The OverAchiever: Hail to the Chef

With so many players now sitting on high Cooking skill after Pilgrim’s Bounty, I thought it might be cool to do Cooking’s meta-achievement, Hail to the Chef. If you’ve leveled Cooking solely through the Pilgrim holiday, your character’s probably sitting on around 350-ish Cooking, give or take, and completing the meta is well within your [...]

One Boss Leaves: Krik’thir flays Gortok Palehoof

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW.com’s series of fantasy death matches. This season’s combatants come from the original five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
Gortok Palehoof got the raw end of the deal inside the Two Bosses Thunderdome this week, as his one-minion-at-a-time strategy folded under the onslaught of [...]

Around Azeroth: The blue sword

We haven’t gotten a whole lot of PTR pics here in Around Azeroth lately. Reclusive of Daggerspine-EU always comes through, though, and sent in this screenshot of a certain important sword hanging in a certain important new dungeon. Not to spoil anything, but I heard that the gimmick in this fight consists of a plate [...]

Local paper profiles TCG $50k winner

This is cool — after local paper the Winter Park/Maitland Observer (near Orlando, Florida) heard that the winner of Upper Deck’s last WoW TCG World Championships was from the same area, they went and found him, fittingly, in a game store. William Postlewaite, a.k.a. Billy P, won $50,000 just for playing the WoW Trading Card [...]

Breakfast Topic: Dear Greatfather Winter

Surprise! It’s December already, which means the winter holidays are just around the corner. According to Blizzard’s calendar, Winter’s Veil will be upon us in just two short weeks, and if patch 3.3 does drop next week as expected, it’ll seem even shorter than that (I’m sure that the new Dungeon Finder system will make [...]

Encrypted Text: Subtlety gets its 15 minutes

Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the rogue class. This week, we talk about what Ghostcrawler has to say about Subtlety in the future.
With patch 3.3’s release nearing, both Assassination and Combat rogues have buffs to look [...]

A little pre-80 min/maxing can be helpful

Gnomeaggedon has written up a great guide to something a lot of players (including me) haven’t worried about at all in the past: min/maxing your gear before you ever hit level 80. Aside from twinking, there seems to be almost no reason to worry much about gear before you hit the endgame — you can [...]

Guildwatch: "You guys raid like little girls"

Ok Blizzard. We give up. Patch 3.3 can come out now, please. Guilds are cleaning up even the Tribute achievements in Trial of the Crusader, and pretty much everybody is just sitting around waiting for Icecrown to drop. Even drama is taking a break — with plenty of loot to go around and everyone getting [...]

Blizzard properties now on Facebook

Acknowledging the power of social media and networking, Blizzard has created fan pages for their three big franchises on Facebook. Following the trend of other products and companies who have created Facebook pages in order to deliver updates, promotions, and other fan extras, Blizzard has set up pages for Diablo, Starcraft, and Warcraft. Interested fans [...]

WoW Rookie: Leveling with PvP

New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. Visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide for links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s.
When PvP leveling in Battlegrounds was introduced with Patch 3.2 (August 2009), players rushed to try their blades and spellbooks at [...]