Filed under: Raiding, Bosses, Guides
So ends the age of the weekly loot piñata. The Wintergrasp raid instance, somewhat inappropriately called the Vault of Archavon, has a new tenant who isn’t quite the pushover Archavon the Stone Watcher has been since the launch of Wrath of the Lich King. The Vault of Archavon was essentially every [...]
Filed under: Features, [1.Local]
Reader comments – ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past.
Patch madnessPatch 3.1 went in; stable servers went out. Were you one of the players who shrugged and pushed [...]
Filed under: Contests
It’s Saturday afternoon! What are you doing? I have no idea! I know what you should be doing, though. You should be finishing up your submissions to our Fan Art Contest! You only have a couple of days left, the contest ends the evening of April 20th.
Again, submissions are judged based on artistic [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Expansions, Hardware
A few people are experiencing slowdown issues with patch 3.1, and since our last bit of technical help went over so well, we figured we’d do a little troubleshooting for you on this one, too. If your computer is running slower since you updated [...]
Filed under: Bugs
In the aftermath of one of the biggest patches WoW has ever seen, many realms are still experiencing some technical issues. Talents and items are going missing, world and instance servers are down, and I’ve heard at least one report of trash mobs in Naxxramas suddenly breaking out in song.
Okay, I might have [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, WoW Insider Business, Odds and ends, Blizzard, WoW Insider Show
Our podcast goes live again today as usual, and it should be a good one. We’re going to welcome Rogue blogger Chase Christian back to the show, Turpster should be along for the ride as usual, and we’re planning [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, Achievements
The folks over at GuildOx, a guild progress and achievement ranking site, were kind enough to email us some interesting new statistics about Ulduar’s achievements. As it stands a large portion of the raids are, of course, not getting encounter specific achievements the first time they go into the [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion
In celebration of the release of Patch 3.1, Secrets of Ulduar, FigurePrints is having a little sale. When placing your order, if you enter the promotional code ‘ULDUARSECRET’ you’ll get 10% off of the price of your Print. Normal price being $129.95, you get $13 off bringing the subtotal to $116.95. [...]
Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries
High on my personal list of pain-in-the-ass mobs lies the Umbrafen Eel, which combines a low quest item drop rate with a highly unpleasant shock when you try to hit it in melee. (Other mobs on the list include Kurzen Medicine Men, pre-nerf Defias Pillagers, and any member of the [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion
BlizzCast #9 was released very recently, and it’s quite short this time around, only about 11 minutes long. It’s short because it only covers one thing. It contains Chris Metzen reading the prologue to Arthas: Rise of the Lich King.
The prologue is centered primarily on the native races in Northrend and [...]