Archive for March 17th, 2009

Time for another rant

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Hi, Kyrios I am not an officer in my guild. I am a member who attends raids and earns loot. But I don't like a decision the officers have made, or I disagree with the way they run the guild. How can I change the guild to be the way I ...

Frogs of Korgath

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

  World of Warcraft allows an unprecedented ability to modify the user interface to meet our needs. Each week WoW Insider will bring you a fresh look at reader submitted UIs. Have a screenshot of your UI you want to submit? Send it to us, along with info on what mods ...

Are achievements optional?

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

There was an interesting discussion that happened on the official forums the other day, and I think it deserves a bit of light here on WoW Insider. Of course that thread devolved quickly into standard forum QQ and blue bashing, but hopefully that doesn't happen here. The thread asked: are achievements ...

Bronze Orc statue footage via GametrailersTV

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

We've already seen pictures of Blizzard's bronze Orc statue finally arriving on their campus courtesy of the OCRegister, but Gametrailers TV has done one better: Video. The clip, while brief, has really been making the rounds through the community. I can see why! Even though it's only a short glimpse, it ...

Official site updated with new UI additions

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

The official World of Warcraft website updated recently with an addition to their Under Development section. Call it a preview, reminder, whatever you want. They've added a listing of all of the new UI features coming in Patch 3.1, and I'm willing to say that there's more UI additions in ...

Realms are up

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

The extended maintenance has ended, and it appears most (if not all) realms are up and available for use. Today's extended maintenance was particularly painful for me. I had to do the following, in order: Wake up and write The Queue Work on a couple other things for WoW Insider Clean the cat's box Go ...

The Tankadin for Dummies Again

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Where were we? Ah, yes, tanking. Last time, we took a look at some basics of Paladin tanking, namely a few things about survivability. That's just the tip of the iceberg. When I said tanking was the most technical play style in the game, it's because tanks have to look ...