The Xfire Debate Club has released the official transcript of the World of Warcraft Main Floor Debate featuring invitees from World of Raids, the premiere Arena teams and Raid guilds. The collection of mightily skilled and well-versed talent were handled by WoW Insider's Elizabeth Wachowski, who offered her questions to the panel of debaters. An open floor debate was also held for the Xfire community to participate in.

Now although the questions were constructed with a good amount of thought, very little were awarded with answers that reciprocated the same level of thought. For the most times, there were a lot of opinions thrown around that reflected good views, although unlike many of Xfire's previous debates, there wasn't much mention of references or basis of facts. In short, the debate headed nowhere, really, really fast.

The Open Debate transcript suffered the same fate as well, although without questions posed it seemed fitting for the random outbursts of opinions - until everyone defended their class and bashed the rest, of course. But all this allows the typical World of Warcraft player to look into the perspectives of the community's personalities and the major outlook of the community regarding hybridization and classes.

What's our fixation on the topic discussed, you ask? We've already given that at one point before, if you would remember correctly.

Both transcripts await at the read link provided below.

An all-new installment of Xfire's Debate Club will be happening today at 6:00 PM EDT. Titled "Debate Club: The Best and Worst Classes in World of Warcraft", this debate will bring together a distinguished panel of WoW players who will discuss their preferred WoW classes.

The panelists will also examine the strongest and weakest classes in the game and discuss possible solutions for the game's current balance issues. Here are the panelists:

• Teza, webmaster of Worldofraids.com (playing a Rogue)
• Skosiris, lead developer at Wowhead.com (playing a Warlock)
• Mek, Curse guild master and raid leader (playing a Shaman)
• Ming, Worldofming.com (playing a Rogue)
• Nuvas and Tiz, Flow Gaming, the #1 U.S. Arena Team

The debate will be moderated b WoW Insider editor Elizabeth Wachowski and is part of "The Ridiculously Long Lasting Stride Xfire Cup 2007" Invitational Finals Festival. If you wanna check it out, you can visit www.xfire.com/debate or click on the "read" link below for more info.

Yesterday, we brought you the burning question of why Draenei women have, err, healthy backsides. Today, we'll be delving into the World of Warcraft's scantily clothed women.

While some people (or men in general) would not be opposed to the women characters in the World of Warcraft lacking in clothes, some still think that there must be something of a conspiracy going on around the developers' circle. Elizabeth Wachowski from WoW Insider has written a very amusing article about this and we've stopped to wonder as well. How come the female avatars seem to have less protection from the elements and the crushing blows of enemies and monsters? The fashion statement (of Elves and Draenei mostly) won't really be wise in a world when you're always in danger of being mauled by a bear or an infernal for example.

Some of the outfit-slash-armor even defy physics and gravity itself. And how do the pieces of fur stay on? They seem to be held up by magic and... and... Nothing else, so it seems. Really, would that protect any person from a horde of Devilsaurs? Or how about winter? Surely if the said pieces of armor aren't magically equipped with heaters, then the wearers would have suffered from hypothermia or pneumonia.

Do you think there's a secret cult of devs that cook up these kind of things - from Blizzard or others? Any thoughts?

We never really realized that Kael'thlas Sunstrider from Blizzard's World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is pretty cool. He was recently the focus of an article by Elizabeth Wachowski from WoWInsider, who basically gave Kael'thas' entire life story and background. Truly a must-read for any fan of WoW lore.

Kael'thas Sunstrider is not your typical villain. While reading his backstory, we couldn't help but think that Kael'thlas is actually pretty well-developed. His actions are somewhat rational, considering his situation and all. If you were an elf, and someone slaughtered your people and your dad, then proceeded to defile the source of your magical power, wouldn't you be emo angry, too? Especially when after all that and you took the Blood Elves and joined the Alliance, you get sent on a suicide mission where the only way you survived was by being helped out by the "enemy"? Yeah. We thought so, too.

Aside from Kael'thlas' life story, Elizabeth Wachowski provides an in-depth look at this character and the significance that he holds in World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. In fact, she even explains why you have to kill him. For those who want to read more on this, just can click on the "Read" link below.

The World of Warcraft Wikipedia (aka WoWWiki), defines the word "grind" as "To kill monsters purely for experience, not as part of a quest, or when searching for an item (sometimes considered farming)." MMORPG players outside of WoW dread the word "grind", as it connotes hours upon hours of staring at an LCD monitor while sucking down overly caffeinated beverages, in an effort to crank up their character's experience level and financial status.

While WoW offers up quests in place of typical MMO grind sessions, never let it be said that the game doesn't get boring. It does, especially at those middle levels when the excitement of starting a new character has simmered down, and hitting the level 55+ range is still but a month away. Now, in case you've been stricken with the "mid-level blues," WoW Insider's Elizabeth Wachowski came up with some interesting means of staving off the gloom:

1. Use a job-specific levelling guide. Properly written game guides should give you a run-through of the right quests to take per level, which translates into much less time spent training, and bigger chances of landing much-needed equipment and loot.
2. Learn a new profession. Much like how some guys in real life (IRL) cope with boredom by taking up a new hobby, one recommended in-game activity is letting your character learn new professions. Elizabeth recommends learning  skills that mix well with your job class/race, such as Jewelcrafting for Draeneis, or lockpicking for Rogues.
3. Join a guild, make new friends, or - better yet - role-play your character. WoW has a rich storyline that's just waiting to be exploited, and giving your character a background story that intertwines with the game universe just makes your experience all the more fun and exciting.
4. Find a levelling buddy. This makes for easier (and faster) quests. Throw in the fact you'll always have somebody to talk to while training, and it should keep your midnight oil burning as you trek your way to the minimum Outlands level requirements.
   

We're sure the guys here juggling more than one WoW character will appreciate these tips. Just make sure to leave some time for keeping your real life together, and you're all set.

For the first time ever at Elizabeth Wachowski's WoW Insider "Know Your Lore" column, the history of a group was discussed. The focus was on the five doomed Alliance heroes who went to the Outlands to retrieve the Book of Medivh and close the Dark Portal. Of course, we say doomed because the said five never returned.

The column features the history of Archmage Khadgar, Turalayon, Alleria Windrunner, Kurdran Wildhammer, and Danath Trollbane, and the ultimate fate of the Alliance Expedition. If you're particularly curious about those commemorative statues at the Valley of Heroes at Stormwind, feel free to click on our "read" link below, it should lead to Wachowski's words.

Ah, Stormwind. What do we remember when we hear Stormwind? Oh, yeah. Kruul...

WoW Insider's Elizabeth Wachowski takes time in her Know Your Lore feature to highlight the orc of orcs, Grommash Hellscream. The feature gives a great overview of WoW's Grom's history, his adventures, his achievements, and ultimately his heroic death. What's nice about the feature is that it takes time to show how Grom is remembered in present day Azeroth, and tells how Grom's spirit lives on in Garrosh his son.

Now, before we leave you folks with a link to Wachowski's feature, we'll have you watch a video embed of Grom and Thrall's historic battle with the demon Mannoroth.

The link to the feature is in the "read" link below. You know what to do.

For the Dungeons and Dragons (and probably Final Fantasy Tactics) fans, Rogues are synonymous with the following words: scalawag, bandit, pickpocket, thug, thief. However, if you happen to reside in World of Warcraft's boss-hunt-and-raid-intensive environment, the name takes on a more damage-intensive meaning as the party's primary heavy hitter (alongside the mage).

But while rogues are taking a more aggressive stance in-game, Elizabeth Wachowski decided that the class needed a quick reminder of why they should be getting their much-neglected Lockpicking skill to 350. Here are some of the more practical (and humorous reasons):

1. You can be nice and open locked chests in instances. I open them for my groups with the reasonable "fee" of me being allowed to take anything that would really be an upgrade for me, which never ever happens. On the other hand, if you're in some jerky pug with a priest that announces that all rogues are useless, a tank who can't hold aggro for anything in the world, a mage who pyroblasts your saps, and a warlock who's AFK half the time, feel free to announce that you can't pick the chest. Wait for them all to hearth out and then sneak back and take it. Consider it a "jerk fee."
2. You can get a largely endless supply of blinding powder by picking the junkboxes you get from pickpocketing humanoid mobs. You can also sometimes find some neat stuff in them, like gnome effigies.
3. It takes about fifteen minutes to level from 300. Just go to the broken camp in the south of Zangarmarsh, sneak around, and pick all the little chests. It's as easy as pie!

We got sold on the "jerk fee" comment and the gnomish effigy. So, if you think your dual-weapon wielding back-stab wonder is in need of some serious polishing up, head over to Zangarmarsh for the said training.