Death Strike healing no longer based on damage

Filed under: Patches, Death Knight
Death Strike is a bit of a strange skill in the Death Knight arsenal. Leveling, you use it in place of Scourge Strike/Obliterate when you need healing. In a raid, likewise, although you may be significantly less likely to need healing. In patch 3.1 this changed a bit, with Death Strike [...]

Authenticator app coming to iPhones, iPods, and other mobile devices

Filed under: News items, Account Security

According to a new Battle.net support page, there will be a new Blizzard Authenticator app for your mobile phone which will generate a code just like the physical authenticator does. The authenticator app will act just like the physical authenticators currently available. The page is sparse on exactly [...]

WoW latex Elf ears on Amazon

It’s that time of year again — I just saw a seasonal costume store opening up near my apartment here in Chicago, and that means that we’re almost to October, when all kinds of official and unofficial Halloween costumes from all of the year’s biggest brands appear. Last year we had some Orc masks and [...]

Phat Loot Phriday: Insanity’s Grip

Hey, how about a fist weapon? Isn’t “fist weapon” a weird name? We don’t call them “sword weapons” or “stabby weapons,” right? It’s Phat Loot Phriday! On a Phasaturday!
Name: Insanity’s Grip (Wowhead, WoWDB, Thottbot)Type: Epic Main Hand Fist WeaponDamage/Speed: 372 – 558 / 2.60 (178.8 DPS)Attributes:

+52 Agility, +51 Stamina
+1736 Feral attack power, if [...]

Scattered Shots: So you want to be a Hunter – Part 4 Levels 21-30

Welcome back to the Scattered Shots, So you want to be a Hunter series. This guide is intended to help new Hunters better understand how to play the best class in the game. So join me, Eddie “Brigwyn” Carrington from the Hunting Lodge as we explore the ins and out of how to be a [...]

WoW Insider Show this afternoon at 3:30pm Eastern

Our podcast is back on the air yet again this afternoon — Turpster will join Amanda Dean, Adam Holisky and I to talk about the biggest posts of the past week, including (but not limited to) why even Priests dislike being Priests, the new race/class combos and how they’ll be explained, why Blizzard is so [...]

WRUP: Your cheating heart edition

Now, I ain’t saying that a few of us might be cheating a little on WoW. Nope. I’m not saying that at all. Hank Williams Senior might be saying that, but certainly not me. I’m not saying anything.
But what Hank Williams Senior pointed out is that it seems like everyone on your intrepid WoW.com [...]

Around Azeroth: This desert life

Gnome mage Fabbin and Thunderfury-wielding warrior Dinghy may have outleveled Tanaris thirty levels ago, but they have yet to figure out how to dress appropriately for a desert environment. Dinghy’s plate gear is cooking him in his own juices — heck, there are even flames coming from his shoulders — and Fabbin is wearing both [...]

Breakfast Topic: Why Blizzard should make authenticators mandatory on Battle.net accounts

With the impending switch to necessary Battle.net accounts, Blizzard has an opportunity to create and extremely secure and hardened gaming community. They can do this by waving a magic wand, angering a certain amount of their customer base, and eliminating in one swoop nearly all, if not all, account hacks.
Blizzard can make authenticators a mandatory [...]

BlizzCon ticket FAQ

Filed under: Events
For those of you worried about the return of Failoc, or just interested in how the BlizzCon ticket process is going to work this time around, Blizzard has posted a FAQ on buying tickets on their BlizzCon site.
Interesting information includes:

You should make a Battle.net account ahead of time, and make sure the payment [...]