World Of Warcraft: Objection! They've got questions, Your Honor, and I intend...

...to answer them!

I hate when topic titles are too long.

There is a new trinket that increases mount speed upon use. Can you use
other trinkets while mounted as well?

Thus far, I've not encountered any other trinkets useable while mounted.

Hi, I would just like to know how drastically the "raiding experience" has
changed with the raid size reduced to 25 people for the Burning Crusade
raids. In other words, is it easier/harder to get a group together? How is
it when you have to do class arrangement with the addition of Shammy (or
Pally for Horde)? Thank you very much for your answer!

I've done one raid, and that was a half-hearted attempt at Magtheridon's Lair (we didn't make it past the first trash pull, though being level 67 didn't help). There were no Paladins to consider at the time, though having 9 classes instead of 8 to fit into a smaller raid obviously means there are less spots for any given class. Also, of course, it's easier to get 25 people together than it is 40, and it seems simpler to coordinate them. With 25 people, the odds are less that you'll have one person who screws up, potentially fatally for the raid. However, as we found out (and I'll cover this in more detail) it's still very easy for one or two people to make raid-wiping errors :)

I wanna know about the new armor sets. Is there a teir 3.5? 4.0?

There is a tier 4 in the game right now, available from a vendor in Shattrath City (check the Screenshot gallery for pictures of the Mage Tier 4 gear). Tokens will drop in the various raid dungeons that can be redeemed at the vendor for a piece of the set. While specialized classes such as Mages, Warlocks, and Rogues only have one set available, the classes with multiple roles such as Warriors, Priests, Shamans, Paladins, and Druids can redeem their token with sets based around different things: Tanking, Healing, DPS--for instance.

The vendors only sell 5 pieces of the set, and it can be assumed that the remaining 3 (Belt, Bracers, Gloves) will be random drops or acquired in some other way.

How about the PvP epic mounts I mean im working on getting them right now
but not might hit r11 by the time of the patch how much Honor Points would
those cost????

The PvP mounts do not cost Honor Points in TBC. Instead, you need to have 30 Marks of Honor for all three existing Battlegrounds (AV, AB, WSG). Since they only stack in 20 right now--which will be changed come expansion--you can't quite save up enough to get them right away.

Incidentally, they no longer require the riding skill for the mount, so you do not need to be, say, Exalted with Thunder Bluff to ride the Black War Kodo.

How do you become a beta tester for this? Can anyone do it or is it certain
people.

Funny you should ask!

http://wow.warcry.com/content/info/burning_crusade/keys.php

How often are (uncut) Gems dropping from mobs?

It seems to be fairly rare (though not ludicrously so), as I've seen about 10 in my entire time in Outland. At Friendly with the Consortium, however, they say they'll send you packages of uncut gems at the beginning of every month. I don't actually know how often it will be, but I did get an Envelope Full of Gems by hitting Friendly with them.

There was a question about the Draenei Shaman Totems:

Courtesy of the sexy Draenei Shaman they Call Jayne(z).

Keep them coming!