How is New Orggrimar & Darnassus doing

How is New Orggrimar & Darnassus doing I’m glad you had to look up the definition of razing and share it with us.   Listen to the sound files. Both indicate the Horde/Alliance win and push the Scourge forces back, then chase them to Northrend. Where they then show their audacity to retaliate against the Lich King.   Unless you can cite a blue post indicating they are actually completely re-desinging these cities I think it should just fall down to a misleading choice of wording. Well the term raze does imply on some level that the city(Orgrimmar) was destroyed, or at least a portion was destroyed.   Garrosh Hellscream specifically states that the RAZING of Orgrimmar was more then an attack on the Orcs. It just implied that The Scourge left a really heavy mark on the Horde as a whole.   If it was anything less then that the wording should be corrected.   Perhaps Stormwind didn’t suffer the same fate.   * OG_LichKing_OrgrimmarAttack01.wav * SW_LichKing_StormwindAttack01.wav * SW_LichKing_StormwindDefeat01.wav   Notice there’s none named

Beta Auction House

Beta Auction House   my main concern is the outragous prices.   C’mon people its not like you are gonna get to keep that 20,000 gold you are trying to charge for a blue uncut gem. content is here for testing. put your stuff up for cheap let ppl buy it. get the testing in.   ive leveled blacksmithing up just about to the cap and so far the highest ive charged for somthing is around 30g. i simply double the suggested bid price the AH gives me. everything sells. ppl get to test stuff… the game moves on.   i know i know, gold means nothing spend a ton. strangly the people making the huge buyout prices are usually the ones that dont have the money to spen on AH. oh the irony. anyways. lets try to back off the insain prices shall we?   ps. if gold means so little… why do you wanna end beta with such a large amount?  

Mac People…do not fly over Hinterland

Mac People…do not fly over Hinterland   Seems that any flightpaths that go through Hinterland will crash your client with an Assertion error. You will NOT be able to continue playing with that toon for 2 reasons:   - GMs can not reset you at the moment - A Hotfix or new patch is needed to fix this   So far I have 2 characters I can’t play with. If you gate to Ebon hold, DO NOT repeat DO NOT fly to IF or Stormwind if you are in Ebon Hold or EP as you will crash your client and not be able to log back in.   Hearthstone back to Northrend instead. Hopefully a fix will be pushed soon but it could take some time so be aware of this issue.   EDIT: posted it in general instead of Mac support because people unaware of this issue on Mac have a much better chance to hear about it that way.

Breakfast Topic: What about the new talent specs is confusing you?

Breakfast Topic: What about the new talent specs is confusing you? New spells! New talents! New…confusion. We posted a number of new talent guides (don’t see yours? It’s coming soon!) as well as the Skill Mastery series to give you the information you need to respec your toon(s) come pach day. But having logged on last night, I still had to walk many guildies through their talent choices. They weren’t sure what specs work and which don’t anymore. There is a certain amount of information overload going on for many players right now. Is there anything you are unsure of with your new builds? What talent information are you looking for that you haven’t found yet? Is there a talent, skill or spell whose function is unclear? Leave your answer here and we’ll try to clear it up for you

Hallow’s End 2008 guide (updated)

Hallow’s End 2008 guide (updated) Hallow’s End is scheduled to begin in a few hours, and you know we loves us some candy. There’s been a big change to the Achievement needed to get the “Hallowed” title (it’s actually gotten a lot easier), the Headless Horseman has a new loot table, and — well, it’s been a year since we’ve seen it anyway, so here’s a round-up of WoW Insider’s articles on Hallow’s End. As an FYI, we’re also expecting patch 3.03 to hit alongside Hallow’s End, and it should contain a number of bug fixes for problems that have cropped up since 3.02 hit Tuesday and some class tweaks. With that said, nobody’s 100% certain of what’s actually going to go live, so check back; we should have more information this weekend. Read on for a guide to the holiday quests, the new Achievement related to the holiday, and some fun stuff you can do ingame til November 1st! EDIT (11:50 pm EST): we’ve confirmed a few changes to the holiday with some readers on the EU realms, and I’ve

Spellpower

Spellpower it’s a good idea and all but isn’t it going to mess up loot?   Pre-BC and BC   tanks – own gear   melee dps – own gear   spell casters – own gear   healers – own gear     looking at wrath   tanks – own gear   melee dps – own gear   spell casters and healers – share gear   I think spell power was a good idea but in the went it will hurt alot of raid content and people will complain about the loot process  

Northrend Kaput?

Northrend Kaput? Hmm, did Northrend go kaput?   I was starting a duel w/ an Initiate (altho, I was INSIDE ebon hold – oops?) and then the game locked up and booted me to login… now I can’t connect to Northrend (but Lich King works)   “New High Score? What does that mean? Did I break it?”   (hopefully my duel didn’t do it… and it’s either “just me”, or something else)   -T  

Skill Mastery: Bloodsurge

Skill Mastery: Bloodsurge   While a lot of debate goes back and forth about how much damage Fury is doing in Wrath, and how fun the tree is, there’s one fury talent that is unabashedly awesome in my opinion: Bloodsurge. Bloodsurge is a pure delight to use, and is a perfect example of synergy in action: the Fury tree stacking a boost to critical hit with the new Rampage (which we will also be spotlighting, never fear) which causes your Bloodthirsts to crit, which gives you an instant cast Slam with a high chance to crit as well. It’s quite possibly my favorite Fury ability (yes, even more so than Titan’s Grip, which I am currently back in love with – I know you were all pulling for us crazy kids to make it) just for the fun of hearing the swoosh-bang on a BT crit. That sound means hit the slam button for extra damage! It’s like getting all cherries on the slot machine, but without having to sit with all those people feeding quarters into the boxes with that desperate, hardened stare. Those folks scare me. I get the sense they’d like an instant cast slam

BlizzCon 2008: The first day of mayhem

BlizzCon 2008: The first day of mayhem   The crowds have been let in to the main convention center floor, and it is an absolute mad house of Blizzard fun here. BlizzCon 2008 has started in earnest, with a full day of panels and gaming ahead. Knowing Blizzard, it should be truly epic. If you weren’t able to join us here at the Anaheim Convention Center, have no fear. As the day progresses, we’ll share many of the sights of BlizzCon 2008, straight from the front lines. So if you’re hungry for more of what’s going on here, be sure to check back, as we’ll be updating the gallery throughout the day!          

Cooking and Northrend Meat Drops

Throughout my time in beta, I’ve primarily leveled and secondarily worked on my professions. I’ve managed, farming for no more than a tenth of my time in game, to get my jewelcrafting up to about 410, my mining maxed, and my first aid high enough to make the top end bandage. However, in all that time I’ve not been able to collect enough meat to get my cooking higher than 385 or so. Part of the reason is the lack of good skillup recipes, which I think is either a bug or oversight. Where my character’s skill is at, I can make a great number of green skill items, a single yellow skill item that takes about 7 times the materials as any of the greens, and no oranges. The problem of skilling up is compounded by the fact that my yellow recipe, Great Feast, requires three types of meat that are each about a 5% drop off of different types of animals. Now, I’m fairly sure that there will be more mid-level recipes, either which have not been implemented yet, or which I have not found, but is it possible that high level cooks could get a passive ability from their