Spiritual Guidance: Making an Insightful meta choice

Every Sunday, Spiritual Guidance offers Holy and Discipline priests advice on how to wield the holy light and groove to the disco night. Your hostess Dawn Moore will provide the music.
For my introductory article I dreamed of writing a stunning opener that would be attention grabbing and witty. After an hour of contemplating bad diamond [...]

Ready Check: Gunship Battle

Easily one of the most creative and distinctive fights in Icecrown Citadel, the Gunship Battle is something many raiders have been looking forward to since BlizzCon 2009. As a little bonus, this fight is also the source of a certain cloak that’s white and longer than your average cloak.
Here’s the basic story. As you’ve just [...]

Arcane Brilliance: Enchanting your mage

Welcome to another Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that firmly believes the frozen throne simply isn’t frozen enough. Frankly, we don’t think the Lich King was trying hard enough. And so we applaud the efforts of the enterprising young mage pictured above. Way to show Arthas how it’s done! Also, we will miss you.
So [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: Dirty looks

As I promised you last week, today’s list is quite robust. The list even features a new comic for us all to enjoy, and the return to weekly updates from a couple of your favorite artists. Get reading!

Battlemasters: Let’s Get It On!
NPC: Boot Camp. NPC: Ommm. NPC: Sleeeepy.
Torment of the Week: Perfectionists.
Guilded Age: Page 3 [...]

Maintenance announced for Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

When Monday night rolls around, I have a ritual that I follow without fail: I check the official server status forums and the launch tool waiting for any word on the maintenance window for Tuesday mornings over and over again. Most weeks, I’m lucky to get it by 10 PM pacific, if not midnight. Every [...]

Around Azeroth: The charge of the pet brigade

The new cross-realm dungeon finder has encouraged some folks who don’t usually get groups to give raiding a try. This pug-led PuG was photographed by tauren druid Brasson, who wrote, “<quiXotic> of Thunderhorn rolled into Ulduar late on Friday night to knock out XT and claim the badges from the weekly quest. Having nearly activated [...]

You are not invited to the Cataclysm alpha

In the wake of yesterday’s rumor that the Cataclysm Friends and Family alpha will be starting this Tuesday, January 12, we should expect an increase in scammers trying to get your account details by offering phony alpha invites. We saw a lot of these for both Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King as [...]

Breakfast Topic: The effect of nerfs and buffs

A question for the readership this morning (well, two) — is a recent nerf to a specific class a strong incentive against playing it for you? Conversely, does a buff to a class make you more likely to play it?
Blizzard’s observed in the past that there’s often a correlation between the perception of a class [...]

The Light and How to Swing It: The low level tank part 4

With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and helps with the puppet shows at the Argent Ren Faire up in Icecrown.

Here we are again with the final section on the low level paladin [...]

WRUP: Pick a dungeon, any dungeon edition

The holidays, alas, are behind us, and most of us are back to our regular daily grind of work, school, or whatever other responsibilities life might have set for us. But on the weekend, we can put all of that behind us and slack off ’til our heart’s content — or if not content, at [...]