Blue Stew: 8/28/09

Posted by Amatera on Friday, August 28th, 2009 - 7 Comments

Blue Stew is a new daily column bringing you a delicious concoction of developer news, thoughts, and opinions straight from the boiling pot that is the official World of Warcraft forums. The highlights of each day include additional commentary by Project Lore staff. Welcome to the first edition of Blue Stew! We know that trying to ... More

Blue Posts Clear Up Some Expansion Details

Posted by Amatera on Monday, August 24th, 2009 - 7 Comments

Ah, yes. All of your favorite Blues are back from their trip to BlizzCon, ready to tackle the never-ending Q&A session that is the official World of Warcraft forums. And those of you that didn’t attend the convention certainly aren’t scared to toss a few inquiries their way! Ghostcrawler was bemused that his sarcasm didn’t come off ... More

BlizzCon 2009: Morning Panels

Posted by Heartbourne on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 12 Comments

Welcome to day 2 of Project Lore’s Blizzcon coverage! Unfortunately, the WoW panels this morning were not featured on the live stream, so we were unable to report on them live. However, here are some of the highlights from the panels: WoW Q&A: There will be more class-related hubs like Moonglade in Cataclysm, and it will be ... More

BlizzCon 2009: What’s Up, Worgen?

Posted by Heartbourne on Friday, August 21st, 2009 - 40 Comments

The newest addition to the Alliance is indeed the Worgen. The kingdom of Gilneas assisted the Alliance during the Second War. However, going into the Third War, Gilneas realized that there was little the Alliance to provide to them, and they were just fine governing themselves behind the impenetrable Greymane Wall. The curse of the Worgen began ... More

Possible New Class/Race Combinations

Posted by Heartbourne on Friday, August 14th, 2009 - 88 Comments

Patch 3.2.2 has hit the PTR, and there is some surprising new data that has been data-mined. It appears that there are a bunch of new race/class combination, though it is unclear if these will actually be playable. It may just be for NPCs. The list is as follows: Human Hunter Orc Mage Night Elf Mage Blood Elf Warrior Dwarf Shaman Undead ... More

Proverb: Druids of the Sun?

Posted by Heartbourne on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 - 42 Comments

Proverb is a column discussing the lore of Warcraft. Comment and let us know what you would like to see in future columns! Many lore-minded players have likely heard about the new Druid quest in patch 3.2 for Horde players. It starts in Dalaran, and it involves a badly injured warrior by the name of Aponi ... More

New Changes in the Latest 3.2 Patch Notes

Posted by Juggynaut on Friday, July 10th, 2009 - 30 Comments

Blizzard just updated the PTR patch notes to include some changes made in the lastest build of their latest patch, 3.2. Included are some minor but extremely welcomed changes to my class of choice along with a few of the lesser classes. Following are the changes from the previous version of the notes from MMO-Champion: Arenas Beginning ... More

Patch Notes Live for 3.2, PTR Soon

Posted by Heartbourne on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 - 40 Comments

There are lots of surprises here. Check out the PvP changes and battleground changes. General Construction of the Crusaders’ Coliseum is complete. Testing not yet available. New raid Normal and Heroic modes for the Crusaders’ Coliseum can be toggled using the Dungeon Difficulty setting. This applies to 10 and 25-player versions. 10-player (Normal), 25-player (Normal), 10-player (Heroic) ... More

Fancy New Furs for the Fashionable Feline

Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 - 15 Comments

After revealing the new Druid bear-form skins just a couple of weeks ago, Blizzard promised that we’d get to see the new cat digs, too. And deliver, they have! Well, at least for Taurens (though I’m sure Night Elves can’t be too far behind). Despite not being into the whole “accessorizing” thing as the bears seem ... More

Bad News, Bears?

Posted by Tyranis on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - 39 Comments

Blizzard just slipped us a sneak preview of the long-awaited updated models for the druid animal forms.  Currently, the preview only shows the tauren bear form, but they announced that the night elf bear form will be revealed by the end of the week. They mention that there are five different skins for each animal form ... More