The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The Luck Of The Drop

Filed under: Warrior, Patches, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, The Burning Crusade, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Wrath of the Lich King

It’s been a remarkably grueling month for me, so I can’t say I’ll be sorry to see April finally end. As much fun as the new content is, a lot [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Best of Myndflame Machinima

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, WoW Moviewatch

I plan to talk more about a recent gathering at Stanford, which was focused on the growth and trends of “machinima law.” But for Moviewatch today, I wanted to highlight a small artifact of work that was displayed at Stanford. Specifically, Myndflame created this Best of Myndflame [...]

One Boss Leaves: Prince Taldaram embraces victory

Filed under: Features, Bosses, Two Bosses Enter

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider’s series of fantasy death matches. This season’s bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
Prince Taldaram of Ahn’Kahet: The Old Kingdom managed to Embrace (of the Vampyr) victory in this week’s matchup against [...]

Around Azeroth: The Horde crosses the Delaware

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries

Sneaky Hordelings (from left) Unteeka, Cataca and Escargotage, all of <Initech> on Cairne, recently, uh, “found themselves” in the notorious Dancing Troll Village of Darkshore. Stumbling upon an abandoned boat, they decided to recreate the famous painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River. It’s not a perfect copy by [...]

Breakfast Topic: If you could be a real GM what would you do?

Filed under: Breakfast topics
Gamesmasters have been in WoW news a lot recently. We’ve had reports that a GM mistakenly sent Martin’s Fury out to a player leading to pwnage in Ulduar. For the last twenty four hours, my inbox and those of the rest of the team seem to be full of screenshots showing a [...]

Blizzard sends a C&D to Warcraft Characters, other iPhone apps

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, AddOns, Hardware
The good news here: Blizzard may be planning to do more with the iPhone. The bad news: they’re apparently trying to squelch useful iPhone apps that are out there right now. They’ve already sent out cease-and-desist orders to two Warcraft-related iPhone [...]

The Queue: Mercenaries

Filed under: 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.
Today’s edition of The Queue is nice and lengthy again, after a spree of shorty-shorts. See, good things happen when people actually ask [...]

WoW Rookie: The art of conducting business in [2:Trade]

Filed under: Items, Tips, How-tos, Features, WoW Rookie, Making money

New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the resources they need to get acclimated. Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic.
Just spent half an hour fruitlessly spamming the Trade channel in hopes of getting your new gear enchanted? Maybe (just [...]

Addon Spotlight: DagAssist

Filed under: AddOns, AddOn Spotlight, Classes
Addon Spotlight takes a look at the little bits of Lua and XML that make our interfaces special. From bar mods to unit frames and beyond, if it goes in your Addons folder, we’ll cover it here.
I love it when people send in tips for cool addons. There was a [...]

Curse releases premium add-on download client

Filed under: News items, AddOns

Curse has released a premium version of their add-on client. The service they are offering goes for $30 a year on their annual plan, or $5/month if you choose to pay like that. There are some features of the premium client worth looking at if you’re interested in spending the money.
The [...]