OK, so as I said a few days ago I'm not going to re-hash my previous Hallow's End Guide, but I am going to document how to get to all of the Candy Buckets (not just the achievement buckets) in the mosty efficient manner.There is also a good
I started my paladin as a blood elf back in BC, but a few years ago, I had to change servers and factions, to get away from a very nasty ex boyfriend. Lately I've been bitten by the horde bug and I very much missed my blood elf's little
The snobbishness of game culture never ceases to amuse me. Video Gamer: "Pokemon is so childish!" Normal person: "Video games are childish!" I think Pet Battles are an interesting idea. I probably won't do
Turn on the music.First impression: Looks like someone is looking for a war. Big big Forsaken army, with lots of plague launchers.You're just in time, Octondenub. It is Octondenub, right?Grand Executor Mortuus looks at a sheet of paper.Yes, that's
This is an interesting wrinkle to testing I noticed as I zoned into the Well of Eternity today. Apparently, for purposes of actually testing the dungeons at the minimum level of gear that players will be expected to have in order to even get in, the
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This Tuesday, we are still mulling over last week's subject. When you blog professionally, you get used to an unfortunate truth: Most of the
I play a lot of alts. I don't have as many alts as my friend Kol does (in Wrath, he had a max-level alt of every class in the game and several more besides), but I have four warriors at max level, a shaman at max level, two paladins in the high
WXi9DvAEPlA ---Quote (Originally by Aliena)--- This is a walkthrough for Hour of Twilight, one of the new heroics releasing in patch 4.3. Keep...
The patch 4.3 PTR is really rolling along now! Blizzard has opened another new heroic dungeon for testing: this time, it's the Hour of Twilight, the third (chronologically) Dragon Soul heroic. We've assembled a crack 5-man team to conquer
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today. Raise your hand if you want an Hour of Twilight stream tonight, so I can
The latest patch 4.3 PTR notes have a significant change in them for those of us running heroics for valor points (that is to say, everyone running them). When patch 4.3 drops and the Zandalari heroics are dropped down into the common pool of heroics,
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This Tuesday, the upcoming Wild Growth nerf gets us thinking. As with our previous Shifting Perspectives on tanking and healing the Zandalari 5-mans
Bastion is an amazing game. On the surface, it's an isometric action-RPG that's about 6 hours long. It's available on Steam or Xbox Live for $15 or so. You play The Kid, who's exploring the world after a Calamity struck and destroyed
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi
When worgen were first announced, I grabbed the guild name <Team Jacob> on Alliance WRA. I thought it would be amusing, that I'd stick my worgen alts into it. Two issues came up:1) My worgen all ended up in real guilds.2) People
Stalwart dataminers over at the Scrolls of Lore forums have put together images of the new dungeon gear sets coming in patch 4.3. These sets are not true sets in that they have bonuses, but the gear from the new Hour of Twilight 5-man dungeons will
The new Hour of Twilight / patch 4.3 heroic dungeons will have their own category in the random Dungeon Finder, while the Zandalari heroics tier has mysteriously disappeared. Now, when queueing for a random Cataclysm heroic, the system will include
The new 5-man instances, End Time, Well of Eternity, and Hour of Twilight, now award 150 valor points for each random completed, up to seven per week. The valor point cap per week has been increased to 1,000 points -- but interestingly, the cap for
Hey, everyone!Just thought you might be interested to see a new resource we've put up on the MMO Melting Pot. It's essentially Cliff Notes for Cataclysm raids.A lot of the time we were finding that we'd be raiding somewhere we hadn't seen
Blizzard has updated its End Time post with some new screenshots. Check 'em out below! The End Time will be the first of the three new 5-man dungeons coming in patch 4.3. Blizzard's previous announcement laid out the general story for the
It started with a leaked Escapist article. Then Zarhym started dropping hints. Then our parent site Joystiq posted a preview. Finally, in the wee hours of monday morning, the flood gates opened, and the patch 4.3 info started flowing. Here's the
We've been hit with a ton of patch 4.3 news today, from previews of all of the new 5-man content to the new loot distribution for tier pieces coming with the next raid encounter. Now, players are given a sneak peek at the raid instance for patch
The last of patch 4.3's time-traveling dungeons now has a preview available on the official website. The Hour of Twilight takes place in present-day Azeroth, where the Twilight's Hammer is putting on a full-scale invasion of Dragonblight.
Patch 4.3 Interview with Greg Street (Ghostcrawler) http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2459-Patch-4.3-Interview-with-Greg-Street-(Ghostcrawler)Below is a quick summary and the full thanks to Simca. Be sure to read it so that you don't miss anything!
Ohhhh so 'cited for this guuysss. New info up per blizzard.http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3502665/http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3502666http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3502667/Patch_43_Dungeons_Preview%2C_Part_Three_Hour_of_Twilight-9_19_2011http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3516572/Patch_43_Raid_Preview_Dragon_Soul-9_19_2011Ysera
When Zarhym said that patch 4.3 goodies were imminent, we didn't know he meant this soon. Our parent site, Joystiq, has the details from Tom Chilton, game director for WoW. He talks about the trio of new 5-man dungeons and the lore behind the
In Two Bosses Enter, WoW Insider's series of fantasy death matches, the bosses of World of Warcraft face off in the squared circle. Your vote determines who wins and claims the season title. Last week's matchup between Zanzil and Beauty
TV Tropes is justifiably known as one of the most dangerous sinkholes on the internet, and recently I spent hours winding my way through the entry on What Happened to the Mouse? For the uninitiated, the trope concerns secondary or minor characters
Three days later, she opened her eyes. But she had not come back to me.Too much damage to her brain, the healers of Gadgetzan told me. It could no longer hold her spirit, which had retreated to the Emerald Dream.Yet her body yet lived, tethering it to
I think that sometimes these books are almost a little too long to the point where the filler distracts us from the story itself. -Syp This is all too true, not just for LOTRO or WoW, but for about any quest-based game I've ever played. We're