World of Warcraft

Recently, Polar over at Securing WoW wrote about the latest phishing email being sent out by scammers. Account thieves are using the 2010 Arena Tournament as a way to lure you to their site to steal your login info. (Registration for the tournament ended on the 27th.) This is typical behavior by these crooks. Every [...]

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week, we are peering into the destructive future and what it holds for one of the most controversial talents we have. Also, a notice that I am in need of some screenshots of pro balance druids doing whatever it [...]

Dodge the drama and become that player everyone wants in their group with the Drama Mamas. Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are real-life mamas and experienced WoW players — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of checkout lane next to the [...]

Zarhym was active on the forums last night detailing some of the new balancing mechanics in Tol Barad, the Wintergrasp-like zone that will be coming out in Cataclysm. In fact, it’s so much like Wintergrasp that Wintergrasp itself will soon be updated with the new balancing mechanics.
In brief, the new mechanics are:

A minimum cap will [...]

It’s been months since we’ve heard a peep on the Hollywood news lines about the Warcraft film or director Sam Raimi. When Spider-man 4 was canceled in January, there was speculation that Raimi might be headed to the Warcraft film next. A month later, we reported a rumor that Raimi’s next project might not be [...]

Each week, Zach talks about his favorite thing to do in World of Warcraft — PvP. That kind of makes him sort of one-dimensional. Like those folks from Flatland. Except, those guys were actually two dimensional. Come to think of it, being one-dimensional is a pretty groovy concept.
Finally, we arrive at the conclusion of [...]

Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a WoW blog for all things UI-, macro- and addon-related.
Don’t get freaked out just yet! I’m not actually bored of [...]

Addon Spotlight focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. We’ll look at everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond — your interface folder will never be the same! This week, we look at a different style of cooldown, debuff and buff tracker.
In a previous Addon Spotlight, [...]

Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week, Frostheim uses logic and science mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven Stout to look deep into the hunter class. Got hunter questions? Feel free to email Frostheim.
After a long and frustrating night of progression raiding, [...]

In a follow-up to the lengthy Badge and PvP point preview for Cataclysm, Bornakk posts that weapons for PvP will be tiered much as normal and heroic drops are in current raiding.

Bornakk – Cataclysm Badge and PvP Point Changes

The lower tier weapons will correspond in quality to items found in the latest raid [...]