[Updated] Blood Pact: They’re not pets, they’re minions

Filed under: Warlock, (Warlock) Blood Pact

The week has rolled around, the planets have aligned, and it’s time again for Blood Pact! Here to keep you up to date with all the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by Warlocks. Presiding over this week’s dark ritual is Nick Deathcaller — I mean Whelan.

I was perusing the Blood Pact archives [...]

Two Bosses Enter: Anub’Arak vs. Elder Nadox

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW.com’s series of fantasy death matches. This season’s bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
INSECTS! We’re getting close to the end of our first bracket of bosses for this season of Two Bosses Enter, One Boss Leaves, featuring five-man bosses [...]

Nvidia offering up a chance to go to BlizzCon

The chances to head off to BlizzCon are coming fast nowadays — Nvidia is the latest company in on the race, as they’re offering up an all expenses paid trip to Anaheim in August for the winner and a guest to experience Blizzard’s big show. To enter, they say you have to buy a qualifying [...]

The Queue: I’m back. It’s me, DP.

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’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 I am pleased to announce something even bigger than a new WoW expansion. In fact, it has nothing to do with WoW at all, but [...]

Ancilorn reveals extended EU maintenance next week

European CM Ancilorn has revealed that, for next week’s EU maintenance, some of the realms will be offline for a whopping fourteen hours. The Blue was keen to ensure players were given enough warning of 15th July’s maintenance to make sure that players who have toons on the affected realms had an “opportunity to plan [...]

Class Q&A: Paladin

Once again, it’s time for a Class Q&A with Ghostcrawler! Today Paladins get their chance to shine (previously: Shaman, Mage, Death Knight, Warlock).
As with the other Q&As, this one starts with a bit on what the idea is behind paladins, with a glance at their history and at their present.

In the beginning: paladins were a [...]

SWAPS loot system offers another DKP option

I’m finding myself really fascinated with loot systems lately — the old DKP is pretty good, but even that has drama, and it seems like there’s a lot of interesting ideas going around about how to evenly and fairly distribute loot amongst a group of people. OutDPS has a writeup about a loot system called [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Gnome Overboard

Hot on the heels of Steak Sandwiches, Oxhorn also released Gnome Overboard. This new installment in the series of Oxhorn’s Short Shorts actually reminds me of the older, pre-Inventing Swear Words work done by the Tauren Maestro.
The story is not complicated. Three men decide to go hunting whales. (A perfectly reasonable thing to [...]

WoW Insider Show with Medros of All Things Azeroth live tonight

We’re doing the podcast at a special time this week, so if you can’t usually tune in to us on Saturdays at 3:30 Eastern, now’s your chance to catch a live show. Tonight at 6pm Eastern, we’ll be live over on the Ustream page, and our special guest will be none other than Medros, of [...]

Around Azeroth: Walk on water or drown

Oh, damn it. Where are my keys? They were on my belt like two minutes ago. I swear, if that ghoul ran off with them again, I’m going to roast his spleen with almond slices and manchego cheese and serve it to my other minions. Hey! There they are! Just under the water. And … [...]