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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Spiritual Guidance[/hide] for [hide]discipline[/hide], [hide]holy[/hide] and [hide]shadow[/hide] priests. On Wednesdays, shadow priesting expert [hide]Fox Van Allen[/hide] comes out to trap and inject his prey with sweet, warm, shadowy poison. Fox encourages all potential prey to [hide]follow him on Twitter[/hide].

When I was just a little Fox kit, my parents bought me a pretty bitchin’ [hide]Fisher-Price castle playset[/hide] at a garage sale. It had a little drawbridge, a prison, and even a trap door. It also had a dungeon to put a dragon in. It was the most awesome thing ever.

I used to play with it all the time down in our basement. One day, I had just reached my hand into the castle to grab one of the misshapen figurines when I felt a weird, hair-raising tingle. My hand had just collided with a spider web teeming with newly hatched spiderlings. I freaked the hell out and spent the next 10 minutes scrubbing my hand with soap.

Twenty years later, it’s time for revenge. The second boss of the Firelands raid, [hide]Beth’tilac[/hide], is an ugly spider that spawns massive amounts of Spiderlings. This time, though, I’ve got a solid AOE strategy. I’m ready for them — and you can be, too.[hide]Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: Beth’tilac and proper shadow priest AOE[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Priest[/hide], [hide]Raiding[/hide], [hide](Priest) Spiritual Guidance[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Spiritual Guidance: Beth’tilac and proper shadow priest AOE[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 27 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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[hide]Choose the adventures[/hide] of Robin Torres as Roblinator the goblin shamanator, or join in with [hide]It came from the Blog[/hide] on Zangarmarsh (US-PVE-H) every Wednesday at 1 p.m. EDT.

Here we are at the young side of a PVP bracket … again. Join us either in game or by watching the stream above and participating in the chat after the break. Also, we have polls and whining. So click through!

Update: The stream is now over. If you would like to watch the [hide]video replay[/hide], please click on the image above. The BG queues were very short today, so it’s constant dying action.[hide]Continue reading Choose My Adventure Live: Level 50 to 54 PVP[/hide]Filed under: [hide]It Came from the Blog[/hide], [hide]Choose My Adventure[/hide][hide]Choose My Adventure Live: Level 50 to 54 PVP[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 27 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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[hide]Wowcrendor[/hide] presented this video to us with a bit of a grin, since it focuses on more than just WoW. It’s called [hide]How to Win at Let’s Plays[/hide], and it looks at a series of common commentary videos you can find all over YouTube. Don’t worry if you’re shy about other games — there’s plenty of WoW in here.

I look at this video as a cautionary tale for folks who want to create their own video game commentaries. («Let’s play» is just a reference to that kind of video.) In a moment of painful epiphany, I realized that Wowcrendor pretty much nailed it with this piece. I’ve seen at least a dozen of every example he presents.

A good Wowcrendor video is when you finish it, you can’t decide whether 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].

[hide]WoW Moviewatch: How to Win at Let’s Plays[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 27 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. [hide]Alex Ziebart[/hide] will be your host today.

Get excited, people.

Vector asked:

Is anybody else super bummed that the new Guild episode released today is only available on XBL? I mean, I can watch it when I get home from work, but what percentage of the MMO community is missing out because of this?

It’s only a short delay. I believe the episode will be available for all audiences on Thursday (that’s tomorrow.) Considering Microsoft sponsors the show and it’s the company that allows it to happen, I think it’s reasonable for Microsoft to get a little exclusivity out of the deal. In other words, without Microsoft and XBL, we’d all be unGuilded.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: The one with a pun[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: The one with a pun[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 27 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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Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It’s not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site [hide]Massively[/hide] can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around — past, present and future.

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[hide]BioWare hopes SWTOR lasts for decades[/hide]

Those of you worried about The Old Republic’s longevity (all three of you) can rest easy, according to BioWare. Game director James Ohlen told Comic-Con attendees that the company hopes the game will stand the test of time. «And our goal — this being an online game that we’re hoping is going to last for decades — we’re going to be, obviously, adding more to the galaxy map as the game progresses,» Ohlen said.

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[hide]Chinese couple sells their kids to pay for online gaming[/hide]

According to ABC News, a Chinese couple has been apprehended for selling three children to bankroll their online gaming activities. Li Lin and Li Juan sold their baby daughter for approximately $500, as well as two sons for $4,600 each. The Sanxiang City News reported that the couple were turned over to authorities by Li Lin’s mother. The newspaper also stated that the couple was unaware that they were breaking any laws.

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[hide]Beta test weekends set for Star Wars: The Old Republic in September[/hide]

An investor report from Electronic Arts shows that the game will be opening up special beta weekend events for players to get a glimpse of the game starting in September. While the report doesn’t say if these tests will be open or closed, they certainly bring to mind the beta weekends that RIFT popularized, with a limited number of players but a great deal of freedom in access.

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[hide]Scott Hartsman says gold farming hurts our games more than we know[/hide]

Trion Worlds General Manager Scott Hartsman shared a glimpse of just how hard gold buying activities hit games and how concerned he and other studio execs are about the proliferation of credit card fraud that results. Your favorite game studio’s paying out fraud fees to MasterCard and Visa has more of an impact than you think.

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[hide]Massively Speaking Episode 157[/hide]

Massively Speaking, Massively’s MMO podcast, returns this week with Shawn and four very special guests from the Massively team: Eliot Lefebvre, Brandon Felczer, Larry Everett, and Matt Daniel. Topics include Allods Online’s newest patch, Star Trek Online’s Season Four launch and the latest Engineering Report, SWTOR’s collector’s edition contents, and much more!

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[hide]Massively’s week in review[/hide]

Don’t let WoW Insider do all of the talking when it comes to Massively’s best content of the week. The Massively staff themselves have picked out what they think is the best content their site has to offer, in their own weekly roundup.

Filed under: [hide]MMO Roundup[/hide][hide]MMO Roundup: Selling children for gaming[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:00:00 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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Each week, WoW Insider and [hide]Mathew McCurley[/hide] bring you a fresh look at [hide]reader-submitted UIs[/hide] as well as [hide]Addon Spotlight[/hide], which spotlights the latest user interface addons. Have a screenshot of your own UI that you’d like to submit? Send your screenshots along with info on what mods you’re using to [hide]readerui@wowinsider.com[/hide], and [hide]follow Mathew[/hide] on Twitter.

Welcome back to Reader UI of the Week, WoW Insider’s community UI spotlight feature where you bare your interface soul to me and I tell you that your action bars could use some work and maybe to move things off to the side of your screen. This week, I don’t get to do either of those things, because Ardor’s UI impressed me with its clean layout and [hide]kgPanels[/hide] organization.

Here’s a dumb admission: More than once, I’ve made the observation (while reading the [hide]new Thrall book[/hide]) that I’ve imagined what was going on in the book as an in-game scenario — user interface included. Maybe it is just natural for me to layer the WoW UI on top of everything WoW-related at this point. It wasn’t intentional, mind you, just something that happened and I sort of caught accidentally.

Where would Thrall put his minimap, anyway?

Gallery: [hide]Reader UI of the Week gallery[/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide][/hide][hide]Continue reading Reader UI of the Week: Set things straight with Ardor’s UI[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Add-Ons[/hide], [hide]Reader UI of the Week[/hide][hide]Reader UI of the Week: Set things straight with Ardor’s UI[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 26 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]Shifting Perspectives[/hide] for [hide]cat[/hide], [hide]bear[/hide], [hide]restoration[/hide] and [hide]balance[/hide] druids. This week, it’s not like we’re doing dailies for our health.

Mmmm. Fresh meat gear, nicely charred by all that flame-broiling action in the Firelands these days. High time to update our gear lists!

Stat priority for bears in [hide]patch 4.2[/hide] remains armor, stamina, agility, mastery, crit, expertise, hit, and haste. Rather than rehash territory we’ve already covered in [hide]our first set[/hide] of [hide]bear gear guides[/hide] for Cataclysm, the lowest piece I’m going to list in each slot is the best available piece from 5-mans, reputation, or the new Molten Front vendors. If you’re starting from absolutely nothing and need some ilevel 333/346 gear to tide you over, I would recommend the previous bear guides. Otherwise, your goal should be to get to at least the lowest piece in each slot on this list.

As always, I’m bypassing PVP gear because so much itemization is wasted on resilience. However, if you want to use it and you’ve got a better piece than would otherwise be available from PVE, knock yourself out. This week, we’ll cover the helm through boot slots, and next week, we’ll tackle rings, trinkets, weapons, and relics.[hide]Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Gearing a bear druid in patch 4.2[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Druid[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide](Druid) Shifting Perspectives[/hide][hide]Shifting Perspectives: Gearing a bear druid in patch 4.2[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 26 Jul 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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We’ve got another round of hotfixes this evening, courtesy of the official WoW blog. Today’s list is a little longer and contains the usual bout of Firelands hotfixes. Also included however, are a few class tweaks as well as some adjustments to Molten Front dailies and quests.

For elemental shaman, the Shamanism passive now causes Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Lava Burst spells to gain an additional 32% benefit from spell power, up from 20%.

Hey warriors — Deep Wounds should no longer ignore damage modifiers on a target.

Players who die and release before a boss is killed should now receive Valor and Justice points. However — players that release at the moment the boss dies and are at the loading screen will become locked tot he dungeon, but won’t receive any currency for the kill. Blizzard’s working to address this.

In the Molten Front, players who are Hated or Hostile with the Steamwheedle Cartel can still turn in the quest Well Armed to Ricket. Bloodsail Admirals, rejoice!

Follow after the break for the full list of hotfixes.[hide]Continue reading Patch 4.2 hotfixes for July 26[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Cataclysm[/hide], [hide]Hotfixes[/hide][hide]Patch 4.2 hotfixes for July 26[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:14:00 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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If you like orcs getting stabbed in the neck with broken-off wooden objects (and who could blame you, really?), then the promotional art for the new [hide]World of Warcraft: Bloodsworn[/hide] comic should be for you. Artist Jeremy Raapack put up two pages of [hide]promo art[/hide] on his blog, talking about the reveal of the comic at SDCC. So far, it’s looking pretty sweet, and Bloodsworn should definitely focus more on the Horde side of things than the original comic series did.

I have to say I really enjoy this [hide]picture of a troll[/hide] from the comic. Granted, I can’t tell the story from these two pages at all, but the art’s solid and I’ll give it a chance for that reason alone.
Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Blizzard[/hide], [hide]Comics[/hide][hide]Take a look at World of Warcraft: Bloodsworn comic preview art[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:00:00 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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If you follow WoW account security, then you’ve probably heard about (or personally encountered) a [hide]recent change[/hide] to the way Battle.net authenticator devices work. Basically, when you log into the game, the client attempts to determine if you’re logging in from your «home» computer or at least a computer you use regularly. It uses several factors to make this determination, such as your MAC address and your IP address. If the information doesn’t indicate that the login is taking place from a safe machine, it’ll prompt you for your authenticator code. If it is a safe computer, then you’ll only be asked for your code randomly, once a week or so.

The change, aimed to make authenticators less of a hassle for those who log on from the same computer quite a bit, caused an odd uproar on the official forums from players who were worried that this change somehow made their account less secure. Addressing these concerns, Blizzard Community Manager Zarhym announced today that Blizzard is working on [hide]providing an opt-out option[/hide] for this convenience feature.

Details were scarce since, as Zarhym noted, Blizzard hasn’t quite nailed down specifics yet, but he assured players that it’s something Blizzard’s been looking into since the authenticator change was first announced.

The full announcement post and followups are after the break.[hide]Continue reading Opt-out option incoming for recent authenticator security change[/hide]Filed under: [hide]News items[/hide], [hide]Account Security[/hide][hide]Opt-out option incoming for recent authenticator security change[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Tue, 26 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]