World of Warcraft- The War Within’s pre-patch may have dug up the graves of deleted characters—including my ancient shaman with a hearthstone that killed me-

World of Warcraft: The War Within is bringing a whole ton of neat changes to the game—changes like the Warband system, which have been packaged early into the expansion’s pre-patch. There’ve been some slight glitches so far, like Warband banks being disabled, but it’s otherwise a massive quality-of-life boost to the MMO.

When logging in for the first time, your existing characters will be converted to the new system—but seems to have had an unintended side effect. Characters might be coming back from the dead, clawing their way out of the deletion graveyard.

After a couple of player reports on the WoW subreddit and forums citing “characters I’ve never made before” jumpscaring players on their character selection lists, I decided to hop in myself. What do you know—a Shaman on a different server that I’m pretty sure I’d deleted was staring me straight in the face.

I only say “pretty sure”, because the character name was accompanied by a lis…

Small-cap funds see outflows first time in 30 months

Mutual fund flows into small-cap and mid-cap funds took a hit in March after the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) asked the fund houses to put in place a policy to safeguard investors amid concerns over excessive valuations.

Small-cap funds felt the impact of the regulatory concerns as it saw net outflows for the first time in 30 months. At the same time, large-cap funds found favour with investors as they saw higher inflows compared mid-cap funds for the first time since June 2022.

Overall net inflows into equity schemes in March were down 15.8% from February at Rs 22,633 crores, according to AMFI data. Compared to March 2023, the net inflows were up 10.2%.

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