Time once again for Warcraft Wednesday, a weekly recounting of what I’ve found interesting in the World of Warcraft this past week.

• I’ve actually been playing the game more lately — as you may have heard (both here and on Tipoaa), I have come up with a goal to works towards in the game, and that’s got me going. I’m going to become a Guardian of Cenarius, which will require me to grind out two reputations. I’m more than halfway through Revered on Cenarion Circle after just a few days of grinding on Encrypted Twilight Texts, and I am pretty sure that I won’t have too big a problem with Cenarion Expedition rep either (though I haven’t really researched it fully yet — I seem to recall it requires running Steam Vaults a lot, which is something I’ve already done quite a bit of). This title will be a big achievement for me, though — this character, my Hunter, has always been on Cenarius even when I’ve played other servers, so to have it pick up the Guardian of Cenarius title is pretty meaningful. Should be fun.
• After that, I don’t know what I’ll do, but I did notice while playing this week that I’d somehow picked up enough money to get epic flying for my Pally, so I bought that last night. He’s riding around on a regular Flying Machine right now, but I brought up Engineering specifically so he could make both the epic flying machine and the motorcycle, so I’ll probably have him do both of those. By then, Cataclysm will have likely reared its ugly head in some way. If that doesn’t get me interested in the game, maybe then I’ll finally call it quits.
• Speaking of calling it quits, Brigwyn has. And even though he’s happy about it, it’s just another closing. Sure, there are new folks coming up in the community, and people are still blogging about the game, but I think it’s safe to say that World of Warcraft has officially peaked. There’s still a chance that Cataclysm brings back a big audience, but I really, really doubt that anything else with the name “World of Warcraft” on it will entice as many people as it has in the past — even if the Cataclysm content is the best they’ve ever done, there are some people who won’t even bother just because they’re done with the game. We’ll see — I could eat my words on that if Blizzard puts out a press release boasting 12 million players a month after Cataclysm, and I have no doubt that the expansion will top PC sales charts, but I think we’ve entered the late afternoon of this current day in Azeroth.
• I will admit I was wrong about something else: looks like a brand new company is taking over the WoW TCG. I did say a little while back that I didn’t think Blizzard would pursue anything new with the TCG, but of course I didn’t know there was going to be a TCG company run by ex-Blizzard guys. We’ll have to see how that works out — they do say that everything that’s currently in print is coming back out, but what’s more interesting will be to see what kinds of changes they make. I assume that whatever Cryptozoic does going forward will be exactly what Blizzard wished Upper Deck had done from the beginning. On a unrelated note, Blizzard Entertainment’s logo looks almost exactly like Cryptozoic Entertainment’s logo. Just saying.
• Haiku is overdone on the Internet these days, but I really liked these Hunter Pet Haiku.
• I agree — changing out these tokens was (and will be — I have other characters to do it on) a pain. Blizzard should have done it automatically — “We’ve exchanged your tokens for X honor” or whatever the actual exchange rate is.
• This is interesting. I keep hearing about people who are playing the AH like crazy lately, but every time I sit down to do it, I just lose interest. It’s not that it’s hard — all you have to do is foresee which items will or are doing well, and then make sure you’re on top of that market. But I just can’t get into it for some reason. Maybe I’m just not that into numbers. I’d almost rather go out into the world and get some really pricey ore to sell rather than sit on the AH and track prices for the same amount of time.
• Finally THIS IS ADORABLE.

That’s it for now. Off to grind some rep. And actually, I just realized that I haven’t gotten my Pug yet. I thought I’d run enough instances, too… Hmmm.