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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.

Now that we’ve covered gearing up in detail, it’s time to talk about what to do with that gear. Now that the [hide]Firelands[/hide] have been out for a while, we’ve all had a chance to get in there and kill some mobs. That includes me; I have also had a chance to do that. So what have I experienced in my excursions to the hell of upside-down fire elementals? (Okay, they’re not upside-down.)

For starters, all three DPS warrior specs are really close together right now. In my experience, arms and fury DPS is neck-and-neck, with arms performing better on some fights and fury better on others. Also, SMF and TG fury are both pretty viable, with TG seeming to move ahead once you’re using a pair of Firelands 2H weapons.

Once again, gearing up takes you past the nerfs in a few weeks. I basically raid with a fury spec and an arms spec, and some nights I respec from TG to SMF and/or the other way around. (Now that my axes have dropped, I usually stay TG.) My DPS was much poorer going into Firelands than it is now. The difference was pretty dramatic, and while I’m hardly blowing ahead to the top of the charts, DPS is solid again. Basically, what’s controlling my DPS (again) is encounter design (again).

Be prepared to use your utility abilities. [hide]Rallying Cry[/hide]. Remember it? You’d better, because it’s a raid-wide cooldown that you’re definitely going to be using on [hide]Majordomo Staghelm[/hide]. Speaking of Majordomo, if you have [hide]Seeds[/hide] on you and you blow up the raid, it’s because you forgot you have one of the [hide]best abilities in the game[/hide] to get out to range in time and then [hide]some[/hide] of the [hide]best[/hide] [hide]abilities[/hide] in the game to get back in.

Blizzard needs to very quickly create and implement a set of non-tier DPS plate shoulders. Look at me — I’m still wearing ZA shoulders. I am knee-deep in Firelands every week. I’ve killed Domo several times now. Why won’t you give me shoulders? There is absolutely no option for plate DPS save tier, although there are several pairs of tanking shoulders. This is bloody insane, and it needs to be addressed. Firelands or the valor point vendors need more loot, guys.

So let’s discuss the Firelands from a DPS warrior perspective.[hide]Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: DPS in the Firelands[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Warrior[/hide], [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Raiding[/hide], [hide](Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors[/hide], [hide]Raid Guides[/hide][hide]The Care and Feeding of Warriors: DPS in the Firelands[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 23 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 Totem Talk for [hide]elemental[/hide], [hide]enhancement[/hide], and [hide]restoration[/hide] shaman. [hide]Josh Myers[/hide] once tackled the hard questions about enhancement but has recently expanded his sphere of responsibility to all DPS specs for shaman. And no, two-handed enhancement is still never coming back.

Imagine you have a friend. This isn’t any normal friend, but a friend that you really, really, really want to get interested in World of Warcraft. To this end, you have the brilliant plan that if you let him raid on your character, he’ll be so taken by the experience that he’ll be level 85 within a week.

Naturally, this goes badly. [hide]Recount[/hide] shows your character below the tanks every attempt, as your friend spends half the fight attacking the wrong target and the other half of the fight attacking nothing at all. Of course, that’s only on the fights where he manages to stay alive, which is one in 10 attempts.

Now, imagine that in order to do your maximum DPS, you have to let that friend raid with you every single fight. If you choose not to allow that friend to raid, you’ll lose about 3,000 potential DPS. However, if you choose to let him raid, you run the risk of his dying, attacking the wrong target, or standing in the center of the room while he mentally alt-tabs.

Welcome to playing an elemental shaman.[hide]Continue reading Totem Talk: Fixing the Fire Elemental problem[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Shaman[/hide], [hide](Shaman) Totem Talk[/hide], [hide]Cataclysm[/hide][hide]Totem Talk: Fixing the Fire Elemental problem[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 23 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. Mike Sacco will be your host today.

My friend Emily is at Comic-Con this weekend, so I’m taking care of her 12-year-old cat, Artemis. You can’t see it in the photo, but he’s standing on top of my fridge, apparently warding off intruders with his fierce squeak and his Left Eye of Sauron (no, it’s not a lighting trick, he has heterochromia). A true catgoyle.

ProffesorOrc asked:

Why doesn’t blizzard release a massive, canon, lore encyclopedia? The only thing that’s close are the old RPG books that came out years ago and Blizzard themselves said those were non-canon and shouldn’t be used for serious lore reference.

I feel that we’re only able to learn small amounts of lore from off-hand comments in quest texts and the rare Cdev forum posts. And the books can only address the lore to a certain degree without deviating from the main story.

I’m not asking for a book that would spoil future story lines but instead something that would give context to the many cultures seen in the game.

What I’m imagining is a book that I could open up, look up the entry on Arakkoa and find a 2-3 page info on them, describing their customs, leaders, famous historical stories and what not.

It would be pretty difficult to create a work like what you’re describing, due to the fluid nature of the WoW story. Blizzard creates lore to fit gameplay, not the other way around, so any info you get is bound to change or be added to at some point, any character subject to Old God corruption or retcons. And when they do attempt to publish lore, you run into issues like the RPG books, where the information contained therein may not even be accurate anymore when a new patch or expansion lands, if it was ever really accurate at all. Hell, they couldn’t even keep the game manual updated to say that no, you can’t play a dwarf mage (well, you can now…).

As cool as a nice hardcover encyclopedia of WoW lore would be, I really doubt it’ll ever happen. WoW’s lore is just too malleable, too ongoing.[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Artemis[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Artemis[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sat, 23 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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A couple of years back, a golden retriever at a Kansas zoo [hide]adopted[/hide] and [hide]nursed[/hide] three white tiger cubs that were abandoned by their birth mother. We can only assume that a similar situation led to this screenshot. Worgen hunter [hide]Thereweasel[/hide] of [hide]Death By Weasel[/hide] on Velen (US-A) is raising this multi-generational frostsaber family as if they were her own pups, which is clearly against nature. Won’t somebody please think of the kittens?

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Dogs and cats living together[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Sun, 24 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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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. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the benefit of 24 other people, obsessing over his hair (a blood elf racial!), and maintaining the tankadin-focused blog [hide]Righteous Defense[/hide].

Last week, we talked about to improve your combat table coverage through four easy tips. This week, I’m going to swing the pendulum to the other direction, away from survivability and toward the Candyland that is threat. Truthfully, in this age of Vengeance, there sometimes doesn’t seem to be a particular need to work on augmenting one’s threat, but corner cases exist where your personal damage output can be crucial to the success of an encounter.

When it comes to boosting threat, the usual advice is often to gem differently or wear some hit or expertise trinkets. The downside to that, of course, is that you’re trading survivability for an increase in damage output. While that might be kosher for heroics or farm content, when the bosses are still dangerous, you want to play it safe. As I’ll be detailing in today’s column, it’s very possible to bring the pain without shooting yourself in the foot.[hide]Continue reading The Light and How to Swing It: 4 ways to improve your threat without sacrificing survivability[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Paladin[/hide], [hide](Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It[/hide][hide]The Light and How to Swing It: 4 ways to improve your threat without sacrificing survivability[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 22 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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Компания Blizzard Entertaiment продолжает с неведомой целью обновлять [hide]галерею концепт-арта[/hide] дополнения «The Burning Crusade» MMORPG World of Warcraft. Сегодня в ней появились три новых изображения: «Blasted Lands», «Hellfire Peninsula» и «Nagrand». Возможно, именно такой фотореалистичной станет графика в следующей части WoW.

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Недавно мы [hide]сообщали[/hide] о первой в мире победе гильдии Paragon над героической версией финального босса Рагнароса в рейде «Огненные Просторы» на 25 человек в MMORPG World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Сегодня поступило [hide]сообщение[/hide], что эти продвинутые рейдеры также победили босса и в версии на 10 игроков.

«После заслуженного отдыха мы снова вернулись в Огненные Просторы, — говорится в сообщении. – Цель была проста: сопоставить сложность героических версий на 10 и 25 человек, поскольку среди коммьюнити ходили разговоры о том, что «десятки» переделаны и почти что неубиваемы».

Члены гильдии Paragon вайпнулись 32 раза (в том числе – из-за дисконнектов) до того, как смогли одержать победу.

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До 31 июля 2011 года купленный в магазине питомцев MMORPG World of Warcraft спутник «[hide]Детеныш кенарийского гиппогрифа[/hide]» будет помогать пострадавшим от землетрясения в Японии. Компания Blizzard Entertainment [hide]объявила[/hide] о том, что 100% поступивших за неделю средств от продажи питомца (10 долларов за штуку) будут перечислены американскому [hide]Красному Кресту[/hide].

«Пришел отличный момент приручить дикого и благородного детеныша кенарийского гиппогрифа! – говорится в сообщении. – Это существо является копией своего собрата, встречавшегося в первом наборе коллекционной карточной игры World of Warcraft Trading Card Game «Heroes of Azeroth». Он покинул леса для того, чтобы помочь попавшим в беду друзьям. Его помощь позволит Красному Кресту предоставить убежище, пищу и эмоциональную поддержку пострадавшим от стихийного бедствия».

Ознакомиться с более подробной информацией о питомце можно в [hide]списке вопросов и ответов[/hide].

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Lolegolas’s eyes still burned green with stolen magic, but the glow had faded to the soft shimmer of embers. He watched quietly while the druid waggled a pendant over Throgg.

«It’s the [hide]Firemind Pendant[/hide],» the druid said. «Healing amulet. Very good for someone who hasn’t quite managed to get into the Firelands yet. It’s doing its job admirably.»

«So, he’ll be okay?» the blood elf asked. His voice sounded rough and relieved.

«Definitely,» the druid responded, sitting on the raw earth. «We need to get him to a city soon, for food and water. But he’s fine.»

Lolegolas nearly collapsed into a sitting position, spreading his legs haphazardly before him. «Well, that’s over. We can get back to bad jokes and random adventures.»

«Aren’t you forgetting something?» the druid asked. «You have a challenge of your own to overcome here soon.»

«One thing at a time, worgen. One thing at a time.»[hide]Continue reading Phat Loot Phriday: Firemind Pendant[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Phat Loot Phriday[/hide][hide]Phat Loot Phriday: Firemind Pendant[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 22 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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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].

There was a little bit of an update for balance druids in the most recent hotfixes. Finally, Blizzard has come to its senses and allowed [hide]Moonfire[/hide] to generate Lunar Energy when traversing from a Solar Eclipse to a Lunar Eclipse if you have the [hide]Lunar Shower[/hide] talent. Awesome — this should have been done back on the PTR, but whatever. Helps PVP druids; PVE still doesn’t have much of a reason to take it. Get to work on that, Blizzard.

This article has nothing to do with that, though, mostly because I’m over the whole Lunar Shower business. If Blizzard wants to dig in its heels on the matter, well, I’m not interested in pushing. Instead, I want to make stuff go BOOM! That’s what we’re talking about, taking out one of the first four bosses in the Firelands.

Prepare yourself, soldiers … There are battles to win![hide]Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: How to kill Shannox as a balance druid[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Druid[/hide], [hide](Druid) Shifting Perspectives[/hide][hide]Shifting Perspectives: How to kill Shannox as a balance druid[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our [hide]terms for use of feeds[/hide].[hide]Permalink[/hide] | [hide]Email this[/hide] | [hide]Comments[/hide]