Monsterbaby of Vashj used the oft-maligned starting zone, The Barrens, as the backdrop for a video tribute to The Lion King, starring Tauren druids in catform as Simba and Mufasa. Great music, creative choreography, and an interesting use of the Gnomish Shrink Ray make this a film worth sharing.
Hortus: Malorne and Nordrassil Helm Graphics
Blue, Items and Equipment 
Comments Off Wearers of the Tier 5 helm (or those planning to get the helm from the Season 2 arena set) will be happy to know that there are plans to allow avatar hair to show when wearing this item. Temis of Lightninghoof posted on the Test Realm Forums inquiring about the possibility for both the Malorne helms and Nordrassil headpieces and — surpringly enough — Blizzard QA Hortus responded:
The Nordrassil helms will be fixed in a future patch.
After trying it both ways It was decided by the designers that the Malorne Helms looked best without hair.
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Nordrassil
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Malorne
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Malorne
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Edit: It’s being reported on the PTR that the Malorne helms are showing hair, so it’s possible that both may be changed after all when the patch goes live.
Hortus: Lifebloom Cannot Trigger Nature’s Grace
Blue, Spells and Talents
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The patch notes from Patch 2.1 stated that the Balance talent, Nature’s Grace could be triggered by critical hits from Swiftmend and the bloom component of Lifebloom (as well as triggering from casts of Cyclone). When the patch went live, however, players noted that Nature’s Grace was still not triggering from Lifebloom crits. This was generally considered a bug, but yesterday Blizzard QA Hortus stated that Lifebloom cannot trigger Nature’s Grace due to a limitation of the spell system:
Lifebloom can not proc Natures grace, this is a current limitation of the spell system.
There was a mistake in the 2.1.1 patch notes that included Lifebloom when it should not have.
Forum Watch: Mookysolo’s Resto PvP Guide
Community, PvP
Comments Off Mookysolo of Ner’zhul posted an extensive guide to PvPing as a Restoration-specced druid (Resto4Death?) on the official forums. He addresses several different aspects, including:
Decked out in Mooky’s Best
The guide focuses primarily upon gear recommendations, although it looks like he’s setting up to respond to individual questions in his F.A.Q. section. Definitely worth a look.
Patch 2.12 will include the start of Arena Season 2. Along with reduced costs for the currently available Arena armor sets, new class armor sets will be made available at the old costs. Just as the Season 1 set was modelled after Tier 4 armor, the Season 2 set is modelled after Tier 5 (sans kilt) with new textures decidedly less “sunny” than their PvE counterparts:
Image courtesy of MMO-Champion.com
Set bonuses for Season 2 will remain the same with the 2-piece set bonus for all three druid sets being +35 Resilience. The 4-piece set bonuses are:
