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This [hide]Breakfast Topic[/hide] has been brought to you by [hide]Seed[/hide], the Aol guest writer program that [hide]brings your words to WoW Insider’s pages[/hide].

Once upon a time, a Forsaken warlock and her rogue companion traveled from Tirisfal Glades into the dark forests of Silverpine. The rogue had told the warlock tales of Shadowfang Keep and the treasures she might find there. He also warned her about the creatures prowling Pyrewood Village. «And watch out for Sons of Arugal,» he told her. «They patrol Silverpine, and they will kill us!»

The warlock heeded this warning and was very careful as she moved through the forests. She kept to the road as much as possible and always looked around before stopping to pick an herb. She was becoming quite the herbalist and had recently learned to identify Mageroyal. Seeing it for the first time in the wild excited her so much that she dashed over to pluck a sample from the weeds around it — and forgot to look around first!

«How did I die from picking Mageroyal?» she cried out in anguish.

«Son of Arugal got you!» the rogue replied with a devilish chuckle.

I was afraid of Silverpine after that. Even at level 80, I was looking out for Son of Arugal when I went through there. Hogger has never killed me, but Son of Arugal put the fear of worgen in me! Still, I was sad to take my first steps in Silverpine after Cataclysm hit and realize I would never bend down to pick Mageroyal just as Son of Arugal burst from the shadows again. Silverpine felt too safe.

I ran into [hide]Lost Son of Arugal[/hide] a few nights ago. I /cheered at him before killing him and felt a warm glow in my heart. I’ll still have to watch my back in Silverpine! He might still get me!

What have you found that brings back fond memories of pre-Cataclysm Azeroth?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What monsters from the past do you remember fondly[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 17 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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«Add a [hide]47″ Tapeworm[/hide], a few [hide]Hot Spices[/hide], and half a [hide]Vial of Tears[/hide], give the bowl a few good rubs and — phwoozh!» writes [hide]Halrandir[/hide] of [hide]Midnight Cartel[/hide] on Elune (US-A). «Huzzah, you are bound to my will, genie! Wait, what do you mean you can’t grant wishes? The scroll says I’d get a full preview of that new Aladdin musical being written What do you mean, you’re only contracted for two song and dance numbers? Man, this is more disappointing than that [hide]Magic Lamp[/hide].»

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Cooking by the book[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 17 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. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

Yesterday, I went to Cryptozoic Entertainment’s Irvine HQ for a sneak preview of the upcoming [hide]WoW TCG[/hide] Twilight of the Dragons expansion set. While pretending to take a bathroom break, I snapped a picture of their R&D planning whiteboard, which is based on information Blizzard gives them about future plans for the MMO. I signed an NDA, but I don’t care — this stuff is too big not to share. Click it for a better look.

Themightysven asked:

So I was cruising through Highlands yesterday, blowing up bad guys with my leet lvl 84 skillz, when I dinged 85, and suddenly every fight was palatially more difficult. As an example, when I was 76 I soloed the first two challenges in the Amphitheater of Anguish, at 85 I could barely make a dent in the non-elite elementals in Thrall’s questline without having to stop and drink. I know that ratings degrade, but it seems like they may have degraded way more (while spell cost skyrocketed)

I wish I took Screenshots before and after because it seemed like my mana and mana regen both tanked by about 2000 in one level change. Am I crazy? I didn’t notice this on any other 85 (DK, Rogue, Mage) (okay, I may have noticed a lack of Oomph on the rogue, but not this severe…)

You’re not crazy! The amount of rating necessary to increase your stats increases dramatically each level from 80 to 85, so your gear gets less effective. You actually get weaker as you level. Pretty funny, right?[hide]Continue reading The Queue: An exclusive leak[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: An exclusive leak[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 17 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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[hide]Sunday Morning Funnies[/hide] is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Who are these two shiny-haired/furred individuals? Why do they look so serious? Don’t miss this week’s list of comics; it features meeples, mailbox cats, fun with synonyms, the usual mortal peril, and much, much more.

Trivia questions:

Which character references The Lord of the Rings?

What is worth remembering?

What did they find instead of Shadowfang Keep?
[hide]Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: Glossy ‘do[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Humor[/hide], [hide]Comics[/hide], [hide]Sunday Morning Funnies[/hide][hide]Sunday Morning Funnies: Glossy ‘do[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 17 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]

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]The Light and How to Swing It[/hide] for [hide]holy[/hide], [hide]protection[/hide] and [hide]retribution[/hide] paladins. Every Sunday, [hide]Chase Christian[/hide] invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. Feel free to [hide]email me[/hide] with any questions you want answered, like how to fly, you fools.

While I hate to boil down an entire encounter to a single idea, sometimes it simply can’t be helped: [hide]Baleroc[/hide] is the healer fight of this tier of raid content. The developers have been throwing one healer fight at us per tier since Wrath began, making Baleroc the latest in a long line of mechanics designed to let healers play outside the box. [hide]Chimaeron[/hide] and [hide]Anub’arak[/hide] made us focus on keeping health pools low but not too low, while [hide]Loatheb[/hide] and Valithria challenged our burst and sustained throughput. [hide]General Vezax’s awful aura[/hide] forced us to make every point of mana count, although our love affair with intellect helped us weather that storm.

Baleroc makes us choose between healing the raid and healing the tank. It’s one of the age-old questions for healers, but Baleroc has upped the ante with the [hide]Vital Spark[/hide]/[hide]Vital Flame[/hide] mechanic. The choice of healing targets is transformed from a simple problem to a crucial decision, as the wrong move can cause a wipe. Luckily for you, [hide]Beacon of Light[/hide] will help you truly shine on this encounter, allowing holy paladins to dominate the [hide]top 40 board on World of Logs[/hide].[hide]Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: How to rock Baleroc[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Paladin[/hide], [hide](Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It[/hide][hide]The Light and How to Swing It: How to rock Baleroc[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 17 Jul 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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[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.

WoW players are not unaccustomed to tackling giant creatures. We’ve slain dragons, gronn, elemental lords, and even ogres infused with the raw power of the Old Gods. In our time, there have been some big bads that were, well, literally big. Lord Rhyolith now falls into that criteria — a massive molten lord covered in rocks so thick and so sharp that spells and blades couldn’t even think to but dink away at his hide.

This royalty of the Firelands is one of the first four «fluid» bosses in Firelands. You can reach Lord Rhyolith by following the road to the right, over the bridge and up the gauntlet ramp. There he stands, out on a platform surrounded by lava, begging for players to come and test their mettle against him. This is going to be one tough nut to crack; are you up for the challenge?[hide]Continue reading Ready Check: WoW Insider’s Guide to Lord Rhyolith[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Raiding[/hide], [hide]Ready Check (Raiding)[/hide][hide]Ready Check: WoW Insider’s Guide to Lord Rhyolith[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 Jul 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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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?

We’ve got two stories to talk about on The Lawbringer today, both interestingly involving letters. That’s right — letters. To you from me, that sort of thing. These letters, however, are instruments of change in a world where we as consumers seem not to have much control or ability to change the big picture concepts that dot our path to consistent entertainment. The amount of energy that we have to put into just getting in a decent WoW session is staggering at times.

The first story revolves around [hide]Rogers[/hide], one of the largest Canadian internet service providers, famous for its lame bandwidth caps and my old Canadian guildmates shouting «Rogers sucks!» as much as they could on Mumble. Yes, it is another chapter in the [hide]Mathew McCurley Guide to Awful Bandwidth Throttling[/hide] — but hopefully, this new information and story chapter will get us on the path to better WoW experiences in the face of the immense throttling of WoW data as peer-to-peer traffic.

The second story is all about letters that you will want to send. [hide]Last week[/hide], I wrote The Lawbringer about Senate Bill S.978, colloquially being referred to as the anti-streaming bill. While not directly prohibiting video game streaming or even mentioning video games anywhere in the proposed legislation, video games are nonetheless obliterated in the crossfire of the entertainment industry and would-be illegal streamers making millions off of pirated entertainment, movies, music, and more. The [hide]Entertainment Consumers Association[/hide] has begun a letter-writing campaign to inform and implore Congress to not pass a bill with such broad and language lacking description.[hide]Continue reading The Lawbringer: Letters to Rogers, letters to Congress[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Lawbringer[/hide][hide]The Lawbringer: Letters to Rogers, letters to Congress[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 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]

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[hide]Ask the Devs[/hide] Round 11 focuses on healer and healer-related topics, as Blizzard wraps up this format of questions and answers. Blizzard gave some long and detailed answers for healers this time around, ranging from topics about the nature of the changed healing game in Cataclysm to the choices healers must make in terms of which heal to use in 5-man content versus raid content. The devs also made an interesting remark about a radical new type of healing class that could appear in a later expansion — a radically different type of healer that might bring back players who have become burned out on the role.

As a raider, I think the best answer came for the question about raid healing being hard for healers and why it sometimes feels like damage is unhealable. The devs commented that raids are not meant to be unhealable, and in most circumstances when the fight seems unhealable, players might be taking the wrong approach to the mechanics. Translated: It might not always be the healer’s fault.

Check out all of the questions and answers after the jump.[hide]Continue reading Ask the Devs Round 11 answers your healing questions[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Blizzard[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Ask the Devs Round 11 answers your healing questions[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 Jul 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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[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.

I’d like to give the «friend» of this week’s letter writer a talking to, but he’s not the one who wrote in.

Hullo Drama Mamas,

I am asking for some help regarding a RL friend and WoW problem. I am in my teens and wear a permanent back brace as a result of complications in my spine, so WoW and WoW Insider have been a great source of enjoyment throughout my mostly stationary life.

With the new patch and reductions in game prices, a RL friend (who introduced me to the game in the first place) recently got back into WoW. I am in a fun, casual, high leveled guild, and he asked if I could give him some cheap item enhancements—«+1 Stam» and such — to restart his army of alts and twinks, suggesting that I take some from the guild bank. I like helping people, but I was hesitant to do so in this case, because I felt it was effectively stealing. However, I later decided to do so anyways because of other small favors he had done for me in the past and the low leveled items had been sitting in the guild bank for quite a while — now there would be more room for higher leveled enchants.[hide]Continue reading Drama Mamas: The case of the guild bank thief[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Drama Mamas[/hide][hide]Drama Mamas: The case of the guild bank thief[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 Jul 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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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]The Light and How to Swing It[/hide] for [hide]holy[/hide], [hide]protection[/hide] and [hide]retribution[/hide] paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the benefit of 24 other people, obsessing over his hair (a blood elf racial!), and maintaining the tankadin-focused blog [hide]Righteous Defense[/hide].

With the advent of the [hide]Holy Shield[/hide] buff, there’s simply no such thing as too much mastery — except, you know, past the hard cap for raid bosses. That’s too much. But! Up to that point, you should approach mastery the same way a grizzly bear approaches a tumultuous beehive: You want to inhale as much of that sweet, sticky mastery as you can before you get stung to death by the swarm.

I’ve talked about [hide]combat table coverage[/hide] before in one of my first columns, and while not much has changed since then, the advent of a new tier has made complete CTC all the more attainable, and the introduction of the new Holy Shield has made it all the more desirable. The more normal hits you are able to take to the face, the less potent your Holy Shield is going to be.

We want to mitigate (har, har) that downside to the cooldown, and to do so, we need to stack as much mastery as we (safely) can. I add the word «safely» — scare quotes and all — because safety is key. If the mastery is the delicious treat, the ornery bees are the constant threat of scooping up too much mastery in your greedy paws and suffering from a survivability loss as a result. There’s always a break point between just enough mastery and having so much that you’re trading off too much stamina and avoidance for it. In the end, you’ll have to feel that out for your own purposes.

That said, in this column, I’m going to outline four easy ways to boost your combat table coverage — by hook or by crook — so you can scrape your way to the magical 102.4% number. I’ll go over an amazing addon that’ll visualize the process for you, a spreadsheet that can remove the fog of war from the whole process and make gear choices much more transparent, proper consumable choices you can make, and more.[hide]Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: 4 tips for upping your combat table coverage[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Paladin[/hide], [hide](Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It[/hide][hide]The Light and How to Swing It: 4 tips for upping your combat table coverage[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]