I must admit that I always thought that Gevlon, like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, had no heart. When last year I pulled the stunt of claiming to be somebody else (to make a point about identity on the internet), I choose Gevlon for the simple reason that he was the least likely to get upset about somebody stealing his identity. I thought Gevlon was intelligent, but was completely lacking what is called “Emotional Intelligence”.

An interesting quandary materialised at WoM headquarters last week. How do you raid lead as a new healer? Say you’re that new healer

An interesting quandary materialised at WoM headquarters last week. How do you raid lead as a new healer? Say you’re that new healer.

Heya guys!! So one of the biggest things about leveling any toon in WoW is “What spec do I use?” Believe it or not, it is one of the most common questions out there. So lets dip into this question briefly?

Tiger Woods South Park Begins 14th Season Premiere Associated Content World of Warcraft Parodied in South Park.

H ey Gang! So yeah…

In the open Sunday thread Void expressed his opinion that most MMORPGs either cost $15 a month, or are Free2Play, and wondered why there was no middle ground. That seems to be a common enough thought, Syp from Bio Break just posted about Cryptic games not being worth $15 per month and suggested they go Free2Play instead

Some random details on Windows Phone 7 Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) So, no direct purchases via an Amazon app, for instance, or no virtual-gold bartering for ” World of Warcraft “-type games. The marketplace will be mainly … and more??

Blood Pact is your weekly warlock digest brought to you by Dominic Hobbs. “The time has come! Gul’dan, order your Warlocks to double their efforts! Moments from now, the gateway will open and your Horde will be unleashed on this ripe, unsuspecting world.” ~ Medivh You might think that you could always tell a demonology warlock on sight, it’s minions being bigger and more powerful, to reflect his greater dominion of demons.

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.

US First Glory of the Raider (25) by Midwinter Midwinter (US-Ysera) was the first guild to complete Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player) and I totally forgot to report it. Shame on me, and congratulations to them! Patch 3.3.3 Battlegrounds and Honor Changes Patch 3.3.3 brings a couple of changes to the Battleground system, the new system is heavily inspired from the current random dungeon system and it should be pretty easy to understand. Random Battleground and Call to Arms Call to Arms are no longer a quests and are directly integrated to the battlegrounds interface, a new “Random Battleground” option has been added and give you the same honor bonus as the Call To Arms, but applied to any battleground

There are now two Mimetirs.

As I’m not currently raiding, I didn’t mention the Icecrown Citadel buff up to now. Blizzard had already in previous expansions made characters stronger and nerfed raid dungeons with time, so that at the end of an expansion people could visit raid dungeons they had been previously been unable to beat.

The Classifieds brings you weekly updates on guild happenings, raid progression rankings, player milestones and more. Have guild news or a Random Act of Uberness to share? E-mail TheClassifieds@wow.com .

WoW.com’s prestige in the community has afforded us the opportunity to speak with major Azerothian leadership figures on any subject, and we’re letting you, the reader, Ask a Faction Leader ! We recently spoke to Sylvanas Windrunner , Banshee Queen of the forsaken, and she shed light on several key issues, including undieting, hunter training, building this city, and bouncing idly.

Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we examine the holy paladin Tier 10 set and its bonuses. As my guild and I have been conquering Icecrown Citadel, I find myself with a glut of Emblems of Frost .

Lolegolas the Gnomekiller lounged next to the lumber mill in Arathi Basin . His sinewed arms lovingly stroked his bow.

Update – Updated the PTR Build info. Patch 3.3.3 – PTR Build 11623 A new build has been deployed on test realms, a couple of things have changed! As usual, these changes are from client data comparison and shouldn’t be considered as final until they hit the official patch notes

I can’t say that I didn’t see this one coming. The Blizzard developers announced at the last BlizzCon that we’d seen the last of armor penetration and attack power, with the focus in Cataclysm being the simplification of stats. Eyonix recently posted a complete summary with all of the expected changes, and there’s a lot to be digested.

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