Lately I am supremely enthused about my shaman. Fist weapons! Zapping things! Windfury! Turning that guy into a frog! That guy is totally a frog! Now he’s on fire! The best thing about the enhancement shaman playstyle I’m working with (designed for five mans and the occasional 10 raid) is working out for myself how to glyph and spec for it. It’s admittedly not the most efficient spec, relying on a lot of 3 second Fire Nova blasts in big trash pulls, but it’s undeniably fun

Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal? Totem Talk : Restoration will show you how.

Our very own Gregg Reece is a new father, which got me thinking about names for babies. Some names are just plain awful, like my poor father-in-law named Hubert.

In the open Sunday thread Nils asked “Would you like to speculate on the nature of Blizzards new MMO?” .

Each week Dominic Hobbs brings you Blood Pact . “Alert! You are marked for extermination! Calculating force parameters…

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.

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.

Meet Cro .

Scarlet Toy was Greyfoo’s entry into the Rise to Power contest. It tells the story of how Herod came to join the Scarlet Crusade, and what he really thinks about his situation. It’s a fairly interesting way of characterizing the weapon-master of the Scarlet Monastery, and I applaud Greyfoo’s creation.

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

Welcome to Spirtual Guidance with Fox Van Allen . Fox Van Allen is a caring nurturer, a member of several 12-step programs, but not a licensed therapist. He’s going to do a great column on shadow priesting today

After kiting Thrym the Hope Ender down to K3, Jayenn of on Khadgar had to destroy the city in order to save it. Well … actually, he probably could have saved the city by not kiting Thrym there in the first place, but where’s the fun in that

New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft .

While World of Warcraft has one heck of an audience, the story involving it doesn’t limit itself to just playing the game. There’s a ton of books, comics, manga and RPG source guides out there with yet another ton of information

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.

Fire! Brimstone! Dragons! Heroic Van Cleef ! The world is going to get turned upside down when Cataclysm hits, and the shadow priest spec is going to get turned upside down right along with it.

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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.

There are two Dungeons where part of the pace of the instance is set by talking to an NPC, Bran in Halls of Stone, and Arathas in the Culling of Stratholme. If the Npc doesn’t get spoken to at particular intervals then the instance cannot be continued.

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 .