The best of WoW Insider: February 10-17, 2009

Lots of great news from the World of Warcraft this week -- we learned more about the big patch 3.1 update coming to the game, as well as the dual spec system. And someone (we aren't yet sure who) kept melting something called the Ice Stone, in one of the more hilarious bugs of the Love is in the Air festival. Good times -- learn more by reading these popular posts from Joystiq network site WoW Insider.

News

• The Ice Stone has melted!
  Confusion reigned over a world event bug this week: what was the Ice Stone and who forgot to put it in the fridge?
• WoW Insider's guide to patch 3.1
  Everything you need to know about the game's next content patch, continually updated.
• Dual spec Q&A with Ghostcrawler
  One of the game's devs lets us in on the plans behind the much-awaited dual spec feature.
• Voidwalker raid tanking going away
  Warlock pets tanking? Blizzard is putting the kibosh on that.
• Jeff Kaplan leaving World of Warcraft
  The game's last original top dev heads off to Blizzard's new MMO.

Features

• The Queue: Change we can believe in
  You've got questions, The Queue has your answers.
• Encrypted Text: Why the 3.0.9 Rogue changes were necessary
  The latest bugfix changes get discussed in our Rogue column.
• WoW Rookie: Level 80 -- now what?
  You've done it -- you've finally hit level 80, but you're not sure where to go next. Let the WoW Rookie help.
• Please give me something to grind
  Blizzard has gone out of their way this expansion to make leveling and questing as varied as possible -- which is why Alex just wants to do some mindless grinding.
• Officers' Quarters: Dual spec, double loot?
  How to deal with the dual spec system while dealing out loot to a raid.