Filed under: Blizzard, News items, PvP, Arena
The World of Warcraft Arena Tournament hosted by Blizzard is coming to a head. The Regional Finals for Europe and North America will take place this weekend, with eight highest rated teams from each region clashing for the right to compete in the Global Finals. The North American Finals will be held at Hard […]
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard
Blizzplanet continues to track down hints at what Blizzard might be planning in the mobile space, i.e. on the iPhone or another mobile computing platform (that Android Dream demo looked pretty sweet, too). Recently, Blizzard posted a job opening for a web software engineer, and while of course that […]
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Filed under: Alliance, Human, Gnomes, Comics, Barrens Chat
I mentioned in an earlier strip that I greatly dislike the Recruit-a-Friend program in an earlier comic. Mainly because the last two people we could have possibly talked into playing World of Warcraft started playing long before the benefit was offered. Needless to say, we’re helping them out the old fashioned way, which […]
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Filed under: Leveling, Wrath of the Lich King, Achievements
var digg_url = \’http://digg.com/pc_games/First_to_level_80_titles_removed_from_WotLK\’; The Feats of Strength for realm-firsts have been raising some controversy for a little while now. Briefly, the worry is that it only rewards people who are willing and able to either play 24 hours a day from when Wrath is released to when […]
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Filed under: Patches, Leveling
Patch 3.0.2 is going to bring us much of Wrath, without the new content. Specifically, we’ll be getting the new spells and talents, which come out to a total class revamp for many classes. We’ll also be getting a couple other fixes, like learnable mounts and mini-pets. And Tigole just confirmed today that among these will be […]
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Filed under: Paladin, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King
While I effused about the great change to the otherwise lackluster Blessing of Sanctuary — it should really be named Blessing of Badass — Paladins have yet to receive the promised second pass. There have been massive changes to the class itself, but there’s more to come. Hopefully on […]
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Filed under: Paladin, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King
While I effused about the great change to the otherwise lackluster Blessing of Sanctuary — it should really be named Blessing of Badass — Paladins have yet to receive the promised second pass. There have been massive changes to the class itself, but there’s more to come. Hopefully on […]
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Forums
Forum poster Exodeus has made a suggestion that I heartily endorse: abandon the weapon skill mechanic for a universal weapon mastery system. It’s not just for the reasons he suggests that I’m on board. His examples (of a hunter having to go AFK on Dr. Boom after getting a new gun drop […]
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Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Quests, Raiding, Wrath of the Lich King
As a few of our readers have noted (thanks Nicholas!), the Public Test Realm Forum is back up and running, apparently in anticipation for the impending test cycle of patch 3.0.2, the pre-Wrath content patch set to release in the next few weeks or months. As […]
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Filed under: Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch
(Warning: This is a double whammy. It’s an Olibith film, which means it may offend you, and it also has English subtitles, so you’ll have to watch carefully.)
The WeGame machinima contest closed days ago, but on Friday, September 4th, we’ll finally know the results of the contest. In the meantime, the highlighting of some of […]
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