Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries
Does the Molten Core need an exterminator? You’d think all those core hounds would keep the pests away, but no. Solanine of <Eternal Descent> on Icecrown captured the moment as her raid’s boomkin cast Insect Swarm on Ragnaros. Silly Raggy! Don’t you know that bugs are attracted to fire? And [...]
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.
First official confirmation that new [...]
Filed under: Breakfast topics
It never ceases to amaze me how huge Azeroth is. As I’ve leveled and explored, installed expansions and patches, that wonder has never left me. But of course, one of the reasons I like WoW so much is it’s not all about fighting and killing things twenty times larger than me. This [...]
Filed under: Contests
It’s that time of the week again, everyone Yes, that’s right. It’s time for WoW Insider to ‘celebrate’ maintenance Tuesday with free stuff. We’re back to TCG loot codes this week, once again courtesy of the great folks over at WoWTCGLoot.com.
So what are we offering this week? We have two Sandbox Tiger codes [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Realm Status, Odds and ends, News items
Good Tuesday Morning, Everyone! While we’re still recovering from the server downtime from last night, we have a whole new patch to muddle through as well, including extended downtime. Not only are all servers down from 3 AM to 11 AM Pacific, but some [...]
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Last week’s maintenance saw a larger number of servers go down for an extended time in order to receive some hardware upgrades. This week it’s the same game with a new batch of servers.
For those realms who are not getting a hardware upgrade, maintenance will run from 3:00 a.m. [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, Instances
I’d like to take a moment to address another reader email. In this post I kind of skirt the direct issues of recruiting and establishing a guild bank. I offer my best advice on the absolute basics of starting a guild. Please ignore spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors in [...]
Filed under: Fan stuff, Features, Interviews, World of WarCrafts
World of WarCrafts returns to WoW Insider with a broadened focus to spotlight art and creativity by WoW players and fans, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music, fan fiction – and yes, (War)crafts. Share your creativity: tip us off via the tips line (attention: World of [...]
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
A sudden wave of crashes has hit the North American WoW servers, with the Emberstorm and Whirlwind Battlegroups especially hard hit.
As of this writing, most of the affected servers are still down. Blizzard is aware of the issue and is looking into it, but has no further information to [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items
Blizzard has renewed their agreement with a company called TeliaSonera to provide bandwidth for them in Europe. They just made a very similar deal with AT&T for the US — it’s the bandwidth that connects their servers to the millions of connections that lead back to your computer [...]