Posted on November 16th, 2009 by admin
This week, we have a quiz and a new comic to enjoy, along with updates from many of your favorites.
Battlemasters: Into Icecrown.
Dark Legacy Comics: C-A-T spells CAT!
NoObz: Fifth Commandment. This one feels unfinished to me.
Check out the latest from Teh Gladiators.
NPC: Azerothian Feline Treatment Watch. Also, In the Can and CAPS Faux Pas. I love how randomly angry Lisa looks in the two middle panels. She’s passionate about CAPS locks.
Sparkly Doom: Casual Player is Casual.
World of Warcraft, eh?: Invasive Maneuvers.
Daily Quests: Life’s Little Pleasures.
LFG #303 and #304.
Dungeons and Draenei: What is your world… of Warcraft?
Beyond the Tree: Downbrook.
Fail Druid fails again.
Complex Actions: GM Bailout.
Test your knowledge with a buffed-Quiz!
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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin
Followers of the official Warcraft Twitter will recall that Blizzard ran a contest some months back using the #Battlecry hashtag, encouraging players to tweet a message for either the Alliance or the Horde depending on the background of their Twitter page. It was a pretty cool promotion and was a great social media activity for fans, who proudly showed their World of Warcraft allegiances throughout the contest period.
An interesting post came up on Pixelated Geek the other day, however, wondering about the results of that contest and if Blizzard had ever gotten around to giving prizes to winners. Or if they’d ever gotten around to contacting the winners at all. The writer notes that he himself was a winner, having received a tweet from @Warcraft requesting for further details, an e-mail he promptly responded to. He then notes sending several more e-mails to the noted address as well as to customer service but has not yet gotten a single reply to date, nearly two and a half months after the contest ended on August 24.
The author also notes several other Twitter users who were asking the same question — as it turns out, more than a few #Battlecry winners also hadn’t received prizes nor responses from Blizzard. One follower asked, “any news for the
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by admin
With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and helps with the puppet shows at the Argent Ren Faire up in Icecrown.
Ghostcrawler has been doing a lot of talking pertaining to paladins and Blizzard’s vision of them for the future. A lot of this has been spawned by some of the changes the developers have been toying around with on the public test realms. In the current build of the PTR, Lay on Hands causes Forbearance on its target which has prompted quite an uproar from the playerbase. This cuts a leg out from our two major defensive cooldowns making us choose either health or invulnerability during a fight. Holy paladins are getting some text tacked onto Sanctified Light which will allow them to reduce the chance it will cause Forbearance on others by 33/66/100% to allow it to still be useful when healing in groups. As this is the PTR, we don’t really know how much of this will end up on the live realms. The developers have been toying around with several different ideas and at the moment we’re not sure which one or ones they’ll end up going with.
A little more background on the situation is probably a good idea. There has been a lot of talk about
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Posted on November 5th, 2009 by admin
Blizzard is once again changing the way in which we trigger heroic modes of encounters. First there was Sarth, where you left up mini-bosses. Then there was Ulduar, where you (sometimes) triggered a particular event by defeating or leaving up particular bosses or objects. Then in the Trial of the Crusader you had four different raids to do depending on your difficulty setting.
Now in Icecrown Citadel, Blizzard has appeared to reach a final solution of sorts — potentially even going back and changing the way hard modes in Trial of the Crusader are triggered. Difficulty (hard mode on/hard mode off) of the upcoming Icecrown Citadel raid in patch 3.3 will be set on a per-boss basis.
The full statement after the break.
From Bornakk today:
In the upcoming patch we are adding a new feature to the Icecrown raid instance that allows the raid leader to change the instance’s difficulty setting on a boss per boss basis. The way the raid leader chooses to switch is the same as now, by right-clicking on the character portrait. The difficulty settings can be changed from inside Icecrown Citadel, with some restrictions. For example, you cannot change the difficulty in combat or during certain events specified by our design team. To enable the ability to change the raid
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by admin
I was listening in on the Twisted Nether Blogcast and heard Nibuca mention that the new Spirit Bear image we reported earlier this week had been identified. Sure enough, I head over to the one place I knew would have the answer, Mania’s Arcania. Sure enough there it was, Mania had a long post giving all the details.
Mania’s Arcania member safrienaer reported that they had found the new spirit beast on the PTR Patch 3.3 in Grizzly Hills, north of Amberpine Lodge. Along with some really cool screenshots, safrienaer went on to describe that at the moment Arcturis doesn’t have any special sounds. However, Mania thinks, and I have to agree, that we’ll probably see some polishing of the graphic with some special glowing effects and sounds before the completion of the testing of Patch 3.3 on the PTR.
On a final note, Mania noted that Jangalian did some research on Wikipedia and found that it seems our new Spirit Beast might be a reference to Arcturus Mengsk from StarCraft.
Anyways, I’m excited about the prospect of taming Arcturis. My only problem will be stable slots and having to pick a new Elvis related name that matches his personality.
(Edit: I owe Jangalian an apology for overlooking that she had originally provided Mania the information about the
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Posted on October 28th, 2009 by admin
The expected race change feature is now active on the Account Management page, at least on the US realms. One of our writers has gone through with the change, and it appears to be working. The charge is $25, five dollars less than the faction change feature released a while ago, and includes a full customization — gender, name, and appearance if you choose to do them. The race changes do not include the new class combinations yet — we’ll probably have to wait until Cataclysm at least before those become available. It’s not live on the EU realms yet either, as of this writing.
There is also an extended FAQ, which we’ve posted after the break. This is something that we mostly never expected to happen, right up until Blizzard started saying that it would just a while ago. So at this point, once you roll a character, you’re now able to (for an additional charge) change everything about it save for the actual class. It seems unlikely that Blizzard would ever let that happen (given that classes are the fundamental basis of a roleplaying game), but of course we’ve learned to never say never with them.
Update: We’ve now received official blue confirmation that it is intended to be active. Enjoy, everyone!
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by admin
Don’t forget to join It came from the Blog for some Hallow’s End fun today!
When: 4:30pm EDT (2:30pm Server Time, 1:30pm PDT) Today
Where: Meet at Falconwing Square on Zangarmarsh (U.S.)
Who: Any Horde character, any level. There will also be a second part of the event for epic mounted, flightpathed characters.
What: Various Hallow’s End activities in the Eastern Kingdoms.
How: Ask Robinella or any It came from the Blog Lurker for an invite to the guild.
We will be doing some all level activities for the greater portion of the event and will finish up Trick or Treats in the Eastern Kingdoms with the epic mounted/flightpathed (yes, they will mostly be death knights) players.
Have any questions that are not answered here? Please see our FAQ.
We hope you’ll join us!
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by admin
I think Abandonation vs Nation is a particularly interesting video in the belf rap genre. While it’s a parody based on Cassidy’s Problem vs the Hustla. MPthreez, it still has enough WoW-unique nuances that the video sets itself apart from your usual belf video.
What I really noticed about the language and lyrics is the characterization of Abandonation. Several times, Abandonation denigrates his opponent for being a healer. “You call yourself a beast but you really play a priest,” he says in the first verse, following up with “you don’t do nothin but heal heroics and think you’re leet bro” in his final verse. It could be argued that Abandonation is characterizing a PvP player’s mindset against a PvE player, since he uses the language “carebear” to attack Nation.
Nation’s response to Abandonation is typical of the complaints we see about rogues. “You ain’t nothin without stuns so stop actin tough,” Nation says. Interestingly, Nation also calls out Abandonation for his gear, mocking him for wearing Season 2 armor despite it now being Season 7. I thought that was especially interesting, since Abanadonation’s gear in his music videos is a characterization — I had never taken it to
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