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Deathwing seemed to be remarkably specific with regards to the targets of his wrath. The much-despised Ruins of Stromgarde were put to the torch, while the rest of the Arathi Highlands emerged unscathed. The annoyance of Barrens chat was permanently ended, and the underutilized zones of Badlands and Azshara suddenly became quest hubs. Hmm … could Deathwing secretly be a dissatisfied player with GM powers? (Thanks to [hide]Jnx[/hide] of [hide]Against All Odds[/hide] on Borean Tundra for the screenshot.)

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Sensible destruction[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 03 Oct 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.

That’s what I had for breakfast.

Debelak asked:

I have a friend who I am trying to get into the game. I recommended he try the trial account. The problem is, the race he is most excited about is Worgen and he can only play that if he buys all the expansions. He is hesitant to level a race he isn’t that excited about up to 20, and then after he decides to buy the game re-roll as a Worgen. I don’t want him to spend all that money, though, if it turns out the game isn’t for him. Any advice?

Level 20 is not the slog that it used to be or really ever was. Basic gameplay will get you to 20 faster than you would imagine. Tell him that this is his trial and that when and if he enjoys the game for these 20 levels, there is a bunch of other cool starter stuff for him with the Worgen experience. His first 20 levels should be all about becoming familiar with the game world and mechanics, which will allow him a more relaxed Worgen starting experience since he isn’t learning everything all at once.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Turkey bacon and egg on a roll[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Turkey bacon and egg on a roll[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 03 Oct 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]Warning of Warcraft[/hide] is an odd cosplay interpretation of [hide]Warning[/hide] by Notorious B.I.G. Essentially, in a creative gangster world of Star Wars and Warcraft, a gang war will rage inside a city park. Only tragedy and laughs can come from such a thing.

It took me a little bit to get what’s going on in the video, but once I understood they were performing B.I.G.’s lyrics, the whole production was pretty hilarious. The joke was underscored by the straight-faced earnestness with which the actors performed their lines.

And hey, who doesn’t love seeing Jar-Jar get a comeuppance?

The embedded version above is the wookie-clean version, created specifically so that WoW Insider views could enjoy it. If you’d prefer the unedited video, you can [hide]catch it here[/hide].

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: Warning of Warcraft[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 03 Oct 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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WoW Insider’s on a [hide]Daily Quest[/hide] to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

It’s a quest! It’s a quest! There’s a sign that there’s a quest, check in with the closest NPC and watch as you progress! To Hyjal? Or Vash’jir? Why the quest text makes it clear — an escort or collection, or a task that takes perfection? Zhevra hooves, get some cloth, roam all over Azeroth, for the errands here are never second best! Go on and click that man there, take a chance and gander at the quest, yes the quest, get the quest!

I really have no idea why nobody’s done a parody of that for reals. Today, we’ve got a collection of posts from around the blogosphere about what else? Questing!

[hide]Kurn’s Corner[/hide] considers the [hide]definition of a game, quests[/hide], and how WoW fits into it all.

[hide]World of Saz[/hide] talks about those quests that really get [hide]under your skin[/hide].

[hide]HoTs & DoTs[/hide] ponders efficiency, questing, and whether one [hide]ruins the other[/hide].

Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our [hide]WoW Resources Guide[/hide] for more WoW-related sites.
Filed under: [hide]The Daily Quest[/hide][hide]The Daily Quest: It’s a quest![/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 03 Oct 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 Monday, Scott Andrews contributes [hide]Officers’ Quarters[/hide], a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of [hide]The Guild Leader’s Handbook[/hide], available now from [hide]No Starch Press[/hide].

With all the emphasis this summer on [hide]complaints[/hide], [hide]prima donna raiders[/hide], [hide]AWOL guild leaders[/hide], and [hide]rebuilding[/hide], this week seemed like a good time to focus on an email from a guild that’s flourishing. Success, alas, comes with its own set of problems, but at least many of those are good problems to have. For example, when your guild is the rising star on a server, it seems like everyone wants to get in on the action. One guild leader wants to know: How do you turn down players politely when you don’t want to invite them to your rapidly expanding roster?

Hello,

I hear a lot about small guilds falling apart in the new guild system that was implemented in Cataclysm, but my guild is having the opposite problem.

In classic, I started a guild for myself and several real life friends. It was just our five man team for a very long time, no recruiting. We were very active in our realm community, so we had a lot of in game friends outside the guild and eventually some of these people began asking to join. We were glad to have them and so we grew slowly. But in Cataclysm our roster exploded. Every time an efriend’s guild would die because too many quit or jumped to a mega guild, they would ask to join ours. The problem is that many of those people wanted to bring their friends too, so with every person that asked to join we would have one or two of their friends also asking. We grew so fast it all caught us unaware.[hide]Continue reading Officers’ Quarters: Thanks, but no thanks[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Officers’ Quarters (Guild Leadership)[/hide][hide]Officers’ Quarters: Thanks, but no thanks[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 03 Oct 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]Arcane Brilliance[/hide] for [hide]arcane[/hide], [hide]fire[/hide] and [hide]frost[/hide] mages. This week, we take a look at the newly announced and quickly revised mage tier 13 set bonuses. I’ve provided a picture of the tier 13 helm above. Also, I am a liar.

So yeah, that isn’t really the mage tier 13 helm at all. No matter how desperately I want it to be.

Still, any clothing that makes me look like a time chicken wizard is welcome. But we’ve spent enough time in past columns [hide]discussing the appearance[/hide] of our tier 13 set. It’s high time we started the conversation about the actual set bonuses this gear will provide. And what a conversation it will be …

Mage tier 13 set bonuses:

Two-piece bonus Your [hide]Arcane Blast[/hide] has a 100% chance, and your [hide]Fireball[/hide] and [hide]Frostbolt[/hide] spells have a 50% chance, to grant [hide]Stolen Time[/hide], increasing your haste rating by 50 for 30 seconds and stacking up to 10 times. When [hide]Arcane Power[/hide], [hide]Combustion[/hide], or [hide]Icy Veins[/hide] expires, all stacks of Stolen Time are lost.

Four-piece bonus Each stack of Stolen Time also reduces the cooldown of Arcane Power by 7 seconds, Combustion by 4 seconds, and Icy Veins by 6 seconds.

All right — let’s discuss, shall we?[hide]Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: Time to talk about the mage tier 13 set bonuses[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Mage[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide](Mage) Arcane Brilliance[/hide][hide]Arcane Brilliance: Time to talk about the mage tier 13 set bonuses[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 01 Oct 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 Totem Talk for [hide]elemental[/hide], [hide]enhancement[/hide], and [hide]restoration[/hide] shaman. [hide]Josh Myers[/hide] once only tackled the hard questions about enhancement but has recently expanded his sphere of responsibility to all shaman DPS specs. (And no, two-handed enhancement is still never coming back.)

If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past week, you’re probably aware that tier 13 bonuses have [hide]been revealed[/hide]. You might have [hide]read about them here[/hide] on Wow Insider. You might have heard your friendly neighborhood boomkin [hide]bemoaning his bonuses[/hide] on Twitter. You might even have caught guild members accusing each other of being overpowered months before 4.3 hits live servers. At any rate, regardless of how you heard about them, tier bonuses are here, and tier 13 offers some interesting bonuses for both specs of DPS shaman.

[hide]Continue reading Totem Talk: Analyzing DPS shaman tier 13 set bonuses[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Shaman[/hide], [hide]Raiding[/hide], [hide](Shaman) Totem Talk[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Totem Talk: Analyzing DPS shaman tier 13 set bonuses[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 01 Oct 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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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors[/hide], the column dedicated to [hide]arms[/hide], [hide]fury[/hide] and [hide]protection warriors[/hide]. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

I mean that headline quite literally — I have been on the PTR pretty much every available moment since it dropped. I’ve run End Time close to 40 times now. I’ve messed around with transmog, copied over my warrior four times and run amok with options, done some DPS and tanking and mused over the set bonuses for tier 13. In general, I’ve gorged on the PTR like Thrall running headlong into hostile mobs in Durnholde Keep. As soon as I get a chance to run The Hour of Twilight, I’ll let you know if he still yells I did not ask for this while throwing himself bodily at six hostiles.

Frankly, Thrall, you so asked for this.

So what do I think of Patch 4.3 at this early, early date? I’m glad I rhetorically asked. Well, for one thing, I am [hide]loving transmogging my gear[/hide] like you would not believe. I’m vacillating between a mix of Onslaught and Ymirjar Lord’s (I like the tier 10 chest and legs with Onslaught everything else) and the classic Horde level 60 PVP gear. But as much fun as transmogging is, it’s hardly the meat and potatoes of this patch.[hide]Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: A week on the patch 4.3 PTR[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Warrior[/hide], [hide](Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors: A week on the patch 4.3 PTR[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 01 Oct 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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На нашем форуме опубликованы переводы записей из «Атласа подземелий», в которых содержатся предварительные сведения о прохождении рейдов «[hide]Душа Дракона[/hide]» и «[hide]Конец времен[/hide]», которые появятся в патче 4.3 к MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm от компании Blizzard Entertainment (в данный момент патч находится на тестовом сервере). Из статей вы узнаете: какие умения применяют боссы в этих подземельях, в чем заключаются особенности схватки с каждым из них и многое другое.

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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.

Over the years, WoW has streamlined certain things. Mechanics that might have once made sense become hindrances to play and become frustrating. Special trainers in hard-to-reach places and leveling Lockpicking and weapon skills have all been removed or changed. It was with this in mind that I began to think of what current mechanics should be dumped, as well. The thought came to me while attempting to do the Dalaran fishing daily [hide]Disarmed[/hide] with a fishing skill level of 156; the fishing skill is about as obsolete as weapon skills and Lockpicking skills.

Think about it. The fishing part of the game is boring and something which Blizzard implied it would make more interesting in Cataclysm. Whatever it meant by that, fishing’s still boring and tends to get neglected on alts. When we all log on to WoW, our attitude is not «Oh boy, let’s level fishing!» For $15 a month, we want to actually have fun doing things, and fishing is pretty far down on the list of fun things.

On the other hand, we don’t want some gold farmer corpse-dragging a low-level toon out to a place where there are fish that sell well and start bot-farming the fish, either, so we can’t just remove skill ratings altogether.

So why not make fishing work like Lockpicking? Like the rogues, we would go up five skill points per level and could fish where we can play, but not where we’re not supposed to be. We have one less annoying mechanic to worry about that forces us to spend time doing something we’d rather not do.

So what mechanic would you like to see changed or eliminated?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What game mechanic should be dumped[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 02 Oct 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]