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Join us every weekday evening as we run down all the WoW news that you could possibly want. From comments from Blizzard’s blues to the latest datamining — we’ve got you covered.

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[hide]Continue reading Today in WoW: Friday, Aug. 12, 2011[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Today in WoW[/hide][hide]Today in WoW: Friday, Aug. 12, 2011[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:00:00 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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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.

One of the most powerful aspects of gaming is the prospect of visiting new, alien worlds. Even familiar worlds are a treat to visit, as long as they are fresh with life. The success of many games is based solely on how well the designers are able to create a credible, realistic world for players to explore. My personal favorite is Tamriel of Elder Scrolls fame. Especially in Oblivion, the game conveys a strong sense of a living world. NPCs have seemingly random behavioral patterns, walking into shops, talking with the shopkeep, returning to the streets. They meet in secret, they spread rumors, they get arrested, and they get killed. No action feels inconsequential, no character useless.

In this regard, World of Warcraft is often taken for granted. At endgame, most players will rarely leave Orgrimmar, instead using the Dungeon Finder and the in-city dailies to provide their sustenance. Even for the tasks such as materials gathering, rep grinding, and questing that most players perform, very little of the game world is actually seen. But Azeroth is a wonderfully lively place, especially in Cataclysm.

While the online aspect of WoW prevents it from becoming the masterwork that Tamriel is, Cataclysm has made great strides in making the world seem alive. NPCs fight each other along the battle lines. Phasing makes your actions impact the world. Patrol mobs in zones are more common. There are more voice-acted, scripted quests. The world seems far more important, far more worth saving than it ever has.

Do you feel the life behind WoW’s game world?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: Do you feel the life behind the game world of Azeroth[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 13 Aug 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]

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It tastes like burning! [hide]Drewish[/hide] of the appropriately named [hide]Fire For Effect[/hide] on Bloodhoof (US-H) recently won [hide]Fandral’s Flamescythe[/hide], only to discover that the fiery lion effect hurts. And the Stormwind guards are way too lazy to call the fire department to put out the burning cat. Heck, the main towers of the city gates have been smoldering for months now.

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Alive and on fire[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:00:00 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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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.

Above: set footage from the Prince of Persia sequel, Pup of Persia.

Winterhawk asked:

I am loving the new cross-realm dungeon grouping feature. Being able to run dungeons with friends on other servers is great, to the point where I will pay for this feature when it’s no longer free. My question is: what do you think the odds are that they will extend this to raids if it catches on? That would be my dream, to be able to pull in a few RealID friends from other servers to raids. I realize there would be logistical problems (like they’d certainly have to disable the ability to get Realm First or other server-specific achievements for cross-server groups) but I think things like that would be a small price to pay to be able to raid with friends.

I think the service as it exists currently is a test for a broader, more robust system. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could eventually do more with it eventually, like rated battlegrounds or raids. Of course, you can’t grab raid members cross-server yet, much less through Real ID, so it may be a ways off if it’s coming at all. Just speculation.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Barkour[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Barkour[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 13 Aug 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 week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors[/hide], the column dedicated to [hide]arms[/hide], [hide]fury[/hide] and [hide]protection warriors[/hide]. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

Okay, so you [hide]leveled as protection[/hide]. Let’s assume you intend to tank on said warrior. Since you’re now level 85, it follows that you should look up what the top raiding tanks are doing and do that, yes?

No.

Sweet candy-coated Garrosh clusters, no, you should not do that. Those guys are wearing gear you haven’t even started to collect and are in 10- or 25-man raids that are composed of some of the best players in the world. You’re just starting. You’re most likely going to be tanking in pickup groups where the other four players are complete strangers who neither know you nor care one whit about your gameplay. In some cases, sure, you’ll get a good group and everyone will work together and kill the monsters as a unit. That’s great.

I’m here to write columns to help you out, and frankly, you don’t need help with good groups. You need my help for the groups with the fury warrior in full Firelands gear who shows up in your heroic Deadmines run and does 28k DPS. (I said I was sorry.) You need my help for the ret paladin who doesn’t know what his interrupt is called ([hide]Rebuke[/hide]) or the mage who won’t cast Polymorph because it’s just going to break anyway when he starts jumping around casting [hide]Arcane Explosion[/hide] constantly for no reason.

This week, we’re going to talk about how to gear and play a tank starting out in normal level 85 instances and the first tier of Cataclysm heroics.[hide]Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank blues[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Warrior[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Burning Crusade[/hide], [hide](Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors[/hide], [hide]Wrath of the Lich King[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank blues[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 13 Aug 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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Join us every weekday evening as we run down all the WoW news that you could possibly want. From comments from Blizzard’s blues to the latest datamining — we’ve got you covered.

Don’t forget to check out [hide]The Daily Quest[/hide] and our [hide]Weekly Podcast Roundup[/hide] to find out what else is going on in the WoW community. And if you have a news tip, feel free to [hide]drop us a line[/hide] and let us know.

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[hide]Continue reading Today in WoW: Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Today in WoW[/hide][hide]Today in WoW: Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:20:00 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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На официальной страничке Warcraft в Facebook [hide]показаны[/hide] пара новых NPC, которые добавятся в новом патче, и не исключено, что это будет патч 4.3. Эти будут персонажи будут оказывать услуги Transmogrifier и Void Storage. Первый NPC, [hide]похоже[/hide], будет как-то изменять внешний вид вещей (поскольку несколько предметов, меняющих внешний вид, уже есть в игре), а второй будет чем-то вроде банка для особых вещей. Пока остается только гадать и ждать разъяснений от Blizzard.

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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.

As much as it may hurt to consider, WoW will one day end. It’s unfortunate, but all good things must come to an end. There will be a point when Blizzard realizes that it is no longer economical to keep the WoW servers running. It will flip the big, imposing, red switch, sending all the servers offline for the final time. But knowing Blizzard as we do, such a monumental event would not take the form of an unceremonious shutdown. There would be spectacle, and lots of it.

Given that Blizzard would be shutting down the servers because they yield no economic benefit, putting development time into a great sendoff would be highly unlikely. As such, we would be stuck with preexisting world events. That still leaves a lot of room for shenanigans, however. Would Blizzard bring the zombie invasion back? Perhaps The Burning Crusade launch event? Raid bosses all over major cities? Or (my personal favorite) perhaps a conglomerate of them all: zombies aflame with fel fire disrupting major cities, creating rifts that require an entire server’s effort to close? With the Lich King in the center of it all just for grins? Sign me up.

There are so many ways to give WoW the send-off it deserves. How would you do it?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What should WoW’s grand finale event be like[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 12 Aug 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]

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[hide]Ready Check[/hide] helps you prepare yourself and your raid for the bosses that simply require killing. Check back with Ready Check each week for the latest pointers on killing adds, not standing in fire, and hoping for loot that won’t drop.

Greetings again, heroes. In previous forays into the heart of the elemental plain of fire, we’ve defeated [hide]Shannox[/hide], [hide]Beth’tilac[/hide], [hide]Lord Rhyolith[/hide], [hide]Alysrazor[/hide], and [hide]Baleroc the Gatekeeper[/hide]. With the first five of Ragnaros’ champions defeated, the gates of the Sulfuron Spire itself are now open. Only one more obstacle stands between you and the Firelord himself: the new Majordomo, Staghelm. Previously one of Azeroth’s greatest druids and the defacto leader of Cenarion Circle while Malfurion slept in the Emerald Dream, Staghelm has now sided with the destructive forces of fire, making himself the new leader of the Druids of the Flame.

Staghelm has already proven himself to be extremely powerful. He interrupted the ceremony at Nordrassil between the Cenarion Circle, the Earthen Ring, and the dragon aspects, wherein he split Thrall across all the elemental planes. He slaughtered a company of captured druids and summoned Alysrazor on the raid, and now he is to be your next challenge. Are you up to the task?[hide]Continue reading Ready Check: WoW Insider’s guide to Majordomo Staghelm[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Raiding[/hide], [hide]Ready Check (Raiding)[/hide][hide]Ready Check: WoW Insider’s guide to Majordomo Staghelm[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:00:00 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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Well, this is why your professional fishermen tend to wear waders, or at least some sort of shirt and pants combination. [hide]Zoral[/hide] of [hide]Nocturnal[/hide] on Alonsus (EU-A) was innocently fishing in his underwear outside of Stormwind when he was maliciously attacked by a pack of rogue lobsters. Perhaps he should use his nasty-looking spiked fishing pole to remove the claws from his pectoral muscles, rather than just staring vacantly into the distance and continuing to fish.

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Lobstergeddon[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]