We start the day off with a wonderful find by NiteFox over on the Lounge forums. Seems a warlock over on Aman'thul tries to scam the GM's. It takes a bit of time, but the Blizzard response (About halfway down the first page) is utterly wonderful, and full of "own". Folks often don't remember it, but Blizz can see what you are doing in their game, all the time. If you are thinking about not acting in a manner that's acceptable, you don't "get away with it"...it can catch up to you months down the road.

For the curious, it seems that Illidian was not prepared, and Kel'Thuzad emerges the winner of WoWInsider's Two Bosses Enter contest.

It looks like some info about the Brutal Gladiator's Gear (Arena Season 4) has been sussed out via clever use of the Armory. What's left some folks choking is the steep Personal Rating requirement on the epeen parts of this gear. Some are for it, some are against it, and if it goes live, it'll be a lot harder to get, for sure.

Scott Andrews continues his series on making Raiding work with a Casual guild. It is again a very good read, and what I have seen to be one of the hardest parts of raiding in general. Getting folks to buy in, and be ready for when they do go. .  Lots of good suggestions and ideas in here, but the main problem still comes down to getting everyone ready and in there. 

Mike Schramm has an interesting breakfast topic, what are your favorite/least favorite mobs to grind? Having been one of the few on my server to complete the Winterspring FrostSaber quest before it got ruined, I'd have to say that qualifies as both for me. The reward, an armorless epic frostsaber was everything I thought it'd be, and it's still one of my most 'prized' WoW 'possessions'. However, The grind to get it was horrible, made worse by the fact that a lot of the time, I was competing for the needed kills against either a terrible drop rate, or one to three gold farmers.

After a couple false alarms by the Burning Legion and Area 52 servers, it seems that Proudmoore continues to lead the way in the Shattered Sun Offensive, being the first server to actually reach Phase 4. My server has come along nicely, and gotten the badge vendor up. Expensive gear, but she's been kept quite busy. As well, Premonition on the Alleria server is credited with the First US Kill of the Eredar Twins.

On a topic designed to create discussion, it's asked How Expensive is your DPS? As in, are you cheap dps to mainain, or does it cost you a pretty penny to do the damage you do. Of course the debate rages across all sorts of boundaries. Do consumables count or not? Are repairs part of your dps? Do you get heals? Is the need for heals considered an expense at your dps? Interesting topic, I found.