Each week Arcane Brilliance examines the magical majesty of Mages, and usually makes fun of the wimpy whininess of Warlocks. See that? That’s some crazy alliteration right there. Also, I’d like to call attention to the fact that Arcane Brilliance called Warlocks whiny. Oh, snap! Coming from a column about Mages, that has to burn, [...]
MIMIRON
Mimiron is…kind of complicated to describe. Suffice it to say that it’s a four-phase fight with different abilities to worry about on each phase. Short of writing a 3,000-word tract on Mimiron alone, I’m simply going to refer you here and here, and we’ll proceed under the assumption that you have a basic familiarity with [...]
Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting Druids and those who group with them. This week, as other people continue their march through Ulduar, I continue to ask myself if it wouldn’t be more cost-effective in the long run just to take my ailing graphics card out behind the woodshed and end its pathetic misery [...]
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 [...]
It’s the Arathi Basin Call to Arms holiday once again, and The OverAchiever is here to help guide you through the Master of Arathi Basin Achievement, which is required for the Battlemaster
meta-Achievement. You should be playing quite a bit of Arathi Basin
this weekend considering it’s one of the most fun and balanced
Battlegrounds, so why not [...]
This installment of All the World’s a Stage is the twenty-fourth in a series of roleplaying guides in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class well, without embarrassing yourself.
Many of the most famous rogues outside of the Warcraft setting have been nuanced and exciting [...]
I mentioned it the last time, but more than ever, it’s a good time to be a Paladin. We’re not perfect yet, and indeed the class needs a little more tweaking, but it’s incredibly playable right now and is a lot of fun. We’ve always had traditional roles of tanking and healing for Paladins, but [...]
Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly dose of Death Knight discussion.
Now that we’ve covered most standard pemutations of gear gathering in past Lichborne columns, I figured this week would be a good time to start talking about taking the extra steps to really trick out your gear. This week, will focus on gems. Not only will [...]
Each week Arcane Brilliance drops at a 100% rate from your computer screen. It can be equipped in any slot, and doesn’t bind to your character in any way, shape or form. It can be disenchanted into whatever you want, and sells to merchants for a million gold. It is of legendary quality. When equipped, [...]
Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we’re heading to Sapphiron and Kel’Thuzad to visit a few old friends, complete Naxxramas, and wonder to ourselves why everyone on [...]
Welcome to Ask a Lore Nerd, where each week blogger and columnist Alex Ziebart answers your questions about the lore and history of the World of Warcraft. Ask your questions in the comments section below, and we’ll try to answer it in a future edition.
Welcome back! This week we’re mostly tilted toward Scourge questions, whereas [...]
Welcome to Lichborne, The weekly Death Knight column, where your host is recruiting only the most pro critters for his raiding team.
So by now, I’m sure many of you Death Knights have managed to follow our last tanking gear guide and have put together a pretty decent tank set that’s gotten them through a few [...]
Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we unwisely decide to give the column to Allison “Oops, I forgot my frost resist” Robert. Not that you actually need [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
A bad case of space cancer put me out of commission for the last few days, and for that I apologize. In addition to my apology, I blame the pandas. They caused me [...]
Welcome to Lichborne. Your host is inflicted with the space plague this week, but has done his best to write for you people anyway, so be grateful, you hear?
We’ve covered 3.0.8 pretty extensively, between Mike Sacco’s coverage of the initial round of changes and our week before last discussion, but the devs weren’t done yet. [...]
What a great year 2008 has been for Paladins. While 3.0 overhauled the game in general, the class was retooled throughout the year, particularly Retribution, and became one of the most fun classes to play. In fact, Paladin popularity, while never a problem, rose incredibly. Even as I mourn the decline of Warlocks, I shudder at all the Paladins [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
Good afternoon, WoW Insider! I have nothing useful to say in my preface today, because I need to go put my new power supply and video card in my PC so I can [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to Lichborne, WoW Insider’s weekly Death Knight column.
Yeah, I definitely have to put out a mea culpa here. Alas, Lichborne is a little bit late again. I have a valid excuse, I swear. It involved a flaming plum pudding, a flailing geist, and a sudden snowstorm at the Shadow Vault over in Icecrown. But [...]
For our Wrath Dailies series thus far, we’ve been trying to do them in groups. For example, we did the Kalu’ak dailies first, and now Adam is going through the Cooking dailies. I’ve decided to jump out of order for this one, because it’s actually somewhat important beyond just another daily quest. This quest is [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
Hello, everyone! Did you all grieve for me yesterday when The Queue never showed up? Yes, I apologize. My internet connection going down for 14 hours sort of caused some problems. But I’m [...]
At around this time, a good bunch of us should have hit 80 by now. A fortunate few will already be raiding, while others will slowly be gearing up for them. I’ve put together a quick guide to the gear that Paladins of all specs should be looking forward to. With blue, or rare, gear [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
I’m sure The Queue is the last thing you’re all interested in the day the PTR goes up, but too bad! You get it anyway! Let’s get the Q&A started, eh?
Velina asked…
I have [...]
Well, I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I’m certainly having fun playing my death knight. I can solo a lot of the more difficult quests in the game; my Blood self-healing along with my glyphed Death Strike keeps me topped off and out of danger almost all the time; and I [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
It’s Friday, the second best day of the week, in stark contrast to Wednesday which was the worst day of the week. What is the number one best day of the week? Well, [...]
One of the ways to gear up as you level and prepare for endgame in Wrath of the Lich King is by making use of the reputation gained via questing for various factions in Northrend. In addition to the main Alliance or Horde factions the Alliance Vanguard and Horde Expedition, there are a variety of [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
First off, I want to apologize for an error I made yesterday. I didn’t research the sockets that Blacksmiths can give only to themselves enough, and due to one-part misinformation, one-part assumption, I [...]
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.
Just a few questions today, because slow weekends are slow. Who wants to ask questions when you can be playing? Certainly not me. I will still answer questions, however. Let’s jump right in [...]
That’s right, Atlasloot Enhanced has been updated to include the Northrend instances and raid. Personally, I’ve been waiting to be able to browse and try-on the gear from the new dungeons and raids since the expansion launched.
Atlasloot Enhanced is absolutely one of my must-have addons, and I’ve watched it grow with loving admiration since the [...]