Опубликован список изменений патча 4.3 PTR от 13 октября 2011 года для MMORPG World of Warcraft, [hide]сообщает[/hide] компания Blizzard Entertainment. К наиболее интересным можно отнести следующие: доступны для тестирования подземелья «Конец Времен», «Час Сумерек», новый босс Крепости Барадин – Ализабал, а также бафф чернокнижников.
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Вместо того, чтобы выбрасывать отслужившие свой срок серверные платы MMORPG World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment скоро выставит их на продажу, [hide]сообщает[/hide] официальный сайт игры.
«Хотите владеть частью истории Blizzard? – говорится в объявлении. – После серии улучшений инфраструктуры World of Warcraft мы сохранили отслужившие свой срок блейд-серверы, которые когда-то поддерживали многие игровые миры. В ближайшем будущем мы выставим их на аукцион, а вырученные средства перечислим [hide]детскому госпиталю[/hide] Святого Иуды».
Аукцион по продаже состоится на [hide]eBay[/hide] и продлится 4 недели. Госпиталь получит все вырученное за каждый лот за исключением $50 за упаковку, отправку, плату за использование PayPal и 1% за пользование eBay. На каждой серверной плате разместят мемориальную дощечку, а к покупателю они отправятся в «сделанных на заказ коричневых коробках».
Очевидно, в ближайшем будущем Blizzard также выставит на продажу и другой IT-хлам, а также поломанную офисную мебель с памятными табличками и подписями разработчиков.
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В установленном на тестовый сервер MMORPG World of Warcraft билде появились предметы, воспроизводящие внешний вид «синих» и «эпических» наборов брони (например, Dungeon Set 1 и 2), [hide]сообщает[/hide] Wowhead.
Судя по сообщению, эти предметы ([hide]полный список[/hide]) можно будет получить на обновленной Ярмарке Новолуния. В игре пока не были замечены утерянные ныне наборы Т3 из оригинального Наксрамаса или экипировка 3-го сезона The Burning Crusade, однако, возможно, они появятся в будущем.
Кроме них, есть и PvP-комплекты, однако они пока находятся у вендоров.
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This [hide]Breakfast Topic[/hide] has been brought to you by [hide]Seed[/hide], the AOL guest writer program that brings [hide]your words[/hide] to WoW Insider’s pages.
I love Gilneas. I love the look of the zone, the ambiance, the music. I’ve leveled a number of Worgen alts (that I never plan on playing again) through the zone just to experience the storyline again. I’ve even run an Undead alt through early levels just to see the other side of the ending events.
What bothers me (and many others, I’m sure) is the fact that this fantastic zone is now phased out and empty. Presumably, the story of the zone isn’t finished and may even see some closure by the time the current expansion’s life cycle is over … but what then? The most apparent answer is to make Gilneas City another Alliance capital city, but does the game really need a new dead urban center like Darnassus? Throughout the lifespan of World of Warcraft, players have asked for the ability to buy housing for their characters. Could an empty zone like Gilneas be good starting location for this kind of feature? Instead of a creating new world PVP location like Wintergrasp or Baradin Hold in the next expansion, could the ongoing struggle for the walled peninsula become the new focus of the war between factions (with all the associated rewards and daily quests)?
Now that Cataclysm has been out for a while, what can be done to make this zone a viable place to visit?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What about Gilneas[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
Welcome back to [hide]The Queue[/hide], the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.
Sorry I’m late to the whole Bad Lip Reading bandwagon, but man, these videos are hilarious. They take an actual music video (or sometimes one video and a few pieces of another) and lip-read them, then create an entirely new song with those lip-read lyrics superimposed over the original video. This one is particularly hilarious and catchy.
Andrew R asked:
I’m looking to upgrade my phone to an android phone and save some money on my bills. One thought was making my phone a hotspot and using the 4G as my ISP. Could I run WoW without any major lags on a 4G network or do I need a true DSL/Broadband connection?
I raided on a mobile broadband card for quite a while. It was doable. I don’t know about 4G, because that depends on highly on the carrier, but 3G definitely worked for me.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Pig-tailed bank teller[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Pig-tailed bank teller[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
Read MoreThe new video from Obsidian Brand and Blue Dragon Productions features the vocal stylings of [hide]Sharm[/hide]. The team was feeling inspired by Portal’s theme song, Still Alive, and couldn’t help themselves — they had to convert it over to our beloved WoW.
[hide]Still Subscribed[/hide] is somewhere between a love letter from Blizzard and a deep, lyrical complaint about the state of the game. While I don’t necessarily agree with the editorial stance about the developers, the video is incredibly well performed and executed. The music is awesome, of course, but the words manage to maintain the same poetry as the original. Still Subscribed is just very well done.
This is definitely an excellent piece. I hope to see more stuff with this kind of quality, because this was just amazing.
Interested in the wide world of [hide]machinima[/hide]? We have new movies every weekday here on [hide]WoW Moviewatch[/hide]! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an email at [hide]moviewatch@wowinsider.com[/hide].
Filed under: [hide]WoW Moviewatch[/hide], [hide]BlizzCon[/hide][hide]WoW Moviewatch: Still Subscribed[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide] | Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
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Yo, death knights. Chill. [hide]Zarhym[/hide]’s got this.
It’s no secret that the artists at Blizzard put a lot of effort and creativity into creating unique tier pieces for every class. It’s a time-intensive process. But for death knights, it’s been an uncomfortably long wait. After all, [hide]each[/hide] [hide]and[/hide] [hide]every[/hide] [hide]other[/hide] [hide]class[/hide] [hide]had[/hide] [hide]an[/hide] [hide]official[/hide] [hide]preview[/hide] of their [hide]tier 13[/hide] set by the end of September.
Well, it turns out there was a good reason for that wait. Death knight tier 13 was completed «weeks ago,» but because the finished product wasn’t up to Blizzard’s standard of quality, the original idea was scrapped and a new concept was conceived — or so said Blizzard Community Manager [hide]Zarhym[/hide] last night via [hide]Twitter[/hide] and on the [hide]official Blizzard forums[/hide]:
DK tier 13 revealed at blizzcon?
I’ll give you a bit of the lowdown on why the death knight set hasn’t come out yet, even in the 4.3 PTR files third-party sites are looking through. As with all sets, a concept art piece was done for death knight tier 13. When that was translated to the actual in-game look, we felt it wasn’t up to par with the concept, and ultimately wasn’t nearly at the quality level of the other tier 13 sets. But, that death knight set was completed weeks ago.
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Zarhym (who is totally welcome to come to next week’s [hide]WoW Insider Reader Meetup[/hide] and buy me a drink) says that Blizzard would «love» to post it next week, but with [hide]BlizzCon 2011[/hide] starting Friday, that may not be a possibility. I’m sure that few people will be happy having to wait another week (or longer) to get a look at death knight tier 13. But ultimately, I think they’ll be glad that Blizzard didn’t rush to implement a substandard product just to beat a nonexistent deadline.[hide]Continue reading Zarhym: Death knight tier 13 coming «next week if we can»[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Blizzard[/hide], [hide]News items[/hide], [hide]Death Knight[/hide], [hide](Death Knight) Lichborne[/hide][hide]Zarhym: Death knight tier 13 coming «next week if we can»[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide] | Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
Read MoreWoW Insider’s on a [hide]Daily Quest[/hide] to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
Everyone is still up in arms over the [hide]new pet from the Blizzard store[/hide] — and arguing over what this means for the future of WoW’s economy. Needless to say, today we’ve got another roundup of posts from around the blogosphere further discussing the situation.
[hide]Power Word: Gold[/hide] ponders Blizzard’s future intentions for the pet store and whether this is paving the way for more items paid for [hide]with real cash[/hide].
[hide]The Ancient Gaming Noob[/hide] takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the situation and other examples of [hide]RMT in gaming[/hide].
[hide]Keen and Graev’s Gaming Blog[/hide] points out that these kitties are not [hide]pure RMT at all[/hide].
Lastly, [hide]Marks-365[/hide] takes a moment to point out what is bothering me about this whole situation: $10 spent, and I only get the pet [hide]on one character[/hide]? Oh, no no no no no no no.
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! Be sure to check out our [hide]WoW Resources Guide[/hide] for more WoW-related sites.
Filed under: [hide]The Daily Quest[/hide][hide]The Daily Quest: Oh no no no no no no no[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
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Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Scattered Shots[/hide] for [hide]beast mastery[/hide], [hide]marksmanship[/hide] and [hide]survival[/hide] hunters. Frostheim of [hide]Warcraft Hunters Union[/hide] uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail your hunter questions to [hide]Frostheim[/hide]. This week, his evil twin, Basil «[hide]Euripides[/hide]» Berntsen, is covering for him while he sleeps off the after-effects of the last Hunting Party Podcast.
Hunter PVP is in a bad state right now. This does not mean that you can’t get Gladiator with a hunter, but it does mean you have to be way better to do it than if you were to play, say, a warlock. You also have to do it in a very small subset of viable team compositions, where your warlock alt could succeed in a large variety of team compositions.
Before you burn a hole through that «add comment» button arguing with me about viability and how Arena representation isn’t worth the pixels it’s displayed on, remember that I’m arguing that it takes more skill to succeed in PVP as a hunter. I’m not arguing that you can’t do it, and I know that Arena class representation isn’t a perfect measure of class balance. The same way some specs (like BM) are [hide]underrepresented[/hide] in the top 100 PVE raid parses, the highest-rated PVP players in the game tend to play classes they feel they will do best, which skews the representation farther away from some perfectly viable spec/class combos. Arena representation is, however, one quantifiable number we can look into for insight.[hide]Continue reading Scattered Shots: Improving hunter PVP[/hide]Filed under: [hide](Hunter) Scattered Shots[/hide][hide]Scattered Shots: Improving hunter PVP[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
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Pop law abounds in [hide]The Lawbringer[/hide], your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. [hide]Mathew McCurley[/hide] takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps. How about you hang out with us as we discuss some of the more esoteric aspects of the games we love to play?
Blizzard [hide]recently treated[/hide] WoW fans to a preview of the [hide]Guardian Cub[/hide] tradable pet, going on sale soon at the Blizzard pet store. Immediately upon hearing that the pet was tradable, readers began inundating me with email and [hide]Twitter[/hide] messages to talk about said cub on The Lawbringer, as this is sort of the thing I fancy myself a connoisseur of. So here we go — let’s talk about the ramifications of these adorable little pets on our server economies.
The Guardian Cub represents a sea change in the nature of the gold selling war from Blizzard’s perspective, one that has been coming for a long, long time. With a Blizzard-sanctioned way for players to dip their toes into the waters of pay-for gold, gold buying looks a little less attractive to players who would otherwise have to risk their computer’s integrity and credit card security. Players have sharp opinions one way or the other on player-bought gold, so I’m going to do my best to hit the right points to discuss my opinion on the whole premise. I mean, it’s right there in the FAQ. This pet has the added incentive of being a safe and secure way to potentially, maybe, make some gold off your purchase.[hide]Continue reading The Lawbringer: Guardian Cub pros and cons[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Lawbringer[/hide][hide]The Lawbringer: Guardian Cub pros and cons[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]
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