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The Daily Blues

March 31st, 2010

Each day WoW.com will take you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From Ghostcrawler’s latest posts to the lowdown on StarCraft II and Diablo III, we’ll keep you informed.

Dubito ergo cogito ergo sum.

The Queue: Mike Sacco and the Saccos

March 30th, 2010

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Alex Ziebart will be your host today.

What happens when you put WoW.com staffers in a room with a karaoke machine and alcohol? The video embedded above is what happens. And there were only two of them, Mike and Fox! BlizzCon is going to be… interesting.

scraggerly asked…

“I was just visiting Dominic’s warlock column, mainly because I love the lock-mage feuds and comments. Is there a particular origin (maybe lore) to the feud, like the montagues and capulets, or is it mainly player generated?

Also, can we start more feuds?”

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The Queue: Mike Sacco and the Saccos originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Daily Blues

March 30th, 2010

Each day WoW.com will take you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From Ghostcrawler’s latest posts to the lowdown on StarCraft II and Diablo III, we’ll keep you informed.

The Daily Blues, in which Ghostcrawler talks about the thunder and the clap.

Officers’ Quarters: Not an officer

March 29th, 2010

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader’s Handbook, available this spring from No Starch Press.

Who deserves to be an officer? Guild leaders struggle with this question quite a bit. It comes down to this question: In your guild, does the officer rank exist to reward players or to give them responsibilities? In other words, what is the purpose of the officer rank? Later, I’ll talk about the two most common purposes. But first, this week’s e-mail comes from a player who feels he deserves a promotion to officer.

Hey Scott,

I’ve been playing with a group of people for five years now. We’ve stuck together as a guild for most that time, though we’ve moved from tag to tag over the duration. I left WoW for a short period while I moved across the country and upon my return found the guild I had been in was disbanded and we had merged with another guild. No big deal, we’ve done it before. I was an officer in the old guild, but was not promoted to officer status in the new (too many officers, not enough members, etc.). Again, no big deal.

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Officers’ Quarters: Not an officer originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Spiritual Guidance: Benediction

March 29th, 2010

Though temporarily bested by Sindragosa’s Ice Tombs, a well-timed Renew and some gnome mages have freed Dawn Moore just in time for her to wrench back Spiritual Guidance from the shady clutches of Fox Van Allen; just as she does every Sunday. After she finishes advising her fellow healing priests on the ways of the light this week, she will be waiting for a duel in Zangarmarsh atop the highest mushroom with a Flag of Ownership and Medallion of the Horde. Bring it!

I’ve had a lot of requests recently from readers who want a leg up on gearing out their soon to be level 80, or fresh level 80 priest for raiding. This is certainly a worthwhile topic, one I intend to get to, but not this week.

We get a lot of mail at WoW.com and this past week we got an e-mail from a player named Nemikahn who wrote a WoW version of the song Sunscreen. The various staffers read through the e-mail, groaned in realization at how old they were (the original song came out in 1998) before the e-mail got lost in the jumble of BlizzCon 2010 news. I really enjoyed the rewrite though, and thought it rather timely given we are nearing the end of this expansion. Cataclysm is coming, and it’s supposed to change everything we’ve become familiar with. So, this week my fellow priests, my guidance is this: stop and smell the flowers. WoW operates at such a hurried pace these days. Don’t feel like you always have to rush off to the next raid or complete another alt. Take more screen shots, visit your favorite zones, make sure you can contact your closest friends in the game outside of it, and most of all: create Benediction. I will, of course, help you with that last part.

Filed under: Priest, (Priest) Spiritual Guidance, Cataclysm

Spiritual Guidance: Benediction originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The ghosts of Azeroth

March 28th, 2010

I love ghost stories, and one of the nice things about WoW is that Azeroth is full of them. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that one of the nice things for us is that Azeroth’s full of them, because lore-wise it’s hard to argue that the existence of any ghost is a happy occurrence. While I could (and probably should) turn this into a giant feature cataloging all the ghosts in the game, I have my personal favorites:

Caer Darrow

The inhabitants of Caer Darrow are my favorite ghosts, not least because you can’t see them at all until you’ve done a bit of work on their behalf. The island seems utterly deserted barring the Sarkhoff couple…until you realize that it’s not, and that there’s an entire town full of people trapped on its “happiest day,” going about its business, oblivious to how the world’s moved on. That there’s a ghostly vendor you can’t otherwise talk to without a Spectral Essence is even better.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Lore

The ghosts of Azeroth originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Know Your Lore: Current Horde politics – the Orcs

Know Your Lore: Current Horde politics – the Orcs

March 28th, 2010

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how, but do you know the why? Each week Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

Now that we’re done with the dragonflights coverage, it’s time to move on to other, more… explosive topics of conversation. Yes, that was a thinly veiled attempt at a Cataclysm reference. With the events of Cataclysm, both the Alliance and the Horde are due for some shake-ups, but it’s the Horde that stands in a particularly shaky position, politically speaking. Cataclysm promises to shake up not just the physical world, but the political world of the Horde as we currently know it — so I’ll be taking a look at each of the Horde races, what they’ve been up to in the World of Warcraft, and why Cataclysm may do much more than simply set the Alliance and the Horde at odds.

Today’s topic, the orcs — the green-skinned Draenor natives that have established a foothold and a home on Azeroth, for better or for worse, and founded the current Horde as we know it today. While rumors are just that, rumors for now, they’re well founded in current events and lore regarding the orcs and quite frankly, the rumors do not surprise me in the least. To begin, let’s go back to the beginning of the current Horde and talk a little bit about their leader, their savior, the orc behind all the current stress the Horde is experiencing — Thrall.

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Know Your Lore: Current Horde politics – the Orcs originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Daily Quest: Finally the weekend!

March 27th, 2010

Here at WoW.com we’re on a Daily Quest (which we try to do every day, honest) to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment and you may see it here tomorrow! Take a look at the links below, and be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW related sites.

It’s the weekend! That time when we aren’t shackled by workday worries and can kick back, relax, and half some fun. To further this purpose, some posts from the WoW blogosphere in the past week (or so) that have made me laugh — and perhaps they’ll make you laugh, too.

It’s no flowchart, but Destructive Reach has a pie chart documenting time spent in WoW.
Blame Squelchy tells us what the Lich King has to say to those who wield Shadow’s Edge.
I Like Bubbles remains near and dear to my heart by continuing to post flowcharts (and things bearing a suspicious resemblance to flowcharts). Enjoy a basic raiding strats flowchart and the math behind assembling a raid.
Pew Pew Lazers offers an arcane mage DPS flowchart.
World of Matticus covers raid strategy using MS Paint.
Bible of Dreams talks about auto-attack. And stir-fry.
Miss Medicina breaks up with greater-heal.

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The Daily Quest: Finally the weekend! originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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