Posted on October 28th, 2009 by admin
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic, and be sure to visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide for links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s.
Theorycrafters and experienced players, go away – no really, /shoo! Today’s WoW Rookie is for brand new players or players who are embarking on a new alt with absolutely no idea which end is up. The topic: what stats should you look for on gear as you level up? With XP and levels moving so quickly these days, it’s not a topic that bears deep reflection or rooting through gear lists online in search of exceptional pieces. Any time you devote to researching and going after specific gear will be rendered moot by equal time spent questing – ding, better gear at your disposal! Still, concentrating on the right set of primary stats gives you a solid foundation for steady, predictable game play and supports experimentation with different spells, specs and tactics.
The early levels (and by that, we mean
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by admin
Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
Patch 3.2 brought a welcome change for both raid leaders and game masters: BOP loot no longer binds to a character immediately. We now have a convenient two-hour window to make sure the item goes to the right player. It’s a change that saves both time and hassle, and I applaud it.
However, now that items aren’t bound as soon as they’re looted, I’ve noticed some shenanigans going on in my guild’s partially pugged 25-player ToC runs. Sometimes, when a player wins an item with a roll, a few people who really want that item have been offering the winner gold in exchange for trading the still-unbound item to them.
I’ve made it clear that we’re not running a GDKP raid and that I don’t want to hear about any such transactions. It’s a slippery slope. Pretty soon you’ll have everyone who’s eligible for an item rolling on it whether they want it or not, solely in hopes of banking a tidy profit.
It seems this
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by admin
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You’re level 80 now, you’ve picked up a few sweet upgrades from five-mans and heroics, and you’re ready to try a PuG into Naxx. You’ve found a group that’s looking for members, but you’re not quite sure how to answer the raid leader’s demand: “What’s your DPS?” The best way to figure out what your raid DPS, of course, is to measure it while you’re raiding – but if you haven’t started raiding yet, you can’t really do that, can you?
The first thing you’ll need in order to figure out what kind of DPS (damage per second) you’re capable of putting out is an add-on that keeps track of your performance. Recount is popular and widely acknowledged as a fairly accurate tool. There are plenty of alternatives on all the major add-on
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Posted on October 19th, 2009 by admin
Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
After Blizzard’s big announcement about how they plan to improve guilds in Cataclysm, I’ve been examining the changes in detail. First, I wrote about the lack of guild improvements over the years and how the expansion will, for better or worse, change WoW guilds forever. Then I speculated on possible leveling system options, guild talents, and guild achievements. This week, I’m going to finish up the series by talking a bit about guild currency and suggesting some products that Blizzard should let us buy with this new system.
Here’s what we know so far. Guild currency will be earned by players in your guild who earn experience. It remains to be seen if experience (and thus currency) will still be earned by players once they reach the level cap, but I assume that it will.
So far, they’ve only mentioned a few items that we can buy:
Vanity items like mounts, tabards, and standards
Reagents like frost lotuses for flasks
Recipes
Heirloom
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Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin
It’s that time again — time to give away yet another of these beautiful Creative World of Warcraft wireless gaming headsets to one lucky commenter on this post. Throw a comment in the comments section below, and you could be the person we choose to win a brand new Creative wireless gaming headset (complete with official glowing World of Warcraft insignia) even before it’s released in November. Good deal? Our record on these things so far is about 3,000 comments, but surely we can beat that — tell your friends and guildies to run on over and put their own comments on here, and if they win, you can make them pay you an ingame finder’s fee in gold.
As usual, the contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), and everyone who enters must be 13 or older. To enter, leave a comment on this post before Wednesday, October 21st, at midnight eastern, and please be sure to use a real email that you check often to enter, so we can contact the winners when we choose them. You may enter only
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Posted on October 12th, 2009 by admin
Welcome to Lichborne, WoW.com’s death knight column.
Remember when I said that it looked like Patch 3.3 was going to be relatively quiet for us? I may have spoken too soon. There’s been a pretty major shakeup to Unholy DPS (again), and there’s one or two other changes we might want to discuss, including news of some armor tier bonuses. Let’s get to it.
Scourge Strike Rebalancing: The Neverending Story
So before we delve into this change, let’s take a moment to review the star-crossed history of Scourge Strike. Scourge Strike is meant to be the basic Frost/Unholy attack of an Unholy death knight, and the hardest hitting of their attacks. In theory. Here’s the thing with Scourge Strike: It does shadow damage. That means it completely bypasses all armor, meaning it does a lot more effective damage than you might guess just from glancing at the tool tip. The problem back in the early days of the class is that it was doing far too much, easily outstripping Obliterate. So, Blizzard nerfed the damage, and all was well for a while.
Then, armor
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Posted on October 11th, 2009 by admin
Happy Thanksgiving weekend Canada! As for everyone else, well, you can enjoy the comics knowing that soon enough, you too will be feasting and we Canucks will have to hear about it. And watch all those mouth-watering food commercials.
Daily Quests: A Simple Re-Quest.
Battlemasters: You…I Remember You. This fairly new and awesome comic is still settling into its own artistic groove; something that was interrupted when Zach was separated with his art supplies. Now that he has replaced some of them, we can settle in and watch the two artists refine this comic’s style.
Dark Legacy Comics: Mr. VanCleef.
LFG #294: This one reminds me vaguely of that Alien Ant Farm song, Happy Death Day.
Teh Gladiators: Brewmaster’s Revenge.
NPC: Negotiations. These terms are genius. I wonder how long it will be before she stops tallying up /played to exchange for real quality time.
NPC: Choose Your Butt. Careful; Cadychan draws a pretty nice cow butt!
NPC: Noob Unleashed. She doesn’t quite have the terminology down, but she seems to be settling in.
Happy Belated Birthday, WoW,
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