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What should the gold cap be?”

Monday, June 8th, 2009

"Is the gold cap per character or per account? Is there a gold cap for guild banks?" Bonus question: "What should the gold cap be?"

Maintenance for Tuesday May 19th

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Last week's maintenance saw a larger number of servers go down for an extended time in order to receive some hardware upgrades. This week it's the same game with a new batch of servers. For those realms who are not getting a hardware upgrade, maintenance will run from 3:00 a.m. PDT ...

Theme Songs

Friday, March 20th, 2009

So I broke out the old movie soundtracks for my listening pleasure while doing some writing this weekend, and one track struck me as especially awesome: Tarawa, from Snow Falling on Cedars. The music is especially swelling and epic. The type that makes it hard to, you know, sit still ...

Blizzard theme park? Make it so.

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

If the thought of a Blizzard theme park makes you squeal with girlish excitement -- something I'd, um, never, ever do, of course -- then here's your chance to help make it a reality. Maybe. Nethaera announced the Blizzard Theme Park Contest on the forums, asking players to submit their ...

PTR soon, not all bosses available

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Quite big news from Daelo, the lead encounter designer concerning the release and testing of Ulduar. First and foremost, Daelo says that we're getting close to the point where Ulduar will be available for testing on the PTR. That means that PTR is soon, and given the maintenance today and ...

Addon Spotlight: Livestock

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Every weekend (well, almost every weekend), Addon Spotlight takes a look at the little bits of Lua and XML that make our interfaces special. From bar mods to unit frames and beyond, if it goes in your Addons folder, we'll cover it here. Mounts and vanity pets are a bigger part ...

Raid Consumables DK Style

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

 From: http://omenscourge.blogspot.com/2009/01/raid-consumables-dk-style.html Face it, if you're guild is not topping your server and dropping Sarth 3D on a regular basis, you can use some help in the stats department while raiding, and possibly in Heroics. Most of the following will apply to both Tanking and DPS so if you can find a ...