Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends
Okay, so technically Waaagh! is a Warhammer Online blog, but we’ll forgive Syp that duration, whether only considering S/he writes a pretty good article about choosing your character’s name. The first part of it is, to me at least, good common sense. Don’t choose a name you’ll regret […]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Blizzard, Humor
Yes, loved by some and hated by others, tomorrow is 4/1, April 1st, known around the world (or at least the Internet) as April Fool’s Day, and odds are that you’ll have a lot of fools trying to play with your head. As you probably know, […]

The European World of Warcraft Arena Tournament realm is supposed to be live right now. Unfortunately, Blizzard poster Slorkuz has announced that there has been a delay in opening the tournament realms.
According to Community Manager Thundgot (who took by monitoring the thread) the delay was caused by a bug which prevented Swedish players from joining. […]

Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Expansions, Factions, RP
The concept of being able to customize your character’s look and feel beyond choosing one of 4 or 5 basic face and hairstyle choices at character creation or upgrading to a new piece of loot is one that’s near and dear to me. I’m an […]

European World of Warcraft players, rejoice! Telia Sonera and Cogent Communications have finally signed a new contract, ending the dispute that led to a lot of WoW players in Europe being unable to log in to the game.
Despite the new contract, however, both companies still insist that the issue was due to the other failing […]

Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Leveling, Wrath of the Lich King

Our good friend Boubouille at MMO Champion has news of an XP change in the game, but not where you might expect. Blizzard has secretly changed the amount of XP earned… at level 70.
But wait, you say, we don’t earn XP at […]

Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, PvP
As I’ve mentioned in a recent warrior column, I’m running the new Alterac Valley on my prot warrior. Mostly it’s not intended to achieve anything, it’s just to see how I’ll do. I average about four games before I get bored and go do something else. However, in the […]