Congratulations to GC of the Month for the month of March…..

DISH..

Dish wins his choice of an item from the guild bank or 100G.

Grats Dish

Check out MMO Insider for some laughs. It’s like “The Onion” for MMOs. Fake news is great.

Excerpt:

High Hopes for “CHiP’s” MMO
Ponch & John are back, in a new MMO adventure.

SOE announces plans to release an MMO based on the hit television show “CHiPs” this Fall to celebrate its upcoming 30th anniversary.

As seen on wow’s main page posted on the 12th of April.

Yeah I’m behind a teensy bit but I thought this needed to be reposted here for STNY usage.

In keeping with Blizzard’s aggressive stance against cheating in World of Warcraft, we have since patch 1.10 banned over 5,400 accounts and suspended 10,700 more for participating in activities that violate the game’s Terms of Use, including using third-party programs to farm gold and items. Such actions can severely impact the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players.
We will continue to aggressively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the harmful effects of cheating. Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in a permanent ban of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.

Many account closures come as the direct result of tips reported to our GMs in game or emailed to hacks@blizzard.com by legitimate World of Warcraft players. If you suspect that a World of Warcraft player is using an illegal third-party program to farm gold or items, or is otherwise violating our Terms of Use, please report the suspected infraction via one of the means listed above. All reports will be investigated, and those that prove false will not result in corrective action.

Thank you for your continued support, and good luck with your adventures in Azeroth!

-Blizzard Entertainment

It’s about damn time, but 16,000 banned or suspended accounts is just a drop in the bucket. Ah well. At least they are trying, right? Guess this just goes to show you that if you think that you are doing something shady don’t do it.

Miniosftball found this on her friend’s xanga.
Found it funny
Enjoy ^^

Eighteen STNY’ers in the top 1,000 this week. That’s four warlocks, four mages, four rogues, two druids, two hunters, one warrior, and one priest. Paladins are SLACKERS pew! pew! pew!

The Vael guide is now posted in the raid forum, EVERYONE please read it!

Since we have been having some newer players joining STNY lately I have started writing and posting the starts that we use as STNY for BWL boss fights. EVERYONE please check them over just to make sure you are on the same page, and new players study them hard. Razore is up in the raid forums! More to follow.

Congrats to the winners of the estrat race: Group 4! Serpa, Cata, Mendron, Heel, and Exarkuun grats on your 100g!

Also congrats to Group 1 for winning the holy water bonus pack! Sanctin, Invasion, Sthric, Dracosta, and Alkuran grats on your 50G!

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– World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.10.1
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Druids
– Nature’s Grace will now correctly trigger after every spell critical
strike.
– Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented the Omen of Clarity talent
from casting.

Paladins
– Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented the Seal of Command talent
from casting.

Warriors
– Fixed a bug where the Deep Wounds talent did not trigger “on next
melee” attacks when the player had initial aggro.

Items
– Thick Obsidian Breastplate: The effect from this item will now
properly trigger from the Warlock “Death Coil” spell.
– Jagged Obsidian Shield is now Bind on Equip.

Professions
– Blacksmithing: Titanic Leggings Pattern will now drop slightly less
frequently.

User Interface
– Fixed a bug that crashed the client when players in Moonkin,
Noggenfogger, Gordok Ogre Suit, Hallow’s End form/costume attempted
to create a guild tabard.
– Fixed a bug that could crash the client when switching between
windowed and full screen mode, involving third-party UI using DXT
textures in .BLP files.
– Fixed a bug that caused an increase in UI Addon memory usage. Memory
usage has been reduced to previous levels.
– Fixed a bug that could potentially crash the client when certain
friend list notifications were received.
– In Simple Chat mode, the chat window and combat log should now again
be in alignment.
– Fixed a bug that caused the combat log window to interfere with side
action bars when opening large windows.
– The raid window will now properly come into focus on top of the raid
group pullout.
– The rest bonus indicator will now properly appear when a faction is
shown on the experience bar.
– Fixed a bug that was causing an error message to appear when opening
the Alterac Valley battle map.
– Food, drink, and mount icons placed on action bars are now properly
grayed out when the player is in combat.

World Environment
– The Prophet Skeram is now properly affected by “Curse of Tongues”
and “Mind-Numbing Poison.”
– Fixed a bug that occasionally permitted players to mount in indoor
areas.
– Fixed a bug that did not properly discount subsequent legs on
chained flight paths according to reputation level.

Bug Fixes
– Fixed a bug that could potentially crash the client during a login
attempt if the available realm list changed around the same time.
– Fixed a bug that could potentially crash the client when certain
combinations of models and lighting were in effect.

This tuesday we will be having an estrat race in similar fashion to the scholo race we had! Winning team gets 100g from the guild bank. Invites start @ 7:30 with the even beggining at 8:00. Random teams, may the best warlock win!