wintergrasp
Treachery on Vent: Infiltrating Enemy Tactics
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 - 23 Comments
A couple nights ago, I was running Wintergrasp on my server, Khaz Modan, and lamenting the fact that all day the Horde had been unsuccessful at capturing the contested zone. Finally in one raid group, someone offered up their ventrilo server for everyone to use ... More
3.3: More Icecrown Achievements Reveal New Vault Boss
Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 17 Comments
I noticed that a lot of you were just as amused as I was with the names of some of the new Icecrown Citadel achievements, but I’m afraid you won’t find any pop-culture references in round 2. Don’t fret, though! We can still glean some ... More
Why Do We Have Cross Faction Nameplates?
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 - 9 Comments
After slightly redeeming myself in raiding last night - assuming you consider Vault of Archavon raiding - I was able to participate in my first Wintergrasp in a long time. The battle was nothing special - Alliance fell apart and lost, shocking - but my ... 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
Cataclysm Countdown: Areas of Contention
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 ... More
Preparing for Patch 3.2: Battlegrounds
Friday, July 24th, 2009 - 12 Comments
Battlegrounds have been much more popular than every other area of PvP. They don’t require you to even think about making a group and only a few people there are from the same server, so you can play as bad as you want; those people ... More
Wintergrasp Rewards
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 - 7 Comments
Fighting in Lake Wintergrasp is among the most effective ways to obtain honor. With the addition of the weekly quests, you can jump in once or twice a week for an absurd return on time invested. Its no wonder that there is such immense lag ... More
What 3.2 Means for Wintergrasp
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 - 21 Comments
Wintergrasp barely got a mention in the first draft of the patch 3.2 notes, but the outdoor PvP zone will in fact see some major changes in the new patch. The updated patch notes show the following changes: To provide players with a more transparent notification ... More
Arena Season 6 Breakdown
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 - 12 Comments
Patch 3.1 introduced arena season 6. While PvP will likely get a large makeover in 3.2 and the number of arena players is at an all-time low, it isn’t difficult to get some good PvP gear to jump into the fray if you are so ... More
The Faulty Design Of The Argent Tournament
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 - 24 Comments
It’s been just over a month since the Secrets of Ulduar stopped being secretive and brought us the Argent Tournament. The new Icecrown area was designed to raise the level of solo content for those players who wouldn’t be entering Ulduar any time soon, or ... More