Blizzard tosses Priest racials out the window
In an effort to further balance the game, Koraa levitated over to the Priest Beta forums to drop the bomb that Blizzard was canning all Priest racial abilities in an upcoming Beta build. This comes long after Fear Ward, formerly a Dwarf racial ability for Priests, was made baseline [...]
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Official WoW costumes for Halloween
Have you ever wanted to be a fearsome Orc? Maybe you wanted to wear your Season 2 Warrior helmet out on the street? Or maybe you figured it was time you need to dual-wield WoW’s legendary weapons in real life, like some other folks? Gosh, maybe you just want pointy ears.
Turns [...]
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The Light and How to Swing It: Bracing for change
We know a second pass is coming. As good — or bad — as everything might seem right now, Paladins have yet to get another look from the developers and as Ghostcrawler mentioned on the forums earlier, they’re nearing finalizing those changes soon. A few days [...]
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Level Two - Three
Complete a few quests, kill a few beasts, and just as you’re getting warmed up, you’ll reach level 2. Go and find your class trainer, where you will learn your next class ability, Mark of the Wild.
At level 2, Mark of the Wild gives you or any friendly target you cast [...]
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Blizzard and the hidden population of disabled players
A Dwarf Priest has a nice long post up about the relationship between Blizzard and one of the more hidden (and yet surprisingly large) groups within their population: disabled gamers. It’s no secret to anyone who’s played WoW for a while that a lot of disabled gamers have [...]
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All about alchemy in the beta
Seeing as how Alchemy is not yet officially implemented in the Wrath beta, we don’t know all of what’s in store for the masters of elixirs, flasks, potions, and transmutation. However, we can get some idea, given that the spells themselves seem to be in the game files, so we [...]
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Unholy
There’s some disagreement on how you might describe the Unholy tree — is it a tree of choices, or a tree of bloat? Especially with the proposed changes, Unholy is a tree with a lot of little talents at various tiers that may or may not actually be worth taking, such as Epidemic (especially since [...]
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Atlantica Online First Impressions
I’m not a fan of RTS games. There, I said it. Shoot me now. *grins* Now that I’ve said it, however, I’ve got to admit that I’ve had a good time playing Atlantica Online and I am pleasantly surprised.
Atlantica Online is one of the first MMO games aspiring to be a true [...]
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World of Warcraft: 2nd Qualifying Round Begins
Blizzard has announced the beginning of the 2nd round qualification round in the 2008 Arena Tournament.
Phase 1 of the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament’s second qualification round has begun. Tournament participants have two weeks to hone their strategies, experiment with various team compositions, and practice their teamwork. To [...]
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Come on, honey, why do you have to be like that? You know that you’re my Elven princess. My one and only. I would dare say that there is no one in all the realm who doesn’t know of our love. I have sung your praises from the mouth of the Shadowthread Cave to the [...]
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