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Oh dear heavens, not another murloc. I’m just trying to take a nap, and here comes another damned slimy amphibian, waltzing up to me like I haven’t already killed about 10,000 of his brothers over the past five years. Maybe if I stay still, he’ll just think I’m a very ugly tree. Murlocs have to be pretty dumb; if they had any brains, they’d have used their sheer numbers to take over the world by now. (Thanks to [hide]Ruhen[/hide] of [hide]Shadowed Soul[/hide] on Ysera [US-A] for the screenshot.)

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Is that you, baby, or just a brilliant disguise[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 27 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. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

I was just going through my old screenshots and found this gem, from April 14th, 2009. Some may remember this day as the launch day for patch 3.1, Secrets of Ulduar. But for me, it will live in infamy as Patchstache Day.

Twowolves asked:

Has it been stated the transmog will only work on green+ gear? There are some nice gray sets I wouldn’t mind using.

The gear must have stats on it besides armor, and only uncommon (green) or higher rarity items have stats on them. Bonus armor, in green text, counts as a stat.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Patchstache[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Patchstache[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 27 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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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.)

Weapons are the most defining characteristic of an enhancement shaman. If you’re in Orgrimmar and you see two friendly Tauren decked out in [hide]Erupting Volcanic[/hide] gear, you look to the weapons to tell them apart. If they’ve got one weapon and a shield, they’re a caster and probably not worth inspecting (especially true in the case of that [hide]Lodur[/hide] fellow). If they’re dual wielding awesome axes, fearsome fist weapons, or magnificent maces, they’re a true shaman.*

When [hide]transmogrification[/hide] was first released, tier gear was the talk of the town. Black Temple groups were organized, classic raids were soloed, honor was hoarded for Burning Crusade PVP sets. To me, though, armor is just a backdrop. It’s the scenery behind the Mona Lisa. The picture wouldn’t be complete without it, but it isn’t the focus. While the rest of my friends were obsessing over tier gear (except [hide]Tyler Caraway[/hide], who will still just look like a boomkin 24/7), I found myself agonizing over one simple question: Which weapons would I wear?[hide]Continue reading Totem Talk: What weapon will you wear[/hide]?Filed under: [hide]Shaman[/hide], [hide](Shaman) Totem Talk[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Totem Talk: What weapon will you wear[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 27 Aug 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 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.

Frankly, I wrote a serious post this week about [hide]tanking[/hide] that you may want to read. As a result of that post, however, and [hide]previous[/hide] [hide]week’s posts[/hide] [hide]for this column[/hide] that were fairly weighty, I find myself desperately wanting to shift gears. While considering a beginner’s guide to PVP and a beginner’s guide to leveling as DPS, I realized that I’ve played this game for years and collected a lot of gear over that time. With the announcement of [hide]transmogrification in patch 4.3[/hide], it’s finally time to discuss a few truths.

Warriors have had some of the best-looking gear in the game.

We’re finally going to be able to use whichever pieces of gear we want.

I want to talk about sweet-looking gear.

By these forces combined, I am Captain Clotheshorse. So I’ve dusted out the ol’ trusty model viewer and I’m going to talk about gear you may want for your warrior’s transmog needs. Like, for instance, the [hide]Whirlwind Axe[/hide]. One of three weapons awarded to a warrior for doing the pre-Cataclysm level 30 to 40 warrior quest chain, the one that ended with [hide]Death to Cyclonian[/hide]. If you didn’t roll your warrior before Cata or deleted the weapon, fret not; there are several weapons with the [hide]same model[/hide].[hide]Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Transmogging for the warrior[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Warrior[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Burning Crusade[/hide], [hide](Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors[/hide], [hide]Wrath of the Lich King[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Transmogging for the warrior[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 27 Aug 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 introduction of the [hide]raid finder in patch 4.3[/hide] probably means little to players who raid on a weekly basis with their guild. You get on at a pre-designated time and attend the raid. Sure, it might be great for alts or doing older content, but for those of us who have stuck with our old guilds, trying in vain to grab at embersilk tatters; it could be a real guild saver.

I have been running a guild which re-formed at the beginning of Cataclysm. I have watched players leave by the score to join higher level guilds. They want in for the perks and the mere chance that they may be selected to be an alternate for heroic or new content, even if it’s only once a week. Given our shifting player base, we have not been able to hold on to a full team that is raiding consistently. Our ability to progress through content has suffered. It seems most of the time our new members either don’t have the time to raid, or have no experience and very little willingness to put in the time to learn.

So what does the raid finder mean for us? The way I see it in my wildest dreams is — autopilot.[hide]Continue reading Breakfast Topic: Raid Finder, Take Me Away ..[/hide].Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: Raid Finder, Take Me Away ..[/hide]. originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 28 Aug 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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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?

Oh my, look at the time. Mailbag-o’clock already? That means we have questions to answer! If you’d like to send me a question for The Lawbringer, point a message from your email client of choice to [hide]mat@wowinsider.com[/hide] with something having to do with Lawbringer in the title and ask away. This week, we’ve got some fun questions to go through.

Our first email comes from Lee, who wants to know if the Diablo 3 currency trading on the real-money Auction House could ever be big enough for a foreign currency exchange-type of marketplace for Diablo gold.

Lee asked:

You’ve talked at length about gold farming and the repercussion of gold farming in mmos. Much of it is related to currency trading. You’ve pointed out that Diablo’s new model of selling cash on the auction house will eliminate gold farming and selling as we know it by creating gold to blizzard dollar currency exchange. Do you think we’ll see the development of Forex style black box trading, using a Trading API add-on most likely?[hide]Continue reading The Lawbringer: Mailbag 5.0[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Lawbringer[/hide][hide]The Lawbringer: Mailbag 5.0[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 26 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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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Gold Capped[/hide], in which Basil «[hide]Euripides[/hide]» Berntsen aims to show you how to make money on the auction house. [hide]Email Basil[/hide] with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Now that we know that patch 4.3 will be the final Cataclysm content patch and contain the means with which to kill Deathwing, we know beyond reasonable doubt that epic gems will be released in that patch.

It’s unreasonably doubtful that Blizzard would introduce epic gems before 4.3, and aside from not introducing epic gems at all, that’s the only option that would lead to my prediction being wrong. That said, there’s tons of stuff we don’t know about how this will work. Here’s a big one: Where will epic gems come from? If we knew that, intelligent auctioneers would start stockpiling ages before the patch in preparation.[hide]Continue reading Gold Capped: Epic gems must be in patch 4.3[/hide][hide]Gold Capped: Epic gems must be in patch 4.3[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 26 Aug 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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Авторская колонка нашего форума пополнилась новой статьей из цикла «Оказуалили или нет?», которая затрагивает некоторые PvP-аспекты игры и влияние этих боев на развитие WoW в целом.

Статья, как и первая часть, является всего лишь авторским взглядом на этот вопрос, поэтому если вам есть что сказать и вы хотите обсудить свою точку зрения, равно как и точку зрения автора — добро пожаловать [hide]в эту тему[/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 poohbah 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].

Before the age of videos and dedicated boss pages, boss kill strategy was extremely elusive. We’re talking back during the vanilla era of Warcraft. The time it took for guilds to crush bosses took weeks (sometimes months). The top-end 40-player raiding guilds all consisted of the best that the game had to offer. Guilds below them had a player consistency involving 10 really good players, 25 mediocre ones, and five AFK raiders.

How did those players learn? Who did they get their strat videos from? With no Encounter Journal, everything was done from a trial-and-error standpoint. The general plan for healers in these pioneer raid teams? Heal all the things. Eight to 12 healers were used (at least, when I did them) for learning. It was a race to see if we could stay alive long enough to destroy raid bosses. Some of the bosses in Blackwing Lair took 20-30 minutes.

Fast forward years later, and now we have all these different tools at our disposal. There are videos and the attached commentary that walks players through what happens on select stages of an encounter. Blizzard itself has provided a database of abilities within the game. Walk-throughs are littered across the internet on major information sites, blogs, and forums. Rarely is there ever a unique strategy to a boss, because we watch the pros undergo various attempts with different approaches. Sometimes they work; sometimes they don’t. Eventually, they settle on a method that delivers constant kills. That information gets released and filtered down to the rest of us, which we then adapt ourselves.

Originality isn’t exactly common anymore.[hide]Continue reading Raid Rx: The evolving healing strategy[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Raid Rx (Raid Healing)[/hide][hide]Raid Rx: The evolving healing strategy[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 26 Aug 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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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Shifting Perspectives[/hide] for [hide]cat[/hide] , [hide]bear[/hide] , [hide]restoration[/hide] and [hide]balance[/hide] druids. Balance news comes at you every Friday — learn how to master the forces of nature, and know what it means to be a giant laser turkey! Send questions, comments, or something you’d like to see to [hide]tyler@wowinsider.com[/hide].

Glory to the moonkin! Since the initial release of information, transmogrification has pretty much been the dominating topic around the WoW sphere. Naturally, being a druid, I really didn’t care much about it. That’s untrue. In fact, I went through what I’ve coined as the five stages of druid patch notes:

Excitement

Realization that it doesn’t matter to me

Deep depression

Angry resentment

Giving up, defeated

Any time that Blizzard makes some new fun, silly project for the game, these are the exact steps that I follow. All those neat transformation items? Worthless. Pretty new mounts? Please, I already have Flight Form keybound and it’s instant; why would I need anything else? Suffice to say, druids always do seem to get left out of all the reindeer games — that is, of course, unless you’re a restoration druid. Trees don’t, well, have to be trees. They stay unshifted, which is the downfall of all other druid specs.

I’m not alone in this, and the introduction of transmogrification has brought about a new surge of players asking for the removal of Moonkin Form. This week, we’ll lend an ear to those complaints.[hide]Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: On the matter of Moonkin Form[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Druid[/hide], [hide](Druid) Shifting Perspectives[/hide][hide]Shifting Perspectives: On the matter of Moonkin Form[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 26 Aug 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]