Breakfast Topic: What's your favorite in-game toy?

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider's pages. World of Warcraft is a huge world filled with many things. One thing that sets it apart from other MMOs for me is the amount of toys and RP items that exist in the game. I claim to have all of them, and I'm pretty sure I have at least 95% of them. I love them all. The day patch 4.1 came out, I dug up the Ancient Amber from archaeology, and I loved it. On ...

Articles tagged with: Raiding, Engineering

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...

More Like This: Vodka vs Method Speedrun


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_488Ir0itpU
Forget arenas.
Forget rated BGs.
Give me competitive PvE raiding!
Vodka and Method, 2 of the world’s best guilds, going heads up in the Dragon Soul challenge hosted ...

The Substitute Raid Leader

Remember the days in school where your favourite teacher was away?
Maybe she was sick or needed a personal day.
Then the sub would roll in with a giant, CRT television that was Velcro strapped to a cart and you thought to yourself, “YES! ...