Archive for March 31st, 2009

Arena Season 5 to end as soon as April 14

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 98 views

Bornakk posted a tentative date for the announced end of Arena Season 5, indicating that the season can end "as early as April 14" or a week after. It should be noted that the first four Arena seasons had no breaks in between, with one season beginning immediately after the ...

Sinister Calling buffed in 3.1

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 23 views

A bug where Glyph of Backstab interacted with Dirty Deeds to cause the glyph to benefit attacks other than Backstab was, apparently, recently fixed. However, there was concern that this bug fix would hurt Subtlety DPS too hard, so the Sub talent Sinister Calling is being buffed to compensate - ...

25-man gear should not be better than 10-man gear

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 62 views

10-man ilvl 25-man Naxx 200 KT, EoE 213 Naxx Ulduar 219 Ulduar hard 226 Ulduar, KT/EoE   232 Ulduar weapons   239 Ulduar hard Once upon a time, the only raiding in WoW was 40-man raiding, and we did it uphill, both ways, and flasks went away when you died. And we liked it. Later on in Classic WoW, some 20-man raids were introduced in the form of Zul'gurub ...

Atlantica Online GDC 2009 Trailer

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 36 views

NDOORS designed Atlantica's combat, mercenary and city/country management systems to set it apart from the rest of the MMO market. The turn-based combat system offers players the chance to strategically plan every move of the nine characters in their group. Players can form teams of three to bring 27 controllable characters ...

Age Of Conan Nominated For Nordic Game Awards

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 28 views

FunCom's MMO Age of Conan has been nominated for two awards in the Nordic Game Awards 2009.Norway-based developer, FunCom, is in the running for Best Artistic Achievement and Best Nordic Game with Age of Conan. This will come as a boost for the developer who is reported to be struggling ...

EVE Evolved: Features we want in EVE Online

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 28 views

It's been a while since I've done a full-blown opinion piece but this week I figured it would make a nice change from yet more coverage of the recent Apocrypha expansion. No matter where you go in-game, everyone has their own opinion on what features EVE Online needs. For some ...

Eve Online Fanfest dates announced

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 24 views

CCP has revealed the dates for the 6th annual EVE Online Fanfest convention. The festivities will take place in CCP's hometown of Reykjavik, Iceland October 1st through the 3rd.