Breakfast Topic: Game over man! Game over!
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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World of Warcraft has been out for over five years now and if you have been playing since launch it’s probably hard to imagine a day where the patches stop coming. It’s a scary thought that WoW would someday cease to exist. Sure Blizzard would probably launch World...
Spiritual Guidance: Benediction
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Though temporarily bested by Sindragosa’s Ice Tombs, a well-timed Renew and some gnome mages have freed Dawn Moore just in time for her to wrench back Spiritual Guidance from the shady clutches of Fox Van Allen; just as she does every Sunday. After she finishes advising her fellow healing priests on the ways of the light this week, she will be waiting for a duel in Zangarmarsh atop the highest mushroom with a Flag of Ownership and Medallion of the Horde. Bring it!
I’ve had a lot of requests...
All the World’s a Stage: Roleplaying the wolf
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Friday night was a special evening for me, as I finally got around to watching New Moon. I admit that the movie really wasn’t my cup of tea, and I mostly watched it out of a sort of morbid curiousity. I felt a clear, unnatural compulsion to see what Dakota Fanning’s performance was like, and I will report that she was definitely a shining point for the movie. The Volturi portions of the movie were fairly cool, but the rest of the movie really didn’t work out for me. I don’t...
The Light and How to Swing It: Holy versus unholy, how to survive the Lich King
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we examine the most difficult encounter to date: defeating the fallen paladin Arthas.
Turalyon. Uther. Tirion. Paladins have a rich lineage of heroes in their lore, dating back for centuries decades. These crusaders of the light dedicated their lives to cleansing Azeroth of the darkness that has plagued us for time immemorial. Every new...
The Colosseum: Abni, mage of Mal’Ganis
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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...
[1.Local]: To meme, or not to meme?
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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.
Sometimes puppies just aren’t enough. Sometimes, it takes an industrial-strength WoW meme to bring a smile to your face — or in the case of one lovelorn writer to the Drama Mamas, to soften the blow of dealing with a sticky situation.
icepyro: “Despite seriousness of the issue, this...
The ghosts of Azeroth
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I love ghost stories, and one of the nice things about WoW is that Azeroth is full of them. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that one of the nice things for us is that Azeroth’s full of them, because lore-wise it’s hard to argue that the existence of any ghost is a happy occurrence. While I could (and probably should) turn this into a giant feature cataloging all the ghosts in the game, I have my personal favorites:
Caer Darrow
The inhabitants of Caer Darrow are my favorite...
Around Azeroth: Gone native
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
We’ve had a number of great submissions this weekend, which is very nice because I’m at PAX East and am too tired to hunt through the archives and think up captions. (Mmm … giant beanbag chairs.) Anyway, Aestraia of Earthen Ring writes, “This is my shaman in Sholazar Basin after defending herself from a bloodthirsty dreadsaber. I guess this is what happens when she spends too much time questing in the wilds and not bothering to go back to civilization.”
Do you have...
Sunday Morning Funnies: Drink the satisfaction
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This week’s list is long and full of new things as well as old favorites. As always, if you have any tips, leave a comment. I’m always on the lookout for WoW-related comics!
Don’t forget to read through the comments section; this week, there are a couple of comics that haven’t updated. Often, the artists will stop by and leave a link if the comic was only a little bit late getting posted.
In a related note, Manic Graffiti is back sort of! It isn’t on a regular schedule...
Breakfast Topic: Disenchanting BoEs in dungeon runs
Posted by MMORPG on Mar 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
When you have an enchanter in your party, getting drops in a dungeon can be sort of an autopilot thing: you hit the disenchant button and move on. Reader Akwihahlo actually sort of has a beef we this. As he points out, the Dream Shards you get from disenchanting a blue BoE on most servers only go for around 5-10 gold a piece, assuming you can sell them at all. In the meantime, the blue might go for more on the auction house to a player still looking to gear up for dungeon runs, or it might just...
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