Frankly, the Bladestorm nerf is a minor one, albeit an extremely annoying minor one.

There’s a lot of turnover in the blogging world. This crazy hobby (sometimes profession) is one that’s hard to keep up with

As I mentioned before, last year I received a special invitation to play Alganon in beta, and to tell the developers my opinion about that game. I told them that they were copying WoW too closely, which would never work with the budget they had, and that they would have to do something to differentiate themselves from WoW, either in the business model or the gameplay.

WoW plushies are awesome . Sometimes they come with in-game pets. Sometimes they mrrgl in your mailbox

The start of any expansion is a rough time for PvP. I only have two expansion packs to draw on here, but they both followed the same pattern

The Icecrown Citadel raid buff has been out for a week now . For the time being, it’s only a 5% buff to healing, health, and damage (and let’s not forget that it will affect damage absorption spells soon )

There was a time when I played the German version of A Tale in the Desert , and Teppy, the main developer, gathered all the players online on the server at one spot to hold a council.

Patch 3.3.3 – Jepetto’s new toys! Jepettoy Joybuzz in Dalaran will sell 3 more items in 3.3.3! Your favorite toymaker added the following to his inventory: Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot 50 (Companion Pet) Blue Crashin’ Trashin’ Racer Controller 40 Tiny Blue Ragdoll 10 Blue posts Quote from Blizzard staff Alterac Valley imbalance We have discussed this numerous times. Based on the data we’ve collected over the years after all of the changes that have been made to Alterac Valley, we simply do not agree that there are any glaring imbalances in the map favoring one side over the other enough to easily sway a match one way or the other.

We posted yesterday about some of the aspects of the mastery system , a new feature in Cataclysm that will allow players to obtain bonuses to whatever talent tree they choose to follow. Today Eyonix answered a few questions to clarify the system and how it will work with regards to specific classes and abilities: 1

The Problem Last week Big Bear Butt issued a call for Blizzard to end Prohibition and start selling gold to players . The theory is that by offering players a safe and legal method of purchasing gold, Blizzard will greatly damage the economic incentive of hackers and goldsellers, reducing the damage that hacked accounts are doing to the game.

In the open Sunday thread a reader asked whether there was any connection between Tamarind founding a new guild for the blogging community and Gevlon founding a new ganking guild. Obviously the two guilds couldn’t be any more different from each other, Single Abstract Noun is a social guild, while Gevlon posted extremely anti-social guild rules .

I suppose I should start with the obvious: Death Knights. Death Knights… well, they didn’t actually do so great this expansion.

Team EG wins Intel Extreme Masters World Champions Zam News Going into the Intel Extreme Masters World Championships in World of Warcraft 3v3 arena, there were very few teams who believed that Team EG (Evil Geniuses) …

Once WoW ’s most disparaged profession, Fishing has experienced a resurgence in Wrath — and it may get even better in Cataclysm , with developers studying fishing from other games like Animal Crossing in order to make it more fun.

Uh-oh.

The two alts I made last year are twinked to the max: Heirloom items, the best gear and consumable money can buy, and in some extreme cases I even had expensive enchantments on very low level gear. There is a certain fun to be had when playing a completely overpowered low level character. But for Tobold the tauren shaman, my new alt in the blogging community guild, I wanted to try something different

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There’s been a rather interesting issue I’ve had to fight with since… oh, since the Blood Wing went live in ICC. See, this is what happens.

I have this brilliant idea for Blizzard for a series of role-specific stats to introduce in Cataclysm, which I’ll call groupability stats. Each groupability stat is unique to one role, be it tanking, healing, or dps.

This is a topic I’ve covered many times in the past, but I feel compelled to revisit it today.