Greetings, intrepid adventurers! Amanda is AFK, so I'll be at the helm of this here vessel today! It's the first Sunday after the earth-shattering (wait, wasn't that the last expansion?) convention, BlizzCon. To those who went -- I
Fans of Defense of the Ancients, the immensely popular Warcraft III mod that spawned an entirely new genre of gaming, are already conditioned to love Blizzard DOTA. I got to play it this week at BlizzCon 2011 and had a great time getting into the very
The recent changes turn WoW upside down on several ways, but the largest is not the talent system (that's just handy), nor the pandarens and monks (we seen blood elves, goblins, death knights before), but the idea that the new territory raid bosses
The big news of the 2011 Global Battle.net Invitational is that a team with a hunter on it managed to come out on top. And it is news because, well, nobody expected any team with a hunter to do this well. The winning team was OMG, a PHDK
The WoW Archivist explores the secrets of World of Warcraft's past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW's history? What secrets does the game still hold? Patch 2.0.1 was, according to a large chunk of players,
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women? That's why Blood Sport is here! WoW is a big, big game. In most of the game, you get to hang out with friends, do your best, and eventually see all
Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you Scattered Shots for beast mastery, marksmanship and survival hunters. Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. I can't really decide what my favorite thing from the patch 4.3 PTR is. I don't know if it's
The more that I play 2v2 arenas, the more my issues with the current PvE gearing solidify. It seems strange to find PvE clarity through PvP, but I suppose it simply serves to highlight that Blizz can still do things completely right.
We’ve received conflicting reports from the PTR on Steady and Cobra Shot cast times. Frostheim claims that our casted shots are “not changing at all” in the present PTR build; however, a thread over at
Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics. It's a kitty! I sure do hope nothing bad happens to kitty -- or any of kitty's friends. Speaking of kitties, this list has several. It also has squirrels, bears, and
Intrepid, independent dataminers have managed to dig up what is probably the Season 11 Arena gear in patch 4.3, and speaking as a paladin (pictured above), it is just incredible. These sets, titled Cataclysmic Gladiator, manage to look both delightfully
The 4.3 Public Test Realm and patch notes came out today. There are pretty significant changes for Holy paladins. I'm going to quote changes from Ghostcrawler's explanation post as they're the most high level: We changed Seal
Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics. Welcome to this week's list of comics! It's extra long, so better start brewing that coffee now. Several comics that don't always update posted comics this week,
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women? That's why Blood Sport is here! The Twin Peaks battleground was introduced with Cataclysm. While it's a new battleground with a brand new map,
I see a lot of comments here and in other places like the Arena Junkies forums accusing these feedback threads of being deeply cynical placations of the playerbase. The comments question, “how could Blizzard possibly still need our feedback?
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. I have found that everyone likes to PVP in different ways. Some like to
I have recently rolled a lovely troll rogue by the name of Jinba. I've been leveling her mainly through BGs and she is now in her early thirties. I decided that it was time I stop fooling around and actually try to spec her a little more sensibly
I'm going to respond to the comments on the Blueprint for Endgame, but I find it requires a little set up first. There are many divisions among the MMO audience. Casuals versus Hardcore. PvP versus PvE. Gevlon's Morons & Slackers versus
It took me, what, three years? Four? How long have I been playing this game anyway? Somewhere between those two I think. I was a TBC kid. In all that time, I'd never given arenas a try. Not even once.
I talked about the non-guild PvP eh. No organized activity, no social chat, no nothing. Players practically playing a single-player game. It's not the only guild here. Only on alliance side, and only by the guild finder tool I found another dozen:
After our successful kill of Lord Ryloth, Devolve sets its sights on Alysrazor. Technically, we are now in Ambivalence, but I still think of our team as Devolve. Our attempts on Alysrazor went….poorly. So after clearing the farm bosses (I love
This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider's pages. I've played World of Warcraft since October of 2006 and during that time have seen many realms, their communities,
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
Blizzard, I’m pissed off. I’m not pissed off about game mechanics or class balance or anything that’s actually in the game itself. I’m pissed off about the World of Warcraft website and how badly you neglect it. Sure on the outside
This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider's pages. I am a screenshot addict. Right now, there are over 2,000 screenshots to upload to our guild web site, which has
Something happened in our raid last Thursday night and I couldn’t quite decide whether I should blog about it. But after thinking about it a bit, I decided I need to. Not only to give others some insight into how I see things or what I think, but
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. Temple Guardian Anhuur's sweet, dulcet tones could
In case you missed it, Blizzard has unveiled the new and improved Darkmoon Faire that will be coming to Azeroth in patch 4.3. The Darkmoon Faire will occupy an entire island and be filled to the brim with new quests, rewards, fun novelty items, and
The Darkmoon Faire is getting a full-on revamp in the upcoming patch 4.3 update to Cataclysm, giving the Faire its own island secretly hidden away within the mists. The old ticket system from the Faire of yesteryear is being replaced with new quests,