World of Warcraft

It’s time again for Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that loves warlocks. Arcane Brilliance loves warlocks so much. It loves them right in the face. With a Pyroblast. Can you feel the love? Does it feel like your heart is melting? And like your brain is running down the side of your face? Because [...]

As you may or may not be aware, a disturbingly high percentage of my max-level characters are warriors. At present, a draenei, night elf and tauren are at 80. I transferred all three to the beta servers and figured I’d use the tauren to test out fury both in Titan’s Grip and Single-Minded Fury variants. [...]

Beta build 12759 released tonight, bringing some very significant changes to the hunter class. Ghostcrawler, Lead Systems Designer, also stopped by the beta forums to share some thoughts on the current state of hunter design in Cataclysm beta. Here are some of the highlights:

Hunter mastery system is now implemented
Aspect of the Fox now lets you [...]

Some relics — sigils, idols, librams, and totems — were unearthed in the latest beta patch that are fundamentally different from how relics work currently in the game — they are now stat items with sockets. Currently, relics are non-stat items that confer a special effect specific to a common ability used by a particular [...]

The new paladin combat resource holy power just became significantly easier to track and use in this evening’s Cataclysm beta patch. Whereas previously it was simply a buff you had to eyeball along with every other other buff up in the top right of your UI, it now has its own UI element directly beneath [...]

We featured the beginning of ROFLBear on Monday’s Moviewatch. The ROFLBear show is a daily series of machinima videos created by the folks behind Myndflame. You can think of it as a daily WoW cartoon. They’re finishing up this week’s first run with the Anthem of the Crusader, a musical piece.
The reviews of ROFLBear have [...]

Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. Itemization in Cataclysm is changing, and this week we’ll be talking about how you can prepare yourself for the oncoming storm.
I’ve talked quite a bit about various changes that are happening with balance druids in the coming expansion: the Eclipse [...]

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about warriors, who hurl themselves into the fray, into the very teeth of danger, armed with nothing more than the biggest weapons and armored with the absolutely heaviest armor we can find. Hey, we’re not stupid — we’re just crazy.
Good morning. I had said at the end [...]

Zach brings you the weekly column The Art of War(craft), in which he talks about good, old-fashioned PvP.

Changes in the beta are fast and furious. There’s practically a new build every week, just about whenever the live realms go on maintenance, sometimes even sooner. While a lot of the things in the beta are [...]