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Here’s a few bits of WoW book news from our friend Medievaldragon over at Blizzplanet. First up, the good news: Aaron Rosenberg and Christie Golden have been nominated for a “Best Adapted” award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers (just proving that for everything in the world, there’s an association for it) for the World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal book that they wrote together. Pretty groovy, and supposedly well-deserved — if you ever sit down to read any of the Warcraft literature, we’ve heard that’s a great place to start. Winners of the prizes will be announced at GenCon this year, so good luck to the writers there. And secondly, a bummer for those who’ve been waiting on the audiobook versions of the Warcraft books — Medievaldragon says that he heard from Tantor Media, the company behind the productions, that they’ve been postponed. He’s convinced that they’ve only been held off temporarily, but we’re not so sure — given the current economy, Tantor may have figured it wasn’t worth the licensing and the trouble. But you never know — apparently

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Our buddy Ghostcrawler has appeared on the forums answering (or re-answering, as he says) a few concerns about the balance of the game. Most of his answer is about PvP: he says that Death Knights and Holy Pallies are overpowered, but that while Blizzard does believe there are more imbalances, debate is still raging about exactly where they are. And he does say that while burst damage is still a concern, he feels that Blizzard did a lot to combat that when they started Season 5, and that the bigger concern now is getting mana pools under control. Too many fights now have healers just going and going, and while they don’t want fights to end super fast, they can’t all drag out, either. He also talks more in-depth about the balance between gear you can get from PvP and PvE and how it needs to be fixed: he straight out says that 25-man Naxx is too easy to PuG, and agrees that Ulduar and future PvP weapons “should ideally require the same amount of investment.” Likewise, when Blizzard tried to reset the resilience stacking at the start of Season 5, they had players facing very powerful weapons from the PvE raids like Kel’thuzad, which lead to, as he says,

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