In World of Warcraft: I, Mike Sacco, smell terrible This title is what happens when you don’t title your own post and leave it to Alex to do it. You have all been warned. Sumadin asked: With Menethil Harbor flooded how do Alliance players get to Theramore and Howling Fjord? Has it all been moved to Stormwind? As it turns out, docks float. Menethil Harbor is both a fully-functional quest hub and fully-functional port town. You can still get to Theramore and Valiance Keep from there. Kavu asked: I wonder about worgen form and combat — I remember hearing that worgen would need to be in worgen form while in combat, but if you’re in human form and, let’s say, cast Moonfire do you then have to go through the few second transformation? Transformation only takes time when you hit the Two Forms button. When going into combat or casting a spell, the change is instantaneous. Mau asked: While there was no internet today, I randomly decided to see the game’s credits and the arts shown there surprised me. There was one landscape I didn’t recognize though, in vanilla WoW’s credits, a city built on a petrified nautiloid-looking thing (or is it a city on a hill that’s been sculpted like a nautiloid?), any clue on what that place is? It’s uncertain for what the art was going to originally be used, but its untextured model is currently in-game on Designer Island. Also present on Designer Island: mining and herb nodes of every type. More...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010World of warcraft Profession Link Rules
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010World of warcraft Profession Link Rules * Guide must be focused entirely on at least one of the twelve professions of World of Warcraft * Blizzard does not host guides; they must be hosted on your own web server * Site must be capable of getting traffic from our web site (estimated 1,000-20,000 hits a day) * Guides must contain quality information * Must not contain offensive content or link to offensive content * We will link to guides posted in the World of Warcraft forums only if they have been stickied by the Community Team * Advertising links on your site must not link to sites that violate the Terms of Use Agreement * Broken links will be removed if site is down for a long period of time * Blizzard reserves the rights to add/remove links at any time * Submit guides, report broken links, or report violations here Europe forum links: If you have difficulty connecting to the Europe forums links, please try again later. These pages are located on separate web sites located in Europe. General * NEW: Project Lore (Professions, Classes, Talents, Dungeons) * NEW: WoW Professions * EU Forums: Vendor Bought Recipes * EU Forums: Moneymaking/Specialization in TBC * EU Forums: TBC BoP Recipe Drops * EU Forums: Faction Rewards by Profession * EU Forums: Full List of Profession Trainers in TBC * EU Forums: Powerleveling Guides for all Professions * EU Forums: Lockpicking Guide * EU Forums: List of Profession Trainers by Highlander * EU Forums: Cost of Leveing Your Profession * EU More...
The Queue: Dexter Worgen
Saturday, August 21st, 2010The Queue: Dexter Worgen Forget Worgen Freeman, I’m rolling a stab-stab-stab rogue named Dexter Worgen. Props to Joker for putting this idea in my head. Tim asked: “I know there is another patch before Cataclysm. Why isn’t anyone talking about it? Are they going to do something cool and event-y like the Scourge infection before Wrath? Maybe some more heavier seismic activity or something?” There will be another patch, likely numbered 4.0 or 4.0.2. It’s going to contain things like the aftermath Operation: Gnomeregan. The only reason you haven’t heard anything about it lately is that the patch itself isn’t out on the PTR and we haven’t really heard much about that patch in particular. Remember though, the “Cataclysm patch” as it will be called, is just a complete dump of everything that’s in the Cataclysm expansion into the current world. So all the articles you see about specs and new spells (level 80 and below), will apply to that patch as much as they apply to the new expansion. Dannyboy asked: “What I am still wondering about is: Why do the hunter trainers in Stormwind and Gilneas still use mana when all the other hunters in game switched to focus?” Likely because Blizzard hasn’t coded over the hunter NPCs in game to be a physical NPC class versus a mana-using NPC class. It might never change, to be honest; I’m sure it’s very low on their list of things to get done. Duulket More...
Cataclysm Beta: Warrior stance changes and mastery
Monday, August 16th, 2010Cataclysm Beta: Warrior stance changes and mastery Beta build 12759 has arrived, and with it, a host of changes. Mastery has finally been implemented. Some talents and abilities have been revamped. And our stances, long the defining mechanic differentiating a tanking warrior from a DPS warrior, have also seen significant alterations. How significant? For starters, armor penetration has been utterly removed from Battle Stance. Instead, it now simply grants a warrior an extra 5 percent damage dealt and 5 percent less damage taken. Defensive Stance grants 45 percent additional threat and -10 percent damage taken, with no damage dealt penalty, and Berserker Stance grants 10 percent damage dealt and no damage taken. In many ways, this is merely a way to make the stances all seem positive (much as how rested XP was changed from a penalty to XP when you didn’t rest to a bonus when you did), but it’s still nice to no longer take more damage than anyone else just because you decided to DPS as a warrior. Tanking without a damage penalty no other tank pays will just feel better. First off, Plate Specialization is now trainable at level 60, giving arms and fury warriors more strength and prot warriors more stamina when wearing plate. To give you an idea of how mastery currently works on gear, we’ll first reprint the bonuses and then show some examples of it scaling. Warrior * Fury Increases the benefit of abilities that cause you to be enraged or consume an enrage More...
Know Your Lore TFH edition: The Deathwing Conspiracy In World of Warcraft
Friday, August 6th, 2010Know Your Lore TFH edition: The Deathwing Conspiracy In World of Warcraft 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. This is introduce If you remember Anne’s excellent Elune is a naaru post from a few months back, then you’ll know how this works. If not, then I’ll explain. Basically, what follows is a huge post full of supposition and speculation that takes established lore (including some new lore from Cataclysm) and uses it as a framework to support a contention that is not currently stated by Blizzard. It’s probably not what’s actually going on, but like that guy you know who won’t shut up about the grays, we’re going to ride the crazy rocket all the way to violent crash landing town. (I promise you the Yogg-Saron post is coming, but in writing it, I ended up going down these roads for a bit.) Deathwing. The destroyer, Blackwing Greatfather to the gronn of Outland, Xaxas to the night elves, formerly Neltharion the Earthwarder and still referred to among some of the earth elementals. The Dark One. Neltharion the Betrayer, Blood’s Shadow, self-proclaimed Aspect of Death. The Unmaker of Worlds. Many are his titles, earned in acts of rampage and devastation from the time of the War More...
World of Warcraft Alchemy Guide 1 – 450 party
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010WoW Alchemy Guide 1 – 450 party This WoW Alchemy guide will show you the fastest way how to level your Alchemy skill up from 1 to 450 as inexpensively as possible. Updated for WoW patch 3.3 Alchemy is the best combined with Herbalism, with these two you can save a lot of gold, and you can sell the potions later. Check out my Herbalism leveling guide if you want to level your Herbalism skill. If you don’t have Herbalism profession, make sure you have enough gold to buy herbs, because you will need a lot of them. The materials are based on a case that you will gain one skill point each craft. This won’t happen, so you will have to buy a few extra materials while you are leveling your Alchemy. If you are low on gold, I recommend you to try this Gold Making Guide, it can help you to make loads of gold. You also need to realize this is not a leveling guide, so if you are looking for a leveling guide, the best one is this 1 – 80 Leveling Guide. Alchemy guide sections: Alchemy Apprentice 1 – 60 Alchemy Journeyman 60 – 140 Alchemy Expert 140 – 205 Alchemy Artisan 205 – 285 Alchemy Master 285 – 350 Alchemy Grand Master 350 – 450 Approximate Materials Required for 1-450: * 59 x Peacebloom * 59 x Silverleaf * 95 x Briarthorn * 35 x Bruiseweed * 20 x Mageroyal * 35 x Stranglekelp * 30 x Liferoot * 30 x Kingsblood * 45 x Goldthorn * 10 x Wild Steelbloom * 70 x Sungrass * 15 x Khadgar’s Whisker * 4 x Iron Bar * 1 Black More...