Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 9 Comments
As you may have read in the latest patch notes, Blizzard has gone ahead and given players the option to integrate the Quest Log and World Map into one big, conglomerated objective-tracking monstrosity! People will wail and people will moan that they’re, once again, making the game too easy, but then those same people will ... More
Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 13 Comments
Two new entries have been added to Blizzard’s Official Tier 10 armor previews: the Paladin and Priest. Though you’ve likely seen them before, these two sets can now be considered “complete” and in their final forms. Even after much controversy, they remain roughly the same as they did when data-miners first pulled them out of ... More
Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 5 Comments
New build, new stuff! Two things of especially interesting note this time around: if you’re still running Naxxramas these days, then it’s about to get a little bit easier. Are you tired of having to run through the entire dungeon just to unlock the fight with Sapphiron? Well, fret no longer! Blizzard has heard your ... More
Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Though it’s come rather late in the week, it looks like there will be some Icecrown Citadel raid testing this week, after all! As of this posting, EU realms have already run their first of the set, having taken another crack at Lady Deathwhisper. Though this isn’t a new fight, US players haven’t had the ... More
Posted by Amatera on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 8 Comments
Five years — a fifth of my own life — I’ve been playing World of Warcraft. Though many MMOs have been around longer, none have been able to sustain their steam (and, in fact, increase in popularity) for more than a couple years, let alone half a decade. And for all the bitching, whining, and ... More
Posted by Amatera on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 16 Comments
It’s that time again! The patch notes of have been updated, and even though the PTR servers are down for the moment, I’m sure it won’t be too long before we can get our hands on it. In addition to the usual round of class changes, there are two things worth paying attention to in ... More
Posted by Amatera on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 24 Comments
Now that everyone is busy shaking their maracas and eating skull pastries, why don’t we take a quick look back at the other celebration that just passed? Easy things like bobbing for apples and eating G.N.E.R.Ds will only get you so far during Hallow’s End. To truly “complete” the holiday you have to contend with ... More
Posted by Amatera on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 - 10 Comments
It’s been a long, long week on the PTR, and the final night of raid testing on the current schedule featured Valithria Dreamwalker, a member of the Green Dragonflight held captive by the Lich King for experimentation and, most likely, a Frostwyrm-style transformation (don’t they already suffer enough from the Emerald Dream?). It’s up to ... More
Posted by Amatera on Friday, October 30th, 2009 - 9 Comments
The dreaded frostwyrm Sindragosa was tested on US PTR realms Thursday, and boy was she one stone-cold mamma-jamma! After being nearly incapacitated by Deathwing, thrown halfway across the world, and left for dead by everyone (including her beloved master, Malygos), I’d be more than a little angry, too. And she doesn’t have a problem “expressing ... More
Posted by Amatera on Friday, October 30th, 2009 - 28 Comments
China continues to prove that MMOs are serious business. So far, both the government and the corporations that operate in the nation have proven that they aren’t shy about controlling the market economically, socially, or culturally. It wasn’t too long ago that they started to crack down on gold selling, and seemingly innocuous game content ... More
