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WoW Insider Show Episode 150 – Thunderfuryyyy! Awayyyy!
Jul 29th
Every week, we present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast — an hour’s worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week’s top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what’s been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth.
Along with your hosts, WoW.com Senior Editor Michael Sacco and Contributing Editors Matthew Rossi and Mat McCurley, we also feature rotating guest hosts, whether regular WoW.com contributors or personalities from other sites. And this week we’re pleased to announce that Mat McCurley will start being considered a regular host of the show!
Want to have your question answered on the air? Email theshow@wow.com! Get the podcast:
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The OverAchiever: The 25 most entertaining achievements, part 3
Jul 29th
Every so often, I get tired of the self-seriousness that infests some of (OK, most of) the other work I do here and get the urge to write something purely for fun. After our series on evil achievements and the relentless misery of School of Hard Knocks, I’d like to spend some time on achievements that are nothing but an absolute joy from beginning to end. This week we continue our series on World of Warcraft’s most entertaining achievements. This is the full series to date, if you’re just catching up with us:
- OverAchiever: Pure Win
- The 25 most entertaining achievements, #25-21
- The 25 most entertaining achievements, #20-16
- The 25 most entertaining achievements, #15-11 (today’s post)
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Buffing for BlizzCon: The Convention Challenge
Jul 29th
Buff(ing) for BlizzCon is a bi-weekly fitness series written by ShrinkGeek authors Rafe Brox and Michael McGreevy. Join the WoW.com team in getting in shape for the ultimate WoW geek event: BlizzCon 2010.
BlizzCon is still three months away, but convention season is in full swing. The San Diego Comic-Con ended a few days ago, and in the seemingly endless days that stretch out between now and Blizzardpalooza, there are several huge conventions that may be occupying your time. I’ll be leaving next week for Gen Con, and a month after that you’ll be able to find Rafe and me (along with a large handful of staffers from Massively) at Dragon*Con. I often wonder if we geeks have not subconsciously scheduled some of the biggest conventions of the year over the summer months as a result of the countless dull hours in our youth because we didn’t appreciate the “traditional” summer activities. Whatever the reason, though, this is the time of the year when it’s truly grand to be a geek.
It is not, however, such a grand time if you are trying to make healthy dining choices.
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Totem Talk: Elemental changes, part two
Jul 29th
Welcome to another article by elemental shaman specialist Matt Sampson, otherwise known as Binkenstein. By day, he’s a geek; by night, he’s also a geek, but with spreadsheets.
Hello again, dear readers. It’s time for me to waffle on again about elemental shaman. A few weeks ago, we saw the talent tree revamp down to seven tiers, and there have been a number of changes in the builds since then. Some of the changes are small, but there’s one or two in there that I think you’ll like, if you haven’t heard about them already.
I’ve also spent a little time on the beta, and aside from being totally unfamiliar with the UI, I’m enjoying it. Earthquake is fun to use, although I do wish that the cooldown didn’t exist. As you can see from the image above, the current animation isn’t quite finished yet, but looks promising.
But before we get started, I’d like to let you in on a little project I’ve been working on lately: TotemSpot. TotemSpot is our new Shaman Community Site that’s been set up by a few shaman bloggers, and we’re currently in beta (everything is there, but there are a few layout issues and changes More >
General: Community Spotlight: Haters Gonna Hate?
Jul 29th
This week’s Community Spotlight focuses on the thread “So why do many MMORPG gamers hate so many new MMORPG games?” by Qazz. Qazz appears frustrated by MMO gamers who seem to hate every new MMO that is announced or is coming out. Are we all just grumpy grognards or are the new crop of games, well, crap?
Star Wars The Old Republic : 10 millions sinon rien
Jul 29th
Greg Zeschuk, fondateur de Bioware, a récemment déclaré dans une interview que les objectifs de vente pour Star Wars : The Old Republic s’élèvent au moins à 10 millions de boîtes vendues, tout résultat en-dessous de cela ne constituant pas un “hit” suffisant pour le titre.
Greg Zeschuk
Il déclare : “On dit souvent entre nous que si on a la moitié du succès de World of Warcraft, on sera très satisfait. Nous sommes conscients de la chance que nous avons d’avoir le soutien d’un gros éditeur et le budget nécessaire pour faire un jeu énorme comme celui-ci”
City of Heroes: Kinetic Melee Power Set
Jul 29th
The City of Heroes: Going Rogue expansion is set to feature some nifty new power sets including the Kinetic Melee set. The Kinetic Melee power set uses an attacker’s power against him and heroes wielding this set mold the power with their hands in a very Kung Fu-esque way before hurling it at an opponent. They are able to knockback, knock down and stun foes.
Scattered Shots: How to tell your friend he’s a huntard
Jul 29th
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. Got hunter questions? Feel free to email Frostheim.
The term “huntard” stretches all the way back to vanilla, when all the gold farmers were hunters (and actually farmed). While usage of the term has died down a bit due to widespread educational programming, it still exists, and we now know more about the huntard than ever before. Sometimes these bad players are just teenagers with parasitic worms burrowing through their brains, driving them slowly mad; other times, they’re hillbillies destabilized from imbibing massive quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical procreation.
But more often than not, the classic huntard behaviors aren’t directly related to mental acuity. Modern medical science now knows that huntardism is a disease, often infecting newer players who just honestly doesn’t know any better. They’re trying their best. All too often, they’re newer players who got some crazy and foolish advice (usually from other classes) and, not knowing any better, have done their best to follow it. But here is More >
General: Why You Should Embrace the F2P Movement
Jul 29th
Today’s The List column is a provocative look at the free to play movement in games these days. MMORPG.com writer Bill Murphy has four reasons why you need to embrace the F2P movement. See if you agree or disagree.
Cataclysm Beta: Twilight Highlands and Uldum galleries
Jul 29th
Twilight Highlands and Uldum aren’t technically open yet in the Cataclysm beta, but when have invisible walls ever stopped someone who really wanted to get into a zone? Resourceful tester Lemon King sends us these monster galleries of questing through both zones, although both are unfinished (especially Uldum). Even so, they look beautiful, and there are some nice surprises in the quests. Obviously, spoilers abound!
Check out the galleries by clicking below.
Gallery: Cataclysm beta: Twilight Highlands
Gallery: Cataclysm Beta: Uldum