Around Azeroth: One brief shining moment

With their constant dabbling in hellfire, shadow magic, and the summoning of demons, it’s fairly clear where warlocks are going to spend their afterlife. And after witnessing this brief preview of the Pearly Gates through a graphical glitch in Howling Fjord, Tiandreyn of <Corporal Punishment> on Grizzly Hills is glad her destiny lies below. “If [...]

The ups and downs of the Battered Hilt

Yesterday, Bornakk said clearly that the Battered Hilt drop that starts the Quel’delar questline was dropping at the right rate, which is much less than when the patch first hit. And then of course, in last night’s fixes, they went ahead and increased the drop rate anyway. He also claimed there were no plans [...]

Breakfast Topic: Fickle loot table, I stab at thee

That’s right, we’re a week into patch 3.3 (well, almost) and we’re still running random PuG’s on our alts. Well, I am, anyway, and if the emails we at WoW.com are seeing are accurate so are a lot of you. And as is often the case when dungeons are being run, we’re seeing loot issues. [...]

In-game fixes for December 15th

Another day, another round of in-game hotfixes. This time the most interesting one of the bunch is the increase in Battered Hilt drop rate (the Battered Hilt leads to the Quel’Delar). Of course it could mean that the hilt drop rate was increased from 0.001% to 0.01%, but hey, at least that’s one whole decimal [...]

Updated Armory app features Find an Upgrade, saved talent builds

A few readers (thanks!) sent us notes pointing out that Blizzard has updated the Mobile Armory app for the iPhone. The new version, 1.1.0, features a streamlined character selection screen, the ability to save and load custom talent builds (though unfortunately it doesn’t look like there’s any way to bring these into the game automatically [...]

The Queue: Apology denied

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. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.
I thought about starting today off by apologizing for the abomination that was yesterday’s image… but what did Mike Sacco think would happen when he asked me to [...]

Felicia Day says The Guild comic is coming in Spring 2010

Felicia Day told us back at BlizzCon that she was going to go undercover for a little while as The Guild’s latest season wrapped up, but undercover for this woman seems to mean that she’s only in two TV shows and prepping for a comic book release. She showed up in last night’s Lie to [...]

A chat with Check Six, WoW Arena team

The official Microsoft Sync blog has posted a video interview (which you can see above) with Check Six, one of the high level World of Warcraft Arena teams showing up in tournaments lately. The video is kind of promotional (Microsoft sponsors the team, so they’re basically hyping up their own players), but that actually [...]

Tom Chilton on Cataclysm additions and the upcoming world event

Our friends over at WorldofWar.de (who were listening live to the podcast this past weekend) recently got an interview done with Lead Designer Tom Chilton, and you can read it over on their site right now. There’s not a lot of news in there (though Chilton does gush over the Dungeon Finder, just as players [...]

15 Minutes of Fame: Making Child’s Play of WoW

15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about.
Kristin Lindsay makes child’s play of WoW. In fact, she makes child’s play [...]