There used to be a cap of 40 on the amount of debuffs you could have on a creature at one time. Well, according to Daelo on the O-Boards, that cap has been increased with Wrath of the Lich King.

We changed how the game handles debuffs (ie negative state effects on targets) on creatures with Wrath of the Lich King. The old hard cap of 40 debuffs on a target no longer effectively exists. You can now apply way more debuffs to a target without them dropping off before their duration expires. The default WoW UI will not normally display all these debuffs, but they really are still there!

Of course, Daelo does not confirm whether there is a new hard cap for debuffs. From the use of the words "way more," we can probably assume there is some sort of cap.

Project Lore launched a new segment of the show this afternoon called Soloing -- which will be starring Zand "Dorkins" Broumand, at least initially. In this new segment of the show, Zand will be doing an introduction to soloing in Northrend. This week he starts off in Howling Fjords but not before we had a chance to sit down and talk with him about Project Lore, Soloing and a little place called Gamerville.

Tamat : Hey Zand! It’s great to talk with you again. Thank you for pulling yourself away from your Hunter long enough to answer a few questions. Did you have fun at BlizzCon?

Zand :  Not only did I have fun, but going to Blizzcon confirmed a long time suspicion I had. Hot chicks DO play World of Warcraft, I repeat, there are hotties in the World of Warcraft.

Tamat : Indeed! So let’s start with the most obvious question. How are you enjoying your new and improved Hunter?

Zand :  Loving it.  More stable space, new pet talent trees, improved hunter talents, exotic pets, and automatic leveling of really low level beasts ... it’s like God himself came down from heaven, got a job with Blizzard and was put solely in charge of all hunter improvements.  It's truly mana from heaven!

Tamat : *laughs* Do you have any alts that you play beside your hunter?

Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has posted a preview of some Death Knight changes the dev team is currently discussing. Most of these changes apply to tanking Death Knights.

This is a new class, and while we’re thrilled overall with how it's been received, we always expected to have to make more changes to death knights than the classes that have had their talents under the microscope for many years. We’re not prepared to announce specific changes to DKs yet, but here are some general areas we are tinkering with.

Possible changes include a boost in Frost Presence's mitigation; scaling the mitigation of Icebound Fortitude based on defense skill; buffs to tanking talents in the Blood tree; a reduction on Rune Strike's weapon damage, but a boost in threat; a reduction in runic power costs of Unholy Blight and Horn of Winter; some fixes to Shadow of Death; some changes to ghouls; and a new spell to raise fallen allies.

Ghostcrawler's full post can be found here or below. Discuss the topic in our Death Knight forum here.

UPDATE: Ghostcrawler has further expanded on this topic in a second post. It's also after the jump.

Players on the Ragnarok Online forums are calling out Aurora Blade, a web-based game entering closed beta this week, for ripping off aspects of other games, including World of Warcraft, Ragnarok Online, Maple Story and LaTale.

Kotaku has some more information, as well as some comparative screenshots. Also, Shacknews has some more comparison screenshots, including ones that compare Ragnarok and Aurora Blade creatures, and others that show the similarities between World of Warcraft and Aurora Blade class icons.

IGG has posted in the Aurora Blade forums to explain they only host the game, and another company developed it and reserves all copyrights to the designs and artwork. IGG further states that any discussion of this matter on the forums is against forum rules and could lead to bans for repeat offenders. The full post is after the jump.

Aurora Blade will be entering closed beta on Friday. You can receive an activation code here.

Wired has pointed World of Warcraft fans toward an April Fool's joke come to life: a version of Molten Core that looks like it was pulled off an Atari 2600 cartridge.

For those who don't remember, here's Blizzard's original joke. Well, Gamer's University ran with it and created a version of the raid that only takes up 2MB on a Windows machine. I think it's safe to say most gaming rigs can handle that. You can download it here.

Also, you don't need to hope 39 of your guildmates are on to try it out. This game's for two players only. Gamer's University highly recommends playing with a joystick to keep that Atari feeling. We should probably create an Allakhazam wiki page outlining boss strategies and cataloguing item drops for it.

Gamer University's main writer and site administrator explained how he created The Molten Core for anyone who's interested. Now somebody just needs to start working on Pong: The MMORPG.