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Submarines coming in Cataclysm originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
February 28, 2010
Submarines coming in Cataclysm
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Dance Studio still “on the list,” say developers
Continue reading Dance Studio still "on the list," say developers
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Dance Studio still "on the list," say developers originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Man in the middle attacks circumventing authenticators
This is not the only report of this that we've seen, but it is the first time that a Blizzard representative has openly acknowledged that there is something afoot. For a full account of what happened, check the thread on the EU Technical Support forums. To sum up: There is a piece of malware (emcor.dll is what is being reported at the moment) that is being used as a hijacking tool to facilitate Man-in-the-Middle attacks on users.
Kropaclus After looking into this, it has been escalated, but it is a Man in the Middle attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
This is still perpetrated by key loggers, and no method is always 100% secure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack
This is still perpetrated by key loggers, and no method is always 100% secure.
To explain in the simplest way possible, instead of data being broadcast directly to Blizzard when trying to log in to your account, that data is being broadcast to a third party via this malware. This includes your authenticator code. Rather than you logging into your account, the hacker on the other end does so. They log into your account, clear out your characters, and move around virtual funds to fulfill orders from players buying gold. This method of circumvention has been theorized since the release of the key fobs, but it has only now started to actually happen.
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Man in the middle attacks circumventing authenticators originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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New race/class combos will not be live before Cataclysm
That said, it is probably true that the new race/class combinations are a bit different from the examples above. After all, they simply take existing races and existing classes and put them together, so it might seem that it wouldn't be too hard to just turn them on.
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New race/class combos will not be live before Cataclysm originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Around Azeroth: We are not amused
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Around Azeroth: We are not amused originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sunday Morning Funnies: Big tongues vs puppy men
For last week's trivia, there were so many winners, that I'm frankly just too lazy to list them all. You guys did a great job, although the consensus did seem to be aimed at Frankenstein and its famous comedic little brother, Young Frankenstein. This is going to require some sort of mass prize awarding distribution system (MPADS).
First, I shall create a virtual and imaginary, but giant, Frankenstein's monster pinata. I might duct tape it on the inside just to make you work for it; your epics should be able to get through it in time. Inside, there will be toast, poutine, a white Christmas, a family of elephant shrews wearing tiny berets, and butter tarts with a side of real maple syrup, topped with Smarties. There will also be enough ascots for all.
This week's trivia question can be found buried within the comic list, so you'd better get cracking! Bonus extra trivia points if you can tell me which of the above virtual and imaginary prizes does not belong (not counting the ascots or the toast - those were just necessary) and why.
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Sunday Morning Funnies: Big tongues vs puppy men originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Breakfast Topic: Would you like some heroic with your vanilla instances?
It's already been confirmed that both Shadowfang Keep and Deadmines will be made heroic, mostly for their own story purposes. This poses an interesting thought -- what other instances could be made heroic, and why? Since we know that Desolace is going to be green and lush, maybe they'll do something with Maraudon? (I'm not sure who would want to see Princess Theradras again, but hey.) Perhaps a heroic Blackfathom Deeps, considering that the Twlilight's Hammer is making such a big comeback in the next expansion? Or hey, why not even a heroic Razorfen Downs? Why? Why not, I say!
So, dear readers - what old world instances should be given the heroic upgrade, and why? Personally, I think I'd rather stick hot pokers in my eyes than see a heroic Wailing Caverns, but that's just me.
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Breakfast Topic: Would you like some heroic with your vanilla instances? originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Totem Talk: Save yourself
Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost, and wolves, and best of all, Windfury. 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 at Big Hit Box and pens the enhance side of Totem Talk.
A dead DPS does no DPS. It's as simple as that. Whether in a raid, an arena, or out soloing and leveling, staying alive is priority number one. This is as true for enhancement shamans as it is for any class. Thankfully as enhancement we have a few more options than most DPS classes including our saving-throw talent: Maelstrom Weapon.
I consider it an absolutely essential duty to toss out MW4/5 heals in a damage-intensive environment, especially if the fight is new progression for your guild or you're in a tough match in PvP. I remember working on Tidewalker in Serpentshrine Cavern, I'd throw MW5-Healing Waves on the tank constantly. The damage was so intense on our main tanks and their health so spiky that at 4 procs of Maelstrom Weapon he'd be at full health then a split second later when I had 5 procs he was dangerously close to dying. My Healing Waves rarely over-healed when we learned that fight it appears my memory is failing me as MW did not exist when SSC was progression content. I do distinctly recall tossing out Lesser Healing Waves to help top off the tank when the MT healers were Watery Graved.
Tossing heals on the main tank in the Tidewalker fight was the exception, for the most part when using MW for healing it's a matter of keeping yourself alive. Read on to live to fight another phase.
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Totem Talk: Save yourself originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Girls Of WoM, Counter Comping At IEM, Facts About European Teams You Might Not Know, A Team That Should Be Sponsored
Some of you know me, most of you don't (judging by the hit counter my blog had on Gameriot anyway). I'm Yiska, 22 years old, German, fat, bad at the game, been asslicking Inflame and Hydra pretty much the same, Americas bane, not black (obviously) - what a shame. Lame. At this point you realize Bodi brought me here for three reasons: I make Yog and Marxo sound eloquent and intelligent in comparison, I'm not afraid of embarrassing myself (more on that later) and I'm European.
I started doing WoW coverage and vomitting in the blog entry section here on Gameriot in August which kept me from pooping in the comment section on WoM for the most part. I am probably the person with the most comments on this glorious site. I won a couple of blogging contests with Eurospective, embarrassed myself on WoWverload and ArenaCast, trolled Americans on the MLG live blog (and got stomped when Azael outplayed Inflame), got turned down as a writer here for a chick, wrote for compLexity (for example about psychology in WoW) and GotFrag. I recently became the editor in chief on hydramist.net (we are still searching for writers) and I will be free loading at Cebit as the "team manager" for coL.Black. I'm considered an insider of the European scene simply because I have way too much freetime for this kind of stuff. Why you should still be reading this blog is simple: I will be showing tits later in this blog.
During my time here on Gameriot I made this video and I feel it’s kinda relevant again these days:
So counter comping…
Talking to players from the participating teams is always exciting. I can anticipate strategy choices before they happen and maybe guess how it will turn out, and when the games are done, realize that I'm god awful at this game. It's important to note that I do have secrets about other teams and the comps they will run which even my team coL.Black doesn't know and it would really be cheap to sell them out like that unless you are willing to trade pictures of their sisters. I stare into your soul, pro player who wants to remain unknown.
What I can tell you though is that every single European team is able to switch it up with a different comp and that 3 out of 5 teams practiced that off comp actively. This is not really such a special situation though. Even back in the days when Nihilum Plasma was hot, the team always had Warrior/Mage/Druid with Divine Inflame on War and Paperkat on Mage prepared and played it on a high level.
The notion that it takes an immense amount of practice to be good at a comp or even a class could be proven wrong at this event if the comp is either a counter comp and/or does catch the opponent team off guard. This is not because WoW is skillless but because the hardest part to play the game isn't learning your keybinds or remembering the strategy. Once you played against outstanding players of that particular class, an amazing player will understand what beats him and adapt it into his play. Positioning, if you are playing the same role in the comp, is most likely the same. The only substantially different and hard part is to practice this jaw dropping coordination that we saw for example from Button Bashers at MLG Anaheim. There are players on this planet who are just so talented that they can pick up a class and be top notch within weeks. For example if General Another decided to play Mage again today, he'd most likely be top 3 in Europe by Friday. Caliph Kalimist once told me that Another is just different. While he himself can absorb what about 4 or 5 players on the battle field do, Another seems to grasp most actions of every single player on the battlefield at all times.
Fun but not really relevant fact: Do you remember that HON (now BB) won the last Global finals? Hours before Venruki randomly sat down at Xom's PC, logged on his Rogue and played with Another and Orly and they 3-0’d HON in a mirror.
Again this might come across as a European jerking fest, so I will just go ahead and say that I do feel that for example Sodah is one of those freaks of nature as well. So are probably Veex and Valrath too. There are players however who got where they are through hard practice and those most likely aren’t multiclassing. These players tend to lose their skills rather quickly without a sufficient amount of training such as I will post a short Zilea special. I missed this: Yiska out.
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[1.Local]: One does not simply walk into holiday bosses
Our friendly neighborhood Dungeon Finder will become the one and only method of accessing seasonal holiday bosses, come Patch 3.3.3. No longer will you need to worry about which players in your group have their daily summons available or whether your roll will be enough to win such rare but delicious vanity items such as the Big Love Rocket or the Horseman's Reins. Everything will be streamlined and automated now -- but that doesn't mean the process won't still prove to be a significant journey.
Al: One does not simply walk into holiday bosses.
Kurash: Not with ten thousand men could you do this! It is folly!
mtsadowski: I will do it. I will tank the holiday bosses ... only I do not know the way.
Henrah: I will help you bear this burden, mtsadowski, as long as it is yours to bear.
tulipblossom: If, by my life or death, I can protect you, I will. You have my sword.
Bril: And my axe.
D4: And my pet.
MarcSpirit: Great! Where are we going? - End of Disk One -
Join us for Disk Two of this week's [1.Local], after the break.
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[1.Local]: One does not simply walk into holiday bosses originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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