Posted on December 29th, 2009 by admin
The Feast of Winter Veil ends on Saturday, but we still haven’t had our It came from the Blog event. Let’s remedy that tomorrow:
When: 11:00pm EST (8pm PST, 9pm Server) December 30, 2009
Where: In front of Silvermoon on the Zangarmarsh realm (US)
Who: Any level Horde character (bring your highest level for the most fun)
What: We will be harvesting eggs, baking cookies, kissing strangers under the mistletoe as well other holiday festivities.
How: Ask any It came from the Blog Lurker or Robinator for an invite to the guild
We will have extra eggs. So if you miss the bird-bashing in Silvermoon, we’ll meet you in Orgrimmar for the bribing of Greatfather Winter.
Questions? We answer most of them in our FAQ.
See ya there!
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Posted on December 24th, 2009 by admin
uesday, we kicked off our Twelve Days of Winter Veil contests. Every day until January 2, 2010 will have new prizes to give away along with new loot codes. Today, we are giving away 1 Disco Inferno code courtesy of WoWTCGLoot.com. As you can see in the movie above, this in-game item summons a disco ball that comes with a lightshow and disco music. Any player that clicks on it will /dance. The perfect celebration item for your next guild meeting or surviving a PUG with your sanity intact.
To enter for a chance to win, leave a comment in this post by Friday, December 25, 2009, 12pm ET (noon). That’s it. Limit one entry per person and make sure you’re registered with a valid email address. We’ll be choosing one winner randomly from the entrants and contact them via email after the close of the contest.
Don’t forget to check back every day through January 2nd for new contests celebrating the Twelve Days of Winter Veil!
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Posted on December 21st, 2009 by admin
Here’s a question that occurred to me while I was walking home from the subway recently: What’s the average winning roll in a five-man group, assuming everyone rolls? That is, if you randomly chose five numbers between one and 100, what is the expected value of the highest one?
I know a bit of statistics, but I really don’t know how to begin getting at that one. However, I do know how to write a script that will calculate the answer. (Yes, these numbers are only pseudorandom, but I did some limited testing with real random numbers (from random.org) and the results were the same. Besides, I’m pretty sure Ruby’s Mersenne twister pseudorandom generator is good enough for testing distributions like this.) The average winning roll out of a group of five people is 82.8 83.8 83.3 (tested over many, many repetitions). Now can any mathemagicians tell me why?
The graph above, in case it isn’t clear, is average winning roll on the y-axis vs number of people rolling on the x-axis, tested over 100,000 trials for each group (the relatively small sample size
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Posted on December 17th, 2009 by admin
Following on the heels of J!NX’s new winter line of WoW merchandise, Hot Topic has released a new line of Blizzard-themed apparel just in time for the holidays.
Included among the many newcomers to the line are “spray-painted” Alliance and Horde logo shirts, faction insignia wallets, Starcraft II and Diablo III shirts, hoodies with a neat piece of art depicting an Alliance/Horde battle (replete with male model rocking a worrisome mustache) and, for the ladies in your life, a cute purple “Fight Like a Girl” t-shirt with a set of the highly feminine night elf hunter and blood elf paladin. That’s right — now you too can have a qtbelf on your chest, or the chest of a female WoWer near and dear to your heart. As long as she’s a size small or medium, anyway. The other sizes are sold out.
Speaking of near and dear to my heart, that model! Aye aye aye. For her, if that shirt was available in mens’ sizes, I’d buy it even if it said “I play as a female character in World of Warcraft.” I mean, I do. Several of them,
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Posted on December 14th, 2009 by admin
Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
With the release of Icecrown Citadel in Patch 3.3 on Tuesday, it seemed like a good time to talk about loot policy. Everyone’s going to be drooling over the upgrades in there, especially some of the unique items like Deathbringer’s Will, and loot assignments may become heated affairs. This week’s e-mail highlights an issue that could come up in your guild — and why you should think twice before you let it happen. (FYI, to explain why he’s talking about Ulduar loot, the e-mail was sent to me in October, and I responded to it then.)
I am an officer in a guild where our loot rules until recently seemed fair to me but now I am not so sure. I have been raiding with my guild for almost a year as part of the first team and the way our loot rules work is main spec then off spec NEED rolls, if no one needs, it gets D/E. You get 1 epic and 1 tier per run unless there is no one else who can use the item or every 1 that qualifies for the item
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Posted on December 10th, 2009 by admin
Well, they started giving away pets for having an authenticator, so I guess it’s about time I went ahead and put one on my account. I’ve had the app on my iPhone for a while, actually, but I never really saw the point in attaching it to my account, especially since it seemed like just more hassle, and who knows what kinds of errors could pop up. And honestly, I haven’t worried much about hackers — I use a secure browser, I don’t click on unknown links. But I know, I know, it’s safer, and with the cute Corehound Pup out, I might as well go ahead and attach it.
And you might as well, too. Blizzard’s Store was flooded with people looking for authenticators yesterday, but things have slowed down a bit, and they’ve even got a brand new design with the Corehound Pup right on there. The price, as usual, is $6.50 with free shipping. If you’ve got an iPhone or an iPod touch, you can get the app free from iTunes, and we’re told that it’s coming to other platforms at some point in the future (guess when: “soon”).
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Posted on December 7th, 2009 by admin
Our podcast was live on the air as usual last Saturday, and the show is now up for your listening enjoyment. Artist Mary Varn was aboard to talk with us about her comic and her Warcraft career, and Matt Low of World of Matticus also jumped on to chat with Turpster and I about the latest WoW news, including the impending patch 3.3, the recent server outages, and the Taiwanese player who picked up all of the achievements in the game (which, probably not entirely concidentally, is the subject of Mary’s comic today).
And of course we answered your emails as well. For those of you wondering about our Podcast Awards nomination, voting has ended, and the winners are supposed to be announced next Saturday in a ceremony online. We’ll keep you updated — remember, if we win, we’ll be giving away any prizes we get to one lucky listener, and we’ll be recording a Warcraft bedtime story for all of you to download. Cross your fingers for us!
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