Blizzard has updated its Tier 10 sneak peek page with the priest and paladin armor sets. The shaman set is currently the only one that's missing on the official site. You can view high-resolution images of the priest and pally designs after the jump.

So what do you think of the priest and paladin sets? How about Tier 10 as a whole? Do the designs live up to your expectations for patch 3.3 or were you expecting more?

ZAM user teacake noticed an interesting post made by Wryxian on the official European forums that states Blizzard is aiming "to implement the ability to exchange bind-on-account items between your Horde and Alliance characters in patch 3.3." Wryxian reminds players that this is subject to change since the patch is not yet live.

Wryxian said in another post that players will only be able to trade BoA items and not gold or other items, unless the plan changes before the launch of 3.3. So what do you think about the upcoming connection between Horde and Alliance mailboxes? You can discuss the topic in teacake's thread.

Breaking News! Blizzard has just put up the two new companion pets, Lil' K.T. and the Pandaren Monk, for sale in the Blizzard Online Store. They've even donating 50% of the proceeds (from the monk) to the Make-A-Wish foundation! This looks to be just the beginning, the FAQ indicates that there will be more pets to come.

The items are for sale for $10 USD each, and can be gifted to another player's account. The pets are BoA, and will apply to all future characters on the account it was purchased for.

Edit: Nethaera has just posted about it here. Full text after the jump.

Bornakk announced on the official forums that free character transfers to select PvP realms will begin tomorrow, Nov. 5, at 11:15 a.m. PST. The transfers are scheduled to end on Nov. 12 at 11:15 a.m., but be sure to make the move ASAP since the tranfers could be disabled early if Blizzard's goals are met before the deadline.

All of the transfers are for Alliance only. Players from select North American PvP servers can transfer to Cho'gall or Mal'Ganis, which are both Central time zone PvP realms. Players from select Oceanic PvE servers can transfer to Thaurissan, an Oceanic PvP realm. The full list of servers can be found after the jump.

In the upcoming 3.3 content patch, as some of you already know, Icecrown will be home of the updated instance difficulty setting which can be changed on a boss per boss basis. It will be able to be switched at any time during a raid without leaving and reentering the instance. Some restrictions on when you cannot change it will be in place. Such as, you cannot change the difficulty in combat or during certain scripted events. To enable it you will have first have to have defeated the Lich King on normal mode, and heroic mode will not affect trash in anyway and will only change the bosses.

You can read more after the jump.

Have you ever wanted to join a PUG with members of the World of Warcraft development and community teams? Well now's your chance! Zarhym announced on the official forums that blue posters will be on the PTR today at 4 p.m. PST (7 p.m. EST) to test out the new dungeon system.

For a chance to group with the Blizzard team members, you need to use the Dungeon system and choose the "Random Heroic" option. All employees will have the <GM> tag next to their names and be able to choose whichever class, realm and faction he or she wants. 

So last month we had two contests running on the site. One from the staff here and one from our very own Poldaran.

Our contests were a 20 item scavenger hunt and a best Halloween story contest from Poldaran, who graciously offered to pay for premium for 3 months to the winner.

World of Warcraft turns five years old in less than three weeks, and Blizzard is kicking off the celebration with an anniversary sweepstakes. The company will be giving prizes to random players every week for the next five weeks based on how long they've been playing the game. For example, five players who created an account on or before Oct. 26, 2008 will be chosen tomorrow to receive a Charge of the Great Dragonflights stein.

Those of you who have been with WoW for the long haul and created an account on or before Nov. 23, 2004 will be in the running to receive a Nvidia video card or an ASUS Republic of Gamers 3D Vision enhanced laptop, as well as a year of free game time and a signed Onyxia print. The two lucky winners who receive laptops can honestly say it paid for them to play WoW for five years.

The sweepstakes is only open to residents of the United States, Canada and New Zealand. You can read the official rules for more information and check out the full list of prizes after the jump. You can also discuss the sweepstakes in this thread in our WoW general forum.

Just as Chinese players expected to finally get Wrath of the Lich King later this month, China's GAPP has given NetEase (China's World of Warcraft operator) its non-approval which means NetEase needs to stop taking in subscriptions and new sign-ups. This is strange as the content was already approved while being run by the former operator The9, which may (or may not?) mean this will be overturned.

Also, this just may have been a problem for Netease as they have been collecting subscription fees for quite some time now, which they weren't supposed to be doing without official GAPP approval. What makes this even stranger is that NetEase hasn't had any communication with the GAPP other than the official press release on the GAPP website.

You can find out more about this story over at Reuters here and here.

World of Warcraft turns five years old on Nov. 23, and G4 has kicked off the celebration a little early with a series of retrospective interviews with some big names at Blizzard. X-Play host Morgan Webb sat down with Game Director Tom Chilton, Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi and former Game Director Jeffrey "Tigole" Kaplan to look back at the history of WoW from day one.

The combined videos total more than 35 minutes in length, so there's a lot to digest in the retrospective. There's nothing particularly noteworthy mentioned in the interviews, but they're certainly worth viewing for fans who are interested in hearing Chilton, Afrasiabi and Kaplan reminisce about WoW's history and explain their duties at Blizzard.

For those of you who don't know, Kaplan left the WoW team to work on Blizzard's next big MMO project, which he's "super excited about" but couldn't discuss in detail in the interview. However, I thought his views on Cataclysm were worth noting: "Personally, I'm somebody who made some of the earliest content in WoW. I can't wait to see what the dev team does with it. I can't wait until they throw out some of those old quests and come up with new stuff because they can make stuff that's so much better than anything we were making five years ago that it's going to be absolutely mindblowing. Just to see Azeroth evolve and to see World of Warcraft evolve, I think it's nothing but a good thing."