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With the game offline in China
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As you may or may not have heard, the World of Warcraft is currently offline in China, thanks to a fight between the game's former licensee, The9, and its current licensee, Netease. Yes, if you think a day or so of downtime is bad here in the US and the EU, that's nothing compared to this: the game has been down since June 7th, and neither Blizzard nor Netease have given an estimate of when the game might be back online. An analyst from China does say that they expect most players to return to the servers once they return, but in the meantime, many players have spread over into Taiwan's WoW server. We don't believe that Blizzard allowed transfers during this time, so they've likely started and leveling brand new characters over there.
I experimented with all of my various pets in Warsong to figure out which let me be most effective, and in that level range it turned out to be my Voidwalker. I was pretty surprised by that, because I've always heard Warlocks calling that demon pretty awful. Admittedly, all of the tools that were advantageous to me in Warsong were things added recently, if I remember right. I didn't have a Felhound yet, so the Voidwalker was my Rogue detector. Did you know Consume Shadows has a stealth detection component? It's awesome! The new Sacrifice was pretty awesome, too. When you're up against teams of twinks, an extra damage buffer is always good. I'm sure pet choice will change completely when I'm at a higher level, but in the 20-29 bracket, the Voidwalker was a pretty clear winner, no doubt about it. The other demons I had were next-to-useless in comparison.
And don't think that other games haven't noticed this unique window of opportunity: there are currently millions of MMO players looking for something to do in China, and there are at least three big other games looking to give them something to do. Aion, which is currently in beta here in the US but is apparently up and running in Asia already, is making as much of a play as they can, and there are two local Chinese games, Zhuxian Online and Chibi Online, both developed by a company called Perfect World, that are also aiming to steal some of China's WoW players.
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