Have you noticed the new Blizzard animation? I never did on the PTR, but that could be because I never used Blizzard much on the PTR. Several of you guys pointed it out in the comments section last week about WoW Account, and I had to run out and take a peek at it. It is pretty cool. Turn your spell effect setting up to maximum and check it out. Even if you are not a Frost Mage, and your Blizzard spell hits with all the efficacy of a little girl throwing unpacked snow, you have to admit this new animation is pretty cool. I guess Blizzard (the company) feels like it behooves them to make the spell that bears their name look impressive. I feel compelled to concur.

Yesterday morning, I awoke to an email. As with all of your comments, I get each one in email form and tend to check them in that format first. When a column is first posted, I receive a deluge of them about WoW Account. As time passes, and the column slips from page one of the website to page two and beyond, those comments slow to a trickle. Tuesdays guide to Mage class changes for 3.2 (in which I unveiled the musical masterpiece that is and always be known as "Living Bomb is Castable on Multiple Targets Now...Yay!") is well entrenched within that trickle phase, but it still garners an occasional comment about WoW Account. This morning, a reader who goes by "purduemeb" left one more.   

I was immediately afraid, clutched by a cold terror that fastened its black fingers around the part of my heart that I reserve for my Mage. I ran to the official forums to see what purduemeb was talking about, and found this about WoW Account. Living Bomb had been hotfixed on the 6th, and since I hadnt been online since patch day, this was the first I was hearing of it.