Around Azeroth: The last flight of the Red Baron

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries

What are those fighter planes doing in the sky over Storm Peaks? And why is one red and smoking? Has Snoopy finally succeeded in his quest to take down the World War I flying ace? Or has the plane, upon dipping down below 20% health, simply enraged? (Thanks to Sqtsquish [...]

Around Azeroth: The bull by the horns

Thangal of <Black Label Disciples> on Eitrigg is all things to all people. Fiery hands and a snowflake aura, a halo and horns. Is Thangal a master of the art of multi-tasking? Is he the love child of a mage and a succubus? Or is he simply the beneficiary of a few extra talent points?
Do [...]

Blood Pact: A new Lock in town

A lone shadowed figure approaches the village as it settles down for the approaching night. A hush falls with his passing and all eyes turn to follow. Who can say what has brought him here but there’s no mistaking his calling; there’s a Warlock in town.
With more than seven weeks since the last Blood Pact [...]

Breakfast Topic: I love

Matt Rossi and 248 of you (as of last night around ten) might hate things in the game, and that’s cool. There’s some things that I hate, too.
But you know what? I’m a lover, not a fighter. Why hate when you can love, after all?
There are a few things I love in [...]

Officers’ Quarters: The hard-mode mambo

Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers’ Quarters
Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
Arriving with the upcoming 3.1 patch, Ulduar will be ground zero for hard mode raiding — complex encounters rewarding the best loot in the game, presumably a hardcore raider’s dream. There’s only one problem: [...]

All the World’s a Stage: The art of the alt

All the World’s a Stage, and all the orcs and humans merely players. They have their stories and their characters; and one player in his time plays many roles.
With all the talk lately about starting new characters once the Cataclysm arrives, it struck me that most roleplayers already have more than one, including myself. Like [...]

All the World’s a Stage: The art of the alt

All the World’s a Stage, and all the orcs and humans merely players. They have their stories and their characters; and one player in his time plays many roles.
With all the talk lately about starting new characters once the Cataclysm arrives, it struck me that most roleplayers already have more than one, including myself. Like [...]

[1.Local]: In which He-Man and Eddie get pwned

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.
Sometimes it’s the smallest details that people grow attached to. Take, for instance, this note that came in on the news tip [...]

[1.Local]: In which He-Man and Eddie get pwned

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.
Sometimes it’s the smallest details that people grow attached to. Take, for instance, this note that came in on the news tip [...]

Totem Talk: Return of the Orc

This week, Totem Talk talks about leveling a shaman through PvP. That’s right, I said leveling a shaman through PvP. Matthew Rossi has discovered the joys of returning to the Horde this weekend with a level grinding AV blitz that even he doesn’t really understand.
Before we even get started: I’m working on a post about [...]