I don't know about you, but I'm tired of crashing every time I mouse over the Pumpkin Shrine during the Headless Horseman event. One workaround that seems to have worked is the following.

• When you enter the dungeon, issue the following script command in your chat window:

  /script GameTooltip.Temphide = function() GameTooltip:Hide() end; GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Temphide);

  This will disable tooltips.

• Once you've finished the encounter, you can turn tooltips back on with the following:

  /script GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Show);

Here's the blue post on the problem in the enormous Headless Horseman thread.

Until recently, I was one of the people suffering from disappearing enemy nameplates in World of Warcraft since the 4.0.1 patch. Fortunately, I was able to find a fix. Copy and paste the following commands in your chat window:

/console bloattest 1
/console spreadnameplates 0
/console bloatnameplates 1
/console bloatthreat 1

You can find more info on the WoW forums.

One of my little side hobbies in World of Warcraft is collecting vanity pets. These are the little companions that run around behind you and offer absolutely no value to you other than their looks. Any pet collector knows that the definitive guide on minipets is Brianni's WarcraftPets.com.

Brianni (AKA Brian Brolin) has added an excellent pet collection tracker to the site. The tracker allows you to see what pets you have and which you still need. Additionally, the collection tracker can be updated by plugins, saving you the tedium of updating the site each time you get a new pet, or more importantly, the first time you start using the site.

If you're curious, check out my collection.

There I stand in the murky waters of Orgrimmar having just fished up Old Crafty. I've got the rascally little devil in my off-hand.

And yes, that's my pet chicken swimming under water.

It took me two sessions to fish up Old Crafty. In total, I caught 132 fish before earning the achievement. The drop rate is supposed to be much lower than that, so I'm assuming I got really, really lucky.

The other day, the Dungeon Finder was kind enough to pair me up with an "interesting character." This level 61 death knight had queued as a tank. He was fully specced into unholy which isn't an impossible tanking spec, but unholy tanking seems to be the least popular option. Unfortunately, this "tank" had none of the 5/5/5 talents considered required for DK tanking.

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