tier 8
Too Soon for a New Tier?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 - 31 Comments
As more and more information comes out of the PTR, its pretty hard to not pay attention to it. I am personally getting pumped for all the great new content Blizzard is getting ready for us. As I’m pretty sure most of you have noticed, the ... More
Gear and Style Don’t Mix In World of Warcraft
Monday, June 8th, 2009 - 25 Comments
If there is one buzzword I noticed at this year’s E3 it was “style.” Motion controllers aside, I heard everyone from EA to Disney Interactive Studios drop the word as a descriptor for at least one of the company’s titles. Style is nice and all, ... More
PvP and PvE Armor in 3.1 - Rogue, Death Knight, Mage
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - 18 Comments
I always wondered about how Blizzard would handle armor designs as new content as released. As players are able to get more and more powerful and fight progressively nefarious enemies, how could armor sets get progressively more epic to reflect the power of the wielders? ... More
The All PvP Episode - Gear Included
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 - 8 Comments
Did you hear that Season 5 of the Arena would be ending soon? Well, thanks to Ulduar and its new tier set, Blizzard is forced to close up the Arena season that Wrath brought us and begin anew. The heads-up was announced early last week, ... More
BigRedKitty: Stretching Our Mind From Karazhan to Ulduar
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 - 46 Comments
A long, long time ago, in Stranglethorn Vale, our guild started Zul’Gurub. At the same time, the elite guilds had finished ZG, Molten Core, Black Wing Lair, and were doing AQ20, AQ40 and Naxxramas. We had Dungeon Set 0 and epic PvP gear, they were ... More
Patch 3.1 Gear Extravaganza
Friday, February 27th, 2009 - 13 Comments
Project Lore has been hitting Patch 3.1 pretty hard this week. It all started on Tuesday when the servers went down for general maintenance. This allowed Blizzard to pop v3.1 onto the PTR and post the official patch notes. As the week has rolled past, ... More
Blizzard Previews Ulduar: Exciting!
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 - 11 Comments
For those of you that haven’t seen it yet, Blizzard has posted a very nice description and screenshots of the new Ulduar raid on their EU web site. For the last while I have been rather impatiently waiting for this raid, viewing it more as ... More
Sneak Peak of an Emtpy Ulduar
Friday, January 30th, 2009 - 22 Comments
Edit: Looks like Blizzard didn’t want this video out there. If you didn’t manage to catch the video, you’ll just have to wait until Ulduar is public! Earlier this week we saw MMO-Champion’s preview of Tier 8 Gear. Now, via the wonders of private servers and ... More
Tier 8 Gear Preview From MMO-Champion
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 - 40 Comments
One of my favorite things about picking up a new piece of loot, or even just seeing a piece linked, is trying it on in the dressing room by Ctrl+clicking it and seeing how cool it looks. While we’ve heard a few details about the ... More
Wrath of the Lich King Artbook Hints At Incoming Armor Sets?
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 - 16 Comments
Most players who care already know what the Tier 7 loot is going to look like. The loot from the retuned Naxxramas - which, by the way, has already been beaten - will be styled after the look from the old Tier 3 of vanilla ... More