Monthly Archives Октябрь 2012

Yo, death knights. Chill. [hide]Zarhym[/hide]’s got this.

It’s no secret that the artists at Blizzard put a lot of effort and creativity into creating unique tier pieces for every class. It’s a time-intensive process. But for death knights, it’s been an uncomfortably long wait. After all, [hide]each[/hide] [hide]and[/hide] [hide]every[/hide] [hide]other[/hide] [hide]class[/hide] [hide]had[/hide] [hide]an[/hide] [hide]official[/hide] [hide]preview[/hide] of their [hide]tier 13[/hide] set by the end of September.

Well, it turns out there was a good reason for that wait...

WoW Insider’s on a [hide]Daily Quest[/hide] to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

Everyone is still up in arms over the [hide]new pet from the Blizzard store[/hide] — and arguing over what this means for the future of WoW’s economy. Needless to say, today we’ve got another roundup of posts from around the blogosphere further discussing the situation.

[hide]Power Word: Gold[/hide] ponders Blizzard’s future intentions for the pet store and whether this is paving the way for more items paid for [hide]with real cash[/hide].

[hide]The Ancient Gaming Noob[/hide] takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the situation and other examples of [hide]RMT in gaming[/hide].

[hide]Keen and Graev’s Gaming Blog[/hide] points out that these kitties ar...

Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Scattered Shots[/hide] for [hide]beast mastery[/hide], [hide]marksmanship[/hide] and [hide]survival[/hide] hunters. Frostheim of [hide]Warcraft Hunters Union[/hide] uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail your hunter questions to [hide]Frostheim[/hide]. This week, his evil twin, Basil «[hide]Euripides[/hide]» Berntsen, is covering for him while he sleeps off the after-effects of the last Hunting Party Podcast.

Hunter PVP is in a bad state right now. This does not mean that you can’t get Gladiator with a hunter, but it does mean you have to be way better to do it than if you were to play, say, a warlock...

Pop law abounds in [hide]The Lawbringer[/hide], your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. [hide]Mathew McCurley[/hide] takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?

Blizzard [hide]recently treated[/hide] WoW fans to a preview of the [hide]Guardian Cub[/hide] tradable pet, going on sale soon at the Blizzard pet store. Immediately upon hearing that the pet was tradable, readers began inundating me with email and [hide]Twitter[/hide] messages to talk about said cub on The Lawbringer, as this is sort of the thing I fancy myself a connoisseur of...

[hide]Choose the adventures[/hide] of the WoW Insider staff or join in with [hide]It came from the Blog[/hide] on Zangarmarsh (US-PVE-H).

This week’s schedule:

[hide]Josh Myers[/hide] will be playing [hide]Clergelam[/hide] (level 10) on Thursday at 12 p.m. EDT (9 a.m. PDT, 10 a.m. server time).

[hide]Joe Perez[/hide] will be playing [hide]Haemon[/hide] (level 12) on Sunday at 4 p.m. EDT (1 p.m. PDT, 2 p.m. server time).

[hide]Fox Van Allen[/hide] will be playing [hide]Foxlight the Shirtless Pally[/hide] (level 27) on Friday at 7 p.m. EDT (4 p.m. PDT, 5 p.m. server time).

[hide]Roblinator[/hide] the Goblin shaman (level 59) will play on Wednesday at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT, 11 a.m. server time).

Stories and polls are after the break.[hide]Continue reading Choose My Adventure: It’s a new day

Well, we were teased about it with this year’s [hide]Darkmoon Faire[/hide] preview, and now we get a taste of what’s to come: [hide]replica items[/hide]. Our friends and cohosts for this year’s [hide]WoW Insider party at BlizzCon[/hide] (which you should totally go to) over at [hide]Wowhead News[/hide] have found a heap of these items, for both the original Dungeon Set 1 look and the upgraded Dungeon Set 2.

As yet these items seem to be purely cosmetic, offering the look of now-lost sets. There’s no sign yet of Tier 3 (original Naxxramas gear) or BC Season 3 Vengeful PVP gear right now, but who knows? This is certainly a step in the right direction for that happening. I’m pretty excited, let me tell you...

[hide]World of WarCrafts[/hide] spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music, fan fiction and more. Sample the whole spectrum on our [hide]Arts and Crafts in [/hide][hide]WoW[/hide] page.

Longtime readers may remember [hide]Murloc RPG[/hide], a game [hide]we featured[/hide] way back in 2006. The game received an update earlier this year with the release of [hide]Murloc: Stranglethorn Fever[/hide]. Hot on its heels is the latest release, [hide]Murloc RPG 2[/hide], all by Unmediocre. The game looks just like the World of Warcraft we know and love, with one small exception: Instead of playing a mighty Tauren or a Dwarven hero of the Alliance, you play … a murloc.

That’s right — this Flash-based game lets you play as one of those fishy pes...

Heading back to pick up some awesome armor sets from vanilla WoW or that dazzling weapon that’ll have your enemies cowering in fear? [hide]Transmogrification[/hide] makes it possible — and [hide]World of Wardrobe[/hide] shows you how.

The Burning Crusade was an expansion of extremes. Each zone in Outland was drastically different from the next; each dungeon was just as diverse. The staggering difference between regular dungeons and the newly added heroic dungeons was the bane of many early leveling players in the expansion, though the heroic dungeons were nerfed over time. So too were the raids — and tier 5 had two of the most drastically different raid dungeons that anyone had seen.

While [hide]Serpentshrine Cavern[/hide] was the aquatic themed underwater home to Lady Vashj, countless Nag...

New around here? [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide] has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the [hide]WoW Rookie Guide[/hide]. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

With [hide]BlizzCon 2011[/hide] only a little more than a week away, we got hit with an odd request. A reader is bringing a completely non-WoW -playing friend to the [hide]Reader Meetup[/hide]. This is awesome; we’d like to see friends and family of all shapes and sizes at the meetup. But still, this friend knows nothing about the game. She knows the game exists, of course, but she doesn’t know anything at all about it. So the question of the week is: What is WoW from a complete and total noob’s perspective?

Let...