Free WoW Gold,Buy WoW Gold,Cheap WoW Gold – hisgoldsoon.com

Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the Rogue class. In this special edition, we cover the top 10 changes of 2009. We’ve been through a lot in 2009. It seems like every time we get settled on a spec or playstyle, Blizzard flipped it around with the next content patch. With each raid dungeon released, the top DPS build seemed to bounce to a different tree every time. I would say that rogues are probably in the top 3 classes for ‘most change received’ in 2009, especially when talking about changes that redefine the class completely. While death knights will complain that all they saw was the nerf bat this year, rogues have matured as a class and are far more versatile than where we were in January. We exited last year with Mutilate reigning over Combat, daggers standing triumphant at their long-awaited return to a rogue’s hands. Early Naxxramas raids had me convinced that I had better start enjoying the Assassination tree, because a double Webbed Death rogue was a force to be reckoned with. Our PvP viability looked something like it always had: the

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

The random dungeon finder is not only great for gearing up alts and getting mains the necessary badges to fill out their gear — it’s an amazing tool which forces an increase in the WoW community’s collective knowledge about instances and game mechanics. And while some of these game mechanics will be a discussion for a future time (hint: tomorrow’s Breakfast Topic), today let’s focus on what instances you’ve had to “relearn,” more or less. Take Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom. Prior to the random heroic dungeons, I probably ran this place a grand total of five times. My warrior tank got the bracers on his fist run through it, and I did it on a few more alts just to get the Northrend Dungeon Hero achievement. Other than that, when it was the heroic daily I’d just skip it and find something else to do. Nothing annoyed me more than the Insanity that Hearld Volazj casts, and the trash pulls got on my nerves when the DPS couldn’t wait for the mobs to come to the tank, inevitably leading to a wipe. In short, it was my least favorite instance and I was able to just ignore it. From the best I can tell, before these past two

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

Frallanboy of <Harmony> on Frostwhisper-EU sent in this picture of his new pug, which he worked very hard to obtain. “During this PuGing I have met the biggest variety of people, from healing paladins with Val’anyr, to warlocks with full BoA gear. But the pug was so much worth it!” Unfortunately, Frallanboy seems to have wound up with the hyperactive kind of pug, and there’s no achievement out there that rewards you with free dog training lessons or puppy Valium. 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@gmail.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

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

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. The hot topic at [1.Local]’s press time was an opinion piece from Adam Holisky mulling over the unfortunate high profile of inappropriate posts from disgruntled players on the Blizzard forums. “While it’s obvious that trollish parts of the community value and participating in internet yelling matches, the majority of the community does not care to hear it,” writes Adam. “We bring this issue up and to the forefront on popular WoW media because it’s imperative for the health of the community that this vocal minority does not control or continue to influence the quiet majority.” Urnias: Adam H. is exactly right. Forum posts like the one referenced are why I stopped trying to garner any useful information from that source. I got tired and angry of having to wade through 1) e-peen, 2) flame wars, 3) players who do zero research and 4) those who feel their drop in the bucket to Blizzard’s coffers entitles them to dictate game direction and

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

Last week, some PvP minded It came from the Bloggies got together for our first Battleground Bonanza. We split into groups according to our level brackets and had some Battleground fun. Mike Schramm lead the 20s group and I lead the 60s group. There were also teens and 50s groups. We had quite a bit of Achievement spam, daily BG quest completions and honor earning. And, as you can see from the pictures in the gallery, the requisite number of deaths. As the night wore on, the queue times became painful. So next time — and I think we had enough fun for there to be a next time — we’ll try for during the day on the weekend. Before we do that, however, we have the Elwynn Extravaganza this Saturday and a Feast of Winter Veil event to be announced soon.

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

This discussion over on WoW Ladies has me thinking that we probably need to do a post on something I don’t think we’ve ever covered before: screenshotting. Sure, they’re everywhere — almost everybody sees tons of screenshots every single day, and occasionally, you can even win some real-life loot for taking one. But I don’t know that we’ve ever actually covered the mechanics of how to take one. So let’s do that now. First and foremost, taking a screenshot is usually bound to your “Print Screen” key — whenever you’re playing the game, just hit that key on your keyboard, and a screenshot (in JPG format — it used to be saved in TGA, but Blizzard changed that a while ago) will show up in the /Screenshots folder inside the World of Warcraft installation on your hard drive. Of course, on a Mac keyboard, there is no Print Screen button, so I have mine bound to the “Home” button instead — you can rebind it to whatever you want in the options menu. And that’s just the basics — it gets more complicated from there. First thing you’ll probably want to do is pretty the screenshot up

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

MMO Champion has dug up a few more animations for the already popular Perky Pug pet, which you will be able to obtain in patch 3.3 by running pickup groups with random players (the current guess on the pet is running with 100 random players, but of course we won’t know for sure until it appears on the live realms). The first few animations in this video just look like the Pug has been tweaked a bit (looks to me like that weird leg thing got fixed), but the last animation is definitely new. MMOC suggests you might not want the pet any more after you see it doing this, but I guess Blizzard wanted to go for realism. Personally, I’m still going for it. Dogs are dogs, and I’m going to be running with the new LFG system (actually, according to the last patch notes, it’s called the “Dungeon Finder system” now) anyway, so I might as well go all out and get a vanity pet and the “Patient” title along with all of the other good stuff you usually get from running a ton of heroics. Perky Pug, here I come!

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

Blizzard is offering, via email, select inactive accounts the chance to return to the game with free seven days worth of game time. These emails are what appears to be a special unannounced promotion for those that have left Azeroth, coinciding with the five year anniversary of WoW. We can confirm these emails are legitimate, the links and headers all point back to blizzard.com servers. And indeed a blue over in the Customer Service forums has more or less confirmed that it’s legit. These kinds of promotions are not all that uncommon in the MMO world. Several companies that have MMOs of varying degrees of success have offered them in the past — they’re a nice way to get some old players back and make them feel like part of the community again. We want to be sure we’re clear: it appears these emails are not going to all unsubscribed accounts. If you have an unsubscribed account, don’t count on getting one; right now it looks like it’s just random chance whether or not you’ll get some free game time. Thanks to AishaLove for the help!

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

In celebration of today ushering in five years of WoW, let’s take a step away from traditional Moviewatch material and look at some early alpha and beta footage from Stormwind and Ironforge. The footage is quite astounding when you watch it. You’ll notice that there are entire sections of both cities which have changed dramatically, and indeed Ironforge itself was nearly entirely revamped to remove the “second level” from it. You can see remnants of the second level of Ironforge today in that there are some oddly placed balconies and doors — it all looks normal to us now, but when you watch the video you can see that it looks much more natural the way it was. The “internet consensus” is that alpha Ironforge was changed because people were getting themselves lost all the time in it — something which isn’t very good for a starting city. However as far as I can tell that never came out of published comments from a WoW designer, so take it with a grain of salt. And yes, before some you inevitably ask, Patches of Yesteryear will be returning this week — although we’ll only be running it once every other week due to

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »

Welcome back to Know Your Lore, WoW.com’s column about the story behind the game we all play. Put simply, the Knights of the Ebon Blade are traitors to the Scourge. Like the Forsaken, they’ve broken free of the grasp of the Lich King due to the intercession of an external source – Sylvanas and the Forsaken escaped the Lich King’s grasp when he was weakened due to the crack in the Frozen Throne and had to recall Arthas to Northrend, while the Knights were more autonomous than the average Scourge and regained their freedom following the events at Light’s Hope Chapel. At LHC, the Knights were freed due to the actions of their Highlord, Darion Mograine. If you played through the events of the Death Knight starting area, you already have a basic idea of the origins of the order, especially if you ran around Acherus reading books like I did. Some are funny, some are meaningful, and from them we can glean certain information about the history of the order before the events leading up to its break from the Lich King. If you’ve read the Ashbringer comic series, you’re of course informed of some of this anyway. But there’s still devils in

Filed under: World of Warcraft | No Comments »