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Patch 3.3.2: Likely Coming This Week (Updated With English Notes)
Monday, February 1st, 2010 - 5 Comments
The rumor making the round right now is that Patch 3.3.2 will, indeed, be hitting this Tuesday. We were put on guard last week by the patch notes leak from Blizzard’s Korean World of Warcraft site, but it makes much more sense to release a ... More
Patch 3.3.2 Not Coming This Week (Notes Included)
Monday, January 25th, 2010 - 28 Comments
Though it may have seemed more prudent to release the next minor patch in concordance with the opening of a new wing in Icecrown Citadel, we might just be getting it tomorrow. The Korean version of the official World of Warcraft website prematurely posted a ... More
Arena Season 7 Ending “Soon”
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 - 10 Comments
Start wrapping up your career folks. Get all your Arena points and rankings in line, because it won’t be much longer before the current season comes to a close: We are currently planning to end Arena Season 7 as early as January 19. At that point ... More
PvP Titles May Return in Cataclysm
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 - 13 Comments
Today I PvP just about as much as I did several years ago, which is to say not very much at all. But I did partake in the occasional Battleground and earned myself the meager rank of Sergeant before the ability to do so was ... More
Arenas: Biggest Design Mistake of WoW
Friday, November 13th, 2009 - 23 Comments
The Escapist of the Warcry Network had the fortune to interview the VP of Game Design, Rob Pardo, in a sort of retrospective look at the past five years of design of World of Warcraft. Its a great interview, and Blizzard has been doing a ... More
PTR 3.3: Patch Notes Updated (Build 10747)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 16 Comments
It’s that time again! The patch notes of have been updated, and even though the PTR servers are down for the moment, I’m sure it won’t be too long before we can get our hands on it. In addition to the usual round of class ... More
Some Thoughts On The New Badge System
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - 27 Comments
There once was a time when earning a badge meant slogging through a 5-man dungeon over the span of a couple hours, or spending an entire night on downing two or three bosses in a raid. And it was a really long haul towards the ... More
Rise of the Relentless Gladiator
Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - 10 Comments
A new season of PvP is upon us! Along with all the great new armor for arena players, there is a lot of gear you can get without ever stepping foot into the arena. The entire Deadly Gladiator set is available for honor only, and ... More
Blue Stew 9/10/09: Bestial Wrath? More like Bestial Whimper!
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 - 16 Comments
Blue Stew is a new semi-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. Yesterday was 9/9/09, ... More
Is Blizzard Really Short-changing PvP?
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 ... More