Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by admin
Matt took this screenshot while leveling a tauren alt through Mulgore. I’m not sure if this is a bug or just a good angle, but it looks completely natural, as if the shadows themselves were encroaching on Thunder Bluff, feeding off the essence of all that is good and pure until the residents are nothing but shades of their former selves. Forgive me: I’m in a horror-movie mood ever since discovering that this abomination is apparently inhabiting the sewers under my favorite restaurant. (Warning! Link is not for those with weak stomachs or people who have recently played Dead Space and still have nightmares about amorphous blobs coming out of walls!)
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Posted on June 29th, 2009 by admin
We featured the previous installment of Baron Soosdon’s PvE movie series back in December 2008. Now, seven months later, the good Baron has released Raid Together, Die Alone 3. The video is a series of clips, raid fights, and other moments blended together against the backdrop of Soosdon’s usual good taste in music. The good Baron warns that an absolute ton of murlocs were harmed in the process of making the video, though I’ll be darned if I could find them.
Ultimately, this new Raid Together, Die Alone is another fun memoir video. It brings back memories of slamming our faces into Illidan Stormrage and the epic awesome that is the Eye of Eternity’s unique setting. As WoW progresses forward with new content and new bosses, it’s easy to forget to look back and fondly remember some of the things we’ve already done together. I think Raid Together, Die Alone is a fun scrapbook of WoW-to-date, and I’m thankful for the reminder.
You can check it out on WeGame or YouTube.
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Posted on June 24th, 2009 by admin
The Image of Archmage Vargoth can travel the whole world and see everything there is to see, but there’s one thing he can’t do — eat delicious baked goods. Oh, and love, but who cares about inability to love when you’re faced with the inability to stuff your face with cream puffs? Vadric of <Hammer of Goel> on Moon Guard taunted the conjurer by bringing him to Aimee’s dessert cart in Dalaran. Then Vadric presumably devoured an entire Lovely Cake by himself, while Vargoth sobbed and desperately tried to lick frosting off of the blood elf’s fingers.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by admin
The Midsummer Fire Festival went live yesterday in Azeroth (but with a few glitches that will hopefully be cleared up soon.) With so much to do during this festival, we here at WoW.com we’re wondering what your main goal was for this event.
Are you focused on finishing the associated achievements on your way to a proto-drake? Are you using the quests as a way to level an alt or low level character? Farming Ahune for a Scorchling pet? Or perhaps you’re enjoying the role-playing aspect of the event or even the thrill of raiding the home cities of the opposition. There’s plenty for the casual player, too.
Let us know in the poll below and if you don’t see the answer you like, leave it in the comments! Also, if you like to learn how to make the Midsummer magnet in the photo above, check out our World of WarCrafts article with detailed instructions.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by admin
Well, as we already discussed, block is currently a lackluster stat for tanking. But patch 3.2 has some changes in store, and one of those changes is to how much block value you’ll see on just about everything, clearly aimed at boosting block’s worth.
- Block Value: The amount of bonus block value on all items has been doubled. This does not affect the base block value on shields or block value derived from strength.
- On-Use Block Value Items: All items and set bonuses that trigger temporary increases to block value have been modified. Instead of increasing their block value amount by 100% like other items, they have all had their effect durations doubled. This applies to Glyph of Deflection, Gnomeregan Autoblocker, Coren’s Lucky Coin, Lavanthor’s Talisman, Libram of Obstruction, Tome of the Lightbringer, Libram of the Sacred Shield, the tier-8 paladin Shield of Righteousness bonus, the tier-5 paladin Holy Shield bonus, and the tier-5 warrior Shield Block bonus.
What this basically means is twofold. First, of course, you’re going to be blocking for more damage. Since the amount of block value you get from your shield and from strength will not be affected, it won’t be exactly double what you’re blocking for now, but it will be close to that much: expect to see at least 75% more block value all told.
Secondly, however, any item you’ve been using to temporarily double your block value either for mitigation or for threat (I used to keep Coren’s in my bags for that very reason) will not provide double the block value on the proc, but rather the same amount for twice as long. To use Coren’s as an example, it will now provide 118 block value, and when used will provide 200 more block value for 40 seconds instead of 20.
If anything this will increase block’s value as a threat stat (I’ve seen no changes to abilities like Damage Shield, Shield of Righteousness or Shield Slam) as well as giving it a bit more teeth as a mitigation tool. I don’t think it’s a permanent fix to block, but as a stopgap measure it should make the worth of it a bit more obvious.
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by admin
Yes, that’s Arthas admiring his own title on a license plate — Kallis of Silver Hand sent us this shot, presumably before his head was chopped off by
Frostmourne. Trust us, if you think celebrities are angry when the paparazzi come by, you don’t want to see what
the Lich King does.
This picture and quite a few others are all new in our WoW-related license plate gallery, and we’ve gotten a few other new pictures of cakes and tattoos to share with you as well. Browse through all of the pictures from readers in the galleries below, and if you’ve gotten a new WoW-related license plate, someone’s baked you a WoW-related cake, or you’ve picked up some new WoW-themed ink, feel free to send us a picture so we can share it here on the site.
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 by admin
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
- Be warned, if you don’t like loud noises or are currently somewhere that loud noise is unacceptable, the first 4 minutes and 55 seconds of the latest Yogscast (above) is not for you. However, the rest? Gold.
- The launch of the brand new Magecraft.org has been making waves around the blogs, so all of you Mages out there should give their forums a look!
- NoStockUI takes a look at eight addons aimed at professions.
- Episode 47 of the Twisted Nether Blogcast is up for download, this time around it features the author behind Honor’s Code!
- And Two Rogues has a guide to gearing up for PvP as a freshly 80 Rogue.
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Posted on June 11th, 2009 by admin
World of Warcraft isn’t actually at this year’s E3 — Activision Blizzard has a great big booth with lots of cool games in it, but none of them are Blizzard’s. We guess they’re saving everything for the big event at BlizzCon. But we still found someone cool to meet on the floor — The Guild’s Michele Boyd (you can see her here in the last Season 2 episode) was working on the show floor for THQ, and was kind enough to stop by and talk to me before she went off to actually, you know, see some videogames (we heard there’s some here, but we’ve been too busy writing about all the cool stuff we’re seeing on Joystiq and Massively).
As you can see above, she’s hosting a series on Discovery Channel (and she’s got the science chops to do it), she’s currently rocking an Enhancement Shaman (in Outland, not Northrend — what can I say, I was confused by her awesomeness), and she’s got some good thoughts on what’s up in the next season of The Guild. Big thanks again to her for chatting with us, enjoy the video!
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by admin
Warning: The language in this piece is not safe for work.
You can only very tenuously call today’s piece a “movie,” which might disqualify it for being featured on “Moviewatch.” However, Myndflame’s “Adventures of Puff & Lilpuff - Episode 7” targets the same audience of WoW players who would recognize them from their epic series, Illegal Danish. I wanted to make sure Moviewatchers didn’t miss out on the comedy.
Of course, part of the news here is that Myndflame will be releasing the prelude to Illegal Danish 3 on July 3rd, 2009. This particular episode of Puff & Lilpuff features a petition thread on Gameriot, encouraging the Illegal Danish folks to include the nominal characters in the machinima.
Overall, this mostly-audio series is pretty funny. It’s rooted in the body of work Myndflame has created, and is definitely a creative use of characters. Over the seven episodes we’ve already scene, the interaction between Puff and Lilpuff has become more complex and involves. I think that the series will continue to build on this intricacy, and will probably become a staple of many a WoW player’s weekly game routine.
If you have any suggestions for WoW Moviewatch, you can mail them to us at machinima AT wowinsider DOT com.
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Posted on June 7th, 2009 by admin
Resurgmal of Dread Pirates on Blackrock writes, “I was indulging in the old-time sport of climbing, along with some of the rest of the raid, in some down time previous to another Yogg attempt. (We finally downed him. YAY!) A Death Knight left this dramatic backdrop of pure evil, so naturally I had to grab a screenshot or two.” Quick, Yogg, attack him while he’s frozen for massive damage! Why, no, I haven’t been playing the Crystal Chronicles games all weekend. Why do you ask?
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