Patch 3.1 PTR build 9637 profession changes

Filed under: Cooking, Tailoring, Patches, Inscription

A small patch was pushed to the 3.1 PTR earlier this afternoon, incrementing the build number from 9626 to 9627. Among other things, it contained a few changes for the professionals among us – specifically cooks, tailors, and scribes. These changes were of course data-mined by the MMO-Champion people, so [...]

What If We Lost: An argument for losing a major lore-based battle

Warning: This article does contain spoilers for the Argent Coliseum Raid. If you want to be surprised, skip this article!
There’s a pretty long thread going on in the General Forums right now that makes an interesting request of the dev team: Let us lose. The argument goes that we’ve been sort of steamrolling our way [...]

How to get your blog crashed by WoW.com

Every day, our tip line gets a number of requests for link exchanges, publicity, and feedback on whether a post would be good for inclusion in the Daily Quest. We’re really happy to be able to direct traffic to bloggers with good information, but sometimes we get requests that leave us baffled, uncomfortable, or both. [...]

Arcane Brilliance: The state of the Mage, volume 3

Every once in awhile, on a semi-regular basis, at randomly determined intervals, Arcane Brilliance (a weekly Mage column that is apparently also self-aware) likes to indulge in a little self analysis. Unsurprisingly, Arcane Brilliance’s verdict is usually positive. Arcane Brilliance thinks very highly of itself, an attribute about which you may already have become painfully [...]

[1.Local]: You had us at "Toolhelm"

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.
Would a Maelstrom expansion mean the return of Maiev Shadowsong? At least one WoW.com reader hopes not.
Kylenne: For the love of everything [...]

Around Azeroth: Imitation of life

Not content with the current druid tree form, Bruincub of <Preemptive Retribution> on Silver Hand wants to upgrade to something a bit more intimidating. However, posing like an Ancient Conservator isn’t enough to turn you into one. This might be a good thing. Sure, Conservator’s Grip would be killer in Wintergrasp, and you could start [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: If you wannabe

This week’s list is short but sweet. Tried and true. We’re still missing Disgraph (cries) but most others are present and accounted for.

Check out the latest from LFG.
NoObz: Who’s Up For….
NPC: Outrage. (I miss my kitties).
Teh Gladiators: Papa!
WoW eh: The End of a Memory. Again, I love the artwork. It’s always evolving. The armor looks [...]

Breakfast topic: Do you wish there were worldwide realms?

One of my big beefs with MMOs is that I have friends all around the world and can’t play with them. For example, most of Team WoW.com play on US realms, a couple on Oceanic and me and the T in the EU. Of course the biggest problem with playing any MMO will be timezones [...]

Noblegarden may get delayed

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Leveling
Well that’ll teach us to assume — earlier this week when mentioning the upcoming Noblegarden holiday, we pointed out that considering it was being tested on the PTR right now, we’d likely see 3.1 hit the live realms by the time Easter came [...]

Authentication problems for non-Battle.net users tonight

We’ve started getting a few emails regarding the authentication servers. Apparently there are issues again tonight! None of us on staff were actually running into any trouble, so we assumed it was just an anomaly until we saw this thread. From reading through it, it appears that the reason none of us on staff had [...]