Hallow’s End Is Over, How Did You Do?
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
Dungeon and Raid System Q & A
Posted by Amatera on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 - 9 Comments
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest on Patch 3.3, and you’ve read the updated notes in the latest build, then you probably know a whole lot about the new Dungeon and Raid system being implemented in the near future. But there are still plenty of questions to be answered. With so many of ... More
The High Inquisitor: Where Are All the Kids?
Posted by pixiestixy on Monday, October 26th, 2009 - 33 Comments
The High Inquisitor is a new regular column at Project Lore that seeks answers to the greatest mysteries of Azeroth. Each week, the inquisitor will attack a previously unanswered question and attempt to explain the unknown. But she won’t rest until all plausible explanations are explored. The best, most probable comment(s) will be highlighted with ... More
PTR 3.3: New Build (10676) Brings UI, Tutorial Enhancements
Posted by Amatera on Monday, October 26th, 2009 - 5 Comments
Sorry, ladies and germs! It’s been a bit of a long weekend for me, so I haven’t been able to get to this any sooner, but a new build of 3.3 (10676, to be specific) was pushed onto the Test Realms on Friday. We’re far and away from the major updates of the early iterations. ... More
Hallow’s End 2009: Why No Goblin or Worgen Masks?
Posted by pixiestixy on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 - 6 Comments
Before we had any confirmation at Blizzcon that Goblins and Worgens would be introduced as playable races in WoW Cataclysm, we had a plethora of speculation that that might be the case. If you recall, it all started with the discovery of four new textures for Hallow’s End masks datamined from within the depths of ... More
3.3: More Icecrown Achievements Reveal New Vault Boss
Posted by Amatera on Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 17 Comments
I noticed that a lot of you were just as amused as I was with the names of some of the new Icecrown Citadel achievements, but I’m afraid you won’t find any pop-culture references in round 2. Don’t fret, though! We can still glean some cursory information on a new Vault of Archavon encounter, Toravon ... More
3.3: Icecrown Citadel Boss List, (Some) Achievements Revealed
Posted by Amatera on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - 22 Comments
Some of the first unofficial information coming out of the new build of Patch 3.3 includes a preliminary list of achievements associated with the Icecrown Citadel raid and 5-man dungeons. The breakdown and running analysis follows: Icecrown Citadel 10-man Stand-Alone Achievements These are the achievements associated with individual events and/or bosses. This is most certainly a cursory ... More
Wishful Thinking: Quest Collector
Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 15 Comments
Wishful Thinking is a column for the theorycrafting behind World of Warcraft. No, not the number crunching madness perfected by the folks at ElitistJerks, but the features, abilities, and design ideas that the Project Lore writers conjure from their squishy pink stuff. Well, readers. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been working on that old ... More
FigurePets Series 2 Released, For The Heathens
Posted by Amatera on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 2 Comments
Let’s face it. Children’s Week is a junk holiday. You don’t really care about those little ragamuffins, or give a hoot when they want to go meet the local Azerothian celebutante. No, no, no. I know what you’re doing this for. I know what you’re all about, you dirty, little pet fiend. Don’t think you can ... More
Brewfest 2009: Festivities Extended for 2 Extra Days
Posted by pixiestixy on Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - 9 Comments
I know, I know. I gave Brewfest a hard time when it first started up. On top of my frustrations with blurry screens and fatigued rams, Blizzard was working through some bugs that prevented players from properly using their mugs to bonk dwarves attempting to steal beer kegs. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, serious ... More
