Posted on August 31st, 2009 by admin
The raid leader thought he was being clear when he told the DPS to bring enough consumables, but apparently he needed to clarify exactly what “consumables” meant. Lithos and his guildmates of <Premade> on Caelestrasz left all their flasks in the bank for their Ulduar raid, but they made sure to bring enough Dark Iron beer to bury any conveniently AFK punk rock gnomes.
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Posted on August 24th, 2009 by admin
Oh boy. Most of us are the walking dead after BlizzCon, but let’s get back to something resembling normalcy with a Queue. We’re going to start off today with an important matter concerning authenticators and account security, then move on to a bit of WoW.com business and Onyxia. I’d also like to direct attention to two really good comments from the last column re: technical issues, Shadow’s and Logarth’s.
Zerounit asks…
I recently got an Authenticator in the mail and I noticed something while I was inspecting it: there appears to be no way to open it short of cracking it open with large objects. Is there a battery life on these? If it stops giving me my magic codes, will I have to get a new one?
I got an authenticator for my own use recently and have to admit I hadn’t thought to look into the battery life, which is a very good question indeed. A dead authenticator means you have no way of getting into the game (or even into your online account) without official help from Blizzard.
Turns out the little security doodads are manufactured by a company named Vasco, and after poking around their website, I’m reasonably certain that
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Posted on August 17th, 2009 by admin
Welcome to the latest edition of Arcane Brilliance, the weekly Mage column that unites Mages everywhere in brotherhood, friendship, and a mutual desire to set Warlocks on fire.
So, I was all set to write a lengthy diatribe this week on the woes of the Arcane tree. I was going to compare their plight to the aliens in the District 9 trailer, which I totally plan on watching this weekend. Both are oppressed groups, both possess powerful weapons nobody can use properly anymore, and both have spaceships that ran out of gas above South Africa. I was going to bemoan such things as Arcane’s inadequate DPS, PvP survivability, and overall mana inefficiency. It was going to be overly-dramatic and incredibly whiny. Warlocks were going to drink from the well of my tears, and find them delicious.
Then this happened.
In case links frighten you, or you can’t be bothered to read past the notes for other classes, or just get distracted every time you read about the revamped Onyxia raid we’re getting (like me), I’ll helpfully re-post the Mage notes below.
Mages
Arcane Blast: The buff from using this ability now stacks up to 4 times instead of 3, and each application
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Posted on August 13th, 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.
Episode 54 of the Twisted Nether Blogcast welcomed StoneyBaby of BigHitBox to the show.
All Things Azeroth #125 is waiting to invade the inner sanctums your ears, too!
World of Matticus and 4 Haelz both have guides to healing Lord Jaraxxus, this week’s Trial of the Crusader boss.
Too Many Annas discusses roleplaying different genders in WoW.
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Posted on August 10th, 2009 by admin
As a Pet collector, I’m very much appreciative of WarcraftPets.com’s Collector’s checklist. As a Mount collector, I’ve always wanted a similar list to keep track of my climb to the Dragonhawk. Today, that want is fulfilled. Mania’s Warcraft Mounts now has a collection feature, just in time for all the new mounts and mount rule changes in Patch 3.2.
Once you sign up for an account, you can list up to 3 characters per a screen name and start keeping track of which mounts you have and which mounts you want to have. You can also ignore the mounts you don’t want or can’t get. Once you have it all sorted out, you can share your collection with others if you wish (For example, here’s Mania’s collection).
The site has always been a pretty handy tool for mount collectors or people who just want a refresher about what forms of locomotion are out there, and the collection tool only makes it better. Kudos to Mania, who’s once again come through with a nice little tool for the WoW community.
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Posted on August 7th, 2009 by admin
I love this post over at Hots and Dots, and it almost makes me wish I’d done the same thing with my UI (though truthfully, I don’t get too complicated, so most of my pictures would look like her first one). Lathere has collected a series of screenshots of her UI, showing off how much its changed over the years, from her first raids in Karazhan up to the current raids in VoA and Ulduar. And it’s very cool to see how things have changed — early on, she really adhered to addons and what they did as a default, and as time passes, you can see that not only are the addons getting better at giving you the tools to lay out the UI the way you want it (not to mention that other tech has gotten better as well — she goes widescreen about halfway through), but she’s getting better at customizing things exactly the way they should be. The UI gets much more abstract and simplistic as time goes on, though you’d presume that it actually lets her do more in terms of her character.
In fact, aside from the actual graphics in the background and the icons, it’s almost hard to tell this is the same game. Of course, Blizzard has to keep a lot of things
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by admin
“Since the mass exodus of brave adventurers from the ever-curious Outland to the arctic climates of Northrend, the Sha’tari Skyguard has had recruitment problems for their Skettis offensives,” writes submitter Rioriel of <Assurance> on The Sha’tar-EU. “With the proposed lifting of flying restrictions over Wintergrasp, the faction decided to practice synchronized Skyguard Drape-opening and landing in formation. Choosing the open plains of Howling Fjord proved to be their shortcoming as a wandering Storm Giant picked off the falling Alliance and Horde members. But by a massive stroke of luck…”
Actually, Rioriel and his fifty-six accomplices coordinated this cross-faction massacre/narcolepsy attack over Ventrilo. Why did they do it? Why not? Beats the gold seller body graffiti any day. (Thanks to Rioriel and Horde counterpart Gremkarc!)
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