From our readers: Is my Ulduar-clearing guild holding me back?

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Fan stuff, Guilds, Raiding
I’d like to take a minute to address the concerns of one of our readers. Since my return to WoW Insider, I’ve been focusing on sanity, progression, and congruence.
Dear WoW Insider:
I need help, and I figure between me and that guy in the last Breakfast [...]

[1.Local]: Questions, answers from our readers

Filed under: Rogue, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, Guilds, Blizzard, Features, Raiding, Bosses, [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 week.
The comments section is usually a cacophony of [...]

Forum post of the day: Be disciplined about healing meters

Filed under: Priest, Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, Raiding, Talents, Forum Post of the Day
Mellere of Wildhammer posted a brief lament about her guild leaders treatment of a Discipline Priest. The discipline priest was below a Retadin on HPS. Without understanding the role of mitigation as a healer, the Raid Leader told him to go holy [...]

The Daily Quest: Of old gods and old comps

Filed under: The Daily Quest

We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

It’s not a blog, it’s not a vlog, it’s not a podcast, but it’s still worth a mention: Irae AoD, a European guild, scored the world first for the [...]

The Art of War(craft): Is Wintergrasp too successful for its own good?

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, (PvP) The Art of War(craft), Battlegrounds

Zarhym recently took to the forums defending Blizzard’s recent tinkering with Wintergrasp on the test realms when one a poster threw the accusation that rather than optimize the servers to handle Wintergrasp lag, Blizzard instead chose to make the zone and games less rewarding [...]

The Fields of Honor TCG loot in motion

Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion
As we mentioned just the other day, the latest batch of TCG loot from Fields of Honor is on the PTR for testing. I couldn’t resist going to give those things a whirl myself. After all, how else will I decide if I should blow money on these things? [...]

Around Azeroth: Driving in the carpool lane

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries

It’s tough all over these days. Even Azeroth is suffering from an economic downturn. Curse those gold farmers for selling epic mounts at sub-prime rates! Anyway, Healornodeal of <Kill or be killed> on Vashj-EU has been forced to carpool with a Forsaken pal to save on horse refueling costs. Even [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: Play me

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, BlizzCon, Comics
Another Sunday has rolled around, and as always, some of the comics are talking about what’s in the news, including the sale of BlizzCon tickets, the latest word to be officially adopted into the English language, and the BlizzCon pet!

Check out the latest from Cru the Dwarf.
Dark Legacy [...]

Breakfast Topic: Did you get your BlizzCon tickets?

In a stunning twist, we actually didn’t experience any catastrophic failures in regard to the BlizzCon ticket purchases yesterday morning. Any of you who were around for last year’s fiasco know why it’s so surprising! In fact, the only real issue we can think of is that there just weren’t enough tickets for all of [...]

Arcane Brilliance: Mage addons for PvP

Filed under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, PvP, AddOns, Features, Guides, Classes, Buffs, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance, Battlegrounds, Arena

Each week Arcane Brilliance gets Blizzcon tickets. Yes, Arcane Brilliance always gets 1st place in the queue, and then buys as many tickets as it wants. Arcane Brilliance is just that cool. Also, Arcane Brilliance refuses to give me [...]