Officers’ Quarters: Destructive criticism, part 2

Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader’s Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Last week, I began addressing what is one of the most complex and difficult duties an officer or raid leader must occasionally perform: giving [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Where the hell is Poke?

Today’s movie takes a little bit of background. Some years ago, an enterprising dude named Matt released an awesome world travel video. In this video, he visited dozens of locations across the globe, and filmed himself dancing there. It’s not a great dance. It’s not particularly skilled or smooth. But it’s a happy dance from [...]

The Queue: Playing favorites

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.
Many of you asked me to keep you updated on the status of my s’mores pizza. I come here today to report that … I have failed. I [...]

Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Dig down deep

Beautiful view, isn’t it? Too bad you won’t be seeing it in the game. Beta tester Moonmaster of <Eminent Reign> on Lightninghoof (US-H) put this panoramic picture of Deepholm together from a bunch of separate screenshots in Photoshop. It’s a pretty picture, although it’s not quite as lovely to look at as Don Draper in [...]

Scattered Shots: Hunter beta leveling through Mt. Hyjal

Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week, Frostheim uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Got hunter questions? Feel free to email Frostheim.
Today we’re going to go on a journey, not [...]

Breakfast Topic: Connecting with loved ones

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com.

In our age of technology and isolation, we often unintentionally turn a cold shoulder to our pals and relatives for a number of reasons. Sometimes we may give them a quick five-minute call once a [...]

Cataclysm screenshot of the day

The latest Cataclysm screenshot from Blizzard is shown above. This image makes me think of good old Zangarmarsh. I’m happy to seem some of the foreign, alien landscapes returning to the game.
If you’ve missed any of the previous Cataclysm screenshots of the day or you want to see a high-res version of today’s image, [...]

Spiritual Guidance: So you wanna play a priest, part 4, levels 41-70

Two class specs, both alike in dignity,
in fair Azeroth, where we lay our scene,
from ancient expansion to ICC,
here circles, bubbles, mischief all convene.
Spiritual Guidance updates each Sunday with all the essentials on healing as a priest.
You would think that a priest could dispel bleeds. We can restore people from death and protect them from incoming [...]

Totem Talk: Dual-wielding topics

Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury and wolves. 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 and leads the guild Big Crits as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby.
This week I’m dual wielding [...]

All the World’s a Stage: You keep me coming back

I’ve never been able to completely walk away from any of my characters. Everyone of my WoW characters are indexed in my heart and soul. I played City of Heroes before WoW, and I recently went back around to Paragon City to check in on those kids. (They’re fine, thanks.) Previous to City of Heroes, [...]