The Warcraft Econ Hall of Fame is a column featuring the few elite players that have hit the World of Warcraft gold cap of 214,748 gold 36 silver 46 copper. We have with us, Kumiko of Kyrin of Stormscale-EU, who will be sharing their stories with us today.

The Classifieds brings you weekly updates on guild recruiting, rankings, splits and merges, progression and more. Have guild news or a Random Act of Uberness to share?

I put my thoughts in an article on Paladin Schmaladin . Here’s the net-net. In the end, I don’t think this will have much effect on us.

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 In addition to the temporary ban, all items and achievements they gained from downing Arthas have been revoked

In the Moonkin Basics post I did last week I said “there is some discussion that Moonfire does not scale well at the very top levels of gear.” In this post I want to take a closer look at that statement, and see if there is a need to change the Moonkin rotation when you complete your The Hypothesis: The Hypothesis is this. Moonfire does not scale as well as Starfire or Wrath, and that the DPET (Damage per Execute Time) of an unextended Moonfire is less then that of an Eclipsed Starfire or Wrath.

As you may recall, Blizzard announced their intent to get rid of consumable ammo in Patch 3.1 , only to withdraw the change a short time later, with the promise of reimplementing it at a nebulous later date. Now, it’s been more or less assumed that said later date is Cataclysm itself, or at least Patch 4.0. In a general forum post created to discuss ammo replacements, Ghostcrawler piped in to remind us that the only change announced for Cataclysm was the removal of ammo, with nothing else yet decided (or, more accurately, announced).

PLEASE NOTE: The list DOES NOT currently include Heroic gear or Arthas gear from ICC.

Zach is a Battlegrounds junkie.

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I decided to go back through aaaallll my blog posts and see what I did this past year. Here’s what happened, in a nutshell: January 2009 : The remnants of Pike’s old and exploded guild < Entelechy > coalesced into < Friend Ship > a few months prior and because it’s a tiny baby guild we’re mostly PuG’ing stuff. At this point I was in Naxx25 PuGs with Tawyn, topping the Patchwerk meters in blues with endless Steady Shot spam

2009 has been a year of almost continuous changes for shamans. It seems that not a patch has gone by without some changes to the class, some major, some not so severe. The class has seen mysterious DPS shortfalls, a minor controversy about health in PvP that then carried over into PvE content with the high levels of AoE damage in Ulduar with patch 3.1.

April rolled around, and so did patch 3.1 and Ulduar — a huge, all-encompassing raid experience that pitted you against Titanic creations and Yogg-Saron, distant cousin of C’thun. Later in the month, a revamped Noblegarden went live to howls of protest from players who found all of their egg spawns camped , and we got some unsettling news that someone was one-shotting Ulduar bosses

We’d rolled Naxxramas, trounced Malygos, beaten Sartharion and his little drakes to death — and that was all there was to do in Tier 7.

Mindor asked us to please do a caster staff this week, so here’s one you can go find in the new Frozen Halls instances this weekend. Name: Unspeakable Secret ( Wowhead , Thottbot , Armory ) Type: Epic Staff Damage/Speed: 281-519 / 2.80 (143.1 DPS) Attributes: +81 Stamina, +81 Intellect. Gallery: Phat Loot Phriday Continue reading Phat Loot Phriday: Unspeakable Secret Filed under: Items , How-tos , Fan stuff , Odds and ends , Instances , Phat Loot Phriday , Guides Phat Loot Phriday: Unspeakable Secret originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST.

Mindor asked us to please do a caster staff this week, so here’s one you can go find in the new Frozen Halls instances this weekend. Name: Unspeakable Secret ( Wowhead , Thottbot , Armory ) Type: Epic Staff Damage/Speed: 281-519 / 2.80 (143.1 DPS) Attributes: +81 Stamina, +81 Intellect.

Finish up a web project I was outsourced to work on. The dishes.

Welcome to Lichborne , WoW.com’s weekly Death Knight column, where your host, Daniel Whitcomb , continues to be caught in a bad romance with Unholy DPS.

The highly anticipated Patch 3.3 hits live servers tomorrow. Here’s a recap on what it means for Hunters, courtesy of MMO Champion ’s compiled list…

Eclipse now increases damage done by Wrath by 40% (up from 30%) and the critical chance of Starfire by 40% (up from 30%) First Impression: When I first saw this change I was disappointed. Like many moonkin I don’t want to see so much of our DPS to Eclipse