World of Warcraft

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. [...]

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I’m living a dream that many guys out there have: My girlfriend is actively learning how to play World of Warcraft and is enjoying it. After a couple of false starts, she finally found a [...]

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Hacked! It is not fun, and it happens more than anyone would like to admit. Gear, gold and pride, all pilfered by some stranger.
It starts with a simple email from Blizzard. Hmmm, it’s my [...]

The other day over dinner, my wife and I were talking about a new game on Facebook and how easy it would be for us to game the system. My brother-in-law stopped us mid-conversation and asked, “What the hell happened to you two? You used to be hardcore raiders! Now you’re talking about min-maxing a [...]

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There’s obviously a certain understanding based on shared experience among the various WoW races, classes and specs, no matter what your faction. When you meet, even if you can’t understand each other in chat, you [...]

I’m an old-school RPer. And when I say old school, I mean sitting on the floor in a circle around a map with painted pewter figurines on it and a bag of dice that I jealously guard. I also used to roleplay my characters in EQ quite a bit, though not 100% of the time. [...]

A poster on the forums queried the developers on what a day at the office for the class balance team entailed. This is one of those topics that I’m sure most of us have wondered about from time to time. Do they spend their days skimming Arena Junkies and Elitist Jerks looking at feedback, or [...]

There have been a lot of new models and textures datamined out of the current Cataclysm beta. Cities are getting face-lifts, bridges are being finished, and entire zones are getting made-over. Even the water in the game is getting overhauled.

The problem is sometimes things appear to get missed. Let’s take the druid forms [...]

When Blizzard first announced the Real ID concept at last year’s BlizzCon, it seemed like a promising idea. The ability to keep in touch with real-life friends across realms and even across different Blizzard games seemed like something World of Warcraft needed, what with some real friends being separated by faction or realm. With new [...]

The Midsummer Fire Festival ended last night with a Fireworks Spectacular to send it off. We’ve had roughly two weeks (minus some server downtime) to achieve what we wanted to achieve.
I ran as many fires as were convenient and/or fun on as many alts as possible to take advantage of the obscene experience gains. [...]