The Light and How to Swing It: The Retribution solution

A while back I wrote a short post pointing out to the community that now is a pretty ripe time to see how Retribution can be improved. Ghostcrawler and the devs have taken an interesting direction with the Retribution tree, and although they’ve recently mentioned that there will no longer be big changes throughout Wrath [...]

Incoming newbies, but why?

I think this is an interesting post by Grancran over on the official forums. We’ve already talked about how Blizzard is revamping the newbie experience in upcoming releases (including the next patch and the expansion), but he wants to know: for whom? Sure, there are going to be lots and lots of people going through [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: Dark Lord of Profits

Aside from the usual laughs and story developments, this week’s hot topic seems to be the new virtual pets for real money feature from the Blizzard store. There is also some amazing artwork this week, so read on!

Battlemasters: Pulling Rank. This marks the end of the Prologue.
Dark Legacy Comics: YARRRRR!
Daily Quests: It’s Better Not To [...]

Around Azeroth: Tunnel vision

Pop quiz, hotshots. This picture is:

A view into the secret tunnels hidden below the major cities that allow the Horde to sneak in unseen and kill all the Alliance faction leaders.
How Garrosh Hellscream looks at the world.
A poorly designed kaleidoscope.
The result of Tsiva of <Insurrection> on The Sentinels suffering from an acute graphics card meltdown [...]

Breakfast Topic: How random your dungeon is

The new random dungeon feature in patch 3.3 promises to change how we PuG. Not only will you be able to run the same heroic more than once in a day if that’s how the luck of the draw works out (a feature that would have been very handy for me back in the days [...]

WoW Moviewatch: 5 Cap by Abandonation

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Moviewatch
If you’ve been following the emergence of the “Belf Rap” genre, then you’re already somewhat familiar with Abandonation. He’s done collaborations already with Nyhm, Gigi, and other similarly-inclined artists. While working on other upcoming projects, Abandonation hooked up with a new machinimist who goes by Red Eye Lobine. Red [...]

Arcane Brilliance: Mage leveling guide 31-40

Welcome to the latest Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that is your absolute best source for all things mage. Leveling guides? Talent spec guides? Loot guides? PvP guides? Profession guides? Random, vindictive, mean-spirited, and wholly superfluous warlock-bashing? Check, check, check, check, check, and CHECK. Arcane Brilliance has all your mage needs covered.
And the leveling [...]

The Light and How to Swing It: A little less hybrid

With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and helps with the puppet shows at the Argent Ren Faire up in Icecrown.
Ghostcrawler has been doing a lot of talking pertaining to paladins and [...]

Realm Championships and a 2010 preview for the TCG

The WoW TCG has just finished up their year with the World Championships, but apparently they’re not sitting back on their laurels — they’ve just sent word that their Realm Championships will be going down November 14-15, 2009, in cities around the world like “San Diego, Philadelphia, Helsinki, Manchester (England), Singapore and Melbourne.” These [...]

Patch 3.3: Luck of the Draw buffs you for pugging

I was on the Patch 3.3 PTR for a few hours last night, and I have to say that I’m really impressed with the Dungeon System, Blizzard’s replacement for the old LFG tool. I had a great time with the Random Dungeon feature, using it to chain-run Heroics and get extra gold and badges for [...]