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And we’re done for tonight folks, thanks for tuning in!

The WoW.com team is streaming again tonight over on our Justin.tv channel, or you can simply watch via the embed above. Tonight Anne Stickney will be showing us the continuing adventures of Lunchmeat the human hunter accompanied by her trusty wolf Spam, playing through Elwynn Forest, Westfall and beyond!

We have no scheduled end time for this particular stream; Anne will just go as long as she pleases. Pop some popcorn, pull up a chair and enjoy. We’re also in the chat channel over there if you want to drop by and say hello!

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Cataclysm closed beta live stream originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Spiritual Guidance, hosted by Fox Van Allen, consort to the shadows. Don’t mind any distracting grunting you hear coming from under the floor boards. Dawn Moore isn’t buried alive underneath there, I promise. She just needed to take today off. You know. For … um … I dunno, I think she’s one of the Hollywood Squares this week. Who cares, whatever, she’s gone.

Oh, hello shadow priests. Please come in. Shut the door behind you.

Have a seat. We need to talk.

I’ve been hearing rumors on wowpopular.com about your top major glyph choices, and frankly, I’m concerned. It’s telling me that the Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain is the most popular for shadow priests. Madness! And my god, are you really casting Flash Heal that often that you want to glyph for it?

Look, look, it’s okay. It’s not your fault. You’re the victim here. You chose what you thought was a good glyph, and it’s been letting you down. I can help.

After the break, we’re going to run down the list of the top ten most popular shadow priest glyphs and pick them apart, one by one. Hopefully, in the process, we can get rid of your cookie cutter build and find you a great new set of glyphs that matches your play style.

Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: The top ten shadow priest glyphs

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Spiritual Guidance: The top ten shadow priest glyphs originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. There was some consternation yesterday about a Twilight joke. I apologize for that, and instead offer up today’s image, or a brunette nearby apples. At night, in a neckbaring dress.

If you’ve missed any of the previous Cataclysm screenshots of the day or you want to see a high-res version of today’s image, check out the gallery below.

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Cataclysm screenshot of the day originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Classifieds brings you weekly news from around the WoW community, including our famous Random Acts of Uberness.

While we at WoW.com are hard at work puzzling out the latest round of changes from the Cataclysm beta, we’ve got something for you to puzzle over as well: a “Where in the World of Warcraft?” crossword puzzle from The Puzzle Hub. This one’s themed around places throughout Azeroth, Outland and Northrend. If that mind-bender strikes your fancy, there’s a “Who in the World of Warcraft?” version, too. Thanks for the tip, Benji — these look they’ll most assuredly help keep our minds off the agony of watching beta test class changes scritching and scratching back and forth.

Let’s crack open The Classifieds …

Continue reading The Classifieds: Puzzling over the world of Azeroth

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The Classifieds: Puzzling over the world of Azeroth originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

Last week we talked about the Old Gods, both ones we know as of right now and ones we can speculate upon come the Cataclysm. This week, we turn an unblinking gaze upon the master of unblinking gazes, the Old God that has arguably the most direct impact upon all of Azeroth. Not only did it indirectly create the nerubians and directly altered the qiraji into their modern form, not only did it battle a Titan to a standstill, but its connection to the Twilight’s Hammer and their demented leader Cho’gall means that even during the upcoming Cataclysm, the consequences of its actions are unfolding.

Most interestingly, this Old God did not even have a name until its own creations gave it one.

Continue reading Know Your Lore: The Old Gods part two — C’Thun

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Know Your Lore: The Old Gods part two — C’Thun originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the rogue class. This week, we discuss one of the least-appreciated rogue abilities, Expose Armor. I took the above screenshot by pushing one of two Expose Armor macros I have.

One of the most common complaints that I hear from the rogue community is that we don’t provide enough useful buffs to make ourselves worth taking to a raid. The rumor was originally true; in fact, rogues had a bad reputation for actually knocking off important debuffs when there used to be a limit. I remember my raid leader using the CT_Raid addon to look for Phantom Blades and Gutgore Rippers, then kicking anyone wielding them. We were the simple rogues, brought to stab our enemies and soak up any leather gear that dropped.

Times have changed. Both of the popular PvE rogue specs now possess a critical raid debuff. Mutilate has the fairly common Master Poisoner critical strike chance debuff, which is brought by a few other DPS specs as well. Combat, however, has the fairly unique Savage Combat debuff, which we share with arms-specced warriors alone. Since arms warriors aren’t exactly common in the high-end raiding game, we’re essentially the only way to pick up that serious boost. Add in the fact that Tricks of the Trade is often glyphed to provide maximum uptime, and we’ve actually got one of the better buffs in the game as well. All of this doesn’t even include our most beneficial raid ability by far.

Continue reading Encrypted Text: Exposé on Expose Armor

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Encrypted Text: Exposé on Expose Armor originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H).

I still have many moving chores to do, but if I do play tonight, I’ll be cheating on you and Robinemia by playing Roblin the Goblin. Or maybe I should play Robiness the Worgeness. Hmmmm … I feel a poll coming on. But polls are for Friday. Wednesday is advice and story day. First, here’s the schedule

• Amy Schley as Patent, the level 23 troll rogue: Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT
• Lisa Poisso as Prupher the proofreading druid (Lisiel just didn’t fit a tauren): Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT
• Fox Van Allen as Foxlight, the level 22 blood elf paladin: Friday, 8 p.m. EDT
• Michael Sacco as Sahko, the orc warlock; Christian Belt, as Selfloathius, the level 16 blood elf warlock; Elizabeth Harper as Faience, the level 24 troll shaman; Matthew Rossi as Andrenorton, the level 17 troll mage; Michael Gray as Grayfields, the level 17 tauren hunter; and Gregg Reece as Sandwichdoc, the level 15 troll shaman, will be making appearances as they can.

Advice for Foxlight and stories are after the break.

Continue reading Choose My Adventure: I’m cheating on you

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Choose My Adventure: I’m cheating on you originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For a while now, account thieves have been putting authenticators on their stolen accounts to buy more time for their scumbaggery. Blizzard has recently made that more difficult by requiring email confirmation when an authenticator is added to a Battle.net account. Rather than just logging in and putting in the appropriate information, you now have to follow the steps in a confirmation email sent to the address registered in your Battle.net account.

Note: Changing the email address on the account requires not only your password (which the account thieves already have at this point) but also the answer to your security question. So make sure the answer to your security question is not guessable or obtainable by any phishing information. As I have suggested before, if you use a password for your security answer rather than an actual answer, you are adding a very thick level of security. Make it a separate password you use just for security questions, like p45sw0rd (don’t use that one).

We don’t know how long ago Blizzard added email confirmation, but we do know that this will reduce the workload of its customer service. More importantly, this will make getting your account back less painful.

Of course, the best way to prevent someone from stealing your account and then adding an authenticator to it is to put an authenticator on it yourself. There are keyfob and mobile versions available.

[Thanks for the tip, Joel!]

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Email confirmation added to authenticator setup to foil hackers originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Broken Hearted is a new machinima released by RomireVids. It’s a story-driven machinima about a draenei, an evening of adventure, and the ramifications of what happens. As a note, Romire does say that he made the death scenes grayscale for the sake of effect, not as an accident.

I’m glad to see RomireVids continuing to expand. It’s important to embrace new machinimators so that the hobby can continue to grow, and Romire has shown a lot of passion for the genre. This story is a solid foundation, and Romire has proven that he’s expanding his technique. I look forward to seeing what’s next for the author.

Interested in the wide world of machinima? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an e-mail at machinima AT wow DOT com.

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WoW Moviewatch: Broken Hearted originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

I won’t lie. I almost forgot to write The Queue today. It’s not my fault. It really isn’t. Blame Jimmy Raynor and his bedamned Hyperion. It’s completely his fault. Actually … on second thought, blame Tychus Findlay. He’s a better scapegoat.

Now to distract you from what could have been a horrible error … Have you all entered our contest for a Blazing Hippogryph yet? You can enter once per day, remember! Head over there, leave a comment to enter and show WoWTCGLoot.com a little love. They’re the guys who make these giveaways possible.

Josh asked:

“Can you give the non-beta testers a feel for the completion of Cataclysm so far? Will they make the 2010 deadline?”

Continue reading The Queue: Oops

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The Queue: Oops originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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