The Orange County Business Journal has awarded none other than Blizzard’s own Mike Morhaime with the runner up for their Businessperson of the Year award (the main award went to some CEO of an investment company, much more boring than running a fantasy world full of orcs and elves). The Journal cite’s Blizzard’s huge successes [...]
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More Wrath deals around the world
by Mike Schramm
Nov 7th, 2008
We’ve rounded up a few more Wrath of the Lich King deals if you haven’t pulled the trigger on a preorder yet.
Newegg has the game available for the low price of $36.99 with free shipping, which is a couple bucks cheaper than Amazon. (thanks, Lîlîth of [...]
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Breaking down Blizzard’s world event so far
Blizzard, as we’ve said already, has really outdone themselves with this latest world event. It’s been so fun and so innovative that players are wondering just why the rest of the game hasn’t been this good so far (even though, of course, it’s been superb anyway). The zombie invasion [...]
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Ask a Beta Tester: Icecrown, quest rewards, and scary monsters
Good news! No corny jokes today! Just pure, delicious Ask a Beta Tester. Let’s start with Actuality’s question…
When I first ran around TBC, the Fel Reaver scared the hell outta me. Ground shaking, crazily running everywhichwhere to get away. And the Draenei spiders still creep me [...]
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Replenishment Functionality
Hey!
As it now stands, replenishment is pretty much a raid only skill, meant for keeping your mana up over a long period of time. For soloing or 5 man content, we’re having to constantly cast fresh spells because nothing really lasts that long. Honestly, I’d prefer the old mechanics back, but if [...]
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State of Lake Wintergrasp
In response to the recent interest in Lake Wintergrasp, we’d like to take a moment to share the current developments with the zone.
As many of you have noticed, it is currently half implemented. We’re working as quickly as possible to get it into a fun and enjoyable state. To help [...]
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Tabard tab, like mounts/pets
Reposting, the original one hasn’t show up yet in quite some time.
First of all, one of my favorite changes coming in WotLK is that Mounts and Vanity Pets are now in a tabbed and slotted GUI and no longer take up bag space, since so many people collect them and [...]
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Sands of Uldaraan/Strand of the Ancients
Which is it supposed to be named? Also queue up on lich king please
Only been able to play two rounds of it, and I’m a little confuzzled on how to win or lose it, the whole match was only 8 minutes.
It’s my new favorite BG. I ran [...]
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The truth about Ret fixes
Rumors and unsubstantiated news have been floating through the ether like confetti since last night, when Ghostcrawler predicted Ret was going to be nerfed. Today he’s finally out and said what they’ve hotfixed in and what’s coming in the future:
· Nerfs:
· Divine Storm now does physical damage instead of holy [...]
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Arcane Brilliance: Post-patch madness
Each week Arcane Brilliance shows you what happens when Mages stop being polite and start being real. This week, Arcane Barrage gets all up in Living Bomb’s face, and fireworks ensue when Hot Streak hooks up with Combustion. Can Netherwind Presence and Missile Barrage learn to live together? Will Arcane Blast come [...]
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