Archive for May 15th, 2009

Ulduar-10 hard mode weapons buffed

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Well, this is a good piece of news for 10-man raiding. Weapons that drop in hard-mode Ulduar-10 fights are being buffed from ilvl 226 to ilvl 232, a jump of half a tier. Players who have these weapons already will see them adjusted. This puts the Ulduar-10 hard-mode weapons on ...

Fan-made Cuddle me Yoggy

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Greyseer of Lorecrafted posted this cute little version (that site there is slow, but don't worry, we've mirrored all the pictures for you to browse through below, so don't take bandwidth from there if you don't have to) of the Old God of Death the other day, and he's just ...

Changes coming to the Crusader title

Friday, May 15th, 2009

We were just talking about this on the podcast last night -- Turpster's tip a week or so ago was that going for the Crusader title in the Argent Tournament actually puts you at a disadvantage, because if you keep from turning in the last Valiant quest for the achievement, ...

62 level 80s by Christmas

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I first heard about this from El Jeppy when I visited him and company on the Rawrcast Show a few weeks ago, but now he's posted a little more about goals and method on his site. He's just beginning something called "Project 62*80," which sounds pretty crazy on the front ...

Design your own holiday

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Crygil wants to know: if you could design a new holiday for the game, what would it be? I don't think I've ever heard the question asked before -- holidays are really just optional fun for more players, and Blizzard has always covered the basics (Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving, Halloween, ...

Stealth detection items nerfed

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I tried to make a "stealth nerf" pun in the headline, but it just wasn't coming to me. Anyway, Blizzard has decided that items that grant stealth detection were feeling too mandatory in arenas, "forc[ing] players to use lower level equipment even when more powerful items were available to them." ...

WAR tokens now cheaper than Canadian Viagra

Friday, May 15th, 2009

The last patch for WAR introduced a system designed to help people get gear for PVP without doing as much PVE. No, really. Anyway, it's now even easier. The tokens are easier to get from a wider range of players, and you need fewer of the token to acquire some of the ...