Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin
In World of Warcraft:How to filter freeloaders
As officers, we’ll have to be on alert for freeloaders once our guilds have leveled up a few times.
Reviewing applications carefully will be critical. Most guilds ask, “Why do you want to join?” If you don’t ask this question on your application, you should, because the answers are often quite telling. It never ceases to amaze me what players will say. I’ve seen players write things like, “so I can gear up with you and then apply to [ultimate hardcore guild X]” or “because you guys have the Lich King on farm and I really need the sword from him.” Such replies make it very easy to filter someone. I have no doubt that someone, somewhere, will eventually answer that question with “because you guys have all the perks.”
Rarely will it be so obvious, however. Here are other warning signs:
* The player doesn’t have a clear idea what your guild is about or what you do.
* The player doesn’t seem interested in participating in guild activities.
* The player doesn’t know
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Posted on August 27th, 2010 by admin
Cataclysm Preview: Azshara
Popular player opinion has been a mix of excitement and wistful nostalgia when it comes to the zone of Azshara, one of the least-utilized yet most gorgeous zones from vanilla WoW. Some players are ecstatic that the zone is receiving a quest overhaul; others fear that the goblin landscaping will ruin the beautiful scenery unique to the zone. In the latest of a string of Cataclysm previews, game designers Craig Amai and Dave Kosak discuss the zone’s changes and design in the upcoming expansion.
The lore of the region, the design of the quests and landscape, the whereabouts of Azuregos and the general concept and story behind the zone of Azshara are all addressed, as well as a peek into what went on behind the scenes to actually redesign the landscape into a functional, fun and still hauntingly beautiful place to level. Check out the official Cataclysm page for the full article — and while we’re on a nostalgia trip, take a look back at Azshara quests that you should finish before the new expansion hits, and check out the gallery of Azshara as it
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Posted on May 11th, 2010 by admin
This is Scattered Shots for world of warcraft,written by Our website of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast.Every Week,Our website uses logic and science to look deep into the hunter class. Got hunter questions? Post your questions to our website.Now read this chapter and get the general idea that can help you solve problems and enjoy your time.
I have no doubt that, such astute and learned people as hunters tend to be, you are all well aware of the Cataclysm alpha leaks that have been piling up. If you were to follow your curiosity in hopes of getting a better mental picture of how we hunters will turn out, you would be sorely disappointed. Well, first you’d be disappointed, and then you’d probably get lost looking at pictures of new zones and old zones made new again for far, far too long … But then some hours later, you’d remember why you went there in the first place and return to being disappointed.
Unlike some classes whose talent trees have been showered with presents in the leaks, our talent trees appear mostly unchanged at the moment —
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Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
Are you a new wow player?Are you play the game world of warcraft differently?Are you want play the game wow easy?The fellowing is the introduce some skill guide to the newes players.See all our collected tips, tricks and how-to’s at our website WoW Rookie Guide.
Oh come on, everyone knows that — well, evidently everyone but you, poor rookie. Ever felt like a chump for not being aware of some game feature or function that would’ve made life so much easier, if only you’d known? Aww, it’s OK. You’re not alone. As accessible as designers strive to make games like WoW, it’s easy for even a few basics to slip by, especially when you’re brand new, thrashing about trying to find your quest objective and attack the monster and talk to that other player all at the same time.
Blizzard’s tutorial tips help make sense of a lot of that under-the-radar knowledge. Still, players write in to WoW Rookie every week asking questions or offering various nuggets of acquired wisdom. Time then for another info dump — the latest in our collection of
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by admin
The Classifieds brings you weekly updates on guild recruiting, rankings, splits and merges, progression and more. Have guild news or a Random Act of Uberness to share? E-mail TheClassifieds@wow.com.
Remember back during the holidays, when we had a nice cozy Breakfast Topic chat about the fellow who’s been spotted schlepping his entire iMac to the local Panera Bread to play WoW? Sharp-eyed reader Paul discovered a followup article at Gizmodo, featuring five questions with the Panera Bread WoW Man. It’s no headline news, but it’s an interesting peek into how a fellow WoW player gets his fix.
Let’s open up The Classifieds …
Recruiting
Starting from scratch: <Whiz Bang> (US Staghelm-H), founded by two Vanilla/BC/Wrath vets, is leveling a new set of characters to 80 and invites aspiring raiders age 18+ to get in on the ground floor; a little further along are <Riders of Unholy> of EU Dragonblight-A, now recruiting all classes for a new raiding team.
Second 10-man team and building for 25-man: <Unabashed Noobery> on US Kilrogg-A is looking for
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by admin
Obviously today’s news from Apple of the iPad is the hottest thing since, well, the iPhone. One of the big things Apple was showing was the OpenGL 3D games on the iPad. OpenGL is the technology that allows advanced 3D graphics and games to function (DirectX is the Microsoft Windows equivalent, although OpenGL works on Windows too). For a long time people have been clamoring over the ability for WoW to run on an iPhone, and the iPad looks like the ideal touch device to let it run on.
And many of you began writing into us as soon as the iPad announcement was made, asking if we knew about WoW running on the iPad.
The answer is no, we have no information, and there is no indication that WoW will run on the iPad. The armory app should work automatically (as well as all your other iPhone/iPod Touch games), and there is certianly room to make the armory app even better on the iPad — but we don’t even know if such a plan is in the works yet.
The iPad, especially with its dirt cheap data plans for $14.99 and overall cheap starting price of $499, can obviously have an impact on
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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by admin
It’s fortunate that Edtin of Ysondre is a shaman. He’s fallen into a water tank while running heroic Steamvault, and without Water Breathing, he’d be sunk (horrible pun intended.) Still, he’s going to eventually run out of fish scales, and then we’ll get to see whether those saltwater tanks preserve corpses as well as formaldehyde.
Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!
Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing — use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val’kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran.
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by admin
Savras of <The Keepers> on Wyrmrest Accord captured this tender moment in Booty Bay, about to be completely ruined by the blood elf ninja pouncing down from above. The stale fish on the dock can’t be too much of an aphrodisiac either. How many years have those things been sitting there?
Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!
Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing — use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val’kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran. Older screenshots can be found here.
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Posted on January 18th, 2010 by admin
Recently, a commenter on a post mentioned that I use a similar screenshot for a lot of my The Care and Feeding of Warriors posts. I looked over it, and he was right: since I race changed to draenei, in fact, quite a few of the screenshots have been silhouetted, facing downwards shots that I often take just because I am playing my character and suddenlt stop and say “wow, that’s cool” – I’m not a terribly sophisticated visual thinker (for that, I go to my wife, who has a landscape artist’s eyes and a remarkable grasp of light and nuance) but I know what I like.
One of the reasons I like playing draenei and tauren are connected to the classes I like to play: shamans, warriors and DK’s are the only classes I’ve consistently gotten to max rank, and in all of those cases I tend to play large characters. When race change became available I agonized over it (silly as that is) even though I’d always said I’d go draenei because I’d grown so accustomed to the way my human character moved, and watching old avi files of Burning Crusade
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by admin
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.
Is it just us, or does it seem a little warm in here? The news was popping here at WoW.com at the tail end of the week, and the reactions in [1.Local] were explosive. In what turned out to be a freaky Friday indeed, WoW.com posted not one but three articles peering behind the scenes at account security concerns. Those of you who like to know how the movie ends before you even take your seat can cut right to the final scene — but for those who prefer to savor the whole, winding saga over a bucketful of popcorn (with plenty of butter and salt), let’s take it from the top.
Blizzard giving serious consideration to mandatory authenticators
It all began on Friday with a post uncovering that Blizzard is giving serious consideration to requiring authenticators on all accounts: “According to our sources, while this policy has not been implemented yet and the details are not
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