Each week Arcane Brilliance glances around to make sure there are no Death Knights in the area, then daintily tiptoes out from cover long enough to throw together a column about Mages. Usually, this ends badly for Arcane Brilliance. Out of nowhere, a big purple rope-looking thingy wraps itself around Arcane Brilliance’s neck and drags [...]
Reader Paul K. sent us a query today about how to go about getting each of the champion dungeon tabards available at level 80, and since I’m about to hit level 80 (hopefully will be doing it tonight), I figured I’d do the work so the rest of you don’t have to. Wearing these tabards [...]
Each week, Arcane Brilliance gains 5,000 reputation with the Kirin Tor by writing a column about Mages. That’s right, I said 5,000. Are you reading this, Kirin Tor? I’m declaring myself exalted. Give me my dagger already, you selfish jerks.
I may have mentioned this before, but I’m an Arcane Mage.
I wasn’t always. I spent my [...]
I’ve been waiting to do some breakdown analysis of the Wrath world event until it actually ended, and since we’re now swarming over Northrend and exploring Arthas’ domain, I think the time has come to determine a verdict on whether or not Blizzard’s world event delivered.
The short answer? I think it did, but not without [...]
If you were looking forward to getting gear upgrades through Honor at Level 70 when Wrath of the Lich King finally arrives in a few days, you probably shouldn’t hold your breath. I know I advised doing a lot of PvP, but I meant that you should be keeping all that Honor for Level 80 [...]
Ah, the glyph section. This is where things start to get a little hairy, because the bulk of arguing about the right balance DPS rotation hinges a lot on the glyphs you’ve got equipped and the type of fight you’re doing. But first, some of what I think are going to be less important glyphs [...]
New talents available in the Balance tree:
Genesis: This will affect three Balance spells (Insect Swarm, Moonfire, and Starfall), but it’s another prime candidate for a restokin, as most of a Restoration Druid’s healing power still lies in HoT’s. The vast majority of your firepower as a moonkin is still going to come from a rotation [...]
Every Tuesday, or possibly Thursday when the writer realizes that nobody writing about moonkin DPS on the internet agrees with each other, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week Allison Robert, having Hibernated John Patricelli and run away as fast as her laser-chicken legs will carry her, examines [...]
Today Curse had the opportunity to participate in Blizzard’s second fansite summit, and one of the treats of the day was a chance to sit down and have lunch with Blizzard developers — including Jeffrey Kaplan and Tom Chilton — both Lead Designers of the game.
We had a chat with Kaplan in a round table-style [...]
World of Warcraft creator Blizzard looks set to get $6m (£3.36m) from the makers of a software ‘bot’.
Glider runs characters on behalf of players
The cash is part of a deal brokered by Blizzard and MDY Industries – the maker of the WoWGlider software ‘bot.
Blizzard embarked on the case against MDY claiming that the World of [...]