http://projectlore.com Project Lore - The first and last place on the web for premium multimedia World of Warcraft game guides Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Tribute to Addons is a column featuring new, cool, or useful addons. Send a tweet to @Projectlore with your suggestions, or leave a comment. Blue Rune Circles in SexyMap I've been getting lots of questions asking me about my mini-map addon that I use in my videos. Its called SexyMap, and ... http://projectlore.com/blog/a-tribute-to-addons-sexymap/ There is a strange blue post that our commenter Vexklythor tipped us off to that implies that patch 3.3 will not be live until late December at the earliest. The post was in response to a forum post about the recent background downloader performing very poorly. Quote: We only provide mirror ... http://projectlore.com/blog/patch-33-not-live-for-1-month/ [caption id="attachment_8539" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Do Some Internet Sleuthing."][/caption] Forget about other video games, I find it difficult enough to split my play time across multiple characters.  Despite my best efforts, that is exactly what I have been doing lately.  Over the past month I have put serious time in to not ... http://projectlore.com/blog/the-balancing-act-splitting-your-time-with-alts/ Dedicated Icecrown Citadel Raiders in the upcoming Patch 3.3 will have a new, glorious armored Frost Wyrm mount to work toward. Blizzard blue poster Ancilorn over on the European forums confirmed Wednesday that the armored Frost Wyrm mount previously data-mined at MMO-Champion will indeed be the next hot raiding reward. Here's ... http://projectlore.com/blog/patch-33-frost-wyrm-mount-incoming/ Oh Blizzard, you're so sneaky! With a notice surreptitiously tucked away at the bottom of the launcher, and a download utility that chugs away at forthcoming patches minimized on your taskbar, you wouldn't even realize you were downloading anything at all unless you were looking for it! But if you've ... http://projectlore.com/blog/33-background-downloading-has-begun/ We expected it might the case for some time now, but Blizzard has confirmed it: Icecrown Citadel will subject players to gated progression in an attempt to stretch the content out as far as possible. However, as you will see below, it gets a little bit more complicated than just ... http://projectlore.com/blog/33-icecrown-citadel-to-feature-gated-content-release/ [caption id="attachment_8520" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Those Names Look Suspiciously Familiar..."][/caption] My adventure into old school instancing has lead me to one definitive conclusion; everyone is a critic.  Everyone believes they know your class better than you, something I can be guilty of when it comes to dagger-equipped rogues.  The five person team ... http://projectlore.com/blog/old-school-battle-of-the-newbs/ The first few times I ran Vault of Archavon, I was lost. It was my first real foray into 10-man content, and I was trying to keep Archavon, Emalon and Koralon straight. Which one overcharged adds? Which cast a nasty fire that you had to get out of immediately? Is ... http://projectlore.com/blog/dungeons-and-raids-keep-all-that-strategy-straight/ A new round of changes to go with the next week of testing! Perhaps the most important of the bunch are those relating to the way Rogue poisons work. We brought a potential problem to your attention last week, which involved an add-on allowing Rogues to weapon-swap (and thus poison-swap) ... http://projectlore.com/blog/ptr-33-patch-notes-update-1117-build-10835/ As cool as it would be to get your hands on the Lich King's wretched blade, Frostmourne, it remains far too powerful and evil for the average hero to withstand its influence (never mind that you've killed more world-destroying threats at this point than any NPC to date). Nonetheless, there ... http://projectlore.com/blog/33-official-shadowmourne-preview/