Archive for February 11th, 2009

Mystery of the melting ice solved!

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/ Kisirani, "your friendly neighborhood World Designer" posted earlier tonight that they have a fix for the rather benign (or slightly annoying, depending on your take) bug that calls out "The Ice Stone has melted!" every once in a while. The fix will require the realms to be restarted, and according ...

Small patch deployed

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

There has been a small patch unexpectedly deployed tonight. According to some, the patch updates the launcher. It appears the game version remains stable at 3.0.9.9551, which is the same numbering we saw earlier in the week when 3.0.9 was released. The patch is about 5 megs in size. We do ...

Arcane Barrage nerfed stealthily

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

  For about five shining minutes, Mages were over-powered. Arcane Mages, to be precise. Or so everyone tells me. All I know is that for the first time in a long time, I felt the kind of power I always assumed Mages were meant to wield. Patch 3.0.9 has brought Arcane Mages ...

Tips from the manual

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Guynumber from Area 52 brings up a good point: why did Blizzard even bother putting game information in their original manual? Surely, they must have known that they'd be changing the game quickly, and while of course they'd have had no more idea than we had that some things so ...

Completing Fool for Love

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/10/the-overachiever-completing-fool-for-love/#continued Every week The OverAchiever gives advice, walkthroughs and guides on completing your latest Achievement obsession. This week we offer a second installment out of unconditional love. This year's short-lived Valentine's event, Love is in the Air, comes with its own meta-achievement, A Fool For Love (A/H). Though this event may ...

Hearthstone for Facebook

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes – from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you'd like to hear more about. Facebookers love apps. Oh sure, there are those ...

Destruction Showing Some Weakness…

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Destruction is definitely showing some signs of weakness. I understand that there is still some balance issues going on with certain classes, however I do not feel that this is the problem. At launch Destruction had a severe shortage of healers, over time this has started to correct itself, however ...