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Patch 3.3 PTR build 10571 details [Updated: Tier 10 relics]

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

A new PTR for patch 3.3 has just been pushed through on the testing servers. Most of the classes have seen some tweaks and changes. At first glance, the biggest winners (not whiners) appear to be mages and shadow priests. Some other big changes include the druid spell Rebirth dropping ...

Hallow’s End 2009 first impressions

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

It's Hallow's End and the Headless Horseman is back. As soon as my wife saw that our server had clicked over to 1 AM, she had me in my tanking finery and a group assembled lickety split for purposes of killing him and trying to get her a mount. A ...

WoW Add-ons panel at Dragon*Con 2009

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

While at Dragon*Con this weekend, I was able to attend a World of Warcraft add-ons panel hosted by Cameron Knight, commonly known as ckknight, the developer of such add-ons as Cartographer, Pitbull, Chinchilla, and FuBar. As a day job, he is currently the Lead Developer for both Curseforge and WoWAce.com ...

The murloc is not my spawn

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Submitter Valentín was recently playing with the /dance command while dressed as the Murloc King. He captured this Michael Jackson-influenced pose in a screenshot and sent it in as a tribute. Or is he tearing his hair out in anticipation of the inevitable big BlizzCon announcement(s)? Do you have any unusual, ...

Blizzard to focus on battlegrounds more

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Ghostcrawler has posted a little paragraph on the forums, reaffirming something we've already heard from Blizzard: that in the past, they've spent more time on Arenas to the detriment of battlegrounds, and that battlegrounds are going to be gaining a little more focus in the future. They've already started, actually, ...

Are we being teased about the next expansion?

Monday, April 6th, 2009

So there's been a feeling in the air lately that some of the blues have been in a bit of a teasing mood. Sure, that's not neccessarily new, but what is interesting is what exactly they may be teasing us about. For example, here's a recent post in which one ...

Patch 3.1 PTR build 9637 profession changes

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

  A small patch was pushed to the 3.1 PTR earlier this afternoon, incrementing the build number from 9626 to 9627. Among other things, it contained a few changes for the professionals among us - specifically cooks, tailors, and scribes. These changes were of course data-mined by the MMO-Champion people, so ...