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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! You didn’t think Scattered Shots was taking the day off, did you? Hopefully, there’s enough of you who aren’t completely zonked out on turkey, ham, or beef to read this.
So by now, I figure most of you are well on your way to 80, and are probably starting to ask yourself: Which [...]
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.
Yesterday the topic of profession daily quests came up, and there was a little confusion around it. The way the question was phrased combined with how my response was phrased made it sound [...]
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.
Daily quests and reputation has been a really hot topic lately, not only in The Queue but across WoW in general. Some of our questions today will focus on that, but I’d also [...]
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 venture into new (well, sort of) territory…
While many people are taking a leisurely stroll towards 80, seeing the sights and [...]
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.
Wrath of the Lich King is finally here, and with it [...]
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 going to look the introductory zones of 70 to 75.!
Welcome to [...]
Did you pack well enough for the cold? Allie gave great advice on some basic things we need while we’re in Northrend, like food and other consumables. Depending on your level of progression or gear, your approach to questing or leveling out here will vary quite a bit. For well-geared players, it’ll be a breeze [...]
Welcome to the first post-Wrath installment of Lichborne, the weekly Death Knight column. Join Daniel Whitcomb on the bleeding edge of a new and untried class.
So Wrath is upon us, and we can finally start leveling our Death Knights on the live servers. That’s right, this time it’s for keeps. I’m pretty excited about that. [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday marked the end of Ask a Beta Tester, and today we begin the rise from the ashes. Like we’ve been saying the last few days, we’re going to continue Ask a Beta Tester under a different name. What name? We don’t know yet. Ask a Wrath Player is what I used today, but is [...]
Unfortunately we ran out of time in our Care and Feeding of Warriors series on gear for Wrath of the Lich King ;ast week, just as we were about to cover the weapons to be looking to acquire. This week, post launch, here’s a concise list of blues to be had in the 70 to [...]
Over the last two days, the WoW Insider team has been busy reviewing and gathering all of the still-current class information to bring you up to speed for your first steps into Northrend. You’ve probably had a chance to get a handle on your class since most of the changes were pushed through in patch [...]
Previously, we covered the Alliance flight paths of the first three zones in Northrend. Now it’s the Horde’s turn.
Once you’ve gotten to Northrend and possibly taken an awesome turtle boat to your choice of starting zone, you’ll be mostly getting around by Wind Rider (flying mounts, of course, don’t work in Northrend until level 77).
Note [...]
To play Wrath tonight you’ll need to update the game. The game installs version 3.0.1 when you upgrade to Wrath, and you’ll need to update it version to 3.0.3. That means installing the following two patches:
Version 3.0.1 – > Version 3.0.2
Version 3.0.2 -> Version 3.0.3
You are in luck though and don’t have to wait around [...]
Welcome to another episode edition of Ask a Beta Tester! Just a few more days until Wrath. Are you excited? I’m excited. I’m so excited that I don’t think I’m going to answer any questions today, and instead slam my face on my keyboard in joy and post that to our main page instead.
At least [...]