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When team Canada’s Olympic roster for the men’s hockey team was announced, I was extremely excited to check out who had made the cut and who didn’t. For the most part, I agreed with all the choices. I’ll admit a few of the selections had me wondering why. I had to ask myself why a player like Brenden Morrow (captain of the Dallas Stars) was selected over other players. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it wasn’t always about the goals or the points. There were people that brought in certain intangible qualities that just could not be measured. I started thinking about raiders and my guildies for a moment. Who was valuable and what did they contribute? Sure they didn’t exactly bring dominating numbers into the game, but they were able to hold their own in a race. For example: Theorycrafter: That guy in the guild who happens to hold a degree in math or physics? Yeah, he will theorycraft the heck out of you and anyone else who asks him for advice. Not only will he tell you what gems and enchants to get, he’ll even write up a

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Sometimes a boss just seems to get lucky. You know what I’m talking about: you just see 1% wipe after 1% wipe and you don’t know what else you can do to get over the edge. Do you need more DPS? Are the tanks dying? Are the healers going OOM, or people standing in stuff that’s killing them? What’s the important thing you’re doing or not doing to get that last little bit of performance out and kill that big loot sack on legs in front of you? You tweak strats, and then tweak them back, you play with raid comp, you change positioning… sometimes you get that little click and it all falls into place and some times you don’t, nothing seems to work. Whether it’s a PuG wiping on Garfrost or a raid working on the Blood Queen, things don’t always go our way. So what do you do? Are you the ’stomach it out’ type who won’t leave until it’s dead or someone else pulls the plug? Are you a tinkerer always coming up with new strats and new approaches? Are you the “this is what I read on Wowhead” guy? How do you move

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The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Relentless, Furious, Deadly, Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters on the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Frostwyrms. We’re especially focused on the people who play these games, to further shed light on the world of the PvP player. If you’d like to be interviewed for The Colosseum, please feel free to contact us — be sure to include your armory as a link! We’re in for a real treat this week. We interviewed Jhazy of Blackrock, one of the few players in arena history to achieve a 3,000 rating in 3v3. More impressive yet, he’s done this on the very competitive Bloodlust battlegroup, and is currently holding that #1 spot by a margin of more than one hundred points. Jhazy’s team STRAIGHT TO THE TOP is a protection warrior + marksman hunter + holy paladin composition. As a team, they are holding down the world’s #1 3v3 spot! Check

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If you read WoW.com with any regularity, you probably saw and read our pieces on Friday discussing some rather curious policies Blizzard has recently instituted. There are two in particular that I’d like to discuss further: The care package for hacked accounts and the possibility of mandatory authenticators. First, how many of you have had your accounts stolen, or know someone that had theirs stolen? Chances are good every single person that reads this post will raise their hand to that question. The problem is not a small one. I’m in a rather large guild, and every few weeks someone has their account stolen and the little bits of our guild bank they have access to go with them. My large guild is also just one guild in a larger guild alliance which suffers the same problems. Every two weeks or so, someone I see online on a regular basis gets their account stolen. This is only a small set of guilds on one server, and the problem is not unique to us. It’s a problem you will find anywhere you go in WoW, so you can guarantee that every single day, hundreds of accounts are

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Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week Frostheim uses logic and science mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven Stout to look deep into the Hunter class. Okay, maybe it’s not all hunter loot — certainly there are some useless plate pieces and decorative maces in there — but our ICC loot shopping list is delightful and vast, and even impacts the balance of hunter specs. This is the end game loot folks. The last major raid instance with the coolest and shiniest and bestest toys we’re gonna get (and some bows). In fact, there’s just so darned much hunter loot delight that it won’t all fit into one post! So join me after the cut as we start to plan our ICC loot lists with a look at our itemization, tier 10 armor, Emblem of Frost options, and craftable loot. Itemization When we talk about itemization, we’re not just talking about having more of each stat, but also how our itemization budget is spent. ICC is the best itemized hunter look of any tier. This means that we’re

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When writing this Breakfast Topic I noticed in the comments a certain disconnect between how I approach running heroics and how other people seem to. So I thought I’d try and encapsulate the differences and try and help explain why sometimes tanks seem a little touchy or off in runs. It’s not just the blows to the head, guys. For starters, I don’t run heroics because I want anything. Aside from a few DPS drops (trinkets, mostly) that I want as alternatives to trying to take them from a main spec DPS raider, there’s literally nothing in these instances I actually want. I don’t even really want the Emblems of Triumph. I blow those on gems because I can’t think of anything else to do with them. No, I generally run random heroics for one of two reasons. Reason 1: someone asks me to tank so they can get into some heroics faster. This is usually a guildmate. Sometimes it’s multiple guildmates. Frankly, I prefer it when it’s four other guildmates and we can queue for randoms as a group, because then I know everyone and can more reliably expect

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If you’re a little confused about why this week’s Ready Check: Tonight we’re gonna raid like it’s 2009 begins with part three, then you probably didn’t catch last week’s riveting parts one and two! Go check them out, and come back as we continue our epic journey through raiding in 2009. We talked first about a handful of new concepts that would change the way Blizzard designed raids. Achievements provided the hardcore raider a little something extra to which they could strive. At the same time, “bring the player” and “accessibility” were the two overwhelming thoughts that would drive the first instances like Naxxramas. With that in mind, we did a quick reminder about those vestige raids of 2008, Obsidian Sanctum, Naxxramas, and Eye of Eternity. Now that we have that firm grounding in the past, take a look behind the jump. We’ll start out this week’s review of 2009 with Ulduar. Ulduar Ulduar was released in April, 2009. The first new raid released in 2009, Ulduar seemed to reflect all of the lessons, design paradigms,

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Happy Tuesday morning, everyone. Winter Veil is winding down, and as we here at the WoW.com offices fight over the last carton of eggnog, we’ve been taking a lot of time to look over the past year and celebrate. Of course, here in the Tuesday Morning Post, we generally look at the past 7 days or so. So yeah, there’s plenty of the navel gazing stuff, but there’s a good smattering of news too. Nothing too major, I suppose. Even the dev team likes to see their family over the holidays, I guess. But it’s there. And in the meantime, a little bit of a navel gazing never hurt anyone. Our navels are pretty awesome anyway. Join me for the last Tuesday morning of 2009 and catch up on your WoW reading. The usual list is after the break. Hot News and Features Could the building blocks for the Cataclysm world event be right under our noses? As Wrath winds down, we remember the abandoned and half-finished things. We know why ICC’s gated. You can, of course, always blame the gnome. The 2009 WoW.com best stories showcases our personal picks for the best articles of 2009.

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When we’re talking about Raiding in 2009, the story actually starts in 2008. Okay, sure, you could talk about raids going all the way back to the opening of the game, and how things have changed, and grown out of each other, and it could go on forever and a day and never actually end and it’d be like a run-on story just like this sentence. But if we’re going to keep the conversation manageable, we’ll start in 2008. It was a cold and frigid night in November 2008 when Blizzard released the newest expansion to World of Warcraft. With much hullabaloo, the Wrath of the Lich King hit the shelves with a brand new paradigm. That paradigm was that end-game raiding should be accessible to everyone. Raiding — and the gear associated with it — was no longer the sole province of people who had many, many hours to farm potions, reagents, and hone their skills every single night. This new idea of accessibility would change the way raiding in WoW has worked ever since. The changes were pretty thorough, so let’s start breaking it down behind the jump. In this

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In backchannel team discussion, Dan O’Halloran asked us to nominate our best stories for the year. “I don’t mean the most popular or even the most commented on,” he wrote, but “editorials, class columns, analysis, or even funny or touching posts,” the ones we were happiest and/or proudest of writing. I’d like to think that our list captures (or at least tries to capture) the zeitgeist of the player community, and how things evolved from the very beginning of Wrath to the patch where players will (eventually) face the ultimate boss of the expansion. Yesterday we realized that, as of today, there are 12 days to go until 2010, so we though what we’d do is break down our favorite posts into each month of 2009. Today, obviously, covers January. Wrath was less than two months old when the new year rolled around. While most players were still leveling their mains, gearing them up, and taking their first steps into heroics, others were already steamrolling Tier 7 or trying to steamroll things like Glory of the Raider. January 2009 In no particular

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