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Sunday Morning Funnies: Durable underwear
 This week, we have a healthy crop of WoW-related webcomics for your perusal. Before we get into that, let's look at last week's challenge.
I asked everyone to make some comments about the week's comics, hoping for some funny, astute, honest, and observant ones. Lots of you rose to the challenge, and to you I bequeath a virtual and imaginary collection of kaleidoscopic thimbles. I'll even throw in some chocolate flavored lemon drops and your very own pretend mini hippopotamus.
For this week, I want you to try reading a comic or two that you don't usually bother to read, or that you haven't paid much attention to, and let us know what you think about it. Next week, I'll give you guys another trivia question. Ready? Go!Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: Durable underwear Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Comics, Sunday Morning Funnies Sunday Morning Funnies: Durable underwear originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Around Azeroth: For a thousand summers
Vendarvan of <Lost in WoW> on Kael'Thas knows that you can't hurry love. He's decided to sit and wait for his true love, the Maiden of Winter's Breath Lake, to warm up to his advances. When you can live for thousands of years, hanging around for a couple of years waiting for a date isn't that big a deal. Tyrande Whisperwind's been doing it forever.
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.
Filed under: Around Azeroth Around Azeroth: For a thousand summers originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Breakfast Topic: I will destroy you
(With apologies to anyone who played Mass Effect or who brings Jack along in ME2.)
More and more lately I use the dungeon finder as a pure stress release. I don't sign up to tank: we seem to have hit a decent steady state on Stormstrike where a queue rarely lasts more than 10 minutes for DPS, so it's safe for me to let someone else tank and play around with DPS ideas. It's actually to the point where I'm looking forward to seeing exactly what kind of group I'll get on any particular run. One run was myself as DPS, a warrior tank, two more warrior DPS and a very confused ret paladin who'd accidentally queued as a healer. A brief discussion and we decided to see if he could heal the group with Art of War procs. Turned out he could. Quite frankly, that was the fastest CoT run I've ever had, with two furies, a prot and an arms warrior plus a ret paladin doing our level best to play combine harvester with the undead hordes.
With the new Battleground Finder on its way, I'm wondering if this will be an experience I get to have in PvP as well. Except now I'll be able to get my stress relief on by defending a flag while everyone else fights on the road, I guess. Will you be lured back to the BG's to crush faces, or have you already been there all along?Filed under: Breakfast Topics Breakfast Topic: I will destroy you originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Totem Talk: Enhancement glyph review
Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost, and wolves, and best of all, Windfury. 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 at Big Hit Box and pens the enhance side of Totem Talk.
Last week I went over the talents in great detail. Exhausting, two page article detail. I also linked to two specs which included glyphs. Those specs will serve enhancement shamans everywhere well enough to get the basics done, but I didn't get into the glyphs. This is what we'll tackle today.
There are 28 major glyphs for shamans but of course not all apply to enhancement. Of those 28, two are considered must-haves for PvE (once you hit level at least 60). They are: Glyph of Stormstrike (level 40) and Glyph of Feral Spirit (level 60). And when it comes to PvP no other glyph beats Glyph of Stoneclaw Totem.
After the break we'll review the enhance-related glyphs and get into a few options for glyph setups. Continue reading Totem Talk: Enhancement glyph review Filed under: Shaman, (Shaman) Totem Talk Totem Talk: Enhancement glyph review originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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GDC Roundup, day four
The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA, and our sister sites Joystiq and Massively are on the scene! No matter what kind of games you're into, there's a ton of news on its way out of the convention, and we're compiling some of the stuff that might matter to you in daily roundups just for you. If you want the whole GDC news experience, check out all of Massively's and Joystiq's coverage, or previous roundups. I apologize for my appalling lack of Michael Sacco-ness. Saccosity?
 Massively's Interview with DC Universe Online
"We're hitting major milestones right now. We're pushing as hard as we can right now to get a launch date out there. [...] We're trying to get it in your hands as quick as possible. The great thing about Sony is we really are taking our time. We have been given the opportunity to make this right."
 Fable 2 Episodes Massively Successful"That was hugely successful. There were something like over half a million. I think it was 600,000 downloads of the first episode, which was very, very cool."
 "Save your fork, there'll be pie"
After confessing to having a big appetite for Borderlands, the Gears of War developer used the pie analogy to explain to Joystiq how games without any sort of DLC "hooks" are becoming increasingly rare.
 GDC 2010 Microtalks: Big ideas, tiny speeches
Ten lecturers -- all from different sectors of the game industry -- each spoke for five minutes and each were allowed to use 20 different slides. Naughty Dog's Richard Lemarchand set the stage for the speakers, announcing the theme of the talks as "come play with us."
 Massively's Interview with Dungeons and Dragons Online
Today, the numbers speak for themselves. Their revenue is up 500%, they've had over one million new players, and you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who would refer to the game as "forgotten." Turbine has arguably set the standard for a hybrid free-to-play business model, and it's paid off very well. However, it wasn't always a sure thing and it certainly wasn't a snap decision.
 GDC 2010: The Future of Champions Online
At the end of our brief discussion on the future of Champions, Bill had this to say, "Past that, I think it's just about remaining as responsible as possible to what the community is telling us they want." That sounds the right approach to us. Filed under: News items GDC Roundup, day four originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Know Your Lore: The Twilight Dragonflight
The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how, but do you know the why? Each week Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.
For those that have been following along over the past couple of weeks, I've been following a certain order of progression with the dragon flights. Originally, there were the proto-drakes. The largest of these was Galakrond, from whom the Aspects of the dragon flights were created. Next, the Black dragonflight and its leader, Deathwing -- created from Galakrond himself, fought to achieve supremacy over Azeroth. From Deathwing's eggs, the Netherwing were born, or rather, evolved due to exposure to the energies of the Twisting Nether. Today we follow that order with the latest addition to the dragons of Azeroth -- the Twilight dragonflight.
The Twilight dragons don't really have a lot of 'history' to speak of, as they've only been recently developed, but there's enough to go into as far as their origins go. The Black dragonflight, intent on breeding a superior race of dragons that would overtake and control Azeroth, has spent several years trying to create this dominant race, with little success.Continue reading Know Your Lore: The Twilight Dragonflight Filed under: Lore, Know your Lore Know Your Lore: The Twilight Dragonflight originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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The Colosseum: Athlete, paladin of Mug'thol
The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator to interview some of the top Arena fighters on the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Frostwyrms. We're especially focused on the people who play these games, to further shed light on the world of the PvP player. If you'd like to be interviewed for The Colosseum, please feel free to contact us -- be sure to include your armory as a link!
This week, we interviewed a four-time rank one gladiator, Athlete of Mug'thol. The Merciless, Deadly, Furious, Relentless Gladiator talked to us about his very interesting and uncommon 3v3 composition of mage-warrior-holy paladin, as well as some basic arena advice for new PvPers.
WoW.com: You have four rank one titles! It's probably safe to say you know what it takes to be successful in arena. What's your advice to players who want to start playing arenas for the first time?
Athlete: My best advice would be to register an account on ArenaJunkies.com and read it often. There are many kinds of people on that website that would gladly go out of their way to help you out. They also have a really good recruitment tool to find teammates. Find some players that are on your skill level and build up a good friendship and some synergy with them. Make sure your setup can work and play often.
WoW.com: What do you think about warriors getting Disarmed while Bladestorming?Continue reading The Colosseum: Athlete, paladin of Mug'thol Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Interviews, The Colosseum The Colosseum: Athlete, paladin of Mug'thol originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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What happened to TourGuide?
There have been many Addon stories that will live through World of Warcraft's history and beyond, as cautionary tales, expressions of visions or the refinement of a segment of the MMO genre that, rapidly, is becoming the norm in most games. Tekkub's TourGuide is going to be, if it is not already, one of those stories. Join me on this adventure where we discuss what all the drama was all about and an interview I did with Tekkub concerning the transpired events.Continue reading What happened to TourGuide? Filed under: Add-Ons, Interviews What happened to TourGuide? originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Gold Capped: Buying with Auctioneer's snatch list
Want to get Gold Capped? This column will show you how, and is written by Basil "Euripides" Berntsen, also of outdps.com, the Hunting Party podcast, and the Call to Auction podcast.
Auctioneer has a myriad of uses. I've covered selling, and this week, I'll be covering buying. This addon has way more functionality than most people use, but because of the incredible quantity of complex options, many people never do any of the really cool things with it.
The best way to buy lots of types of items with Auctioneer is with their "snatch" search. The way it works is it goes through your most recent snapshot of the auction house, and presents you with a box that allows you to buy or bid on items you've defined as a "good deal."Continue reading Gold Capped: Buying with Auctioneer's snatch list Filed under: Gold Capped Gold Capped: Buying with Auctioneer's snatch list originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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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 for dinner.
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.
Filed under: Around Azeroth Around Azeroth: If wishes were fishes originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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