Ever since Mike left WoW.com, the Guildwatch column was on a temporary hiatus.

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BlizzCon , BlizzCon, BlizzCon! That’s pretty much what August was all about — well, that and patch 3.2 .

The image above is a little tough to read, but you can probably get the gist: someone posts on the forums that secretly, he’s been taking things from the guild bank and selling them off on the AH to make money for himself. He posts on his alt, supposedly, but whoops: he leaves his forum signature up. And the very next post is someone from the guild saying he’s been caught red-handed, with a gkick imminent

The story here is all about sweet, sweet ego: Aliana had a sense of entitlement while raiding — she was angry that items she would really like to have were going to someone who could only do 4k as opposed to her 9k, thanks to a lousy so-called fair DKP system. We’d like to think Grator is a true Guildwatch fan: we just sit back, listen in, and make a delicious potion “out the QQ.” Lots more QQ potion in this week’s Guildwatch, along with the last downings before Icecrown and recruiting notices from around the realms. If you have something to send us (and please do — the coffers are running a little low, probably because guild business has slowed down pre-patch), throw us an email at guildwatch@wow.com .

Ok Blizzard. We give up. Patch 3.3 can come out now, please

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If there’s one thing you can take away from this week’s GW downings, it’s that most guilds are ready for Icecrown. We’re seeing lots and lots of guilds finishing off the Trial of the Crusader, and quite a few of them are even starting to nab the Tribute achievements. For endgame raiders, Icecrown can’t show up too soon

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There’s a distinct lack of crazy drama on the servers lately, and I think it’s not necessarily because the raids are easy (guilds are still hitting hardcore achievements as they should be), but just that there’s no guildbreaker raids out there right now. If you can beat ToC, you beat it, and if you can’t, you can go back and do Ulduar and heroics, gear yourself up, and move on. I will say this: it seems much easier for a guildleader to avoid drama and issues later in the expansion cycle, when gear is plentiful, rather than right away.

More and more guilds are becoming just like Zen , above — they’re downing Anub in Trial of the Crusader, and then wondering just what’s next? The answer, of course, is Icecrown, but even our best estimates have that release a month away still.

We mention a ninja of the Onyxia mount in this week’s Guildwatch , and while researching that, some other forum threads came up, including these two , both from General, where people say with conviction that given the chance, they’d take the Onyxia mount and never look back.

We mention a ninja of the Onyxia mount in this week’s Guildwatch , and while researching that, some other forum threads came up, including these two , both from General, where people say with conviction that given the chance, they’d take the Onyxia mount and never look back. They have a point — it’s one of the rarest random mounts in the game, on a raid that’s definitely PuG-able. Chances are low that you’ll ever see it, much less win it on a random roll, and so for a lot of people, it’d be worth the namechange and the server transfer you’d have to pay to escape your new ninja reputation.

Some stories of drama on the realms aren’t directly guild-related, but they’re just too good to pass up. The one above is just such a story — one of our tipsters was just flying around Azeroth one day when a conversation in General caught his eye. One unlucky Time-Lost Proto-drake seeker ran into his very own Griftah, and ended up with 425 less gold and a very “unusual” toy item

The new LFG system is certainly great, but there’s one problem with random PuGs that I’m sure it won’t fix, and that is of course the problem of ninjas .

We’ve seen quite a few guilds go back lately and take on Sarth 3D for the first time. Of course, it’s got to be much easier now with Ulduar-level gear wandering around, and ToC giving out gear and tokens relatively easily. But especially if your guild has the time, why not go grab an “Of the Nightfall” title for everyone?

Isn’t weird how, though they always promise there’s a lawsuit or a subpeona on the way, it never actually appears in the mail?

I like this post on the General forums about being “realm-famous” and how to get there. World of Warcraft has a gigantic community around it, but sometimes my favorite part of the game is that there are all sorts of little micro-communities in that big one. There’s the player base at large, and then groups of people who read WoW.com or other sites

Many whelps! Handle it! Oh wait, you did. In the Wake on Zul’jin (as you can see in the video above) was just one of the many guilds to take down Onyxia since she returned to the game in a more powerful form, and while obviously there wasn’t much new to this fight, most guilds give it a thumbs up: it was a little old-school raiding taste in a new-school difficulty level. Not that it’s too hard (c’mon, it’s Onyxia), but it’s nice to see the fight pretty faithfully recreated.

I live a good part of my life on the Internet — I work on the Internet, and throughout the years, I’ve learned to play quite a bit on the Internet. So I realize that once I post something everyone can see, it’s not necessarily mine any more — once I share it with the public at large, I can’t really lay much claim to it being mine and mine alone.