Wrath of the Lich King Shatters Sales Record
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Blizzard announced yesterday that they sold more than 2.8 million copies of Wrath of the Lich King in the first 24 hours of availability, making it…
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Blizzcore giving away a Spectral Tiger Mount
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Contests
Blizzcore is a relatively new blog about Blizzard and World of Warcraft, and they emailed to let us know that they’re kicking things off in style over there by giving out one of the most prized items in all of Azeroth: a Spectral Tiger Mount from the trading card game. To enter their contest, you just have to run over there and leave a comment on their post. As you probably know from entering our own contests over here, it doesn’t get any more simple than that, and we like simple in all of its forms.
Definitely enter, but beware: there are about 200 entries now, and the contest is open for a full two weeks, so there’ll be lots and lots of entries to come. Still, just a little chance is better than no chance at all — hopefully one of you readers will end up picking up the mount. Good luck!
Blizzcore giving away a Spectral Tiger Mount originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Phat Loot Phriday: Jedoga’s Greatring
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Filed under: Hunter, Rogue, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Phat Loot Phriday, Wrath of the Lich King
Name: Jedoga’s Greatring (Wowhead, Thottbot, Armory)
Type: Rare Ring (Unique-Equipped, which means that you can only wear one at a time)
Damage/Speed: N/A
Gallery: Phat Loot Phriday
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Phat Loot Phriday: Jedoga’s Greatring originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Wrath 101: The Oracles and the Frenzyheart Tribe
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Factions, Guides, Wrath of the Lich King
Throughout the lifespan of Ask a Beta Tester (now The Queue), people have asked if there are any factions like the Aldor and Scryers. Are there two factions like that, you get to pick one or the other? The answer is yes, but they don’t play as big of a role. They’re less prime players of the expansion, and more lolcat comedy relief.
I’m convinced that this situation in Sholazar Basin isn’t to be determined by which faction you like more, but which faction you hate less. The two warring factions are The Oracles and the Frenzyheart Tribe. The Oracles are a group of fully sentient, ‘intelligent’ gorlocs (a step up in murloc evolution) that unknowingly worship the Titans. The Frenzyheart Tribe are a tribe of wolvar (little wolverine men) and they’re fairly new to Sholazar Basin. They’re huge jerks that do jerk things and steal gorloc land like jerks. The gorlocs do have big, annoyingly floppy tongues though, so I guess it’s justified.
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Wrath 101: The Oracles and the Frenzyheart Tribe originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Steins come to the EU
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Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Economy, Humor
We kid — at $80, these things better be nice, and they probably are — each one, we’re told, is handcrafted and made of “fine grain stoneware,” whatever that is. The company says that the North American sales have been very good so far, and that a few people have even bought them for wedding or groomsmen gifts. Because nothing starts a marriage off right quite like a WoW stein, yeah?
Still, Europeans, if you’ve been waiting to get your hands on one, now’s your chance. Cheers!
Steins come to the EU originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wrath 101: Factions and reputation
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Factions, Guides, Wrath of the Lich King
Reputation in Wrath of the Lich King works a lot like it did in The Burning Crusade, except refined. Most of your reputation will come from dungeon runs and questing, and not grinding mobs off in some random corner of the world. At the same time, they’ve thrown in some ‘extra’ hooks to some of the reputations that make it pretty different from what it used to be, for better or for worse. That’s what we’ll be digging into here.
Factions
The Horde and the Alliance each get a set of factions: The Horde Expedition and the Alliance Vanguard. These are a bit unusual, because those two primary factions have four other secondary factions. For the most part, those secondary factions don’t have any rewards of their own. As you gain reputation with the sub-factions, your overall Horde Expedition or Alliance Vanguard reputation goes up, and that determines your rewards. Why did they do it that way? I don’t know, but they did!
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Wrath 101: Factions and reputation originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Heavy
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Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Expansions, Leveling, Guides, Talents, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Wrath of the Lich King
I have spent 600 gold on respecs in the past week.
Yes, you read correctly. While leveling to 80, I’ve been respeccing constantly. The reason is simple: I love fury, I love Titan’s Grip, I have a ball running around with 2h weapons, but protection is the best leveling spec for warrior right now.
I want those of you who remember the Burning Crusade launch to read that sentence again. If you needed any proof that it’s a whole new game now, then let this be your proof: protection is the best leveling spec for warriors right now. It’s fast, fun and powerful. These are not things I ever expected to say about prot spec.
Now, I’ve been tanking for a long time now, and I’ve been prot since I hit 70 in TBC. It’s always been excellent for tanking, but unlike other tank classes, it dedicated all of its tanking power to static threat moves and had weak multi-mob tanking abilities (I detailed what I saw as the problems of the class as tanks here) but all of that is gone now. Everything I wrote about as a weakness of protection? Gone.
Multi-mob tanking? We’re strong. Damage output? Very good. Threat? Holding steady. Our health bars? You can’t kill me until I run out of tricks. I have solo’d or 2 manned (with my lovely hunter wife and her pet) group quests that call for up to five people. (To be fair, I had 200 health left on one of them.) My love for DPS spec TG is still there, but if you want to finish a quest fast, nothing beats being able to pull an entire room of undead onto yourself, pop shield block, and know that they are going to kill themselves beating on you.
Protection is the best leveling spec in the game right now, good damage, excellent survivability, and moments when you revenge and shield slam for 2k back to back and things disintegrate. Today we’ll talk about a protection DPS build at 70, 75 and 80. It’s a strong build for grinding and can tank instances, but is not a raid tanking build for reasons we’ll explain as we go.
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Heavy originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The Queue: Future raids and more on daily quests
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, The Queue
Be warned that today’s edition of The Queue contains some light spoilers at the very end, regarding the Death Knight intro quests as well as some quests in Icecrown. To avoid spoilers, stop reading a little before the end, but you’re safe until then.
Thiosion asked…
What instances other than Ulduar and Icecrown are (is?) Blizzard suspected to be working on?
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The Queue: Future raids and more on daily quests originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
GotGame releases their ingame browser separately
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Filed under: Fan stuff, News items, AddOns
Behold the power of WoW Insider — GotGame told us about their browser and social networking service a little while ago, and we were so much more fascinated with the browser part of their app that they split it off. And here it is: Rogue is what they’re calling their ingame browser application — you can download it for free from the site, and after a quick install, you can open up a browser in any PC game.
As lots of commenters said on our last post, this isn’t really an ingame browser, it’s more of an overlay that lets you browse while playing the game. And all it really does is save you the couple of minutes it would take to tab out and check your own browser (or just run WoW in a windowed mode, and use both at the same time).
But there are a probably a few users out there who would find it really useful. Downtime is the main issue I can think of (though lots of my downtime is filled lately with the Bejeweled addon anyway). But if you’ve been waiting for a solid, standalone ingame browser to come along (complete with Flash support, which makes it easy to pull up Hulu or Pandora while playing), Rogue is it.
GotGame releases their ingame browser separately originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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BigRedKitty: Mario Andretti Mammoth
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Filed under: Hunter, (Hunter) Big Red Kitty
Daniel Howell contributes BigRedKitty, a column with strategies, tips and tricks for and about the Hunter class, sprinkled with a healthy dose of completely improper, sometimes libelous, personal commentary.
One more Mammoth-movie, no hissing please.
The Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth is a vehicle, not a mount. The difference is that a vehicle is part of your party, like a hunter-pet. This means that he can be buffed, just like any other member of your party.
Hunters have a nifty party-buff called Aspect of the Pack that grants 30% increased movement speed to the hunter and all members of the hunter’s party, who are within thirty yards of the hunter. Our Mammoth is a vehicle, thus, AotP buffs our Mammoth. We did this movie to show you just how fast a 130% Mammoth is.
Mammoths can accept any buff, like Water Walking! And if you have a party of five people, all on Mammoths, and member of that party is a hunter with Aspect of the Pack cooking, all five Mammoth-riders will be riding at 130%! Who needs Paladins anymore!
You are invited to download the YouTube version (26MB) of this movie here, and the full-sized version (42MB) here.
As always, a great big Thank You to the WoW Insider editors for allowing us to publish this movie both here and on our little blog at the same time!
Nobody covers raid Hunters like BRK. Looking for more Hunter goodness? Check out our non-raid Hunter column, Scattered Shots or the WoW Insider Directory of Hunter Guides.BigRedKitty: Mario Andretti Mammoth originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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