Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It’s not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around, past, present and future. The last week’s headlines are dominated by news from GDC10 , including a hands-on with Star Wars: The Old Republic , an interview with R

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.

It’s the weekend again, and that means it’s time for another Arcane Brilliance , the weekly mage column that would like to continue its ongoing series of “Pictures of things you’re hitting that warlock in the face with.” In today’s installment, we’ll be hitting that warlock with a large chunk of ice.

Well, this is a welcome change — now that Frozen Orbs are going to be the new crafting tokens, exchangeable for Frost Lotus and Eternal Fire , among other things, Wryxian announced that they will be greed only in the upcoming patch. Wryxian No, you won’t be able to exchange Frozen Orbs for Emblems of Frost.

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, Seata of Hulan of Moonglade-EU, who will be sharing their stories with us today

Admit it. You like loot as much as I do. Maybe you oggle over stats on a new shiny with a calculator and spreadsheet at hand

Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products. Reader Frank recently wrote me and asked for a bit of help with the “staple” products for each profession. Frank said, “Back in the days of Burning Crusade , I had a pretty good grip on the two or three raw materials that went across each of the professions

Wowcrendor ’s back with another installment of his satirical How-to series. This episode is focused on the wide world of crafters and gatherers, with How To Win At WoW Professions

In this interview, World of Warcraft Game Director Tom Chilton talks about the hectic final months leading up to the game’s launch, crafting an…

T oday represents the last in our tri-partite look at the Cataclysmic stat changes.? As promised, Death Knights are the topic of today’s discussion.? Again, I’d like to make sure to note that like everything else Blizzard does, this is subject to change.? With that in mind, we’ll be looking more at the general directions they want to go. For DPS Death Knights Being a bi-functional class (tanking and DPS), we have to look at the changes in two ways.? Let’s check out the DPS stats changes first.? Here’s the old stat priority for Frost DPS: Hit (until cap) > Str > Expertise (until cap) > Crit > Haste The only two stats that are going away that we had some moderate use for are Attack Power and Armor Penetration, but as you can see, those weren’t really in our top five.? In fact, they will each now convert into one of those or stamina, so it’s all good.? As long as you’re wearing plate, you should be well itemized.? The non-plate items will be tailored towards other classes, and we will probably see less overlap, making those items not as good for us.? As a plate, melee DPS, we should just be prepared to see more stamina and more strength.? Nothing big here

Patch 3.3.3 Mounts Patch 3.3.3 introduced a couple of new mounts and I think it’s time for a recap! Celestial Steed The Celestial Steed is probably the most impressive mount of his patch, it looks like a mix of Invincible and Algalon. I’m not really sure where this mount will drop for the moment but considering how cool it looks, I wouldn’t expect it to be widely available.

Game developers, as well as the armchair developers on blogs and forums, tend to design games around what *they* would like to play. So if I’d ask you for what features your dream MMORPG would have, I’m sure you could provide me a list.

Frozen Orbs matter again. Come Patch 3.3.3, Frozo will be exchanging your frozen orbs for crafting materials used in some of the better Pre-ICC craftables. It is prudent, then, in my mind, to inform the greater playerbase at large about this development

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When most people talk about making money with their professions, they usually get pretty focused on Trade channel and the Auction House . It makes a lot of sense, really, because these are the two main avenues of selling in the game. The Trade channel is named Trade for a reason, and if you can brush aside all the Chuck Norris and murloc jokes, you can fairly easily broker a deal

The actual dps increases are something more like adding Pyroblast to Torment the Weak and Empowered Fire. That may have missed the most recent patch notes. Buh

Yesterday an updated list of changes for PTR patch 3.3.3 was released.

Update – Added official notes update at the bottom of the post. Some of these changes aren’t on PTR yet as far as I know and aren’t included in the spell comparison below .

New Crafting Turn-Ins and more details on WoW's next Raid

Blizzard is currently working on patch 3.3.3 for World of Warcraft, and while nothing is definitive yet, there are already some patchnotes on the test realms which caused two commenters to ask about the patch in yesterday’s open Sunday thread. One change is to the kickout vote system of the random Dungeon Finder group, with the commenter here fearing he’d be kicked out of every group due to low gearscore. I don’t think that is going to happen