Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, 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 will be pretty short and sweet. Many of the questions that were asked yesterday have [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items
This is really interesting — our friend Tommy Tallarico of Video Games Live recently did a show in Austin, Texas, and during the performance, they actually brought former Blizzard composer Jason Hayes up on the big screen via Skype and chatted [...]
Filed under: Patches, News items
Our sister site Big Download has the PC patch files for patch 3.1.1 mirrored. The download is only 8 megs in size, so it shouldn’t take you too long at all if you download it from them. However while the Blizzard downloader is working now, you might not have much luck [...]
Filed under: Patches, Realm Status, News items
Not that this should be a surprise to anyone…
But maintenance has been extended until 1:00 p.m. PDT / 4:00 p.m. EDT. There is no indication why the maintenance has been extended, but that’s the norm as well.
You can find out what’s in the patch over on the Patch 3.1.1 [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Features
Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all MMOs, including WoW! Check out this roundup of the latest news from the wider MMO world.
Face-capturing tech to be “in-game [...]
Filed under: Tips, Tricks, News items
Having problems getting patch 3.1.1 to download? Thinking that WoW Insider is crazy for announcing a patch without the download happening?
Well, we might be insane, but we’re not crazy.
If you’ve converted to a battle.net account, you cannot download the patch via the traditional log-in-and-it’ll-start method. To get the patch [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Moviewatch
I’ll admit that I got to preview some of this new video, courtesy of Gigi. Long story short, the Hall of Fame of Belf Rap have come together to form a machinima rap supergroup called A6. (That’s for Azerothian 6, you see.) Backed up by the awesome machinimator Red [...]
Filed under: Patches
As we posted earlier, patch 3.1.1 is going live today. The official patch notes have now been posted to the WoW forums. Here are highlights; I’ll put the full patch notes behind the cut.
In order to address issues with the dual talent specialization system, all players will have their talents points refunded. Players [...]
Filed under: Rogue, Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Guides, Classes, (Rogue) Encrypted Text
Every Wednesday (usually), 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 how to properly use a DPS spreadsheet.
Patch 3.1 is finally released, and there [...]
Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries
Baron Rivendare’s mount may be significantly easier to get in Wrath of the Lich King – it’s now a 1% drop as opposed to the previous one in five thousand chance — but it’s still quite a grind. After winning the rare steed, Mat decided to immortalize his new [...]