The best of WoW.com: May 2009

May saw a huge influx of players to Ulduar, the end of the revamped Noblegarden holiday, Children’s Week, a paladin blogger named Ferarro, BlizzCon ticket queues (which, while packed to the scuppers, were nowhere near the nightmare they’d been in 2008), and the start of news concerning patch 3.2 and new druid forms (!).

Disappointment with the patch 3.1 game world: A lot of our staffers pointed to Alex‘s article as a good pinpoint on why patch 3.1 didn’t feel like it was really moving the expansion forward.

Children’s Week ruins battlegrounds: I hated School of Hard Knocks because I thought it was a poorly-designed achievement spurring irresponsible play. Zach hated it because it’s also guaranteed to wreck battlegrounds for the length of the holiday.

Noblegarden: Sexy or Sexist?: Women are still vastly outnumbered by men in the MMO market, and Robin wonders whether this achievement going live was the right call.

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