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Updated Hillsbrad Foothills [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

WoW Vault - The Ultimate Resource — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:37:29 +0000

In today's 1080p HD video, we take a look at the recently updated Hillsbrad Foothills, which now encompasses the Alterac Mountains as well. The...

Totem Talk: Enhancement beta update

WoW.com — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury and wolves. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance, and leads the guild Big Crits (Week 13 now live!)as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby.

It's been a few weeks since my last beta post. I feel like I'm back in grammar school at good ol' St. Louise de Marillac, "forgive me readers, it's been four weeks since my last beta post. Since then I've been mean to my guild, and I tried to kill my own priest." In game priest, in game! I can't wait to read the letters to the editor about that slip up. Oh well, at least I didn't use the word "casual."

Moving right along to important topics that everyone cares about: beta changes for enhancement shamans! Well, I suppose "everyone" excludes people that are not interested in beta spoilers. Great, two paragraphs in and I've already offended Catholics, priests, and people not interested in beta spoilers. Look on the bright side: at least I didn't use an offensive font this week!

If you are interested in the latest beta changes as they relate to enhancement shamans then please read on. Please note that beyond this point, this post will not further offend your good, wholesome middle Azerothian sensibilities.

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Totem Talk: Enhancement beta update originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Queue: Caturday

WoW.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com's daily Q&A column in which the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky, senior editor at WoW.com and webmaster of a new quick and dirty MMO news site, will be your host today.

Forget Saturdays. According to my cat today is the day that I spend playing with him and ignoring everything else. He has therefore commanded me to post the internet lolcat meme of caturday.

Jeff asked:

"Has there been any talk about updating the old racials to put them more in line with the Goblin / Worgen ones?"

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The Queue: Caturday originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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WRUP: Zul’Gonenub

WoW.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW.com staff and ask them, "What are you playing this week?" (Otherwise known as: WRUP!) Join us to see what we're up to in and out of game -- and catch us in the comments to let us know what you're playing, too!

In addition to the usual fare of talking about what we're all doing this weekend, we asked the team how they felt about Zul'Gurub being removed as a raid instance in Cataclysm. Are they angry? Pleased? Completely apathetic? What about your, dear readers?

Alex Ziebart (@alexziebart): Not much of a break for me this weekend. My pen and paper crew is getting together this weekend because Labor Day killed our usual weekend plans. Beyond that, I'm going to be populating a couple of new blogs that I'm working on with content. Weekends? Holidays? Pish posh. As for Zul'Gurub ... well, I'm not happy that it's going away. I'm also not unhappy. I didn't exactly go in there very much, but I will miss it. It was one of my favorite raids at 60. Jin'do and Hakkar were awesome fights.

Anne Stickney (@Shadesogrey): Nada going on playwise -- I'll be in Vegas all weekend! As for ZG being removed, I am not worried. I am not worried. I amnotworriedohgodmustspendeverylockoutperiodfarmingfortigerpleasedon'ttakeitawaaaaaay

Amy Schley (@wowlawbringer): I'll be hitting the local farmer's market with the family and then working on Ulduar achievements with my server's guild alliance. I'll miss ZG, but not enough to go hogwild on farming it for the next few months.

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WRUP: Zul'Gonenub originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Arcane Brilliance: Mage AoE in Cataclysm, part 1

WoW.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:00:00 +0000

It's time again for Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column known for its special five-alarm chili recipe. It's a delicate blend of three different conjured beans, spiced up with Fireballs, Scorches, and slow-cooked over a smoldering Flamestrike, loaded with lamb, bacon, and the occasional roasted monkey, glazed with a dusting of Frostfire, then lit aflame with a Pyroblast. And the secret ingredient? Warlock tears.

If there's one thing mages have been known for during the course of this fine game we all play, it's mass murder. We have at our disposal a wide array of spells that wreak havoc over a large area, perhaps more so than any other class. When it comes to killing things in large numbers, mages are remarkably adept. It's a role we embrace wholeheartedly.

AoE has evolved quite since the inception of the game. In vanilla WoW, AoE was a great way to get yourself killed in an instance, a method of attack that was mostly limited to solo farming and certain trash pulls. These days, with the ability tanks have to hold multiple mobs with relative ease, AoE has morphed into the go-to way to deal with multiple-mob pulls of all shapes and sizes. Crowd control has gone the way of Wand Specialization; it simply isn't required in most situations in Wrath.

Cataclysm is bringing with it some fairly sweeping changes to the way we utilize our AoE repertoire. The developers have stated their intention to return us to a time when we actually had to worry about things like crowd control and pull-sizes, and though we're not reverting completely, pulls on the beta certainly feel more like vanilla or Burning Crusade pulls than anything we saw in Wrath. Join me after the break and we'll go over how our AoE spells will work in this coming era.

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Arcane Brilliance: Mage AoE in Cataclysm, part 1 originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Daily Blues

WoW.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Each day, WoW.com takes you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From the latest posts from Ghostcrawler (lead systems designer) to the lowdown on StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3, we'll keep you informed.

In which a weekend post of The Daily Blues is put forth.

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The Daily Blues originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Around Azeroth: The championship factory

WoW.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0000

In a secret basketball shrine deep beneath Cameron Indoor Stadium, Mike Krzyzewski uses his laser beam to turn another leper gnome into a forward for the Duke Blue Devils. Sadly, the gamma radiation wears off before any of the experimental subjects can obtain success in the NBA. (This screenshot brought to you by Aelyras of Bloodhoof and my own semi-irrational hatred of Duke basketball.)

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Around Azeroth: The championship factory originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Breakfast Topic: Does your guild’s social reputation matter?

WoW.com — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com.

If you've been on the internet in any capacity for a few years, you are familiar with the Penny Arcade theory (NSFW language). I've just come through a couple weeks of this with my guild. It resulted in one person's being kicked and another leaving. Briefly, the kicked person tried to sell tracking the Time-Lost Proto Drake for 5k gold. A person on the server paid 2,500g up front and was led on a wild goose chase, after which the ex-guild member phased, hearthed and put the "pigeon" on ignore. When an officer and I confronted the perpetrator, the lies grew ever more convoluted. I kicked him and repaid, from guild funds, the money stolen. The person who quit behaved in a manner that wasn't appropriate. I called him out on it.

These incidents have me thinking: Does it matter how you behave in a fake world? Realistically, I'm probably never going to meet 95 percent of the people on my server. In our guild Code of Conduct, I state right at the beginning, "We do not tolerate malicious, hurtful behavior or speech in guild chat, party chat, WoW chat or on Vent. This is grounds for dismissal. Honor and respect each other and other guilds. When you join this guild, you represent us wherever you go. Respect others as you expect to be respected. Your integrity and actions directly reflect onto this guild. Inappropriate conduct with other guild members and the Llane community at large is not permitted and is grounds for dismissal."

I am adamant about this. I feel that if you want to be treated with respect, taken seriously, invited to raids and not called out on the server forum, you must respect others. I've worked very hard to create a guild that is respected. When people think about us, they know we're here for the fun of the game. We don't take ourselves seriously, and we treat you fairly and with respect. Am I way off base here? Again, does it matter? How do you think your server views you and your guild? Do you care?

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Breakfast Topic: Does your guild's social reputation matter? originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kezan [HD] - Cataclysm Video Coverage

WoW Vault - The Ultimate Resource — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:06:19 +0000

In today's 1080p HD video, we take a look at the new Goblin starting area, Kezan.If you are having problems viewing this video, or would like to...

The Millies Awards

Blog Posts from "World of Ming" — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:36:31 +0000