Around Azeroth: Compassion

Baby animals with disproportionately giant heads can melt even the hardest of hearts. And so it goes with Alstrom of <War Machine of the Horde> on Dethecus, who is less of a war machine and more of a cuddle machine when alone with his baby Venomhide Hatchling. Don’t tell the other blood knights that he’s [...]

[1.Local]: Cataclysmic shock and awe

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.
And so it begins. Cataclysmic shock and awe is sweeping through WoW.com’s [1.Local] channel (that’s the post comments, for those of you [...]

Preparing for BlizzCon: Costumes

BlizzCon approaches! Preparing for BlizzCon is your regular source for tips on how best to prepare for Blizzard’s gaming extravaganza. These helpful hints are particularly suited for convention rookies. But if you are a con veteran, we’d love to hear your advice and wisdom in the comments as well.
Many people will be wearing costumes to [...]

Around Azeroth: Contact

No – no words.
No words to describe it.
Poetry!
They should’ve sent a poet. (But instead they sent Silant <Exploding Kitty Brigade> – US Dalvengyr).
So beautiful.
So beautiful…
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 [...]

Around Azeroth: The Two Towers

Submitter Beastotem of the guild Arise on Spinebreaker-EU sends us this photograph, freshly snapped from the back of his flying mount. When I saw it, I have to say, I was filled with a sense of foreboding doom. That’s right, everyone, brace yourselves. The Two Towers are back. It looks like Sauron decided that the [...]

Breakfast Topic: Most frustrating non-drop

Unless you are a Ridiculously Lucky Bastard, odds are good that you’ve gone the length of your time in the game without managing to get a particular drop you really wanted. It’s been a running joke in my guild that, try as I might, I can never get Pillar of Ferocity to drop from Anetheron. [...]

WoW Insider Show live today at 3:30pm Eastern

Yes indeed, you might have thought that we’d call it quits after the 100th show spectacular. But no such luck — we’re back for another 100 (200? 300?) shows, starting with this one today. Alex Ziebart and Lesley Smith will be on board with Turpster and I, and the words on everyone’s lips are “patch [...]