Breakfast Topic: A Little Help From Our Friends

I don’t care even remotely about achievements. Haven’t since they came into the game, to be honest. When I heard that a player in Taiwan has actually done them all, I think I blinked a few times and was confused as to why anyone would. That being said, I actually have quite a few. I [...]

Insider Trader: Profession bonuses and the crafters who love them

Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products. We’ll cover everything from what to use, how to use it, and why your should care.
Crafting professions are already very well known for providing the unmistakable ability to add buffs to all characters. No one takes a serious raider very [...]

The Daily Quest: Guild switching

We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

Everyone’s playing guild musical chairs: Sheep Blink Invis just disbanded one of their guilds, We Fly Spitfires wants to find one, Nibuca’s working on names for hers, and Hots and Dots is seeking mages [...]

Ready Check: Breaking up is hard to do

Ready Check is a column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, Vault of Archavon or Ulduar, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses.
It happens. It’s a tale as old as Hogger. In the growth and progression of a raid group, there eventually comes a time [...]

Worgen starting zone preview from Scrolls of Lore

In lieu of providing any new information on Cataclysm in the wake of BlizzCon, Blizzard’s been showing the goblin and worgen starting zones at a lot of major gaming conventions, which means a good handful of players have had the chance to try them out. Nostra from popular lorecrafting site Scrolls of Lore is one [...]

Phat Loot Phriday: Sharpened Obsidian Edged Blade

Taveena recommended this one in last week’s comments, so here you go. A big, bad sword.
Name: Sharpened Obsidian Edged Blade (Wowhead, Thottbot, Armory)
Type: Epic Two-hand sword
Damage/Speed: 715 – 1074 / 3.50 (255.6 DPS)
Attributes:

+146 Strength, +179 Stamina
Improves critical strike rating by 69 and expertise by 103

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The Queue: The bird is most certainly not the word

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. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Normally I’m all right with birds, but this one kept murdering me in cold blood last night on my priest, even though I was several levels higher [...]

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Prot PvP

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com’s column about how to weave colorful flower arrangements. We may also talk about warriors, to be honest I woke up this morning after about four hours of whacking gigantic undead spider things with a shield and I had no idea what my name was anymore or what [...]

Follow @Warcraft on Twitter and win big

Well, I guess “big” is in the eye of the beholder, but for the fairly easy task of starting a Twitter account (if you don’t already have one) and following @Warcraft, you could win a myriad of WoW TCG loot card codes. Ever wanted an Ethereal Plunderer, a Spectral Tiger, a Magic Rooster, or any [...]

WoW.com is LFM: Priest and Hunter columnists

WoW.com is looking for new writers for the weekly Spiritual Guidance and Scattered Shots class columns. Every week you will dazzle our readers with your words of wisdom covering everything from leveling guides to raid tactics to PvP strats to major patch analysis to recommended add-ons for all specs and playstyles. You don’t need to [...]