Around Azeroth: If wishes were fishes

Looking to hook the big one? Tauren fisherman Daniel might seem to be using a five-foot-wide bobber while fishing west of Orgrimmar, but it’s really just a forced perspective shot. This might come as a disappointment to his warp hunter pet, who is hiding in the boat, salivating over the prospect of eating Moby Dick [...]

Breakfast topic: Stat and system changes for Basic Campfire

Recently, Blizzard has been supplying us with a lot of information for their plans in Cataclysm. So far we’ve learned about changes to the stat systems, as well as talent trees. Everything announced so far will be incredibly far reaching, and affect many aspects of the game, including some that have been hanging around since [...]

The Daily Quest: Flash heals

Here at WoW.com we’re on a Daily Quest (which we try to do every day, honest) to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment and you may see [...]

Phat Loot Phriday: Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand

Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand lives on multiple best-in-slot lists. At least, those BIS lists that don’t include Shadowmourne and other Heroic content.
My favorite aspect of this epic blade is that it’s blade from the Silver Hand, which is a more than significant bit of game lore. Since this weapon drops from Arthas, I [...]

WRUP: GDC edition

The Game Developers Conference is in full swing this week. There’s been a bunch of interesting news out of it, so in addition to telling you fine folks what we plan on playing this St-Patrick’s day weekend, the bonus question is what we are most excited about seeing from GDC 10.
Can I answer stout [...]

Balancing class strength and flavor

One of the things I hear a lot from other tanks (especially paladin tanks) is how much they envy Charge, and especially being able to Charge in combat. “Man, I’d give up X for Charge.” Usually what they want to give up is their shield throw, or their AoE taunt, which of course is not [...]

PC Gamer UK gives you 50 reasons to play Cataclysm

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Cataclysm, the upcoming expansion to World of Warcraft. If you’d like to keep everything a surprise, don’t read any further. If you’d like to know more about the upcoming content, read away!
Issue 212 of PC Gamer UK has hit the stands, and includes a fascinating six-page article with fifty [...]

Rob Pardo speaks about Blizzard game design

The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA — and yesterday included a panel by Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard Entertainment. Pardo spoke about design philosophy and how Blizzard approaches it, sharing not only Blizzard’s success stories, but where they failed along the way, [...]

Shifting Perspectives: Changing Nature’s Grace

Every week, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, we’re heading back into the world of nasty, little over-budget talents bothering balance druids as we fight to save our 1 keys from total disaster.

It’s been a harsh week in my little corner of the world. Between attempting to [...]

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: I cannot see the future

Frankly, the Bladestorm nerf is a minor one, albeit an extremely annoying minor one. Granted, it means that opposing rogues, warriors and sometimes hunters (ah, hunters, the Y’s of WoW) will be able to turn the major source of “And now YOU DIE” available to arms warriors in PvP into “Whee, I’m a pretty ballerina [...]