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[hide]Sunday Morning Funnies[/hide] is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Congrats to both [hide]Ez[/hide] and [hide]Agony[/hide] for correctly answering last week’s trivia questions! You’ve both won an imaginary burlap sack, jar of mystery jam, and super-comfy giant pillow! Trivia for next week is on hold and will return the following week.

In the meantime, we have some pretty cool comics this week. There’s at least one explosion, a surprising attempt at being crafty, suffocating bear hugs, and kitchen misadventures. Enjoy![hide]Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: Da bomb[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Humor[/hide], [hide]Comics[/hide], [hide]Sunday Morning Funnies[/hide][hide]Sunday Morning Funnies: Da bomb[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 10 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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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. In World of Warcraft, that player is you! Each week, [hide]Anne Stickney[/hide] brings you [hide]All the World’s a Stage[/hide] with helpful hints, tips and tricks on the art of roleplay in WoW. Have questions about roleplaying, or roleplaying issues? [hide]Email me[/hide] — I’m always open to suggestions!

[hide]Last week[/hide], we covered a few of the major plot points currently surrounding the Forsaken and what they’ve been up to so far in Cataclysm. This week, we’re going to head over to the Alliance side of things to take a look at the night elves and what they’ve been doing in the wake of all the cataclysmic chaos and destruction. With the launch of [hide]patch 4.2[/hide], the night elves have been launched back to the focus of the story as they deal with crippling losses in Hyjal and the final showdown between the mortal races of Azeroth and the elemental lord Ragnaros.

Of course, that’s the obvious road to take when dealing with a character that has been active in Azeroth since World of Warcraft’s launch. However, Ragnaros and his attacks, the fight for Nordrassil, and the reclamation of Hyjal shouldn’t be the only focus for night elf players. Since Cataclysm, night elf society has taken several unexpected turns that are of interest to night elf roleplayers, new and experienced alike.[hide]Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: Plot points for night elf roleplayers[/hide]Filed under: [hide]All the World’s a Stage (Roleplaying)[/hide][hide]All the World’s a Stage: Plot points for night elf roleplayers[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 10 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. 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 why paladins are so awesome.

Sometimes I feel like I can’t get away from [hide]Illuminated Healing[/hide]. Our holy paladin mastery has been receiving [hide]nonstop tweaks[/hide] since [hide]its introduction[/hide], and it’s always flirting with viability. Stats like haste and critical strike rating are predictable. I can draw up some formulas to show you how many extra ticks of [hide]Holy Radiance[/hide] you’ll receive at a given haste level. Mastery is much more nebulous than that, as its effectiveness depends entirely on the encounter and your healing assignment.

Everyone has some amount of mastery rating on their gear, and there’s even some passively built into our characters. While having a bit of mastery to make our heals bubbly helps our throughput, it’s certainly not overpowered. There are a few holy paladins who, in an attempt to see how far Illuminated Healing can go, have enchanted, reforged, and gemmed into mastery completely. With IH bubbles absorbing 35% of the value of the original heal, stacking mastery can obviously make something interesting happen. How potent can [hide]Illuminated Healing[/hide] really become?[hide]Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: Just how masterful can mastery healing get[/hide]?Filed under: [hide]Paladin[/hide], [hide](Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It[/hide][hide]The Light and How to Swing It: Just how masterful can mastery healing get[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:00:00 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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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, [hide]Matthew Rossi [/hide]and [hide]Anne Stickney[/hide] make sure you [hide]Know Your Lore[/hide] by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

Once upon a time, there was a little planet called Azeroth. A shining jewel of the universe, this little planet was chosen by the Titans, blessed by their presence and organized into a perfect representation of order and beauty. But that order and perfection wasn’t to last. At some undefined point in the little planet’s future, malevolent proponents of chaos, creatures simply called Old Gods, visited Azeroth’s surface and quickly decided to ruin the harmonic vision of the Titans with their own brutal, corrupt, and chaotic one.

The Titans realized something had happened and returned to find the world they had so carefully balanced in a state of utter chaos. They immediately launched an assault on the Old Gods, but they discovered something strange. The Old Gods had fully integrated themselves with the matrix of the little planet, placing a strange malaise on the inhabitants. If the Old Gods died, so too would Azeroth — and so the Titans imprisoned the Old Gods deep beneath the earth where they could do no further damage. They set to work repairing the planet, leaving various safeguards behind to watch over the world. Satisfied, they left — and they haven’t been seen on Azeroth since.

Today’s Know Your Lore is a Tinfoil Hat edition, meaning the following is a look into what has gone before with pure speculation on why it happened. The events presented are events that happened in Azeroth’s history, but the conclusions are merely theories and shouldn’t be taken as fact.[hide]Continue reading Know Your Lore, Tinfoil Hat Edition: The «death» of the Old Gods[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Lore[/hide], [hide]Know your Lore[/hide][hide]Know Your Lore, Tinfoil Hat Edition: The «death» of the Old Gods[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:00:00 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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В профиле персонажей на официальном сайте MMORPG World of Warcraft появилась возможность отслеживать персонажей и транспортные средства, [hide]сообщает[/hide] компания Blizzard Entertainment.

«Если вы войдете в ваш профиль, то обнаружите новую вкладку «Companions & Mounts», — говорится в сообщении. – Здесь вы найдете полный список внутриигровых питомцев и маунтов, которых ваш персонаж найдет в Азероте и за его пределами. Список удобно разделен на две части: в одной – те, которых ваш персонаж уже приобрел, а во второй – которых ему еще предстоит найти».

На этой странице также изложена информация о том, что где взять конкретного питомца или маунта; возможно фильтровать результаты для более эффективного поиска, а также сортировать их по степени редкости при планировании будущей коллекции.

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A weekend just doesn’t feel like a proper weekend without some hotfixes and tweaks to lead it in. Today, we’ve got a smallish list of new hotfixes for [hide]patch 4.2[/hide] from the official Warcraft blog. Most of these hotfixes address issues with the Firelands raid; however, there is one notable change that ought to have hunters breathing a sign of relief.

Combat pets should no longer aggro creatures while the player is mounted. Hunters, it’s safe to ride alongside your pet again. Fluffy will stop finding angry new friends to play with.

During the Rhyolith encounter, multiple volcanoes casting Eruption will now create separate stacks. Crushing a volcano will cause its stacks of Eruption to fade shortly after it’s crushed.

[hide]Riplimb’s Lost Collar[/hide] was apparently really, really lost. The item should now properly drop from select creatures.

Follow after the break for the full list of hotfixes.[hide]Continue reading Patch 4.2 hotfixes for July 8[/hide]Filed under: [hide]News items[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide], [hide]Hotfixes[/hide][hide]Patch 4.2 hotfixes for July 8[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:26:00 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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Yesterday we talked about an issue that had [hide]PVP players in an uproar[/hide]: Conquest points were accidentally down-converted to honor points a week early, with excess points converted to gold. And on top of that, Blizzard launched a new tier of ilevel 371 gear without warning, just after making ilevel 365 gear available for purchase with honor. Players that spent their points decking themselves out in the latest PVP armor found themselves abruptly faced with the stunning realization that had they saved their points, they could have had better gear. It was a mistake, and it was acknowledged by Zarhym in a fairly lengthy blue post, along with a mention that Blizzard was exploring some options to try and make it up to players.

Happily, it appears those options have been explored, as Bashiok posted today with a proposed solution for compensation: Players that were caught off-guard by the change will be provided with 4000 Honor Points, stacking over the cap. Players will not be able to accumulate more honor until spending below the 4000 cap, but that should give PVPers a chance to pick up that new gear. This will not be immediately implemented, as it seems Blizzard is still trying to figure out how, exactly, to determine who was affected by the sudden transition, and who was not — so don’t expect those 4000 points on your character tomorrow.

Still, it’s nice seeing Blizzard acknowledge something that was clearly a miscommunication in regards to the transition between seasons, and that they will be making sure those players caught in the middle of the fumble will be getting something back. Follow after the break for the full announcement from Bashiok.[hide]Continue reading Blizzard to offer compensation for PVP season 10 transition woes[/hide]Filed under: [hide]News items[/hide], [hide]PvP[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Blizzard to offer compensation for PVP season 10 transition woes[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:53:00 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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Компания Blizzard Entertainment [hide]планирует[/hide] компенсировать потери игроков MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, потративших очки чести на покупку экипировки 365-го ilvl после окончания 9-го сезона PvP из-за просчетов разработчиков в коммуникации и информировании пользовательской базы. Сотрудники компании покаялись в том, что должны были объявить все свои нововведения заранее.

«В последние несколько дней мы пытаемся оценить и определить лучший способ того, как предоставить игрокам какую-нибудь компенсацию, — говорится в сообщении. – Наш план – выдать пострадавшим игрокам по 4 000 очков чести. Эти дополнительные очки будут функционировать схоже с тем, как это происходит при конверсии: вы можете «стакать» их выше предела, но не можете набирать очки, пока не потратите их меньше предела».

Очевидно, что самым сложным будет определение того, кого именно из пользователей коснулось затруднение, а также принятие решения, кто из них получит очки. Blizzard по-прежнему размышляет над этим и не пришла к окончательному мнению. Возможно, очки будут розданы 19 июля во время технического обслуживания.

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Опубликован [hide]список срочных исправлений[/hide] патча 4.2 к MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm от 8 июля 2011 года, сообщает компания Blizzard Entertainment. Этот вид обновлений (хот-фиксы) ставится на стороне разработчиков и не требует скачивания дополнительных даанных. Некоторые из исправлений появляются в игре сразу, другие – после перезагрузки игрового мира. Перевод будет опубликован позднее.

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Classes

Combat pets should no longer aggro creatures while the player is mounted.

Dungeons & Raids

Firelands

Baleroc

Death knight Bloodworms are no longer removing stacks of Torment when they explode to heal other players.

Ragnaros

Molten Elementals are no longer able to critically hit players.
The responsiveness of the Molten Power ability has been increased on Heroic difficulty.
Rhyolith

Multiple volcanoes casting Eruption will now create separate stacks. Crushing a volcano will cause its stacks of Eruption to fade shortly after.
Ranged pets can no longer damage Rhyolith’s legs without beginning the encounter.
The Ancient Lava Dweller can no longer be looted by engineers with the Loot-A-Rang.
Unbound Pyrelords are no longer casting Ignite Elemental on the same target. All Unbound Smoldering Elementals should now be changed to Unbound Blazing Elementals by the time the pyrelord dies.
The Unbreakable Shell buff present on Unbound Smoldering Elementals now reduces damage received by 50%, down from 90%.
Unbound Smoldering Elementals are now correctly resetting and are no longer retaining Blazing Flame when they leave combat.

Items

Riplimb’s Lost Collar seemed to truly be lost. This item now properly has a chance to drop from select creatures.
Several Ruthless Gladiator’s items have had their Stamina values increased to more appropriate levels.

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Обновлена [hide]галерея фан-арта[/hide] MMORPG World of Warcraft, сообщает официальный сайт проекта от компании Blizzard Entertainment. На этот раз в ней появились 4 изображения «горячих» девушек мира этой игры. В подборку вошли следующие картины: «Дренейка», «Валькирия», «Lothyus and Tomei», а также «Получай».

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