In this week's MMO Report, our pal Casey Schreiner talks about Champions Online's PvP system, another EVE Online bank going under, and Star Wars: The Old Republic record breaking voice acting. But there are other reasons for you to watch this episode. *Spoiler Alert* They finally clone Casey!

The latest episode is available in its entirety after the jump.

As Anobix pointed out in our general forum, Boubouille of MMO-Champion has posted a preview of the full Tier 9 armor set models datamined from the PTR. You can check out both the Horde and Alliance sets on the site.

It seems the biggest complaint from most of our readers is that the gear looks too similar for each class. What do you think? Is the uniform look growing on you, or are you not looking forward to matching the rest of your guild?

Lord Jaraxxus may have been cancelled last night due to PTR issues, but the rest of the raid and dungeon testing schedule is still set to continue as planned tonight and tomorrow on the U.S. and European PTR realms. Here's the full schedule from Daelo's post. You can find more information after the jump.

Northrend Beasts - Friday Night, July 17, starting at 7pm EDT. Normal and Heroic.
Faction Champions - Friday Night, July 17, starting at 7pm EDT. Normal and Heroic.

On the European test realms:
Val'kyr - Friday Night, July 17, starting at 19:00 CEST. Normal and Heroic.
Lord Jaraxxus - Friday Night, July 17, starting at 19:00 CEST. Normal and Heroic.
Anub'arak- Saturday Night, July 18, starting at 19:00 CEST. Normal and Heroic.

According to an article on MMOsite, Blizzard is suspected of entering an illegal joint venture with NetEase when it gave the company the rights to operate World of Warcraft in China after the contract with The9 expired. It appears the Shanghai News and Publication Bureau has been assigned to investigate the issue to see if Blizzard is violating Chinese regulations.

The article states that under Chinese law, foreign enterprises are not allowed to operate online games in the Chinese market in the form of a wholly owned company or a joint venture. Apparently there are concerns over how NetEase obtained the operating rights for WoW — the article says NetEase paid a high revenue share to Blizzard, which will quadruple the gains of Blizzard compared to the gains obtained from cooperating with The9.

The author of the article suspects the approval of the transition of the operating rights will be suspended before the investigation is completed. We'll have to wait and see what the future has in store for WoW in China.

The class Q&A series continues to move forward, and this time Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street is answering questions about Warriors. He starts off by saying Warriors are tricky to balance due to the way rage converts to damage, and they "haven’t completely nailed that design just yet." The team will be looking at Arms and Fury in the future as they try to decide on some differences between the two trees.

Ghostcrawler said they'd eventually like to get rid of the penalties associated with being in different stances so, for example, PvPers aren't in Defensive Stance all the time. The team felt Warrior DPS was too high in Naxx and a little low in early Ulduar, but right now it's in a "pretty good place." Warriors will be getting a small damage buff in 3.2.

He also said the team needs a better solution to rage generation, although this is a long-term goal. "When your gear sucks, you have rage problems. When you have great gear, you are no longer limited by rage. That’s just not a great model," he said. In 3.2, Shield Specialization will provide rage on a dodge, block or parry in order to help with this problem.

"We do think warriors have too much downtime when leveling," Ghostcrawler said. "Healing may not be the solution to that, but we think it needs a solution." You can read the full Q&A below and discuss it in this thread in our general forum.