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From Hollywood celebrities to the guy next door, millions of people have made World of Warcraft a part of their lives. How do you play WoW? We’re giving each approach its own [hide]15 Minutes of Fame[/hide].

15 Minutes of Fame profiled the [hide]triple-threat collections[/hide] of Drrum last fall — an astounding trifecta of pets, mounts and armor sets painstakingly pieced together and then screenshot to dramatic effect in complementary in-game settings. Amazing stuff.

And since cool collections that come in threes seem to be such a good thing, we’re bringing you two more profiles of in-game collectors. This week, we’ll visit with Moonjade of Twisting Nether (US-A), who collects armor and lore items. Moonjade’s impressive collection of lore and legendary items make him a suitable ambassador for an entire subculture of players who collect various sorts of items during their game downtime. Then next week, we’ll crank up the specialization rating and round out our trio of collectors with an interview with a collector who actually manages and gives tours of a virtual museum of gray items.[hide]Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: No bank dust bunnies for in-game item collectors[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Interviews[/hide], [hide]15 Minutes of Fame[/hide][hide]15 Minutes of Fame: No bank dust bunnies for in-game item collectors[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 21 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]World of WarCrafts[/hide] spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music, fan fiction and more. Sample the whole spectrum on our [hide]Arts and Crafts in [/hide][hide]WoW[/hide] page.

Last week, we talked about [hide]rebuilding audio[/hide] found in World of Warcraft; this week, we’ve got audio rebuilding of an entirely different kind. Rather than giving in-game music and sounds a revamp, today’s guest takes modern day music and rewrites the lyrics to form parodies with a uniquely WoW twist. She’s been writing and producing parodies for quite some time now — [hide]Shut Up and Grind[/hide], a parody of Rihanna’s Shut Up and Drive, was uploaded to YouTube on July 21, 2009.

Exactly two years and plenty of songs later, the bubbly and ever-charming Ember Isolte is still busily creating music parodies — for WoW, and for other games as well. From the incredibly catchy Ninja Raiders to her newest release, Boomkin, Ember’s done nothing but improve in leaps and bounds. It’s crafting of an entirely different kind, and we recently had the distinct pleasure of sitting down and having a chat with Ember about music, lyrics, ideas and of course, World of Warcraft.
[hide]Continue reading World of WarCrafts: The musical stylings of Ember Isolte[/hide]Filed under: [hide]World of WarCrafts[/hide][hide]World of WarCrafts: The musical stylings of Ember Isolte[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 21 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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All good things must come to an end, including the Unlimited Escapism series by the masterful [hide]Baron Soosdon[/hide]. This is the trailer for [hide]Unlimited Escapism Vol. 5[/hide], the final installment.

This trailer shows off the same hallmarks as the rest of the Baron’s videos. You can see his astounding eye for beautiful, engaging graphics as well as his tongue-in-cheek reflections on his own work. While this is technically just a trailer, it’s as beautiful and engaging as many full-length videos we’ve seen.

You can see the whole video [hide]here on Vimeo[/hide]. It’s worth every moment you watch.

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: Unlimited Escapism Vol. 5 trailer[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 21 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. Adam Holisky, senior Klingon expert, will be your host today.

Is it wrong that I’m cackling like an evil maniac?

No?

Great!

Amex asked:

I was going back and watching some old Star Trek recently and this led to a WoW question:

Did anyone else notice how the behavior of the orcish society with the focus on honor and battle seems totally lifted from the ST:TNG Klingons?[hide]Continue reading The Queue: Tomorrow’s Friday — here’s a present from Rebecca Black[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Queue[/hide][hide]The Queue: Tomorrow’s Friday — here’s a present from Rebecca Black[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 21 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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[hide]The Classifieds[/hide] brings you weekly news from around the WoW community, including our famous Random Acts of Uberness shout-outs to players who make your WoW sessions memorable.

Yes, Virginia, mage tanks do exist. While I wouldn’t call them a common occurrence, this PUG member was thrilled to find himself becoming a mage tank in this instance run:

My name is Kardas, from Emerald Dream, and I’m a mage. On Tuesday, July the 12, I was running a regular Vortex Pinacle with a friend when the tank and the only other plate wearer (My friend the DK, who happened to have atank spec) dc’d. This left a Restoration Shaman named Blowmytotem of Stormreaver, and a Moonkin named Guudru from Twisting Nether, and me, directly at the begining on the instance. I a bit better geared for the instance so we said, ‘What the heck, let’s try mage tanking the thing’. They we’re great about everything, even everytime I screwed up and got the Moonkin killed. It took about 3 hours, but we finished it, including Al’akir. They are now some of my favorite people on WoW, for everything they’ve done.

They deserve to get recognized for this, so I figured I’d drop a line and see if I could get this up. It would be really appreciated!
[hide]Continue reading The Classifieds: The birth of a mage tank[/hide]Filed under: [hide]The Classifieds[/hide][hide]The Classifieds: The birth of a mage tank[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 20 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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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.

We’ve [hide]talked about[/hide] [hide]their politics[/hide] and their [hide]ancestors[/hide], but humanity itself has not really been described in detail — and it deserves to be. The humans of Azeroth derive from the ancient servitors of the Titans, and their origins lie in the frozen continent of Northrend (indeed, before it was a continent of its own), but they’ve developed over time into a brash, persevering people of their own who rose to master the Eastern Kingdoms and who had endured two hideous wars with alien invaders, the plague of undeath that shattered their strongest kingdom, and times of chaos and uncertainty. It is humanity that holds the Alliance together today, serving to unite disparate peoples in a collective that grows more cohesive in the face of growing Horde expansionism.

The ultimate drive to exist that has kept humanity going past world-shaking calamities must be respected. When war and strife come, humans have risen to the challenge. Although one of the shortest-lived of Azeroth’s native races and possessed of one of the youngest cultures, human have risen on the strength of their determination.[hide]Continue reading Know Your Lore: The humans, part 1[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Lore[/hide], [hide]Know your Lore[/hide][hide]Know Your Lore: The humans, part 1[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 20 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]

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Encrypted Text[/hide] for [hide]assassination[/hide], [hide]combat[/hide] and [hide]subtlety[/hide] rogues. [hide]Chase Christian[/hide] will be your guide to the world of shadows every Wednesday. Feel free to [hide]email me[/hide] with any questions or article topics you’d like to see covered.

[hide]Varian Wrynn[/hide] isn’t happy. He sent his best and brightest men to [hide]the Molten Front[/hide] to assist the [hide]Guardians of Hyjal[/hide] in invading the Firelands, but all he received back was a stack of casualty alerts. The cause of death on each report was the same: [hide]several deep dagger wounds[/hide]. As Varian assigned more soldiers to the Molten Front, he simply received more body bags in return. Varian confronted [hide]Garrosh[/hide] about the issue, claiming that the [hide]Warchief[/hide] was breaking their peace accord by using assassins in the Molten Front. Garrosh feigned ignorance and promised Varian that he’d find the perpetrator and have him properly handled. The next day, I received a post from Garrosh himself. It was brief: «[hide]Lok’tar[/hide], brother!»

I’ve read several articles that claim that world PVP is dead and has been for a long time. The truth is that world PVP is alive; it has simply transitioned into a seasonal event. With the release of the Molten Front quest hub, Blizzard’s developers directed a ton of level 85 players into a zone where they can’t use [hide]their flying mounts[/hide]. If that doesn’t count as revitalizing world PVP, then I don’t know what does. I spend every spare moment I have plunging my daggers into the questers’ ribcages. There’s a plethora of targets available, with new enemies zoning in every minute. World PVP hasn’t been this active since the [hide]Isle of Quel’Danas[/hide], and that means I have a lot of catching up to do.[hide]Continue reading Encrypted Text: How to run the Molten Front[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Rogue[/hide], [hide](Rogue) Encrypted Text[/hide][hide]Encrypted Text: How to run the Molten Front[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 20 Jul 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]Shifting Perspectives[/hide] for [hide]cat[/hide] , [hide]bear[/hide] , [hide]restoration[/hide] and [hide]balance[/hide] druids. Welcome to our feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron of [hide]The Fluid Druid[/hide] blog. Let the face clawing begin!

Gear, gear, everybody wants gear! Happily, we get our first piece of visible progression gear in, well, forever. A flaming kitty is a raiding kitty … awesome.

This update to my gear list focuses on items from new 4.2 content and bottoms out with ZA gear. If you’re just starting out, the [hide]list compiled a few months ago[/hide] is still quite good.

A few notes before we get to the items:

One of my most common questions is «Which secondary stat is best?» Well, the small [hide]Rip[/hide] nerf, plus the eventual loss of the two-piece T11 bonus once you upgrade into tier 12, knocks mastery down a peg. The buff to [hide]Savage Roar[/hide] boosts haste up a peg. Unfortunately, this means our secondary stats are pretty much even. I’ve tested this extensively, and at the 359 to 378 gear levels, reforging to different stats affects simulated DPS by less than 1%. Personally, I’d recommend sticking with mastery until you break two-piece T11, then try a hit/expertise cap setup; see how it works for you. As always, any fight with little to no off-boss time will favor haste, while fights with large interruptions in DPS time will favor mastery.[hide]Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Firelands gear for the feral cat[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Druid[/hide], [hide](Druid) Shifting Perspectives[/hide][hide]Shifting Perspectives: Firelands gear for the feral cat[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 20 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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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] rains down sweaty, sticky, uncomfortably warm destruction on all who oppose him (especially Tyler Caraway). Fox encourages you to [hide]follow him on Twitter[/hide].

It’s pretty miserable here in Boston today. I’m sweating, and not in the sexy, glistening skin way — in the wring out a T-shirt way. It’s, like, 90-something, which to a New Englander is damn hot. And to all you people who live in Las Vegas (Oh ho ho, it’s 129 here today, you wimp!), shut up — you chose to live in a place that’s awful year round, not me.

Anyway, this uncomfortable sweatiness has me starved for revenge. Beings of fire, you shall face my wrath!

Over the next few uncomfortable, sweat-stained months of summer, we’ll be taking on the bosses of the Firelands right here in Spiritual Guidance in seek of precious relief (and purples). This week: vile hunter Shannox and his adorable flaming skeleton pets.[hide]Continue reading Spiritual Guidance: Shadow priest’s guide to Shannox[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Priest[/hide], [hide](Priest) Spiritual Guidance[/hide][hide]Spiritual Guidance: Shadow priest’s guide to Shannox[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Wed, 20 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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«After reading Syrco Owl’s [hide]description[/hide] of the sprite dragon fairy circle [hide]event[/hide], I wanted to witness the magic for myself,» writes [hide]Matsi[/hide] of [hide]ExtendedCredit[/hide] on Azuremyst (US-A). «It is definitely worth a look. The music was lovely, totally unlike any other I have heard in Azeroth. It seemed appropriate to help along the little dragons with [hide]Tranquility[/hide]. I would like to think my druid would help heal the land near her former home.»

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Filed under: [hide]Around Azeroth[/hide][hide]Around Azeroth: Circle back and touch something near[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 21 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]