence of Immortals quest chain, and more. Read up on the updates in the full article.

If you're not a big fan of those temporary stopgaps we call attunements, then we have some news for you. A post by Tigole over on the World of Warcraft forums has announced that the Essence of Immortals quest to open up the Sunwell Plateau raid has been removed. More on the repercussions of this after the jump!

We've got another update about the current build on the World of Warcraft's Public Test Realm. Testing on the upcoming patch (2.4) is still ongoing and as you can probably tell, most of the testing revolves around the fine tuning of bosses. Check out the full article for more info.

Here's some good news for Black Temple and Zul'Aman raiders out there in World of Warcraft. Tigole has announced a hotfix for Nalorakk and Mother Shahraz that should keep them from hasting after a successful parry.

More on this news after the jump!

If you've been spending time on the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm (PTR) you may have realized that the pitlord Brutallus is too strong. For those who haven't gone up against this raid boss, the problem seems to come from the Burn skill which ticks at about 4,000 damage per second. Well, you may want to know that this will be fixed in the next PTR push. Check out the full article for more details.

Tigole dropped by the World of Warcraft Test Realm Forums to give this head's up: The Sunwell raid will be disabled until the next PTR patch. The Blizzard poster also gave updates on how testing is going on the raid's bosses. Check out the full article for more details.

One of the most annoying things in any MMORPG is having a player block your view of an NPC that you're trying to click on. With the battlemaster blocking going on in World of Warcraft, a curious Blizzard forum member by the name of Mythomania decided to clarify the issue of sitting on top of a battlemaster... and got an interesting set of responses as a result.

Find out more about how the issue "sits" with both Blizzard and other WoW players after the jump.