As the beta winds down, Ask a Beta Tester becomes a little more infrequent, but as long as we have questions, we will answer. Let’s start with Rob’s question…
Are they planning to put in recipes for green items between 350-375 to make it easier to grind up professions? Or should i just suck it up [...]
Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of PlusHeal, a new healing community for all restorative classes. This week Matticus is finishing off the 60 – 70 aspect of Priest leveling!
Welcome to [...]
Good Tuesday mrning everyone. It’s a 5 AM to 11 AM PDT downtime today, which means you probably have time to do some reading right now, right? How about reading up on all the latest news from the last busy week of WoW?
So Here’s the big story of the moment: Nearly as suddenly as it [...]
Here’s episode number 61 of the WoW Insider Show, recorded last Saturday over on our Ustream page. On the show last week, we welcomed WoW Insider’s Matthew Rossi back to the virtual airwaves, along with blogger Amanda Dean and our good friend Duncor of WoW Radio. And we talked a little more about achievements and [...]
Ah, zombie apocalypse. We hardly knew you. Your sudden departure leaves a lot of us confused, even if Blizzard swears it was all on purpose and according to plan.
Regardless, the zombie plague seems to be over for now. We talked last week about how you could roleplay your sudden transformation into the undead brain muncher. [...]
Each week, Arcane Brilliance delivers a serious burst of Mage content, a burst that can even out-damage a Druid’s HoTs. How, you ask? Hax. Lots and lots of hax. What, you thought Arcane Brilliance was powerful enough to out DPS a Druid’s heals legitimately? Sadly no. Arcane Brilliance cheats. Arcane Brilliance cheats hard.
Edit: Ok, Arcane [...]
So, having fun yet? I know I am. The changes to the class are great and I don’t think I’ve had a more enjoyable time playing the game. Of course, it has a lot to do with the new, cool stuff brought about by Patch 3.0.2, most notably the Achievements system. I know I complained [...]
Each week Matthew Porter contributes The Creamy GUI Center, a column aimed at helping you enhance your WoW experience by offering an in depth guide to addons, macros and other tools we use to play WoW, along with commentary on issues that affect how we all play.
Whelp, BlizzCon 08 is slowly fading to memory, but [...]
The ColosseumThe Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters in the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Netherdrakes.
A few weeks ago, [...]
With phase 4 of the zombie invasion going on we’ve now got a new boss in Karazhan to deal with: Tenris Mirkblood. He’s tuned towards a 10-man group of Karazhan geared players, and can be pretty easily brute forced by a group of folks in Sunwell gear. We first heard about the possibility of Tenris [...]
Kil’jaeden, the Sunwell Plateau end boss, has had a tough time lately. Since the Echoes of Doom patch, plenty of guilds have breezed through Sunwell and many of those have managed to kill him for the first time, signing off TBC raiding with a bang. Congratulations to them!
This is pretty symptomatic of raiding post-3.0.2 in [...]
Each week, Arcane Brilliance delivers a serious burst of Mage content, a burst that can even out-damage a Druid’s HoTs. How, you ask? Hax. Lots and lots of hax. What, you thought Arcane Brilliance was powerful enough to out DPS a Druid’s heals legitimately? Sadly no. Arcane Brilliance cheats. Arcane Brilliance cheats hard.
Edit: Ok, Arcane [...]
Our friend Boubouille over at MMO Champion has done some more digging in the datafiles of the beta realms, and pulled out a brand new boss in Karazhan of all places. Meet Prince Tenris Mirkblood of the San’layn, a group of elven princes aligned with none other than The Lich King himself. He’s not [...]
The Orange County Register’s Blizzard Blog has posted a message from Micah Chatterton, father of Ezra “Epheonix” Chatterton, who, as we reported yesterday, passed away earlier this week. Micah’s pain is tangible, but he says that Ezra loved his life, and the greatest tribute that he or anyone else can pay to Ephoenix is by [...]
If you are a fury warrior, rejoice. Some of you were wondering where I was during the initial discussion. Frankly, I I was bodily assumed into what I can only assume was heaven. Sorry about that. Turns out it’s really nice. I honestly don’t have a real lot to say on this score (amazingly) aside [...]
Step one is to become a zombie. Step two, rampage around a lowbie zone. Step three, scream “Braiiinnnns!” for everyone to hear. Step four, wait for an immersive roleplayer named “Pwnsurface” to kill you, in accordance to his Retribution Paladin’s most tightly held beliefs.
Okay, there’s a little more to roleplaying the event than that. It’s [...]
Each week Matthew Porter contributes The Creamy GUI Center, a column aimed at helping you enhance your WoW experience by offering an in depth guide to addons, macros and other tools we use to play WoW, along with commentary on issues that affect how we all play.
Whelp, BlizzCon 08 is slowly fading to memory, but [...]
As you probably already know, there are zombies everywhere. Fortunately, you won’t need to go to extreme lengths in order to fight them, such as grafting a chainsaw to yourself as a replacement hand. On the other hand, boomsticks will serve you well. Before we go about the strategies of how to fight legions of [...]
WotLK World Event – Zombie Invasion
There are many ways to get infected by the plague :
Pick up one of the Suspicious Crate in Booty Bay, trying to loot one will instantly infect you.
Stay in one of the poison cloud used by zombies
Get damaged by a zombie.
When you’re infected, you can either run to a nearby [...]
UPDATE 11:30 CET: Added initial info on playing as a zombie and a zombie “raid” video.
00:15 CET – We have information on how to become infected.
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It appears the pre-launch World Event for Wrath of the Lich King is now active on all US and EU servers! (Unknown if [...]
You can tell the Wrath beta is winding down, because Ask a Beta Tester has been getting a lot fewer questions lately. Because of that, we’re going to be pretty short and sweet today. If you still have questions, though, keep em coming!
Let’s start today off with dfsnow’s question…
What’s happening with Alchemy and Alchemist’s Stones [...]
I had a ton of fun on the servers last night running around and eating as many brains as I can. As I’m a huge fan of zombies in all their forms, Blizzard’s world event hit the mark for me, and so, I’ve spent my every minute as a zombie plotting how the living undead [...]
Last week we talked Enhancement. This week, it’s Restoration’s turn as we move through patch 3.0.2, ward off angry zombies and get ready for Wrath of the Lich King. Last week I was hesitant to talk about glyphs, but it’s clear that you guys want to talk about them, so we’ll do that too. First [...]
It’s easy to be disappointed with Warlocks, really. The best tree we have right now is Affliction, and is just really fun to play while dealing incredible damage. This is sad news for a lot of players who enjoyed playing Demonology or liked pressing their Shadow Bolt button with a dead Succubus. For one thing, [...]
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/pc_games/Proudmoore_guild_plays_out_GLBT_pride’; 15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes – from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about.
If you’ve made even the [...]
The top arena teams of Season 4 have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of their rewards since the launch of patch 3.0.2, but things haven’t turned out quite right. The Customer Service forum is full of reports of titles not being handed out correctly, and an ongoing Blizzard investigation into the matter. A little digging [...]
It’s a little silly, we admit, to say “every time an expansion patch comes around,” because this is really only the second time it’s happened, but every time an expansion patch comes around, guild action slows down a bit, and as a result, this week (and probably the next few weeks) will find Guildwatch poking [...]
Will the strong Mac growth outlined by Apple COO Tim Cook continue amid times of economic turmoil?
(Credit: James Martin/CNET News)
Apple’s fourth quarter should have survived the economic chaos currently rounding the globe, but what Wall Street will care about Tuesday afternoon is its outlook on the future.
Despite a few more product glitches than usual, it’s [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the stars of Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference, but the next version of Office has also landed a role in the production.
Office 14, as the product is code-named, will be discussed at next week’s event, with attendees likely to get a peek at a couple of its features, according [...]
As I mentioned earlier, my server Silver Hand was down Saturday night. All night. I gave up trying around midnight. Friday night, when I was actually able to log on, the Heroic Instance servers went down catching many in my group in a neverending loading screen that forced them to restart the game only to [...]