Breakfast Topic: The hangover

Weekend’s done, it’s back to work. How was everybody’s New Year’s celebration? I hope everyone’s sober and up and running to start your Monday. It’s the start of the week, after all, hopefully you’re all not still hungover from the very long weekend. Then again, it’s not always a bad thing to be a little [...]

All the World’s A Stage: Gift-giving in Azeroth

With Winter’s Veil behind us, it is not too long until Valentine’s Day is here. Between these two holidays, I’m frequently left pondering the best gifts available for our loved ones . . . in game. There’s a subtle art to simulating gift-giving between characters, since there’s obviously a few factors to be considered.
First, it’s [...]

You wouldn’t like me when I’m hungry

When writing this Breakfast Topic I noticed in the comments a certain disconnect between how I approach running heroics and how other people seem to. So I thought I’d try and encapsulate the differences and try and help explain why sometimes tanks seem a little touchy or off in runs. It’s not just the blows [...]

The Art of War(craft): 2009 was a banner year for the Battlegrounds

Zach is a Battlegrounds junkie. Even when he’s hocking up asthma-generated globules of radioactive phlegm, he still manages to squeeze in a little slaughtering time.

Happy New Year, folks. I hope all of you had a good 2009 and are reading this without a lingering hangover or, like me, some form of bronchial complication stemming [...]

[1.Local]: The best of 2009, July-December

Reader comments — ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
Think you’ve got what it takes to make it through another year in the company of the denizens of [1.Local]? Work your [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: Random mrgls

This week’s list is compact, but don’t let that fool you; many of the usual suspects have delivered despite the holidays. You can bet that next week’s list will be massive!

Torment of the Week: Frozen Investments.
Check out Guilded Age’s 2010 Preview.
Teh Gladiators: Enter the Eerily Familiar King.
Daily Quests: In the Spirit of Giving. Daily Quests: [...]

Around Azeroth: A fishful of romance

While venturing into Icecrown Citadel, death knight Joanus of <Inner Circle> on Kilrogg-EU discovered this disturbing message spelled out on the ground with well-placed fish feasts. “The biggest questions to be asked here are who put this there? Why?” asked Joanus. “Is this a message from Jaina to Arthas? What does the Lich King think [...]