Savaughn asks fellow Lurkers:

Pretend you are a tourist and you're vacationing in Azeroth (the planet, not the continent). You have to pick your top 7 touristy sites to visit. They could be a city or place you want to visit, a monster you wish to see, a brilliant monument, etc.  What's your top 7 "must see" sites in WoW?

Find out what other Lurkers think the Seven Wonders of the WoW World should be in Savaughn's Lurker Lounge thread, and then post your own nominations!

A minor patch was issued today to fix a few bugs and terrain exploits.  Battlemasters were also supposed to be able to exchange old pre-1.8 patch resource crates for the newer battleground marks of honor.  However, an issue arose with that, so that feature will be added next week, according to Blizzard.  Here are the patch notes:

Battlegrounds

• Certain geometry exploits in Arathi Basin have been fixed.

Items

• The tooltip on the Lightforged Blade has been updated to correctly show its minimum level requirement of 47 and its Bind on Acquire status.

User Interface

• Fonts should once again display properly.
• Fixed bug preventing UI scripting error messages from wrapping.
• Fixed per-character saved variables for non-English character names.

Paladins will be getting their talent makeover in the 1.9 patch, according to Eyonix:

If Blizzard keeps to their recent trend, that means that paladins will go from grossly overpowered to obscenely overpowered, and all characters whose talents haven't been upgraded will be left in the dust.  So, the Horde will have to deal with this until they get their shaman buff some time in the future, which they will, according to Eyonix:

I'm not sure what you're quoting specifically, but Shaman talents aren't considered to be in a state least demanding of our attention, and more than likely won't come last on our review schedule. While improvements we make to their talents would certainly create the "OMG BLIZZ BUFFED SHAMAN!!!!111" threads, there are in-fact a number of areas concerning their talents which are in need of improvement, primarily those which would benefit the PvE aspect of the game.

Having a level 60 Shaman myself that focuses on high end raids, I can attest that a number of talents are lacking. In our efforts to make available to each of the nine classes - multiple viable talent options to choose from, we will be addressing Shaman talents some point in the near future, despite any misconception that they aren't in need of improvement.

And that begs the question, "So which class will be last?"  My money's on Warlocks, since they're always last

As spotted by oldmandennis, Tigole has posted a preview of the raid dungeons that will be included in the 1.9 patch:

We're busy working on Patch 1.9. Patch 1.9 is going to be one of our biggest content updates to date featuring not one, but two raid zones. The Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj (20 person raid zone) will be on par with Zul'Gurub in difficulty, perhaps slightly harder (but not by much). The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (40 person raid zone) is absolutely massive, and will be around the same difficulty level of Blackwing Lair. Some of the earlier monsters in the 40 person area might be slightly easier than BWL but as guilds progress to the end, they'll find a zone on par with BWL.

Check out oldmandennis's Lurker Lounge thread to find out what fellow lurkers think of the upcoming changes.

New content is coming fast and furious now (after a very slow start I might add).  The 1.7 patch has barely been released and the 1.8 patch is already up on the test realms.  See Mirajj's Lurker Lounge thread to read the patch notes and see what fellow Lurkers think of the upcoming changes.

Deep inside Zul'Gurub, one finds a most unlikely thing -- a high level fishing quest!  Read up on the adventures of Neriad as she and her group complete this "extreme angl'n" event!