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[hide]Drama Mamas[/hide] Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are experienced gamers and real-life mamas — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of the checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your realm.

[hide]Monday[/hide] is a good day for drama, don’t you think?

Dear Drama Mamas,

I’m in a small dilemma. I’m in a guild I’ve been raiding with since the last six months of Wrath or so. At the time, I helped to pull them out of a rut with Sindragosa and make an LK kill possible. […] Now with Cata in full swing, I’m feeling a little undervalued as a pally healer. It’s not my GM and his wife (who tends to co-lead), who are wonderful, amazing people. It’s this relatively new-to-guild player who is a friend of an officer’s irl. Since having to adapt to class changes with Cataclysm, I’ve had to undergo what looked like a lot of retraining, IE: my healing output changed drastically, not to mention I was compared to our other pally healer and fell far short. Now that I’m back on my game so to speak, I’m doing fine. Sometimes accidents happen though, and sometimes I make mistakes. I apologize, do better and we profit. I will say I haven’t wiped a boss we had on farm. […]
[hide]Continue reading Drama Mamas: It’s time for That Guy again[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Guilds[/hide], [hide]Drama Mamas[/hide][hide]Drama Mamas: It’s time for That Guy again[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 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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What is this monstrous creation? Was it hewn together from two, or cloven in twain from one? Eh, it’s just a nicely symmetrical screenshot of Cho’gall, with his regular orc right head and perpetually surprised left cyclopean noggin shooting laser beams off into the sky. And if your first reaction to this screenshot is to try to figure out how you can hit all the different eyes with your boomerang, you probably play a little bit too much Legend of Zelda. (Thanks to [hide]Goob[/hide] of [hide]Solamnic Knights[/hide] on Kirin Tor [US-A] for the screenshot.)

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Around: A perfect join[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 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]Alex Ziebart[/hide] will be your host today.

My good buddy [hide]Daniel Whitcomb[/hide] described the Diablo 3 [hide]real-money auction house[/hide] as «the nerd gold rush.» I think it’s very apt, considering the entire WoW Insider staff is quitting our jobs to go pan for Grandfathers.

As for World of Warcraft …

FartyMcGee asked:

Has Blizz given any explanation why the Battle Standard of Coordination (and similar) aren’t allowed in Firelands? It seems odd to me to exclude its use there but not (to my knowledge) anywhere else.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: San Francisco? More like San-ctuary[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: San Francisco? More like San-ctuary[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 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]Goodnight Moon[/hide] is a classic kid’s book. Even if you’ve not read the book yourself, you’ve probably still heard of it. Essentially, the narrator wishes everyone in the world goodnight as he lulls your child to sleep.

[hide]Wowcrendor[/hide] was inspired by this classic book to create [hide]Goodnight Orgrimmar[/hide]. In this short, beautiful little video, Wowcrendor manages to touch on all the little things that make a capital city feel bustling and alive. Voiced by Worgen Freeman, Goodnight Orgrimmar is a wonderful send-off to the Horde city.

I’m clearly a fan of Wowcrendor and his work, but I think Goodnight Orgrimmar might be among the best yet. He manages to capture so many experiences and subtleties about the game while still giving it his trademark affection. My hat’s off to Wowcrendor and guest star Jesse Cox for a smart, incredible little homage to the game.

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: Goodnight Orgrimmar[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 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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It was just revealed that Diablo 3 will feature a [hide]dual-currency auction house[/hide] for in-game gold and for real currency, allowing players to spend real money for Diablo 3 items. Blizzard will not sell those items directly but rather will facilitate auctions between players. Players will receive real currency for their sales, and Blizzard will take a percentage off the sales of real-currency items. Blizzard is entering some pretty crazy territory with the Diablo 3 auction house, and the implications may be even more huge for the massively multiplayer market than for the Diablo multiplayer experience.

One of WoW’s biggest issues that currently plagues Blizzard (as well as the MMO genre in general) is the existence of a gray market in which companies sell in-game currency to willing buyers against the game’s terms of service. Many free-to-play MMOs and online games combat this market by selling their own currencies for use in-game, making the currency non-tradeable, or selling items in a microtransaction marketplace. Blizzard has not yet made a free-to-play MMO where these concepts could come to any kind of fruition, and WoW’s virtual goods store is very limited in scope and price point.[hide]Continue reading What are the implications of a real-dollar auction house[/hide]?Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Blizzard[/hide], [hide]Economy[/hide][hide]What are the implications of a real-dollar auction house[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 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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Гильдия [hide]Method[/hide] опубликовала видео, на котором запечатлена вторая в мире победа над финальным боссом рейда Огненных Просторов MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Рагнаросом в героическом режиме на 25 человек. 23-минутный ролик отснят с шести различных точек зрения и качественно смонтирован. К настоящему времени Рагнароса также победили гильдии [hide]Envy[/hide] (EU-Auchindoun) и [hide]Ensidia[/hide] (EU-Tarren Mill).

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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 consider myself a fairly long-term, consistent player. I have four level 85 characters, with two more in the mid-70s working up. I plan on raiding at least five days a week, and the days I don’t, I still am in-game for an hour out of habit. I read just about every WoW blog, listen to the WoW Insider podcasts, and named my cat Thrall. (If only he were as even-tempered as his namesake.)

Yet I found myself trying to rationalize to my guildmates — my friends — why I was going to miss a raid night to watch the NCAA tournament. For me, the opportunity to see my favorite team, the Kansas Jayhawks, possibly make the Final Four was more important than another raid night with my third alt. We lost the game, but experiencing the atmosphere with other fans was well worth it.

Obviously family gatherings (especially if you have kids) can and should take priority over something you have to do in game. However, WoW is far from the most important hobby many players have. What other extracurricular activities force you to change up your WoW schedule?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What hobbies take priority over WoW[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 Jul 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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Hell hath no fury like a death knight scorned. When we [hide]last heard[/hide] from [hide]Aimee[/hide] of [hide]The Insiders[/hide] on Zangarmarsh (US-H), she had unsuccessfully applied for membership in the Cenarion Circle. After being rejected by the druids for being an abomination against nature, Aimee decided instead to take up a fiery blade in support of Ragnaros. I guess Malfurion chose … poorly.

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Those picky druids, part 2[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 Jul 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]Anne Stickney[/hide] has taken over this shindig.

Obviously the only thing capable of ridding the world of [hide]Holiday[/hide] and her plans for elemental ascendancy is a beagle in a suit of armor. I wonder how much stam is on that thing?

Thon asked:

How do sleeping mobs work? Been wondering this today since I’ve seen sleeping core hounds and char hounds doing my molten front dailies. Do they aggro just like normal mobs? Reduced distance? Don’t aggro to proximity at all? What does sleep do?

It depends on the mob, honestly. Back in vanilla, if you approached a mob that was sleeping, it would wake up and begin punching you in the face. In later expansions, if a mob was asleep, you had to be right on top of it or attacking it for it to notice you. Generally speaking however, if an angry flaming dog is taking a nap, you should probably just let it take its nap.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: And from darkness, a hero arises[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: And from darkness, a hero arises[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 Jul 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, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Arcane Brilliance[/hide] for [hide]arcane[/hide], [hide]fire[/hide] and [hide]frost[/hide] mages. This week, we resume our three-part look at the current state of the mage nation. If you say that fast, it totally sounds like «imagination.» DELIGHTFUL.

I am so sorry, guys. I want to write this column. I want to write it every week. Given the choice, I’d like to write it every damn day. I have an incredibly demanding work and family schedule these days. Each week, it’s like a magician’s trick trying to produce enough time to sit down and provide you guys with a quality column, and some weeks, I wave my hands and say the magic words, and a puff of smoke appears, and when it fades … nothing’s there. I’m working very hard to change my current schedule, though, enabling me to have a regular, slightly more controllable block of time every seven days during which to deliver you something worth reading. So take heart, and keep me in your prayers or thoughts or whatever it is that you think will help, you godless heathens. And if you want someone to blame for the recent irregularity of Arcane Brilliance, blame my children. They are time-destroying merchants of pure evil, and I tell them so as often as I can. Keeps them in line.

Anyway, I know when I wrote the [hide]state of the arcane mage column[/hide] way back in June, I remember promising two more columns, touching upon the current state of affairs for the other two mage specs. It is almost August now. Yikes. Why do you guys put up with my nonsense?

Without further delay, I present to you the 2011 state of the fire mage address, delivered to you from a pulpit of pure flame perched upon the highest peak in the Firelands, to a congregation of mages seated within an auditorium constructed entirely of flaming warlock skulls. It’s incredibly uncomfortable, but also crazy-epic.[hide]Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The state of the fire mage[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Mage[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide](Mage) Arcane Brilliance[/hide][hide]Arcane Brilliance: The state of the fire mage[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 Jul 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]