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There are a lot of [hide]people who collect things[/hide] in game. Pets and mounts are often favorites, although there are often other items that people covet. People still charge into Black Temple hoping that they’ll get the elusive [hide]Warglaive[/hide] that will complete their set. Some have been farming Molten Core since release looking for a [hide]binding[/hide] to drop. Recipes are also sought-after. [hide]Dirge’s Kickin’ Chimaerok Chops[/hide] remains the only epic cooking recipe in the game, and now limited edition copies have been seen selling on the AH for upwards of 20k; something tells me it’s not for the 25 stamina well fed buff.

I collect shields. My main is a protection paladin, and I have a bag in my bank devoted to the shields that got me through my raiding career in style and safety. While my collection is not as extensive as Blockade’s, who got a shield named after him during this tier, I do have 15 shields ranging from the [hide]Aegis of the Scarlet Commander[/hide], to [hide]Akmin-Kurai, Dominion’s Shield[/hide]. I only add a shield to my collection if I actually used it for an extended duration, so each shield has memories of dragons and liches held at bay in instances, from taking the [hide]Royal Crest of Lordaeron[/hide] into Naxxramas, facing down Algalon with [hide]The Boreal Guard[/hide], striking down the Lich King with [hide]Neverending Winter[/hide], to stepping to Cataclysm raiding with the [hide]Elementium Earthguard[/hide]. When a shield has done well for me, I don’t cast it aside to some vendor when a superior shield is coughed up by a boss; I set it in a place of honor. I collect shields — and more so than that, I collect memories.

What do you collect? Or do you hold only onto those things you need at this moment?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What do you collect in game[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Mon, 01 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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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.

The dragonflights may have been created at the same time, but for the thousands of years they’ve existed on Azeroth, they’ve hardly been friendly with one another. It started with the Black Dragonflight and Neltharion’s betrayal during the [hide]War of the Ancients[/hide]. In the moment that Neltharion took the name Deathwing, in the moments thereafter during which he destroyed nearly all of the Blue Dragonflight with the Demon Soul — in those moments, the dragonflights were introduced to a new concept: deception. It was unthinkable that any dragon would deliberately seek to harm another, and yet it happened.

The fallout was immediate. Malygos, driven mad by the betrayal of one of his closest friends and the loss of his flight, fled to Northrend. In his madness, he split the Nexus from the rest of the land, separating Coldarra from the rest of the Borean Tundra. And then he stayed there, alone in his despair and insanity, refusing all visitors in his grief. The Blue Dragonflight crumpled, held up only by those who stood and tried their best to hold together the shattered remnants of the flight.[hide]Continue reading Know Your Lore: The Wyrmrest Accord and the order of the world[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Lore[/hide], [hide]Know your Lore[/hide][hide]Know Your Lore: The Wyrmrest Accord and the order of the world[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 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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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.

We’re going to take a break (just a little one, I promise!) from the plot point series this week, because I’ve had something else on my mind that I wanted to chat about. Roleplaying isn’t really a solo activity. You can roleplay by yourself, but that’s hardly any fun at all, unless you’re writing fan fiction or something along those lines. It’s a social activity — and generally speaking, the more people you have involved, the more fun it has the potential of creating.

Roleplay guilds are one way to guarantee you’ve got a group of like-minded roleplayers, whether your guild is a themed guild centered on a particular plot or simply a handy collection of players who would like to RP. But sometimes you don’t want to join a guild for one reason or another, yet you’d still like the camaraderie that roleplay has to offer. What do you do at that point? How can you be social without the hassle of being in a guild? The answer is organized activity — the sort that doesn’t require a guild tag to participate.[hide]Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: Roleplaying groups, government and organizations[/hide]Filed under: [hide]All the World’s a Stage (Roleplaying)[/hide][hide]All the World’s a Stage: Roleplaying groups, government and organizations[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 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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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]Anne Stickney[/hide] is still holding this column hostage.

This episode of The Queue has been sponsored in part by Anubis Markets, a division of Osiris Foods. So shop at the sign of the jackal-headed man for food so good, you can eat it.

And now, on with The Queue:

Jack Spicer asked:

After doing Throne of Tides for the umpteenth time, I finally noticed that at the end of the fight Ozumat appears to eat Neptulon before fleeing. I guess I was too busy worrying about loot to notice. (Sorry guy!) Am I imagining things, or is that actually what happens? And if so, what the heck? Please explain.

Well, Jack, there’s actually a really simple and logical explana — hey look, over there, it’s a three-headed monkey![hide]Continue reading The Queue: Food so good, you can eat it[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Food so good, you can eat it[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 31 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 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.

Last week, I complained that I was still [hide]DPSing in ZA shoulders[/hide]. This week, Cho’gall finally dropped the tier 11 shoulder token. I got one day’s worth of use out of it. And then Majordomo Staghelm dropped the tier 12 shoulder token. The lesson? Complain about drop rates when writing columns. You know what else doesn’t drop enough? Everything I want, that’s what.

As you might expect, my recent fortune in terms of new gear (I also got [hide]a nice new hat[/hide]) got me thinking about how to best gem, enchant and reforge my gear in order to make maximum use out of it all. This is nothing new to this expansion, of course, but the cumulative effect of the variety of options we now have to customize our gear means it can all be somewhat complex to get everything lined up the way we want it.

This is where various gear optimization tools come into play. Much as we used to use (and still do use) spreadsheets to tell us which pieces of gear will provide maximum benefit, we now use gear optimizers to tell us what to do to our gear once we have it — what gems should we use, which socket bonuses are worth gemming away from our usual and which ones aren’t, what enchants in which slots will help us get maximum effect.

Sure, you can do this all manually, but with some statistics having hard caps and others having soft caps, and each piece of new gear changing each stat’s amounts, it can be pretty daunting. Whether you’re raiding in the Firelands or just beginning to get gear that can even take a reforge, it’s worth taking a look at a few resources.[hide]Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Reforging and gear optimization resources for warriors[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Warrior[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Reforging and gear optimization resources for warriors[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 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]Arcane Brilliance[/hide] for [hide]arcane[/hide], [hide]fire[/hide] and [hide]frost[/hide] mages. This week, we resume our three-part look at the current state of the mage nation. If you say that fast, it totally sounds like «imagination.» DELIGHTFUL.

I am so sorry, guys. I want to write this column. I want to write it every week. Given the choice, I’d like to write it every damn day. I have an incredibly demanding work and family schedule these days. Each week, it’s like a magician’s trick trying to produce enough time to sit down and provide you guys with a quality column, and some weeks, I wave my hands and say the magic words, and a puff of smoke appears, and when it fades … nothing’s there. I’m working very hard to change my current schedule, though, enabling me to have a regular, slightly more controllable block of time every seven days during which to deliver you something worth reading. So take heart, and keep me in your prayers or thoughts or whatever it is that you think will help, you godless heathens. And if you want someone to blame for the recent irregularity of Arcane Brilliance, blame my children. They are time-destroying merchants of pure evil, and I tell them so as often as I can. Keeps them in line.

Anyway, I know when I wrote the [hide]state of the arcane mage column[/hide] way back in June, I remember promising two more columns, touching upon the current state of affairs for the other two mage specs. It is almost August now. Yikes. Why do you guys put up with my nonsense?

Without further delay, I present to you the 2011 state of the fire mage address, delivered to you from a pulpit of pure flame perched upon the highest peak in the Firelands, to a congregation of mages seated within an auditorium constructed entirely of flaming warlock skulls. It’s incredibly uncomfortable, but also crazy-epic.[hide]Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The state of the fire mage[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Mage[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide](Mage) Arcane Brilliance[/hide][hide]Arcane Brilliance: The state of the fire mage[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 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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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]Anne Stickney[/hide] has taken over this shindig.

Obviously the only thing capable of ridding the world of [hide]Holiday[/hide] and her plans for elemental ascendancy is a beagle in a suit of armor. I wonder how much stam is on that thing?

Thon asked:

How do sleeping mobs work? Been wondering this today since I’ve seen sleeping core hounds and char hounds doing my molten front dailies. Do they aggro just like normal mobs? Reduced distance? Don’t aggro to proximity at all? What does sleep do?

It depends on the mob, honestly. Back in vanilla, if you approached a mob that was sleeping, it would wake up and begin punching you in the face. In later expansions, if a mob was asleep, you had to be right on top of it or attacking it for it to notice you. Generally speaking however, if an angry flaming dog is taking a nap, you should probably just let it take its nap.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: And from darkness, a hero arises[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: And from darkness, a hero arises[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 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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Hell hath no fury like a death knight scorned. When we [hide]last heard[/hide] from [hide]Aimee[/hide] of [hide]The Insiders[/hide] on Zangarmarsh (US-H), she had unsuccessfully applied for membership in the Cenarion Circle. After being rejected by the druids for being an abomination against nature, Aimee decided instead to take up a fiery blade in support of Ragnaros. I guess Malfurion chose … poorly.

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Those picky druids, part 2[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 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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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.

I consider myself a fairly long-term, consistent player. I have four level 85 characters, with two more in the mid-70s working up. I plan on raiding at least five days a week, and the days I don’t, I still am in-game for an hour out of habit. I read just about every WoW blog, listen to the WoW Insider podcasts, and named my cat Thrall. (If only he were as even-tempered as his namesake.)

Yet I found myself trying to rationalize to my guildmates — my friends — why I was going to miss a raid night to watch the NCAA tournament. For me, the opportunity to see my favorite team, the Kansas Jayhawks, possibly make the Final Four was more important than another raid night with my third alt. We lost the game, but experiencing the atmosphere with other fans was well worth it.

Obviously family gatherings (especially if you have kids) can and should take priority over something you have to do in game. However, WoW is far from the most important hobby many players have. What other extracurricular activities force you to change up your WoW schedule?
Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide], [hide]Guest Posts[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: What hobbies take priority over WoW[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 30 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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Гильдия [hide]Method[/hide] опубликовала видео, на котором запечатлена вторая в мире победа над финальным боссом рейда Огненных Просторов MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Рагнаросом в героическом режиме на 25 человек. 23-минутный ролик отснят с шести различных точек зрения и качественно смонтирован. К настоящему времени Рагнароса также победили гильдии [hide]Envy[/hide] (EU-Auchindoun) и [hide]Ensidia[/hide] (EU-Tarren Mill).