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Dear Spugnort's World User,

Spugnort's World is celebrating its 1 year anniversary of our first guide sales this week. We would like to take a moment to thank all of our customers and supporters. We would also like to send out a special thanks to Brian Kopp and Joana, they are the original members of the network and without them Spugnort's World would not exist. We would also like to extend our thanks to all of our current members by offering a limited time 15% discount (see details below), without you Spugnort's World would not be what it is today!

This week a lot of class changes were reverted after Blizzard did not feel they gave the game the change they were hoping for. Also most of this week the raid instance Sunwell Plateau has been disabled on the PTR, meaning no raid testing has been going on at all. However, Blizzard launched the TTR and commenced a massive PvP testing for it this weekend on Sunday.

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• Blizzard Launches the TTR - The TTR refers to the Tournament Test Realm, and this will be used to perform the upcoming Arena Tournaments. Blizzard called on the entire WoW population to enter the TTR on Sunday to load test the servers, and join in a massive gathering of Hardcore PvP players and Blizzard Employees. This event was a ton of fun, as Blizzard GM's spawned NPC's such as Ragnaros and Nerfarion as pets! They also competed against other teams in the arenas, it was an all around good time for all those who participated.
• Epic Gems for Badges - All epic gems that previously only dropped in Black Temple and Mount Hyjal will now be able to be purchased for 15 Badges of Justice. This will help relieve the strain on raiding guilds for Red Gems, and also give access to more casual players.
• Season 3 Rating Requirements - Originally the rating requirements would be removed once season 4 began, but now they will only be lowered. Blizzard didn't feel having access to items with a 1300 or 1400 personal rating was the proper way to handle these still very high quality items. This will help maintain the prestige of these items going into the new season, but expect them to be eventually removed before Wrath of the Lich King is released.
• Inscription Preview - Something was scraped from game files this week that may be a preview of the inscription profession in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. The item found is, "Demonic Runes - Permanently enchants your Fireball spells to inflict up to 50 additional Fire damage. Spells can only have one inscription.
• Jewelcrafting: Brilliant Glass - This new spell will allow Jewelcrafters to create Brilliant Glass from 3 of each of the Green Quality Gems. The Brilliant Glass will contain a random Blue Quality Gem. This should help with the current state of Blue Gem prices on a lot of servers, especially since I know I have about 50 green gems of each kind in my bank!
• Shaman Mortal Strike Effect Reverted - Last week Blizzard gave the Shaman's Flametongue Weapon and Totem a mortal strike effect, but then only two days later they reverted the changes.
• Warlock Life Tap Nerf Removed - Blizzard also reverted the changes made to Life Tap making it a percentage of maximum health and mana. The current state of life tap will remain for now.
• Druid Lifebloom Nerfed, Regrowth "Buffed" - The final Healing coefficient of Lifebloom as been reduced by 20%. This will be a significant change to druids in arena action. However, the mana cost of regrowth has been reduced by 20%, making it a more viable option for arena action.
• % Based Haste Spells - No longer will any percentage based haste spells stack. The only ones that will continue to stack are self buffs such as blade flurry with slice and dice. However, a Mage's Icy Veins will not stack with the Priest's new Power Infusion, for example. This change is due to Haste effects decreasing the GCD for caster classes.

*15% Discount on Guides and Merchandise*

We are currently celebrating our one year anniversary here, at Spugnort's World, for our first guide sales. In honor of this event we would like to extend a 15% discount on all of our guides and merchandise to our currrent network customers and subscribers as a thank you for making Spugnort's World able to offer all the best Game Guides on the Market. A sample of the items you can purchase with this discount:

Promotion Code: adp34e

To redeem your coupon simply follow any of the links of above and place all the items you would like to purchase in your cart. Be sure to use the account associated with this email address as this promotion is only available to existing members. When you reach the checkout page you will see the promotion code field. Type in your promotion code and click "Apply Promotion", this will apply the 15% discount to your entire order!

*Discounts are only applicable to new orders.

Spugnort's World is proud to announce these latest product updates and additions:

• Spugnort's Gold Making Guide - The Gold Guide just keeps getting better. Additions have already been made to help with Gold Making while leveling, now even more content is being added. First we restructured the layout in order to make it much easier to find exactly what you are looking for within the guide. We have also gone back and reviewed our primal and reputation farming locations, revised and optimized them so players will now see even further gains in their Gold Per Hour and the amount of Materials they gather. All of the profession gold making sections have been edited and revised also, many new ideas and strategies have been added to help you make even more gold with your chosen profession. Also miscellaneous strategies covering seasonal events, server downtime, patch releases, and even your server progression also show you how to make more gold. More additions are upcoming, get your copy today in order to make sure you get the new information immediately!

Products which have been updated for patch 2.3:

• Gregor's Amazing Professions Guide
• Spugnort's Reputation and Keying Guide
• *Continued Expansion* - Spugnort's Gold Making Guide
• *Recently Updated* - Penn's Ultimate Professions Guide
• Spugnort's PvP Guide
• Penn's Alliance Leveling Guide
• Valkor's Gold Making Guide
• Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide
• Brian Kopp's 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide
• Zygor's 1-70 Horde and Alliance Leveling Guides

We want to know what YOU think about our network guides!

Spugnort's World has opened up forums for the discussion of the network guides, and general World of Warcraft Gameplay. We encourage all of our network members to please visit the forums for the guide(s) you have purchased, and those of you who are thinking about purchasing and looking to receive more information can find much of the latest information here. This is a great place to voice ideas you would like to see implemented into your current guide, or make recommendations to other players about guides you have already purchased.

Many of the changes the Spugnort's World Guides are currently undergoing have come directly from these forums, and as we wrap up this round of expansions and updates we are looking for our next project, so let us know what you would like to see implemented!

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The Spugnort's World Gaming Network is always looking for the next big online guide. If you are interested in producing an online strategy guide and need a place to have it hosted and someone to resell it for you, contact us. Please note that only guides of the highest quality are accepted for hosting on our network. We strive to provide the very best in strategy guides to players looking to gain an edge or improve their game play experience.

Keep in mind that while being a guide author can be quite lucrative, it is nearly a full time job. You need to be dedicated to your product and willing to spend the time necessary to keep it up to date with the latest changes or strategies for your game of choice.

Spugnort's World is interested in expanding our market place to include guides and services for other games. If you are a guide author for one of the many online games (particularly MMO's), we are interested in hearing from you.

We DO NOT and never will promote or endorse guides related to exploits, cheats (other than those officially added by the game publisher), or other activities which are prohibited by a game publisher's End User License Agreement (EULA).

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