Archive for December 8th, 2008

A Death Knight statistics primer

Monday, December 8th, 2008

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/07/lichborne-a-death-knight-statistics-primer/ Welcome to Lichborne, the weekly Death Knight column by professor Daniel Whitcomb, who totally has a PhD in Death-Knightology from Ebon Hold University. It's the truth, I swear. I've seen a lot of people asking these questions as we've been getting into the expansion: Now that I am trying to ...

So you want to be a Mage

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This installment of All the World's a Stage is the sixteenth in a series of roleplaying guides in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class well, without embarrassing yourself. It's also the first installment with a title that rhymes!The Mage ...

Honor thy Father Too

Monday, December 8th, 2008

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Rating the rep rewards

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This past week on the WoW Insider Show, we were thrilled to welcome our friend Michael Zenke of Massively.com -- in addition to his experiences in Wrath so far, we talked with him about a few other MMOs WoW players might be interested in this holiday season. Matthew Rossi was ...

Raiding “blind”

Monday, December 8th, 2008

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/08/officers-quarters-raiding-blind/ Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. As a raid leader, you say it over and over again: read the strat, read the strat, read the strat. More than anything else, reading the strategy for beating a particular boss (or ...

Creating an open source WoW database

Monday, December 8th, 2008

This is an interesting idea -- Daniel over at Marenkay.com is the creator of phpArmory, which is the closest thing we have to an official API for Blizzard's Armory site, and he's now turning his eye towards unofficial databases. Sites like Wowhead and Thottbot are extremely informative, but the one ...

The pointlessness of PvP in early Wrath

Monday, December 8th, 2008

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/12/08/the-art-of-war-craft-the-pointlessness-of-pvp-in-early-wrath/ Wrath of the Lich King has been great so far. Blues and purples have been easy to come by, with raids and heroic instances -- criticized by some as being too easy -- working as intended. With barely a few weeks after the game's release, many players are decked ...