Posted on November 30th, 2009 by admin
Reader comments — ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
You know, Archdruid Fandouche Toolhelm Fandral Staghelm sure does ask for a lot of Morrowgrain … So what’s up with that?
Shade: He constructed a World Tree without the blessing of the dragon flights, causing a tree that is warped and corrupted enough that it’s being invaded by harpies, grell and grelkin, and corrupting the furbolgs that are supposed to be living happily on it. A tree that invites the invasion of satyr — and the satyr are referenced in the War of the Ancients trilogy as being products of Sargeras, warping some dude with a god complex.
Silithus? He defended Silithus once, yes — and watched his son ripped apart before his eyes in the process. That broke him. He shattered the Sceptre of the Shifting Sands, the key to opening the Gates of Ahn’Qiraj, when the dragon flights asked him to keep guard over it in the event that the Qiraj returned. He
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by admin
It’s day three of our World of Warcraft 5th Anniversary giveaway extravaganza and we’re celebrating it by giving away 3 codes to Scourgewar TCG deck loot card, Tiny. This summons a mini mount that doesn’t increase your run speed, but, well, it looks damn funny. Draenei on a pony? Tauren on a raptor? 50 charges of fun in every code!
To enter for a chance to win, leave a comment in this post by Thursday, November 26th, 12pm ET (noon). That’s it. Limit one entry per person and make sure you’re registered with a valid email address. We’ll be choosing three winners randomly from the entrants and contact them via email after the close of the contest. Note that we won’t be emailing the code to the winners until mid-December when it is made available to us by the fine people at Upper Deck.
Pics of the mounts in action after the jump!
EDIT: Contest closed. Thanks so much for participating!
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Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by admin
More Cataclysm footage is trickling onto the internet from IgroMir 2009, Russia’s huge gaming convention, and there was a beautifully clear (well, compared to what we usually see) video of early Goblin gameplay that merited some attention here. I have to confess; I wasn’t initially enthusiastic about Blizzard’s choice for a new Horde race, even if Goblins do make sense from a lore perspective. But after trawling through so many videos of their early questing experience in the Lost Isles, I’m sold. Female Goblins still aren’t playable yet, but their male counterparts have some awesome casting animations and an incredibly endearing sort of waddly run. They just look so interesting and dynamic doing anything that now I’m torn over which class to roll, although I can’t really take their 2H special attack seriously, so it’ll probably be a caster-class of some sort. I enjoyed Necrolord_Bob’s answer to our poll on which Goblin class to roll: “Priest! Priest of the Holy Temple of BOOM!”
We didn’t think that Blizzard would
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by admin
Ancilorn over at the European forums has confirmed that the armored Frost Wrym mounts mined from early builds of the Patch 3.3 PTR will be rewards for achievements in the Icecrown Citadel raid. Much like past raid dungeons have awarded mounts for completing meta-achievements, such as the Ironbound Proto-Drake for Ulduar, the Frost Wyrms will be “up for grabs,” for dedicated raiders.
MMO-Champion previously unearthed this armored Frost Wyrm model along with spells named Frostbrood Vanquisher and Frostbrood Vanquisher Flight, which could give some insight into some Icecrown Citadel encounters. Despite the confirmation of new reward mounts (expected to grant 310% flying speed, as well), there is currently no word on the removal of the Ulduar reward mounts, which Blizzard has said to stay for “the foreseeable future”.
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by admin
Our good friends over at the Orange Country Register have jumped in on the fifth anniversary interview extravanganza, and they’ve posted information from a short chat with none other than Samwise Didier, Blizzard’s primary artist. They asked Samwise for a crazy memory from the last five years, and he came up with a time when he was rolling through a Pollo Loco drive-through, and the guy behind the window called him out by name and said he “liked your show.” Which show? Didier is of course the lead singer of TAFKAL80ETC, a.k.a. The Artists Formerly Known as Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain, Blizzard’s in-house rock band. Pretty awesome that a video game artist is now literally a rock star thanks to this game.
The OC Register (don’t call it that — did you think I’d get through a post about them without saying that?) is also looking for memories from fans as well to be printed in their paper — you can jump in the comments on their site and share some memories of your own. We’ll also be celebrating the game’s fifth anniversary
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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin
We’ve been waiting to see the end rewards for Patch 3.3’s Quel’delar questline, purported to be capable weapons, and it looks like this latest build revealed the stats for all of the weapon’s incarnations.
Swords:
Quel’Delar, Ferocity of the Scorned
Quel’Delar, Cunning of the Shadows
Quel’Delar, Lens of the Mind
Quel’Delar, Might of the Faithful
And if you can’t use swords, you can turn Quel’delar in for:
Maces:
Cudgel of Furious Justice
Hammer of Purified Flame
Lightborn Spire
The stats are pretty good, actually! Not a bad reward at all. No tanking sword, though. Weird!
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by admin
One of the hottest topics in the past week was Blizzard’s foray into the microtransactions game. By announcing the Blizzard pet store, World of Warcraft had officially come on par with other MMOs and online games that sold in-game items for real world money. Our informal survey showed that views on the move were officially split… a good third of our readers would buy the pet, another third didn’t plan to, while another full third thought that our world was coming to an end. Well, the World of Warcraft, at least.
At any rate, it looks like the Pet Store is here to stay. Besides, Blizzard has already been hawking in-game services for real money, so it’s not as if these vanity pets are any different. I personally don’t find anything wrong with these pets, and seeing the number of diminutive liches and kung fu pandas showing up all over Azeroth, it really seems like a lot of other people don’t, either.
Blizzard states that these items, similar to the TCG loot cards, are “purely cosmetic and just for fun.” They say that they’d be loathe to
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Posted on November 5th, 2009 by admin
Yes, it’s time once again to award one of you with the soon-to-be coolest gaming headset around just for performing the not-so-arduous task of… leaving a comment on this post. Commenting on a blog probably isn’t your job (though most of you probably do it at your job — no comment about that), but it could score you some nice swag anyway today, in the form of the beautiful Creative World of Warcraft wireless gaming headset.
As usual, the contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), and everyone who enters must be 13 or older. To enter, leave a comment on this post before Wednesday, November 11th, at midnight eastern, and please be sure to use a real email that you check often to enter, so we can contact the winners when we choose them. One winner will be chosen. You may enter only once, and each winner will get a Creative World of Warcraft Wireless Gaming Headset, with a retail value of $150. Please note: winners will not receive the headset until it is released later this year. Click here to
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by admin
Ensidia, now of Tarren Mill-EU, reported today that they have captured the world-first A Tribute to Immortality. Considered to be one of the most difficult, if not most difficult, raiding achievements currently in the game, A Tribute to Immortality requires a perfect run of heroic Trial of the Crusader-25 with no player deaths and all 50 attempts remaining. The reward for pulling this off is the Crusader’s Black Warhorse (Alliance version here), but I wouldn’t expect to see too many of these running around in the near future.
I’m most impressed that they managed to get through the heroic version of Faction Champs without losing anyone, although — as Mackzter acknowledges on the news release — the achievement “involves a bit of luck.” Congratulations to Ensidia, and best of luck to all the guilds out there working on this as well!
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