Reminder: It came from the Blog Battleground Bonanza tonight

Are you ready for the Battleground Bonanza tonight? A few It came from the Bloggies have been leveling their characters to either the 10 to 19 range or the 60 to 69 range, though I’m sure we’ll have attendees in the other ranges too. Here are the details:

When: Wednesday, December 2, 11:00pm EST (8:00pm PST, [...]

Know Your Lore: Ner’zhul

Welcome back to Know Your Lore, WoW.com’s column about the story behind the game we all play.

We talked last week about Quel’Delar, a sword of emerging lore, and the week before that we covered Darion Mograine, a pivotal figure to Death Knights and part of the reason we’re fighting in Northrend. This week, however, [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Revenge (Act 2)

Silverlined Productions has released the trailer for Revenge (Act 2). This is the follow up to the first piece of roleplay inspired work, called Revenge. In Act 2, Nixxiom is finally getting his chance to show down against the Lich King. That’s pretty appropriate, when you consider the likely proximity of patch 3.3.
Interestingly, in [...]

The Queue: It’s just a game

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky be your host today.
I might be wrong with this one, but I think World of Warcraft is just a game. I mean, it’s something we all do in our spare time, and [...]

Around Azeroth: The wild blue yonder

West was determined to get the best spot in the house for viewing the Thunder Bluff fireworks, even if it meant getting up at sunrise to stake out his territory. The drawbacks of this plan only became evident when he was pushed off the cliff by a pack of stampeding tauren looking to bask in [...]

Val’anyr destroyed after lost bet

As you may have noticed, there was no patch 3.3 this week, which means the guesses are starting to be wrong. Way back in October, we guessed that the patch would drop sometime in the next three weeks (on Tuesdays, of course), but Matt “Matticus” Low was an outlier — he said in the aftershow [...]

Breakfast Topic: Running progression raids blind

BoK brings up something I’ve thought a little bit about lately: their guild will occasionally run an encounter “blind,” which means they’ll go in without researching or learning any boss strategy ahead of time. This is generally something that only the highest-level guilds often do, and even then only on the PTR — by the [...]

Patch 3.3 set to conditionally release next week

While we weren’t going to announce this until we had something more definitive to announce, a couple other sites are running that patch 3.3 is due to be out next week. From what our multiple sources close to the situation have told us, the following is true:

Patch 3.3 is done, more or less.
There are a [...]

Cooking after Pilgrim’s Bounty

So you took advantage of Blizzard’s little Cooking leg up during Pilgrim’s Bounty (don’t be ashamed, I did, too), and you want to know: what’s next? The holiday let you level up all the way to 350 Cooking with easily purchased vendor items, which was awesome, but cooking tops out at 450, so maybe you’re [...]

Spiritual Guidance: When is a good time to start healing?

Every week (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a UI and addons blog for WoW.
I’m in the midst right now of a possible guest appearance on WoW Rookie [...]