New Map/Quest Interface Tour [Video]
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
3.3: More Official Tier 10 Previews
Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 9 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
PTR 3.3: Patch Notes Update, New Map/Quest System Implemented
Posted by Amatera on Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 4 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
PTR 3.3: Raid Test Schedule 11/6-11/7
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
Patch 3.3: Icecrown Raid Difficulty Makes Raiding Even More Granular
Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - 8 Comments
Blizzard first chopped up the difficulty settings of World of Warcraft in vanilla WoW with optional bosses, or new loot tables for killing a boss in a certain way - effectively the first hard mode before that label came to be. The idea was taken a step further in The Burning Crusade with the introduction ... More
Blizzard Hosts Fifth Anniversary Sweepstakes
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
WoW China Can’t Catch a Break
Posted by pixiestixy on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 5 Comments
Almost three months after WoW returned back to China (albeit censored) after a months-long hiatus, the game has hit a snag once again. According to a Wall Street Journal article, NetEase, the company which relaunched the game after former provider The9 ran into financial troubles and lost those rights, is essentially in a “turf battle” with ... More
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
PTR 3.3: Valithria Dreamwalker Raid Encounter [Video]
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
PTR 3.3: Sindragosa Raid Encounter [Video]
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
