WoW Rookie: Hear, hear for tier gear

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New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the resources they need to get acclimated. Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic.
Reader Nick writes in with a question we’ve been planning to tackle here at WoW Rookie for a while now: “Hey, I’m semi-new to the [...]

Drama Mamas: Loot and leaving early

Let the Drama Mamas guide you through the sticky business of dodging drama, toward becoming that player everyone wants in their group. Drama Mamas Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are real-life mamas and experienced WoW players. And just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Snacky’s Journal, Episode 4

One of the mainstays at BlizzCon is the machinima contest – talented artists submit their movie ahead of the convention in hopes of winning fame and prizes. This year’s BlizzCon is no different, and we’re sure to see some great videos during the largest gathering of WoW players outside of Azeroth. Over the next few [...]

Crusaders’ Coliseum and Isle of Conquest Q&A

Blizzard has just released a Q&A on the Crusaders’ Coliseum and the Isle of Conquest.
The Q&A is done with Tom Chilton (Game Directory), Scott Mercer (Lead Encounter Designer), and Alex Afrasiabi (Lead World Designer). The Q&A is a long one and has a lot of good information throughout on both of these major upcoming [...]

Around Azeroth: Abbey road

The next time you get camped for two hours by a player thirty levels above your own, remember that all of the total jerk players out there in Azeroth were once clueless level ones, falling off of Teldrassil, getting murdered by boars, and clicking repeatedly on the “attack” button as if this were Diablo. Erdeth [...]

Blizzard streaming BlizzCon tournaments for free, in HD

Blizzard has announced that they’re streaming most of the tournaments at BlizzCon this year yet again — even if you don’t sign up to the DirecTV feed, you can still watch most of the Arena, Starcraft, and Warcraft III matchups online on the BlizzCon site. And this year, for the first time, you’ll be able [...]

Breakfast Topic: Putting on Your Game Face

No matter what your playstyle or what you’re doing in World of Warcraft, I’d say chances are you reach a point where you want to get down to business.
It can be any number of things. Maybe you finally want to grind out Exalted with Warsong Gulch. Maybe your raid group is in dire need [...]

WoW China hit with more censorship upon relaunch

World of Warcraft is finally getting back up on its feet in China, but it seems that it didn’t do so without making some concessions to China’s censorship. We know that when The9 was still in charge, they had to make multiple graphical edits to the game to avoid showing off exposed bones, such as [...]

How often should we do repeatable content?

Blessing of Kings asks an excellent question: how often should we be running repeatable content? Certainly Blizzard has considered this issue before — they’ve gone with daily quests in the first expansion, and recently they’ve been rethinking just how often we’ll be rerunning dungeons, too. But both of those time periods are fairly [...]

The Queue: There is a Cow Level

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.
There is no cow level.
Repeat that three times.
But if I was designing WoW I’d make sure there’d be some kind of cow level. After all who doesn’t want [...]