Posted on December 10th, 2008 by admin
Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 6 - 60-day game time card
by Dan O’Halloran
Nov 7th, 2008
The Countdown to Wrath Giveaways continue with a 60-day pre-paid game card.
To enter, leave a comment on this post before Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 6pm ET. One winner will be chosen randomly and will receive a World of Warcraft 60-day [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2008 by admin
WoW: Gold Farmers Arrested
According to a tersely worded article, Chinese WoW gold farmers were arrested:
Chengdu’s Shuangliu county has arrested two virtual item and currency traders, surnamed Li and Zhang, focused on tapping out The9’s (Nasdaq: NCTY) licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW), reports Chengdu Evening News. Police arrested the pair after Li reported Zhang for [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
A plea on behalf of frustrated tanks everywhere
Several classes and specs have gotten “knockback” abilities as part of patch 3.02 and the game’s transition to Wrath of the Lich King, and I’ve had fun watching these skills be deployed in battlegrounds to extensive and quite possibly evil use. It’s pretty funny watching an elemental Shaman [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2008 by admin
The Riding Crop
I am well aware that the riding crop is undergoing a lot of changes, so I’ll spare the usual tripe I might be tempted to dispense along the lines of “riding crops are broke baaaaw!”
Here’s what I’ve gathered. The crop will be used as a consumable enchant to make a mount [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by admin
Mage Trainers in Dalaran?
I know it’s a main city for the expansion. I know that it’s against blizzard’s design philosophy to add class trainers to a main city.
However, I cannot help but feel Dalaran is incomplete if mages can’t learn magic there. Sure, they can learn to teleport and make portals to Dalaran [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by admin
The Ivory Tower
High above the Deadwing pass, Medivh conducted his research in his secluded tower. The village of Darkshire sat far to the east as the closest civilized place to Karazhan, but none from the village dare enter the cursed place, even Medivhs two servants feared the power the building itself held, and resorted [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by admin
Ability to dye armor
The main issue in this case is mechanical.
Blizzard uses a static texture map system. That is, each individual “look” of armor is an individual texture file, even the ones that look very close in color, like the Arena gear and the Tier gear.
The current game engine doesn’t have the [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by admin
Patch 3.0.2 primer for Holy Paladins
This was supposed to go up before the servers did, but as you probably already know, Patch 3.0.2 wasn’t quite what we all expected. Now that servers are starting to go back up online, I can better write up this handy guide for the brave new world. Let’s try to [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
Phat Loot Phriday: Swiftsteel Bludgeon
Haven’t done a Mace in a while, and there are surprisingly few melee maces floating around nowadays. Since Shamans can’t wield swords, most of the really high end maces have spellpower on them. But here’s one that’s meant for cracking heads.
Name: Swiftsteel Bludgeon (Wowhead, Thottbot, WoWDigger)
Type: Epic One-hand Mace
Damage/Speed: 105-196 / [...]
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by admin
potion sickness
saying something CANNOT go live when you havne’t expereinced it yet is not really what testing is about.
Sometimes, Blizzard makes bad decisions. Doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.
I very rarely get mad about something. However, after potion-chugging for the entire time I’ve played this game, being told I can’t potion chug [...]
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