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Relative to the recent discussion about two well-known characters in the Warcraft universe battling it out, Kobrakaii asks on the forums who the strongest being in the entire Warcraft Universe is. There’s lots of Warlock jokes (my favorite is the thought that the first Warlock with a 41-point Demonology talent will be the most powerful in the known Azeroth universe), “any pally for 8 seconds,” the expected suggestion of Arthas the Lich King, and even a mention of High Overlord Saurfang (who, with that link, might replace Captain Placeholder as my new favorite NPC). In the end, the debate basically comes down between Sargeras on the bad side (he’s a fallen Titan who’s become the main villain in Warcraft lore) and Elune on the good side– even though her identity in Azeroth as the “God” of the Night Elves isn’t quite clear even inside the Blizzard offices. Sargeras, however, is currently trapped in an “unbeing” state, so the title probably goes to the Titans, a group of beings who oversee the Universe (and eat old gods like C’thun for lunch– the Master’s Glaive in Darkshore is a remnant of the Titans’ power). Of course, as Drysc points out later in the thread, Chris Metzen is really the most powerful being in the Warcraft universe. Way to ruin the fun, Drysc.From www.wow.com.

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Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week Frostheim uses logic and science mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven Stout to look deep into the Hunter class. We hunters are a misunderstood class in so many ways. Other classes don’t understand how our bond with our pets reaches beyond logic and min-maxing. They don’t understand that though our class is insanely easy to solo and level with, we are one of the most difficult ranged DPS classes to play well in raids. They don’t understand that we’re just, well, cooler than them. But we’re not here today to discuss the mental failings of other classes. We are here to discuss some of the hunter abilities most commonly misunderstood by hunters themselves. Sometimes the problem is the convoluted WoW tooltips that seem deliberately designed to confuse readers. Sometimes our abilities have interesting mechanics that aren’t reflected in the tooltips at all, and of course sometimes people just plain misread abilities. Join me after the cut as we take a look at the three abilities most commonly misunderstood by hunters and explain how they really work. Not a week goes by that I don’t get at least one email or comment about every one of these abilities. Noxious Stings The confusion with Noxious Stings over in the Survival talent tree lies in the fact that it has two unrelated effects, and many hunters mistakenly believe the two

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Welcome to Lichborne, where your host is still figuring out the perfect roleplay celebration macro for when he downs the Lich King — when he’s not writing about death knights, of course. With Icecrown Citadel now properly breached, hopefully even some of the less uber among us are making our way into the breach to say hello to the father of all death knights, the Lich King himself. Of course, as we start upon the final leg of the journey that started so long ago at Light’s Hope Chapel, as we trudge ever closer to our destiny to the fight that will bring our story full circle, that may lead to our damnation or to a brighter new destiny, there’s certainly a question that’s on everyone’s minds: What about the loot? It’s a good question. Let’s take a look at the loot from the first few bosses up in the citadel. Before we do, though, it’s a good idea to take a quicker refresher course in why we choose what we choose: A note on deciding stats for DPS Essentially, Weapon DPS and Strength are the most important stats for all three trees. Armor Penetration is next for Blood and Unholy, since they now do much of their damage physically. It’s a bit less important for Frost because of frost damage, but even then, you shouldn’t ignore it, since you’ll be using Obliterate on bosses. Crit rating isn’t amazing as it is for some classes, since we have fewer abilities that rely directly on critical strike, but

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Pokwan of Shadow Council writes in that he’s “one young tauren warrior who’s had enough of dwarven scum invading Mulgore to dig carelessly into the Earth Mother.” Most people just confine themselves to doing a couple of those annoying starting level quests. Violence is never the answer, Pokwan! Wait. In Azeroth, it’s actually always the answer. Never mind. Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We’d love to see them on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next! Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word “Azeroth” in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing — use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val’kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran. Older screenshots can be found here.

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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky be your host today. Today has to have some special significance. If you take the month and the year and add them together and subtract 2000 you get the day. The day. It’s like, the world is going to end or something, and it isn’t even 2012! Oh well, here are the last questions I’ll ever answer in The Queue, because it’s the end of the world as we know it (which happens to be today’s reading music). Rhornez asked… “Why are warriors so awesome?” Okay, obviously this is a troll comment or otherwise just a question to get people mad about their classes, but I do want to take a minute to address why I feel there are some classes which fit more into the natural archetypes of RPGs than others; and this isn’t to say that a less natural class (such as a death knight) is any more or less useful than a more natural class (such as a mage). The way I see it there are three primary roles which are mainly filled by three primary classes. In the healer role, we have the priest — the benevolent cleric who casts their holy spells on allies, healing them back to full strength. In the tank / physical DPS role we have the stoic warrior — standing toe-to-toe against the evils of the world. And finally in the caster / magic user role we have the mage — holding back in the

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It’s a new year and that means another opportunity to play oracle and figure out what Blizzard’s plans are for 2010. BlizzPlanet has gone ahead and tossed out some of their ideas on what will happen for BlizzCon this year, laying out their predictions and even speculating on the event date. As you might know, there was a bit of confusion stemming from supposed leaked information that pointed to BlizzCon 2010 happening in Las Vegas in July. That didn’t go down so well with Blizzard, and the Las Vegas convention center later retracted its statements. BlizzPlanet points out, quite logically, that Blizzard probably wasn’t too thrilled with that. Even if they had planned to do it in Las Vegas, that kind of public relations misstep is a deal breaker. Besides, Eldorian from BlizzPlanet applies simple, sound logic to his sleuthing work and explains that examining the Anaheim Convention Center’s Calendar of Events reveals an odd, blank date on the weekend of August 20-21, yet almost all the weekends of the venue are already booked. With Blizzard being the secretive bunch that they are, he figures those blank dates actually correspond with this year’s BlizzCon event. It’s a pretty cool theory. Read the rest of their predictions as well as a few of our own guesses after the jump. Now that BlizzPlanet has the date figured out (don’t book your hotels just yet, though!), they even go so far as to predict an announcement as early as next

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We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Tales of a Priest discusses tunnevlsion for healers, and how to prevent it with better mod placement. World of Matticus’s Lodur brings is more PUG tales, this time detailing the Val’anyr curse. Gray Matter asks, was Chill of the Throne enough to keep WoW raiding under control until Cataclysm? Should it have impacted DPS, too? Forever a Noob keeps the great rogue advice coming. Deathbringer Saurfang is your next target. This is our last link of the day, but it’s the most important. Vigilance, a new warrior blog, honors the memory of a fallen guildmate. Rest well, Revanx. A word to the author, from me personally, is that you guys are not alone. Hang in there.

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We’re on the last day of WoW.com’s 12 Days of Winter Veil contests and to keep the swag rolling, we’re giving away a gift certificate that will give you $100 credit for merchandise ordered at Swagdog. We have 2 of those codes to give away and you can enter for a chance to win one of them. The contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), and everyone who enters must be 18 or older. To enter, leave a comment on this post before 11:59pm ET Sunday, January 3, 2010. Please be sure to use a real email that you check often to enter, so we can contact you should you be the winner. You may enter only once and two winners will be selected randomly. Each winner will get a code for credit at Swagdog.com with a retail value of US$100. Click here to read the official contest rules.

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15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about. Sorry, no typos in the headline. It’s not the pie meme that’s the topic of today’s 15 Minutes of Fame. (You’ll have to turn elsewhere for your just desserts.) We really do mean pi — you know, 3.14159 … We’re not quite sure how pi and WoW go together. And frankly, neither are players on US Llane, where the mysterious Pi Guy holds court in Trade. “He’s in Trade chat spamming pi and other fascinating formulas, like how 99.9 = 1,” writes our tipster, “which makes sense after he shows you the steps … which he does. He’s got top-of-the-line gear, which in itself is a nice thing. But on top of that, he’s a math genius. A very mysterious math genius.” We suppose community fascinations have formed up around more bizarre memes than pi. But a mysterious mathematician lurking in Trade? How could we allow this stone to remain unturned? Without further delay, we offer up for your consideration the curious tale of Gauss, the Pi Guy. Main character Gauss Guild Three Score Server Llane WoWstyle Started playing WoW the day Llane launched; longtime fan of Warcraft; GM of Three Score, one Llane’s top raiding guilds; enjoys world PvP 15 Minutes of

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You might remember this song from when we first covered it last year. But it was a great touch of Christmas music for WoW players back then, and it still holds its charm this year. Okay, All I want for Christmas is a Blue is a tad dated, since most people are now struggling to rock out their Northrend epics. Blue-quality gear is fairly well a thing of the past right now. But the sentiment is still perfectly appropriate. All I want for Christmas is a Blue has that nifty real-life versus machinima feel when the singer is /inspecting other people in the real world, and I’ll be recreating that in my mind while standing in Christmas Eve lines today. The song’s lyrics will probably be a little tough to remember, but I’m sure I’ll be humming it anyway. As a special treat, if you really dig this video, you can now check it out in High Quality. Just click the littlle “HQ” on the YouTube page.

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