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Around Azeroth: The charge of the pet brigade

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 0 views

The new cross-realm dungeon finder has encouraged some folks who don't usually get groups to give raiding a try. This pug-led PuG was photographed by tauren druid Brasson, who wrote, "<quiXotic> of Thunderhorn rolled into Ulduar late on Friday night to knock out XT and claim the badges from the ...

In-game fixes for December 15th

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 0 views

Another day, another round of in-game hotfixes. This time the most interesting one of the bunch is the increase in Battered Hilt drop rate (the Battered Hilt leads to the Quel'Delar). Of course it could mean that the hilt drop rate was increased from 0.001% to 0.01%, but hey, at ...

Breakfast Topic: Did you meet your Pilgrims Bounty goals?

Monday, November 30th, 2009 0 views

Thanks to an obliging (and naked) dwarf rogue in Dalaran, I was able to obtain my Pilgrim title without much trouble. Well, trying to get the Turkinator on the first day was definitely "much trouble", but waiting a few days for Tirisfal Glades to empty out proved to be the ...

Dual specs and loot priority

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 0 views

Like lots of other players, I found myself running the regular version of Trial of the Champion endlessly in pursuit of trinket drops when patch 3.2 hit, and it wasn't uncommon for groups to spend some time beforehand figuring out who was going to roll on what. With so many ...

Star Trek references in the World of Warcraft

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 18 views

Wait, what? Star Trek is now cool you say? What is my nerdy self going to cling to? What's going to make a geek above other geeks as I recite the Klingon alphabet backwards in the Qo'noS dialect? Oh wait, there's WoW! And what's more geeky than taking a look ...

What happens if Algalon isn’t defeated?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 33 views

This week information about the final boss of Ulduar has slowly been revealed, thanks to the guild Wraith on EU-Ysondre. We never got to meet Algalon the Observer on the PTRs so this encounter is one of the most mysterious, both in terms of tactics and of lore. From what I've ...

Rolling restarts for April 23rd, 2009

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 20 views

Another round of rolling restarts will be hitting realms in a few hours, starting at 5 AM PDT. Rolling restarts tend to be relatively painless, so you can probably expect your home server to be back up within a few short minutes unless they're doing something other than the simple ...