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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.

Just recently, I finally convinced my wife to roll and level a character with me (it only took three years). We sat down together, and as I started walking her through the character creation process, I really had trouble deciding what would be the best class for her to learn on. I wanted something simple, but not so simple that it became boring after a few levels. At the same time, I didn’t want her to play a particularly complicated class like a [hide]feral druid[/hide] that might overwhelm her and prevent her from enjoying the game for what it is.

As she was playing around with face and hair options, I made up a series of questions to narrow down the role and class she might enjoy, eventually deciding on a warlock. If nothing else, my main is a warlock, and I’d be able to help her in ways that I wouldn’t if she’d decided on a warrior or shaman. As we entered the game world and started killing an assortment of critters for pitiful amounts of copper and silver, she asked me why I «get to chop stuff.» I explained that my character was a paladin and that paladins don’t hang back and fling spells like warlocks, they just hit stuff with their swords. A few seconds passed, and she said, «I think I want to chop stuff, too.» So much for my little impromptu questionnaire.

What class would you recommend to a brand new player? How would you balance what you know of the player with what you know of the game and its assorted roles? Would you suggest a tank or healer class? Do you think ranged or melee DPS is easier to pick up? Would you take the safe route and suggest a druid that can do anything or a hunter that is historically held as a class that is «easy to learn but difficult to master»?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What class should a brand new player pick[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 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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Every week, [hide]Raid Rx[/hide] will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is [hide]Matt Low[/hide], the grand pooh-bah 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].

This Baleroc encounter gave me a big fit both on the healing management side and the micromanagement side. It is entirely about the healers and their ability to switch assignments on command. Peripheral vision plays a huge role, so make sure your camera angles aren’t too far out, or else you’ll miss the crystal spawns. Stay too close, and you’ll be blasted with a debuff that will cause your healing ability to plummet and almost assuredly lead to a tank death. After successfully healing with both the one-tank method and the two-tank method, I prefer the two-tank method.

My thoughts and the methods laid out reflect my raid group in a 25-player setting.[hide]Continue reading Raid Rx: Healer’s guide to Baleroc[/hide][hide]Raid Rx: Healer’s guide to Baleroc[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 Jul 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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So, are you going to see the final Harry Potter tonight? I assume that submitter [hide]Hedwig[/hide] of [hide]Band of Misfits[/hide] on Azuremyst (US-A), shown here breaking out of Gringotts on her dragon, will be in the front row. (Or is she just a fan of rock musicals?) Anyway, I’ll see you at the theater, nerds. Bring popcorn and Chocolate Frogs!

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: The year of flying dangerously[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 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. Mathew McCurley, [hide]Twitter[/hide] and [hide]YouTube[/hide] superstar, will be your host today.

Here’s how the conversation went.

INT. PIDGIN CHAT WINDOW — EVENING

Letters form to make a jumble of words, the night sky far off in the distance, summer’s sun still shining down bright over the small Brooklyn apartment. Pings and dings alert MATHEW MCCURLEY to messages from the computer.

SACCO (dismissively)

Hey Mat, you’re doing The Queue for me tomorrow.

MAT

Okay, that sounds great.

INT. SACCO’S SOUL — EVENING

No life stirs. This land has been barren for ages.

The End.

Elmo asked:

Why are the cloaks of Draenei Males floating 2 feet above their tail?

I would assume that draenei cloaks float above their tails for the single reason that Blizzard did not want them to clip through their tails. As for a lore reason, I have no idea. Draenei magic. Remnant light energy from a voided naaru. I haven’t played with a cape or cloak on since vanilla, including my draenei priest.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Because Sacco told me to write it[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Because Sacco told me to write it[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 Jul 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]How to Tell If Your PUG Will Fail[/hide] is the newest video from [hide]Wowcrendor[/hide]. While the title makes the video sound like a guide to the success or failure of your PUG, it actually feels more like the comprehensive guide to the first 5 minutes of any given PUG.

Wowcrendor has nailed the universal experience PUG experience with this video. That probably shouldn’t be a surprise, given his history of success, but I was almost shocked at how accurate this portrayal turned out to be.

If you’re skeptical, let me assure you these things do happen. During a recent run of about 10 PUG groups, I came across two healers who were actually DPSers. They both asked someone else to heal. I hear the same thing happens with tanks, but since that’s my preferred dungeon role, I never observe this myself.

In the end, this is a nice video from Wowcrendor. I just can’t decide if it makes me want to laugh or cry.

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: How to Tell If Your PUG Will Fail[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 15 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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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. Adam Holisky, senior editor at WoW Insider, will be your host today.

That video is in response to yesterday’s Queue.

Also, it is relatively bad ass and is probably something none of us can do.

Cyrromatic asked:

What happened to Arthas’s body? Can’t imagine it laying in front of Bolvar forever.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: At least I’ve got video[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: At least I’ve got video[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 Jul 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]Welcome to Mystery[/hide] is a vanity video created by the player of [hide]Mystery[/hide], a priest on the Earthen Ring RP server. It’s a nice tour through the world set to a gorgeous song, with some brief action shots from various encounters.

It’s nice to see this kind of video occasionally. Mystery has been an active character since the days of vanilla WoW, which means it’s at least a five-year investment of time. Little works of art like this help explain the ongoing engagement and interest in the game that we all enjoy. In a sense, you see a video like this, kick your feet back, and think, «Yeah, this was worth it.»

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: Welcome to Mystery[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 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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A few months back, Blizzard teased that a [hide]new service would be hitting WoW[/hide] that would allow members of the same faction to group and queue for random dungeons across servers. Players would need to be Real ID friends with the people they wanted to invite into a group and would be limited to 5-man dungeons; no raids or world content would be available to cross-server groups.

The service has apparently just gone live, free, for what is probably a limited time. Blizzard had also said that this cross-realm grouping would be part of the premium package of WoW services that players can pay for monthly, and only the group leader doing the invites would have to have the service in order to invite people cross-realm. Much as the mobile guild chat feature was rolled out free to let people check it out, it appears cross-realm Real ID grouping is getting the same trial period.

Check out cross-realm Real ID grouping in game, and start grouping with your friends beyond server boundaries, and hit the jump for the full announcement.[hide]Continue reading Cross-realm Real ID grouping now available[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Blizzard[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Cross-realm Real ID grouping now available[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 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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На американских серверах MMORPG World of Warcraft от компании Blizzard Entertainment в тестовом режиме [hide]включена премиум-опция[/hide] подбора игроков в группу с разных игровых миров для прохождения обычного или героического подземелья на 5 человек. Новинка входит в список услуг «Реальное имя» (Real ID). По мнению Blizzard, эта услуга предназначена для того, чтобы «друзья по реальной жизни играли вместе».

Для того, чтобы она заработала, этой опцией должны обладать и приглашаемый, и приглашающий. В противном случае заполнить «бреши» в рядах группы придется игроками только со своего игрового мира.

Время тестирования пока не определено, а в текущий момент услуга бесплатна. Информацию о премиум-аспекте опубликуют в конце тестового периода.

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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].

Bill Craig is doing it right. The 61-year-old WoW player has suffered from [hide]early-onset Alzheimer’s disease[/hide] for half a dozen years now, winding his way through Azeroth for about half that time. He’s [hide]ridden a bicycle[/hide] all the way from Carrollton, Texas, to Carrollton, Georgia, to raise money and awareness for animal welfare — not once but twice. He’s a Vietnam vet. He serves as an advocate with the [hide]Alzheimer’s Association[/hide], having recently returned from a trip to Washington, D.C., with his wife to meet with legislators about bills impacting Alzheimer’s. Bill’s contributions and commitment to his community and country are impressive for any seasoned professional, let alone someone living with a disease that monkeywrenches a person’s thinking, memory and behavior.

I know Bill’s doing it right because I live under the baleful gaze of Alzheimer’s, too. My mother passed away two years ago after a particularly cruel struggle with the disease. She began batting aside its first tendrils while caring for my grandmother, also stripped bare by Alzheimer’s. My father wanders through a related type of dementia — perversely, with all the sets of symptoms my mother never developed. (Ding! We hit the jackpot, I guess.) In my work, I’ve written about Alzheimer’s and the incredible [hide]burdens it places on families[/hide], parents with young children who now also care for their own parents over the painfully protracted years it takes life to trickle away. Alzheimer’s is inextricably part of my life, too.

So none of that makes me special — Alzheimer’s grip on families is all too common — but it does mean I can say one thing with certainty: Bill Craig is doing it right. His view of Azeroth, however, is very different from yours or mine.[hide]Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: Holding fast to Azeroth through the journey of Alzheimer’s[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Interviews[/hide], [hide]15 Minutes of Fame[/hide][hide]15 Minutes of Fame: Holding fast to Azeroth through the journey of Alzheimer’s[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 14 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]