BlizzPlanet is giving away some BlizzCon tix

Our good friends at BlizzPlanet have obtained a ticket to the happiest place on Earth (BlizzCon, of course — right next to some dump called Disneyland), and they’re giving it away over on their site. There are a few hoops to jump through, but then again, how much do you want to go to [...]

Knitted mitts for the Alliance

We are so glad we get to use bigger pictures now, especially when they show off something this cool. Mirthical made these Alliance-branded fingerless mitts (actually, we’re not sure that lion is an official Alliance logo, but he’s cute enough) for a friend of hers who was such a big Warcraft fan that she [...]

Encrypted Text: Rogue tips for raiding Ulduar, part 1

Every Wednesday, 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 some of the tips and tricks to remember when raiding Ulduar.
With Ulduar laid wide open, many Rogues and their guilds are flocking to its gates. [...]

Spiritual Guidance: Tools to evaluate a Discipline Priest

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a new UI and addons blog for WoW. After a minor hiatus, Matticus examines the pain that many Discipline Priests experience: [...]

WoW Moviewatch: In Memory – Retribution Final Trailer

The In Memory – Retribution Final Trailer is one hell of a piece of work. The author, Necka, says that he’s over 70% done with the actual movie, and that he and his production team are in the final stretch of completion. The script writer is Kirochi, who seems to have created a powerful story.
The [...]

Your video settings have changed

Upon patching and opening up WoW today, many players were greeted with the only marginally helpful message “Your video settings have changed.” The first question that leapt to my mind when I saw it was “what settings, and why?” It would have been nice to tell us that, I think.
Fortunately, Bornakk knows (I sometimes suspect [...]

Around Azeroth: Shake your groove thing

It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart … a team of identical dancing night elves? Undead mage Tirin of <Lex Non Scripta> on Lightning’s Blade managed to terrify the whole Undercity before the locals realized that he was just [...]

Breakfast Topic: That spec you hate

I’m going to be honest here. I hate the current iteration of arms spec.
One of the reasons I hate it is because it works better than my beloved fury spec for what I do in raids, which is dealing damage. It’s gotten to the point where I’m usually dual-specced arms/fury, arms for most bosses and [...]

Workaround for WoW.com addon’s /note issues.

Since we launched WoW.com late last night, we’ve had numerous people writing in about an issue that has cropped up regarding one of the aspects of our tracking addon. We’ll continue to respond to those reports personally as necessary, but we figured it would be wise to get the issue and the fix out in [...]

Public service announcement: European readers, you do exist

Since the new site went live last night, an awful lot of our comments have been from here in the EU. Hundreds of our lovely readers have been having some problems, namely they can’t find their characters using the on-site search engine.
There’s a simple reason for this. Because so many of the shiny new features [...]