Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Spiritual Guidance , hosted by Fox Van Allen , consort to the shadows. Don’t mind any distracting grunting you hear coming from under the floor boards.

The Classifieds brings you weekly news from around the WoW community, including our famous Random Acts of Uberness. While we at WoW.com are hard at work puzzling out the latest round of changes from the Cataclysm beta , we’ve got something for you to puzzle over as well: a ” Where in the World of Warcraft ? ” crossword puzzle from The Puzzle Hub.

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why

Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the rogue class.

Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H). I still have many moving chores to do, but if I do play tonight, I’ll be cheating on you and Robinemia by playing Roblin the Goblin

For a while now, account thieves have been putting authenticators on their stolen accounts to buy more time for their scumbaggery. Blizzard has recently made that more difficult by requiring email confirmation when an authenticator is added to a Battle.net account

Broken Hearted is a new machinima released by RomireVids . It’s a story-driven machinima about a draenei, an evening of adventure, and the ramifications of what happens. As a note, Romire does say that he made the death scenes grayscale for the sake of effect, not as an accident

Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft .

Navy SEAL tryouts came early to Azeroth this year.

Every week, Gold Capped (from Basil ” Euripides ” Berntsen) aims to educate players about how to make money on the auction house. For the inside line on crafting for disenchanting, transmutation, cross-faction arbitrage and more, check in every Wednesday. Also, feel free to email Basil any comments, questions or hate mail, as well as check out the long awaited 11th episode of Call to Auction! I got an email from the creator of WoW Prospector asking me to cover it

The release of StarCraft II brought about a surprise for the observant player — an object in the cantina of ship that lets you play an arcade game called Lost Viking right in StarCraft II . This is a fun little shooter that’s a cross between Asteroids and Space Invaders (Alex tells me it’s a lot like Touhou , although I’ve never played that) and easily took up an hour of my night. Just the kind of thing to do while waiting for a raid to begin.

Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting feral/restoration druids and those who group with them. This week, we continue to get hit in the face

Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal?

Each week, WoW.com brings you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs . Have a screenshot of your UI you want to submit? Send your screenshots, along with info on what mods you’re using, to readerui@wow.com

Cataclysm is probably still a little bit away.

From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW ? We’re giving each approach its own 15 Minutes of Fame .

The creation of WoW movies — whether it is machinima or live-action — stems from the author’s love of game, cinema, or just raw creation. It takes a lot of love to create a WoW movie

Welcome back to The Queue , WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft . Adam Holisky will be your host today. I really couldn’t do The Queue today without talking about StarCraft II .

Yes, you read that title correctly! Courtesy of the ever-generous WoWTCGLoot.com, WoW.com will be giving away an assortment of prizes for the next week, including a Blazing Hippogryph. The full assortment of prizes includes: One Blazing Hippogryph Two Instant Statue Pedestals Three Landro’s Gift Boxes The contest begins immediately and ends Monday, Aug. 2 at 11:59 p.m ET

The horror … the horror.