WoW Armory improved with powerful tools

Demonstrative of their commitment to seeing Arenas succeed, the World of Warcraft Armory has been updated with new tools that allow players to scan Match Histories, Opponent Histories, and more surprisingly, Match Reports. Blizzard has apparently been tracking a lot of data under the hood for some time, as all the matches of Season 5 [...]

Realm maintenance for Tuesday March 17th

There will be realm maintenance for tomorrow, Tuesday March 17th, from 3:00 a.m. PDT / 6:00 a.m. EDT until 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT. This maintenance is a little bit longer than we’ve seen the past couple of weeks (it’s starting two hours earlier).
However, don’t take this as a sign. Just because the [...]

Totem Talk: When things go off the rails

Yesterday, a new PTR patch dropped with changes for shamans. We’ll be covering them. But first I wanted to talk about the change to the Windfury Glyph that I’ve frankly been avoiding discussing for weeks now. I’ve avoided it because, frankly, I haven’t wanted to discuss it until I could come up with something to [...]

Addon devs respond to Blizzard UI policy changes

Blizzard dropped a bombshell on the addon community last Friday with their new addon policies (among a few other clarifications, addon developers can no longer charge for their addons or even ask for donations in-game), and developers are reeling. Already, the creator of the popular QuestHelper has responded on his changelog, saying that the addon [...]

Martin Fury: What would you have done?

Everyone is in a furor over the Martin Fury/Karatechop controversy — and we’ve had a few requests already to poll you guys on exactly what you think about it, so here you go. The story, as we’ve ascertained, is that Karatechop got the item by way of a low-level guildie (who’d been receiving items after [...]