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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, raiders! If you have been following along thus far, then you know that we’ve pushed rather deep into Ragnaros’ territory. Already, we’ve defeated the great hunter [hide]Shannox[/hide], the queen of spiders [hide]Beth’tilac[/hide], the vicious [hide]Lord Rhyolith[/hide], and the treacherous [hide]Alysrazor[/hide]. With the first four of Ragnaros’ supporters dead, we now focus on making our way into the heart of the Sulfuron Spire itself. Only one obstacle stands in our way: the Gatekeeper Baleroc.

Wielding his twin devastating swords, Baleroc is no pushover. This encounter will test the resolve of both your healers and your DPS as you race against a tight enrage timer while combating insurmountable tank damage. No joke —your tanks will be taking this in the millions on this encounter, so you’d better prepare yourselves, heroes. This journey is just getting started.[hide]Continue reading Ready Check: WoW Insider’s Guide to Baleroc, the Gatekeeper[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Raiding[/hide], [hide]Ready Check (Raiding)[/hide][hide]Ready Check: WoW Insider’s Guide to Baleroc, the Gatekeeper[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 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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Many people have seen this [hide]primitive painting[/hide] on a rock near Thunder Bluff. The horse is pretty standard for this sort of thing, although a little out of place — since when have there been horses in Mulgore? But what about those hoofprints off to the left? As always, Mad Men has the answer. I was rewatching the first season on Netflix the other night and caught this little vignette between Harry Crane and Don Draper regarding the Lascaux cave paintings.

Harry: The bison get all the attention, but there are also all of these [hide]handprints[/hide]. Tiny by today’s standards, with paint blown all around them.

Don: Signature of the artist.

Harry: But I thought it was… like someone reaching through the stone, right to us. «I was here.»

The walking cows were here. (Thanks to Dactyl for the screenshot!)

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Once in a blue moon[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 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. [hide]Mathew McCurley[/hide] will be your host today. Click my name! Click it! CLICK IT.

This is a warning to all you uppity Queue-goers. I’ve written you a nice, juicy Queue to sink your teeth into. I combed the questions and your nerdity to answer some good questions. But I don’t take no lip. So if you want some, you’ll have to get some from my buddy [hide]Blitzcrank[/hide] over here. (Please do not actually come after me; I am but a humble servant to you and The Queue.)

[hide]League of Legends: Dominion[/hide] looks like so much fun.

AdamAldaine asked:

What exactly constitutes a «hero class»? I haven’t read a definition that makes it clear. I thought it was a class that could fill all three roles, but that’s about the only thing I’ve been able to determine that it is not.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Save me, Blitzcrank![/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Save me, Blitzcrank![/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 Aug 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]

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[hide]Bloodvein[/hide] created [hide]My Dearest SteaksOnSpear[/hide] as a response to a commenter. This video is odd. It’s very odd. I was hypnotized by it. I have no explanation for why this video made me laugh out loud and giggle like a madman, but I did. Maybe it’s the idea of a blood elf with a hairy chest, or maybe it’s that same chest having a prison tattoo.

While this response is intended as a way for Bloodvein to interact with his fans, I was blown away by the quality of animation and art. Bloodvein shows off some impressive technical skills in this video, even if it’s just for the sake of some sight gags and shout-outs.

My Dearest seems to be an ongoing series, though, so drop by and leave a YouTube comment. Who knows? You might get the next My Dearest response.

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]WoW Moviewatch: My Dearest SteaksOnSpear[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 Aug 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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Every week, [hide]Raid Rx[/hide] will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is [hide]Matt Low[/hide], the grand poohbah of [hide]World of Matticus[/hide] and a founder of [hide]Plus Heal[/hide], a discussion community for healers of all experience levels and interests. Catch his weekly podcast on healing, raiding and leading, the [hide]Matticast[/hide].

I have a hypothesis I’d like to share, and I’d love to hear your take about this in the comments. Healers react better to sound as opposed to visual cues on the screen. We should embrace this. Now, this isn’t to say we need to clutter Mumble with various players calling out different abilities. There are a few addons out there (such as [hide]GTFO[/hide]) that make use of sound indicators whenever you’re standing in something you shouldn’t be standing in.

Healers have a heavy responsibility to:

Oversee the raid.

Watch the ground they’re standing on.

Remove or mitigate boss buffs or debuffs.

Constantly range check their healing assignments (like tanks).

Gauge the timing of mechanics or phases.

Used cooldowns (depending who you are).

I’d like to think most of us can handle that simply by staring at the screen. With the assortment of timers and other visual addons, we’re exposed to a plethora of information used to feed us information. The sad part is that it can be extremely overwhelming, to the point that we don’t know what to do next. That split-second decision could be the wrong move because we reacted to something that wasn’t as important. For example, I may have cast [hide]Prayer of Healing[/hide] on the group, but I would not have done that if I had realized earlier that the boss did his super move, causing a death to a tank or another player.[hide]Continue reading Raid Rx: The power of audio cues[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Druid[/hide], [hide]Paladin[/hide], [hide]Priest[/hide], [hide]Shaman[/hide], [hide]Raid Rx (Raid Healing)[/hide][hide]Raid Rx: The power of audio cues[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 05 Aug 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]

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[hide]World of WarCrafts[/hide] spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music, fan fiction and more. Sample the whole spectrum on our [hide]Arts and Crafts in [/hide][hide]WoW[/hide] page.

I love getting submissions for World of WarCrafts, especially do-it-yourself projects! Today’s submission is from [hide]Lynnora[/hide] of the Silvermoon server (EU-A). Longtime readers of World of WarCrafts may recall the name from a column on [hide]bleach T-shirts[/hide] a couple of years ago. Lynnora’s still crafting away and comes to us this week with a how-to for a simple project that anyone can complete — a Horde pendant suitable for a necklace, keychain, or whatever your imagination can come up with!

What makes this project so easy? Well, the materials to make it, for starters: plastic bags. Say what? That’s right, we’ve got a new use for those plastic bags hanging around your house, a technique called fusing. Check out the gallery for a visual step-by-step, and follow us after the break for the full tutorial from Lynnora!

Gallery: [hide]World of WarCrafts: Lynnora’s Horde pendant how-to[/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide]Continue reading World of WarCrafts: How to make Lynnora’s decorative Horde pendant[/hide]Filed under: [hide]World of WarCrafts[/hide][hide]World of WarCrafts: How to make Lynnora’s decorative Horde pendant[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 04 Aug 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]

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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].

Beast mastery hunters suffered on the DPS charts for the majority of Wrath of the Lich King. By [hide]just about any measure[/hide], hunters were giving up a lot of DPS by playing the BM spec — around 20% behind the leading hunter spec at best, one of the [hide]worst three specs in the game[/hide] in Wrath. That’s a heck of a lot of DPS loss for a raid leader to swallow.

This is not the case any longer. Take heed, raid leaders: BM is a viable hunter raiding spec!

I get a lot of emails from poor BM hunters whose raid leaders tell them that their beloved spec does far too little DPS to raid, without even giving the BM hunter a chance to prove them wrong. A lot of this is leftover knowledge from Wrath, when hunters took a huge DPS hit by speccing BM. I imagine this comes from raid leaders’ sporting bell-bottoms and giant, poofy ’80s hair, because these people are woefully out of date.

Join me after the cut as we take a look at the numbers and see where BM’s DPS stands and why we can’t trust the top 100 parses in this case. (Hint: It’s math that tells us not to trust it.)[hide]Continue reading Scattered Shots: Yes, beast mastery can raid[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Hunter[/hide], [hide](Hunter) Scattered Shots[/hide][hide]Scattered Shots: Yes, beast mastery can raid[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 04 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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New around here? [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide] has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the [hide]WoW Rookie Guide[/hide]. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

World of Warcraft has a particularly cool feature on Macs that doesn’t exist on its Windows PC counterparts. If you play WoW on a Mac, you can record video in the game itself without the help of any third-party program. This isn’t a fancy, complicated video, but it’s a great first step toward making your own machinima, instructional videos, or fun films to share with friends.

Recording game footage through your Mac isn’t difficult. When you’re getting ready to create video, make sure you have your game set up the way you’d like it. Are the graphics right? Are all of your addons in order? Trust me: People care about your UI setup when they see game footage, and it will matter to them. Once you have those things in order, it’s time to get started.[hide]Continue reading WoW Rookie: How to record game footage on a Mac[/hide]Filed under: [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide][hide]WoW Rookie: How to record game footage on a Mac[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 04 Aug 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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Представители Blizzard [hide]опубликовали расписание турнира[/hide] European Battle.net Invitational 2011, намеченного на 6-7 августа в столице Польши — Варшаве. За эти 2 дня организаторы успеют провести отборочные туры (суббота) и финалы (воскресенье) соревнований по World of Wacraft и StarCraft II.

Расписание турниров приведено в прилагаемой к новости картинке. Остальные подробности (включая ссылки для онлайн-просмотра чемпионатов) можно найти в заметке «[hide]Расписание турнира European Battle.net Invitational 2011[/hide]» на сайте Battle.net.

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From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW? We’re giving each approach its own [hide]15 Minutes of Fame[/hide].

Yes, grandmas who knit play World of Warcraft, too — and to prove it, we offer you this week’s 15 Minutes of Fame with Pointilliste of Nesingway (US-A). Pointilliste is not only a knitting grandma, but a librarian as well. (She holds a master’s degree in library science.) Nerdy-sweet enough for you yet? There’s more — this grandmother of four started playing Dungeons & Dragons in her forties, got her first PC nearly 20 years ago at age 50 … and of course, she plays World of Warcraft.[hide]Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Knitting together a gaming life[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Interviews[/hide], [hide]15 Minutes of Fame[/hide][hide]15 Minutes of Fame: Knitting together a gaming life[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 04 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]