Posted on November 25th, 2008 by admin
WoW: Arena Tournament Phase 3 Begins
Phase 3 of the 2008 Arena Tournament has begun. According to the official site, teams are now “locked down” and no more registrations for this phase are being accepted:
Registration for the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament’s first qualification round is now closed and Phase 3 of the tournament has begun. Participants have been battling it out on the tournament realms for the past two weeks while fine-tuning their team composition and strategies. Phase 3 of the tournament includes a lockdown of the teams that will be jockeying for position to compete in the regional finals. To track the progress of your team and the competition as a whole, please visit the World of Warcraft Armory. For more information on the tournament, please visit our Arena Tournament information page. Good luck to all competitors!
Any bets? Let us know who you think will capture the gold in this round.
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Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
Preview of the new minimap mod SexyMap
The mod I’m about to talk about isn’t some essential combat mod. It doesn’t vastly change how you play the game. It won’t help you in the arena or in raid dungeons, or even RP. What will it do? It will make your minimap look totally sweet.
From one of the original authors of Omen and the maker of Chatter (among other things) comes the simply (and appropriately) named SexyMap. Using spell effects already in the game files (I believe the default uses Hand of Freedom as the outside ring and Hand of Salvation on the inside), SexyMap makes your map look… sexy. It’s difficult to see just how awesome it is from pictures, but I don’t have video handy, unfortunately. What you can’t see there is the two rings are animated, one moving clockwise and the other counter-clockwise.
It’s extremely customizable as well. There are a few different preset borders, with the default being by far the coolest, and with each of them you can alter the colors via the built-in addon menu to fit whatever you’d like. Do you have a green-themed UI? Make it green. Do you want it to match your class? Go ahead.
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Posted on November 14th, 2008 by admin
Why is the Lich King’s voice so meh
Oh yes, Arthas was very strong. But in brute strength alone. It was proven, namely by his own eventual downfall, that he could be manipulated and out-maneuvered easily by playing to his weaknesses; his own fear and arrogance. It could stand to reason that despite the Lich King being so drastically weakened by Illidan’s attack, that he used that very attack as a means of getting what he always wanted–a new host. I took the last cinematic in TFT as Arthas mulling over all of his failures as a Paladin, a Prince, and a human being, and looking upon the choice he made, perhaps decided there was no point in even fighting. Perhaps, that Ner’zhul silenced the memories and funneled his fleeting need for purpose into, “Hey, can I use your skull for a bedroom? kthx”
But maybe I’m just giving Arthas too much credit. I still prefer Arthas’ voice for the role, and given that the Lich King VA is almost purely Ner’zhul at this point, it makes me wonder why Arthas voiced over that trailer to begin with. From a lore/theorycraft standpoint, it only reinforces the notion that when Ner’zhul and
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