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Ow. Ow, ow, ow. The pain, oh, the pain of it all. Heroics, my friends, are hard. Trash is hard, the bosses are hard, and my spirit was jostled from its happy Wrath of the Lich King foundations. Images of Shadow Labs darted through my mind. Heroic Mechanar called to me. Remember me, it spoke, remember me and weep the tears of a thousand failed runs. You are mine, it would proclaim. You have returned to the unhappy peninsula of the soul.

No, really, heroics are hard. I expect some tuning, but on the whole, there are challenges ahead for us in Cataclysm. On the one hand, I’m excited. I like challenge! On the other hand, I will never use the dungeon finder tool again. No offense.

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The Queue: Hard mode is hard originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fresh off the heels of Operation: Gnomeregan, Blizzard has published a web reveal of New Tinkertown. High Tinker Mekkatorque and the gnomish forces have seized control of an area on the surface just outside of Gnomeregan and have started efforts in retaking their city. Mekkatorque will ask you to complete new missions like rescuing gnomes and routing troggs, with the main goal of stopping Razlo Crushcog. New Tinkertown is the new level 1-5 leveling zone for gnomes. While the quests and the content have been on beta for a while now, you can read more about the official details after the jump.

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Cataclysm Beta: Welcome to New Tinkertown originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As we speak, fires rage in Orgrimmar, the Alliance leaders have called an emergency meeting, and new enemies have been revealed all across Azeroth. The cataclysm is on our very doorsteps! The pre-expansion events are now live on the public test realms.

So far, here are some cool things we are hearing about:

• New bosses in five-man dungeons, including quests for Grand Ambassador Flamelash in Blackrock Depths, Crown Prince Theradras in Maraudon, Prince Sarasun in the Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj, and Kai’ju Gahz’rilla in Zul’Farrak.
• These instances are much like the holiday bosses — queueing for them takes you to a special version of the instance, where you fight alongside a faction leader. These instance bosses are dropping ilevel 251 necks and rings for brave adventurers.
• Horde and Alliance towns are being attacked by waves and waves of elemental adversaries.
• The Twilight Cultist quest lines are active.
• Orgrimmar is on fire. Like, all of it.
• Magni Bronzebeard has called for an emergency meeting of the Alliance leaders to discuss what he believes is a horrible event that’s about to occur — in his words, dwarves are “close to the ground” and can feel that something’s going to happen. But what can they do? Maybe these tablets Brann found in Ulduar could help…
• And much, much more.

We will continue to update the site with more information as it becomes available. Also, check out our write-up of the Tablets of Fire quest line, and the Twilight Cultist event gallery below. Get excited, folks. The reckoning is almost upon us.

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Pre-Cataclysm world events live on the PTR originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Choose the adventures of our bloggers as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H).

Note: The stream is of the Cataclysm beta. It and the chat below are full of spoilers. You have been warned.

Hello and welcome to the live version of Choose My Adventure (beta edition). The winner of the polls was Robinemia the Forsaken huntress, so I will be continuing her adventures today. Join me while I narrate, read quests and take requests from the chat room after the break. The show will run for at least an hour and be viewable on video, if you weren’t able to watch it live.

The schedule for all of our adventurers can be found on Monday’s post, and the polls for this week are after the break.

Continue reading Cataclysm beta live stream and Choose My Adventure polls

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Cataclysm beta live stream and Choose My Adventure polls originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ghostcrawler hit the official forums earlier today to give a very in-depth look at the intricacies behind Cataclysm’s hit rating philosophy, the nature of characters getting “more powerful,” and the way boss levels actually work. All in all, it’s a very interesting read.

Essentially, bosses will get more powerful as the raid tiers grow in number, requiring players to attain new hit levels to stay hit capped. The bosses are, in essence, getting stronger as you also grow in strength, which makes perfect sense. It’s also very nice to see Ghostcrawler having a really excellent discussion about this subject with players, considering hit is a really weird and convoluted stat to begin with. Hopefully, with Cataclysm‘s new tooltip features and hit rating helpers, the mysteries behind hit rating will be less challenging for most players. Check out Ghostcrawler’s posts behind the jump.

Continue reading Ghostcrawler explains hit scaling in Cataclysm

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Ghostcrawler explains hit scaling in Cataclysm originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Wrocas (European community manager) announced on the WoW forums moments ago that a guild chat feature will be added to the Mobile Armory that’s available on both the iPhone and Android. Players have been asking for this type of feature ever since the armory was introduced. This feature piggybacks off the same service that the remote auction house uses, which requires an additional monthly fee on top of your normal World of Warcraft subscription. One fee to rule them all (and by “all,” I mean both the mobile auction house and the guild chat feature).

This allows access to guild chat, officer chat (presuming you had access to start with) and whispers. It appears the whispers will only be allowed to and from guild members, at the moment. There is also no news about being able to chat with your Real ID friends. If you don’t have a device that the Mobile Armory runs on, Blizzard will soon be adding this feature to the normal armory as well.

The full announcement is behind the break.

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Guild chat coming to the Mobile Armory app originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A blue post earlier this evening announced that the beginnings of the pre-Cataclysm events are currently being tested on the PTR.

Daeleht – Pre-Cataclysm World Event Thread

The first of the pre-Cataclysm events started earlier this month with Operation: Gnomeregan and Zalazane’s Fall, which are still available on live realms right now. We’ll get you more information what is happening on the PTR as soon as possible.

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Pre-Cataclysm event testing on PTR originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re a Plants vs. Zombies fan, you are quite familiar with Laura Shigihara, the composer for the PopCap Games plant-a-thon. She is also the voice behind the Plants vs. Zombies theme song.

On her blog today, Shigihara confirmed that her voice will be used for the companion pet, the Singing Sunflower, which players receive after completing the Peacebloom versus Ghouls minigame in Hillsbrad. How awesome is that?

Besides being fun and kind of novel if you’re into PvZ, you get a pretty cool reward for finishing the quest: a “singing sunflower” pet! I actually had no idea this information was public until Hashimoto linked me to TotalHalibut’s video earlier tonight… incidentally, I was right in the middle of recording the sunflower’s voice when I watched it. ^_^ I am so excited about voicing a WoW-pet because what can I say … I’m a big nerd.

Peacebloom versus Ghouls is a minigame/quest in Hillsbrad that puts the player in charge of Brazie the Botanist’s garden of ghoul-destroying plants. If you’ve played Plants vs. Zombies, you’ll feel right at home. Defeat wave after wave of ghouls and you will claim your very own Singing Sunflower companion.

These new facts continue to illustrate the intimate and awesome relationship between Blizzard and PopCap, bringing good tidings to gamers who are fans of both excellent companies. Hopefully, more collaborations like this are in store for the future.

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Singing Sunflower companion pet voiced by Laura Shigihara originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Every Sunday at WoW Insider, you’ll find Spiritual Guidance, a guide to healing as a discipline or holy priest. Priestess Dawn Moore will bring you the latest in news, discussion and advice for priests in the World of Warcraft while simultaneously battling her shadow priest rival, Fox Van Allen. This week, Dawn has been training an infantry of super-perceptive aerial assault sheep to counter the Dark Shrine she spotted Fox warping into WoW Insider HQ earlier.

The latest build for the Cataclysm beta was the big news yesterday, thanks to ol’ B at MMO-Champion. The news hit sometime in the night while most priests were nestled all snug in their beds, but High Priest Matticus and I were up late drinking chocolate malts and playing wall ball, so we got a head start on the information … which we promptly used to write about pets and shaman.

Last week, I said I’d be finishing my Cataclysm roundup this weekend, but since there were quite a few changes in this latest beta build (which I’m guessing will affect the release of patch 4.0.1), I think it’s better if we discuss the details of the changes before we try to summarize them. There was also a super-exciting (though entirely superficial) change with this patch as well …

Leap of Faith, also known as “Life Grip,” got a brand new animation! Check out the video after the jump.

Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: Priest changes in build 12984 and Life Grip video

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Spiritual Guidance: Priest changes in build 12984 and Life Grip video originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Comic news: Fyreuni announced that “Daily Quests is on hold while I work on Emergency Kindergarten Lesson 2!” I am definitely a little disappointed, but I think the project will be worth it.

Tokkar was also kind enough to point out that Shawn Tommelleo of Coffin Comics has a new project called What’s Shakin’ that Tommelleo (aka Coffinshaker) described as not set in “WoWland,” but it does feature the same characters. Sorry I missed it; the end of August and beginning of September were very hectic!

To answer tr_rrr, Cru the Dwarf and other comics that do not update very often will not necessarily show up on the list as soon as they update, because I don’t have the time to check every comic that ever posts something WoW-related each week. I rely on tips and comments and my own whims to learn about them. This is also why Kuo was only added again last week, for example. Thanks for tipping me off that it has updated, though!

Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: Lions and tigers and dragons

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Sunday Morning Funnies: Lions and tigers and dragons originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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