Man in the middle attacks circumventing authenticators

It has been brought to our attention that Blizzard’s technical support department is currently handling a security exploit that is, in a limited capacity, circumventing authenticators. Before we get into the details, please do not panic. This does not make authenticators worthless, and it is not yet a widespread problem. Do not remove your authenticator [...]

New race/class combos will not be live before Cataclysm

In a very short answer, the devs confirmed in the recent Twitter developer chat that the new race and class combinations will not go live until Cataclysm itself goes live. In a way, this isn’t too much a surprise. Despite some rumors to the contrary, we didn’t get death knights until the first day of [...]

Around Azeroth: We are not amused

You know, I don’t know what you think is so hilarious here. My horns are within the acceptable range of horn size for male draenei of my age and social status. The appendages you are making your inappropriate comments about are merely an illusion created by my shoulder pads. Now can we please be quiet [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: Big tongues vs puppy men

This week, we have several newcomers to the list! I love having new comics; you never know what will become a core feature for each week’s entertainment.
For last week’s trivia, there were so many winners, that I’m frankly just too lazy to list them all. You guys did a great job, although the consensus [...]

Breakfast Topic: Would you like some heroic with your vanilla instances?

Exciting times! On the latest Twitter Dev Chat, a fun little inquiry for old 5-mans came up: do you think we’ll get to see older instances given the heroic makeover?
It’s already been confirmed that both Shadowfang Keep and Deadmines will be made heroic, mostly for their own story purposes. This poses an interesting thought — [...]

Totem Talk: Save yourself

Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost, and wolves, and best of all, Windfury. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance at Big Hit Box and pens the enhance side of [...]

Know Your Lore: The Black Dragonflight

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how, but do you know the why? Each week Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.
The history of Azeroth, as well [...]

BlizzCast Episode #13

Episode 13 of Blizzcast, Blizzard’s occassional podcast, came out yesterday. The majority of it is devoted to a StarCraft II beta special, which is beyond the scope of this site, but they did do a WoW Q&A after that (and a Diablo 3 Q&A at the end), between WoW CM Zarhym and Diablo CM Bashiok. [...]

New Caverns of Time instance coming in Cataclysm

The recent Twitter dev chat confirmed what is fast becoming a tradition: We will be getting a new Caverns of Time instance with the upcoming expansion. It’s certainly not something I have much trouble with. The Caverns of Time are an excellent tool for looking back and understanding old pieces of the story that brought [...]

Gold Capped: Auction house addon list

Every enterprising entrepreneur needs tools to manage their business. These tools will help us overcome the inherent inefficiency of the default UI. The new interface changes coming in patch 3.3.3 will solve some problems (mostly for posting en masse) but will not help us with other parts of the equation.
Auctions
The first thing you’ll need is [...]