Wrath 101: Getting your dungeon reputation tabards

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 [...]

Tuesday Morning Post: It’s still not patch day, is it?

So we have a 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific downtime today. But honestly, I’m sort of hoping it’s not for patch day, because I have a Death Knight column going live later this morning that assumes testing’s going to go on for another few weeks. Besides, they just added a few new tweaks to [...]

Breakfast topic: The good old days

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for nearly three of it’s four year run. It’s kind of amazing to me to see how things have changed over time. Many of the adjustments have been by player suggestions, and most of them for the good. The folks I’ve been playing with lately don’t have nearly as [...]

Phat Loot Phriday: Staff of the Great Reptile

I tried to find some great caster/healing staves for you to work towards this weekend, but they’re hard to come by, and strangely enough I couldn’t find a single caster staff as a reputation reward — Druids get all the good ones I found. This one’s from an instance you can run this weekend, though, [...]

Totem Talk: Wrath faction gear for Shamans

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 [...]

Ask WoW Insider: Instance running 101

Here’s a question for you all from Percinho about my absolute favorite thing to do in game: five man instances. He and his guildies are about to run their very first instance (or they were when he sent this to us at ask@wowinsider.com), and he wants to know your very best tips for instance running:
For [...]

Totem Talk: Grizzly Hills, Zul’Drak, and the Troll Instances

Before we get rolling with today’s column, I direct you to yesterday’s good news for elemental shamans. Soak it in, folks. Buffs for elemental with no huge nerfs attached? It’s like a holiday or something. You should go eat Turkey to celebrate. I’ll wait.
Okay, now we move on to yet more gear. Last time we [...]

Elemental Shaman changes in patch 3.0.4

Ghostcrawler, in a post to the Damage Dealing forums, outlined upcoming changes to Elemental Shamans. It’s a pretty substantial talent overhaul for the tree, aimed at streamlining and improving scaling at higher levels of gear. (And boy, is that a good thing.) Unlike the recent post changing how totems work as AoE, this is a [...]

Varian Wrynn hates the Horde

It really can’t be disputed at this point: Varian Wrynn is not fond of the Horde, at all. There will be no Jaina-style mash notes to Thrall coming from Varian any time soon.
If you saw the brief window of time before the launch of Wrath where Varian and his allies talked about the onslaught of [...]

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