Suzina at Kill Ten Rats confessed that she bought gold to purchase dual specialization on her first WoW character at level 40. For the purposes of this post, let us ignore the whole “buying gold” aspect of the story

Every week, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them . This week, we save the world (of Warcraft). Originally this week’s article was going to concern stomping Karazhan from top-to-bottom as a feral/resto druid, and then I got Big Bad Wolf for the opera event.

A recent article in the UK Times has shed a rare, positive light of an undeniable facet of online gaming — finding that special someone via an MMO. It also mentions the undeniable fact that when you get a bunch of socially awkward guys on Vent, then throw a girl or two in, it might lead to a few problems. So, here we have it, folks — in this new age of gaming, more and more women are picking up the controller, or sporting a mean WASD

Trojan succesfully hacks Authenticator Protected Accounts A new virus spawned on the internet a few days ago and seems to be the first trojan capable of hacking a WoW account protected by an Authenticator. It was confirmed by Blizzard a few hours ago. Quote from: Kropacius ( Source ) After looking into this, it has been escalated, but it is a Man in the Middle attack.

I’ve been trying to get some raiding done before my account expires– gonna go out with a bang and all that! 10-man ICC is, I am very glad to say, not nearly as lag-erffic as the 25-man version. I did the first four bosses with Tawyn.

At this point, we’ve reached the Keepers of Ulduar, who have been driven mad by the whispers of Yogg-Saron. Guess whose job it is to knock some sense into them

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Every Sunday (and the occasional weekday) Spiritual Guidance offers holy and discipline priests advice on how to wield the holy light and groove to the disco night. Your hostess Dawn Moore will provide the music. Last week, I had a bad day

Update – Yep, the Lich King has over 100M health in 25-man heroic mode. Professor Putricide (Heroic) World First Kill by Paragon Paragon just defeated Professor Putricide in heroic mode and gets another world first kill in Icecrown Citadel. They killed all the end-wing bosses and the lich king is next on the list .

Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike.

It’s been a pretty busy week here in WoW . With Patch 3.3.2 live and the Frostwing Halls open , we quickly saw our first 10-man Lich King kill , followed by our first 25-man Lich King kill , followed shortly by a ban , followed a bit later by the first legitimate 25-man Lich King kill . But if you haven’t managed to get him down yet, you’re in luck.

Upcoming Lich King Weapon Changes A couple of days ago a message was posted on the official Korean site to announce upcoming changes to the weapons dropped by the Lich King, as far as I know these changes affect both normal and heroic versions of the weapons. Thanks to locriani for the help with the translation! Quote from Blizzard staff Good morning from the WoW community team. Some of the weapons from the Lich King are not as good as we had hoped.

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 .

God is a Geek (blog) WoWers, You Are Merely Blizzard’s Lab Apparatus and Sacrificial Lambs MMORPG News Ensidia is a guild in a World of Warcraft Europe realm and the first guild that defeated the Lich King. On Feb 3, each member of the Ensidia’s raid group … Paragon One Shot Arthas To Claim World First 25 Man God is a Geek (blog) Ensida Suspended For Glitching Lich King Kill God is a Geek (blog) all 3 news articles??

Are you wondering what has caused all the ruckus in the raiding community the past few days?

MMO Champion reports that the 25 Ensidia members who participated in the “first” 25-man Lich King kill have been banned for 72 hours. Quote: Date of Violation: 03/02/2010 Type of violation: Exploitation – Abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches with intent to exploit or cheat in World of Warcraft. Details: Use of Saronite Bombs to bypass The Lich King fight mechanics Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 72 hours, all items and achievements gained removed Now it should be very clear from my general writing that I am not a huge fan of uber guilds like Ensidia

GuildOx reports that Paragon, from the European Lightning’s Blade realm, has defeated the Lich King and acquired the Frozen Throne achievement.

GuildOx reports that Paragon , from the European Lightning’s Blade realm, has defeated the Lich King and acquired the Frozen Throne achievement. While well-known guild Ensidia had defeated him yesterday on 25-man difficulty , they also employed some dubious techniques to win and later paid the price for it by having their loot and achievements removed.

It’s time to put an end to the whole Ensidia thing and go back to WoW news! If you still want to discuss the subject I suggest that you head to Ensidia’s website . A lot of people asked me what was my opinion on the subject, I’ll keep it simple : I got information from both Ensidia and Blizzard (unofficially, just to be clear) sides and I still have no idea who is wrong or right, and we will probably never know. This is just a lot of time wasted discussing kills when guilds aren’t even competing for the Heroic Mode yet, just be glad the bug was found now and see you next week for heroic modes! Paragon 25-Man Lich King Normal Mode World First Kill Paragon killed the Lich King a couple of minutes ago and we will assume that this kill is bug-free and will make everyone happy

It looks like Ensidia’s 25-man world first on the Lich King will go down with an asterisk next to it, because they’ve all just received a three-day ban for “Abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches with intent to exploit or cheat in World of Warcraft .” The Ensidia blog post reporting this is down as of this writing due to traffic, but you can still view the Google cache . The story is that Ensidia made use of Saronite Bombs to “bypass The Lich King fight mechanics” (Saronite Bombs and similar items were disabled in a hotfix last night ). In addition to the temporary ban, all items and achievements they gained from downing Arthas have been revoked