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BlizzCon Streamers: Your Grunty Has Arrived!

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 8 Comments

They called us crazy, you and I! Those of us who paid a cool $40 just for the privilege to watch BlizzCon 2009 unfold live in front of our eyes, even as the leeches caught re-streamed feeds (of questionable quality) on other sites that shall ... More

Premonition Conquers ToC Hard Mode

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 - 10 Comments

Word on the street is that Blizzard was running an in-house pool to bet on whether or not anyone would complete the Heroic version of Trial of the Crusader released today. Well… it looks like at least one employee owes everyone else some money! Why? ... More

Tuesday Brings Season 7, ToC Hard Modes

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 ... More

World First: Player Exceeds 10,000 Achievement Points

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 - 44 Comments

Achievements really changed the face of the game. Many players see no point in a seemingly arbitrary measure of progress (gear and progression seem as arbitrary to me), but many players, such as myself, make it a goal to be an “overachiever”.  I’m sitting on ... More

Doing The “Impossible”

Monday, July 13th, 2009 - 17 Comments

Being someone who likes to keep tabs on what the major raiding guilds are doing, I must say the last several weeks have been among the most interesting I have seen in a long time. If you are not familiar with the recent news I ... More

Out of the Comfort Zone and Into the Arena

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 20 Comments

I’m not much of a PvPer. Sure, I play on a PvP realm. I hate the Horde (or Alliance, depending on which character I’m playing). I dabbled in battlegrounds. But in MMOs in general, I have never really gotten into the Player vs Player aspects ... More

Patch 3.2 Achievements Reveal New Holiday, More

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 - 28 Comments

Patch 3.2 is finally available on the PTR, which means that players will be able to find out all sorts of fun information about what changes lay ahead for us. Most of the changes are covered in the patch notes, but MMO-Champion found a bunch ... More

Going Solo: Bandaging on the Battlefield

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 - 13 Comments

Up until recently, most of my questing was done in pairs. My rogue teamed up with my husband’s warrior for a while as we leveled together. And when he out-leveled me, I started questing with his DK. Either way, I essentially had a tank as ... More

Noblegarden Achievements and Taking Out the RNG

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 - 47 Comments

Noblegarden started on Sunday, and if you’re like me, you want that Violet Proto Drake, which means you’ll have to get your egg hunt on. Being a late addition to the Long, Strange Trip world event meta-achievement, the collection of achievements required to attain “the ... More

Sarth 3D: Progression or Pride?

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 - 35 Comments

In all my time raiding in WoW I have not seen an issue quite as polarizing as the Sartharion Encounter in The Obsidian Sanctum with all three drakes left alive (commonly called Sarth 3D.) This has been especially true in my guild lately as it ... More