Is Blizzard Really Short-changing PvP?

Posted by Amatera on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 - 8 Comments

We dedicated players can bicker all we want about Arena balance or Rogues being over-powered, but what about the presence of PvP available in the game itself? When you have a game as popular as World of Warcraft, you’re bound to attract the ire of the gaming community at large. In my travels around the ... More

Faction Change Service Goes Live

Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 - 29 Comments

We knew they were coming soon, but not this soon! Looks like Blizzard has given the Paid Faction Change service the go-ahead and it’s now available for use (WoW or Battle.net ID necessary to log-in). Of course, according to the website, there are a few conditions to consider before you make the shift: The faction change ... More

Blue Stew: 9/1/09

Posted by Amatera on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 - 10 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. It’s the beginning of September, and you know what that means! New content ... More

Tuesday Brings Season 7, ToC Hard Modes

Posted by Heartbourne on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 - 21 Comments

Anub’arak is not pleased In what may or may not be a grand coincidence, there are going to be major PvE and PvP occurrences after this weeks server resets on Tuesday. The final boss of Trial of the Crusader (ToC), Anub’arak, will be available to fight, allowing players to unlock the Heroic difficulty setting for ... More

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

BlizzCon 2009: How Did Project Lore Do, You Ask?

Posted by Amatera on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 25 Comments

And when I say “Project Lore,” I really mean “myself.” I don’t want to speak for the rest of my fellow bloggers, but I made a great number of predictions in my series of Cataclysm Countdown articles, leading up to the events this weekend. While I still maintain that most of them were logical considering ... 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: How Did MMO-Champion Do, You Ask?

Posted by iTZKooPA on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 15 Comments

The short answer is that Boubouille scored.  The data mining machine, who used some other resources for his recent discoveries, received almost a perfect score during yesterday’s opening ceremony.  Nearly every World of Warcraft detail that had been disclosed by MMO-Champion.com came true.  Nearly ever one. There’s absolutely no way I can take away from the ... More

Cataclysm Countdown: Areas of Contention

Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 - 11 Comments

Cataclysm Countdown is a series of informed speculative articles concerning things we might see in the next expansion that I will be posting every day this week, leading right up to Blizzcon. In the interest of thought purity, I will do my best to steer clear of recent “leaked” material, relying upon it only where it ... More

Where To Begin In Patch 3.2…

Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 - 21 Comments

There’s a crapload of stuff to do in this upcoming patch.  Thanks to Blizzard’s shift in patch design, from just high end content to a solid mix of content for all player types, the Call of the Crusade patch has my head spinning.  I hope you have a grasp on the content thanks to our ... More