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World of WarCrafts spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music and fan fiction. Show us how you express yourself by contacting our tips line (attention: World of WarCrafts) – not-for-profit work only, please. Despite its name, World of WarCrafts isn’t only about crafts. We feature all sorts of creative endeavors fueled by your passion for the World of Warcraft. This week, we hope to inspire all you WoW-playing musicians out there (hey! send us your stuff!) by sharing three of our older favorite fan performances of WoW music on the web today. The Stormwind theme above is played by ObsidianLord, a Hungarian pianist who interprets with obvious passion and depth. Join us after the break for another popular (from 2007) but moving rendition of Song of Elune.

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Blizzard is a cunning bunch and they seem to love easter eggs. No we’re not talking lovely chocolatey orbs like the ones you find during Noblegarden, rather that they like hiding artwork in plain sight and waiting for us to click on it. Tucked away in the Cataclysm official site is the kind of artwork which practically demands to end up on a T shirt. Yes, Deathwing is actually the sixth member of The Artists Formally Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain (aka TAFKAL80ETC or that funny Prince-like symbol with the Horde sigil at its center). Oh and he plays the piano. Who knew, eh? You can find it by clicking here and looking for the small keyboard at the bottom of the page (it’s in the middle underneath the artwork, just below the page indicator). Alternatively, if you want all the gratification and none of the work, click here to download the awesome high res version. We fully expect to see everyone wearing them come next year’s BlizzCon rather than those three wolves howling at the moon.

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Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. “You’re on standby tonight.” No one wants to hear these words when a raid is forming. It’s aggravating, frustrating, and downright depressing sometimes. This week’s e-mail comes from a player who’s had it with being on standby. I will talk about what she can do to help herself, why raid leaders do this to you, and how the standby system can work better for everyone involved. Hey Scott! I’ve been reading your column for a few months now and I particularly enjoy it. However, I thought I’d never find myself writing to it. I’m in a bit of a conundrum. You see, my guild of which I was a member of for quite a few months and enjoyed hanging out with and raiding with broke up. Those of us who were still around joined a good raiding guild on the server. I’ve seen the leaders and the officers in action and I’m impressed. The guild is fairly large and compared to my last guild, foreign. My previous

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The_rabid_child’s lovely tattoos posted on LJ today reminded me that it’s about time we updated the WoW.com Tattoo gallery. Below you’ll find a whole gallery full of tattoos sent to us by players with various Warcraft art or Alliance or Horde logos permanently embedded in their skin. Good times! Truthfully, most of the tattoos we get from you all tend to be Horde tattoos, but we’re not quite sure why that is. Are Horde-type folks more willing to ink up their bodies, or are they better at taking the pain? We do have a few exceptions — Mike P. sent us this Lordaeron tattoo above (which in fact does look at little painful) that shows a little Alliance pride. If you’ve got a tattoo you want us to include here, feel free to send it along, and you just might see it here on the site.

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Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. Every raid leader has this moment. You’re trying to get the raid ready for a boss attempt, but you just can’t get people to focus. Someone’s taking a quick bio. Two people are still arguing over the loot from three bosses ago. Another person is whispering you ill-conceived advice for changing your strategy. People seem to be more interested in listening to your healing lead talk in Vent about a movie she just saw than they are in buffing or putting on resist gear. Then someone that you can’t replace DC’s for the eighth time that night and you just snap. You wonder if it’s worth it. You wonder what it would be like to be a grunt rather than a general. Someone who just follows orders and doesn’t have to worry about anyone but themselves. Sprinkle in some real-life stress in your life and retiring from raid leading suddenly seems very appealing. This week, one officer wonders how to give up his general’s stripes without

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Dodge the drama and become that player everyone wants in their group with the Drama Mamas. Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are real-life mamas and experienced WoW players — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your server. We’re taking your questions at DramaMamas (at) WoW (dot) com. You can’t fix other people. “Good Intentions” discovered that hard truth last week, after writing in for help coping with the fallout of a BoP misloot that rendered him a social pariah. When it’s other people’s issues, attitudes and behavior that are causing the problem, sometimes the only alternatives are to grit your teeth and endure or to cut the line and move to another fishing hole. This week, we hear from a newly 80 player who can’t seem to gear up fast enough for everyone around him. We also revisit the unfortunate scarcity of a particular WoW netiquette basic that continues to set one incensed

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I’m exceedingly happy with myself. Pleased as punch and content as a clam in mud. Why? I’ve recently completed the single most difficult thing I’ve ever attempted: I quit smoking. Before I actually finished quitting, I was all “How hard could this be?” and “I’ll just make the decision to not smoke.” And, then, struggling down the tunnel of my actual smoking cessation, I found it much, much more difficult than I had ever imagined. All the wisdom about nicotine addiction being so insidious seemed absolutely true. The simple decision to not light up turned into an epic struggle of willpower. And, I’m a WoW player. Spending my time in Azeroth actually made the quitting process much more difficult, until I learned to alter my game play in ways that helped me over the hump instead of making it more challenging. There’s a lot of little things that you can do while playing WoW that will minimize your temptation. Here’s a few tips for which might help you put the cigarettes down, even while putting down the evil forces of

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