PTR schedule updated

Filed under: Patches, Raiding, Bosses
As you all probably noticed, there was no patch 3.1 today. Evidently they’re not doing testing Ulduar yet – three more hard mode tests are scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night.
On the North American PTR:

Hodir (hard mode): tonight, 7 PM EDT
Iron Council (hard mode): tomorrow night, April 1, 7 PM EDT. [...]

Urgent authentication database maintenance underway

Filed under: Realm Status, News items
The opening announcement on the login screen has just let us know that there is urgent maintenance being performed on the authentication servers. The maintenance will continue until 1:00 p.m. PDT / 4:00 p.m. EDT.
During this time you may or may not be able to log into the game. [...]

AbleGamer talks to Blizz about 3.1 accessibility

Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard
AbleGamers has a conversation with Jeff Kaplan about the upcoming accessibility changes to the game in patch 3.1. We saw in the patch notes already that there would be a new colorblind mode added to the game, but Kaplan goes into more detail [...]

Chef’s Hat introduced in patch 3.1

Filed under: Cooking, Patches, Analysis / Opinion
One hundred Dalaran Cooking Awards. One hundred. That’s how many Cooking Awards it takes to purchase the statless vanity item being implemented in patch 3.1: The Chef’s Hat.
I would be excited if it didn’t mean I would need to do a few rotating dailies every single day for the [...]

The Queue: Horsewhipping

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, The Queue
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
Afternoon, ladies and gents. I have a follow up from yesterday’s question regarding casinos, with further information straight from [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Bending Reality By Lex

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, WoW Moviewatch
When we first featured Downside Up by Lex a few weeks ago, both myself and commenters were clear. For all that Lex said he didn’t really have a point to his music video, the rest of us really liked it. You’re allowed to eschew narrative focus in favor [...]

The state of Engineering in 3.1

Filed under: Enchanting, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Jewelcrafting, Features, Buffs, Enchants, Forums

In case you missed the memo, the short list of changes to the Engineering profession that have been posted for patch 3.1 are all you are going to get come patch day, like it or not. Bornakk confirmed that Blizzard feels that the [...]

Around Azeroth: Spinning in infinity

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries

In Azeroth, players and mobs are reborn so many times that they have to eventually long for the final peace of the grave. Varsivius of <Warborne> on Moonglade-EU has discovered at least one way to put dead mobs to rest — performing the “Blowing Hodir’s Horn” daily and sending their [...]

Breakfast Topic: The next Warcraft comic book hero

Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Breakfast topics, Blood Elves, Lore, Comics

So I posted a couple days ago about the new Death Knight manga starring the Human Death Knight Thassarian, and it sparked some interesting conversation in the comments. Namely, people started talking about the type of hero they’d like to see in the Warcraft comics. Some [...]

Tuesday Morning Post: Expedient & Emotional Edition

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Realm Status, Odds and ends, News items
Here we are, my old friend. You and I, waiting for downtime again. Yeah, we got a little spot of downtime coming our way again. I’d recommend you go check out Vin Diesel in the latest installation of the greastest series of cinematic triumph [...]