Project Lore

BlizzCon 2009 was full of surprises, some little, some known and some huge.  One of the little ones was the announcement that players in PUGs would be rewarded for helping out strangers.  It was a great idea, in fact, it was such an obvious idea that there was a collective "Why didn't I think of that" among the crowd. It's simple really, leading a PUG is an arduous task in management.  You have to gather random players of the right classes, organize them into suitable groups, deal with the wipes that are often associated with the mish-mash of a group and waste tons of time.  All of these headaches for the shot at a reward, and that's if things go well.  If they go poorly you'll be marked as failure.  It'll be your fault that the raid failed.  It isn't quite lose-lose, but you can't get much closer. What better way to get more people leading and participating in PUGs than with rewards?  That's exactly what Blizzard plans to do in Patch 3.3, offering the Perky PUG as one of the (hopefully) many rewards available to the altruistic gamers among us. I am absolutely loving the recent influx of highly diverse and well executed pets.  Good to finally discover why Dalaran's carpets stink.