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«I just ran away from home, now I’m going to Firelands,» writes [hide]Ravensmourne[/hide] of [hide]Spirits of Durotan[/hide] on Arygos (US-A). «I just crashed my mount again, now I’m going to Firelands!» Ravensmourne, adapting song lyrics from [hide]music[/hide] I listened to in college is my job. My job. You just keep watch over that balloon.

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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 your questions, comments, or something you’d like to see to [hide]tyler@wowinsider.com[/hide].

A few weeks ago, we talked about the various items that you can get from the new daily quests as well as items that you can get from the new raid faction, all of which are really good things. This week will be about new valor point items and items that you can get from boss drops themselves. While gearing is a little bit different in this expansion than it has been in previous expansions, there is still a little bit of choice and options involved.

Before getting started, the first thing that we need to keep in mind is not to forgo items from the previous tier. Tier 11 gear is still really, really good, and if there are slots that you could still use from that raid, then I would highly suggest trying to find ways to go back and get them. Firelands isn’t a cakewalk for most guilds out there, so it is important that you gear yourself as best as you possible can. With the change to justice points and the nerf to the actual raid content, it shouldn’t be too difficult to get your hands on a lot of the items.[hide]Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Balance druid gearing from Firelands[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Druid[/hide], [hide](Druid) Shifting Perspectives[/hide][hide]Shifting Perspectives: Balance druid gearing from Firelands[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:00:00 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 need to get serious for a minute here. I’ve been quiet about a lot of issues that World of Warcraft and Cataclysm have brought to light over the six-plus months that the expansion has been rolling. I’ve turned a blind eye to many aspects of the game that have bothered and bugged me, from disconnects to warrior rage issues. With the [hide]Firelands[/hide] and [hide]tier 12 armor sets[/hide], an issue has surfaced that I can no longer stay silent about and has sent me into a spiral of hate-fueled rants to my guildmates as well as sleepless nights over how I am going to cope with this looming curse.

My night elf cannot have red hair.

Let me explain why this is such a frigging big deal to me and all night elves across Azeroth. As a protection warrior, I need to not only bring my A-game when fighting the nastiest creatures that Ragnaros and the Firelands can throw at me, I have to look good doing it. As a main tank, my raid team and guild look to me for guidance, safety, and momentum. How, Blizzard, can I effectively be that focal point of magnanimous support and a pillar of raid success when my beautiful new tier armor can never match my hair? How am I supposed to lead gracefully and with assertion when I have to see a pale blue or (god forbid) purple-hued color atop my unhelmeted head?[hide]Continue reading Breakfast Topic: Why can’t my night elf have red hair[/hide]?Filed under: [hide]Breakfast Topics[/hide][hide]Breakfast Topic: Why can’t my night elf have red hair[/hide]? originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Fri, 08 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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Компания Blizzard Entertainment в очередной раз [hide]напомнила[/hide] всем игрокам MMORPG World of Warcraft о «принципах честной игры». «9-й сезон недавно завершился, новые PvP-награды нашли своих героев, уже идет 10-й сезон, — говорится в сообщении, почему-то названном «Порядочность и приветливость». — Помните, что «читы» в World of Warcraft совершенно недопустимы, и использование уязвимостей в системе рейтинговых PvP-матчей не является исключением. Перед награждением победителей 9-го сезона мы провели тщательное расследование действий отдельных игроков и команд, явно пытавшихся манипулировать рейтингами».

К ним были применены соответствующие меры, и те, кто занял высокие места, прибегнув к нечестной игре, остались без наград. Однако весьма нередки случаи, когда может показаться, будто игрок использовал нечестные методы для достижения своей победы, в то время как на самом деле он играл честно, как и подавляющее большинство других игроков. Для нас очень важно, чтобы санкции применялись лишь к тем, кто их действительно заслужил, и для этого мы делаем все возможное».

Blizzard продолжит свои усилия по обеспечению честной игры, поэтому вскоре в рейтинговую систему подбора соперников введут некие изменения, затрудняющие манипуляции с рейтингами.

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Oh, right. We don’t use zeppelins for mass transit here on Earth nowadays for a reason. [hide]Durdanios[/hide] of [hide]Covenant of the Sun[/hide] on Wyrmrest Accord (US-H) managed to capture [hide]yet another[/hide] iconic airship explosion on film. Oh, the goblinity!

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Every Thursday, [hide]The Overachiever[/hide] shows you how to work toward those sweet achievement points. This week, we detour back to Dalaran with a fishing pole in hand.

I’m actually writing this on July 4, so I’m in the mood for a little fun while we’re waiting for the dust from [hide]patch 4.2[/hide] to settle. If you’ve been around the site before, you’ve probably seen my [hide]worshipful odes[/hide] to the [hide]Dalaran fountain[/hide], which I still think was [hide]one of the best[/hide] and most brilliantly eccentric parts of Wrath of the Lich King. (I think archaeology’s very similar overall, even if Blizzard’s still working out the kinks.) While I took a look at [hide]some of the coins[/hide] almost three years ago during the Wrath beta, it occurred to me recently that we never actually did a guide to them and their importance to WoW’s mythology.

So here’s the deal: You’re in a magic city. The city has a magic fountain. Lots of very important, somewhat important, and unimportant people in the world made wishes and tossed coins into the fountain, and the fountain (being magic) remembered them. Some of the wishes are funny, many of them are sad, many are quite thought-provoking, and a few are simply tongue-in-cheek references to the Warcraft universe ([hide]Archimonde’s[/hide] is probably the standout here). If you fish all of them up, you’ll get [hide]A Penny For Your Thoughts[/hide], [hide]Silver in the City[/hide], and [hide]There’s Gold in That There Fountain[/hide], with the completion of all three granting [hide]The Coin Master[/hide]. So if you’re going for the fishing meta [hide]Accomplished Angler[/hide] (ha ha! sucker!), you’ll need the coins even if you’re not interested in the lore behind them. You monster.

Warning: If you’re still playing your way through The Burning Crusade and Wrath content, there are a lot of lore spoilers in here, so be careful.[hide]Continue reading The OverAchiever: Dalaran’s magic fountain[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Analysis / Opinion[/hide], [hide]Lore[/hide], [hide]Achievements[/hide], [hide]The Overachiever[/hide][hide]The OverAchiever: Dalaran’s magic fountain[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:00:00 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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New around here? [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide] has your back! Get all our collected tips, tricks and tactics for new players in the [hide]WoW Rookie Guide[/hide]. WoW Rookie is about more than just being new to the game; it’s about checking out new classes, new playstyles, and new zones.

Last week, we talked about what it meant to be a rookie and casual in this crazy [hide]patch 4.2 world[/hide]. Tharenar asked about something much different in the comments, though:

Could you do a wow rookie: darkmoon cards column please? I started playing just before wrath and this whole section of the game is a mystery to me. What are the cards for? Why do I want them? Which cards are good and which are a waste of money etc. Thanks

Fellow commenter Revnah provided a pretty good, short explanation of Darkmoon Cards, but I wanted to take the time expand on that this week. Darkmoon Cards are a big enough part of the end-game dynamic that it’s worth our time to make sure we understand it.

First, a little history. Darkmoon decks were created by combining crafted «cards.» (The cards are made via [hide]Inscription[/hide]). You would then take these decks and turn them in at the [hide]Darkmoon Faire[/hide] to get trinkets. Some trinkets, like those created by the [hide]Nobles deck[/hide], were so perfectly itemized that they never stopped being really, really good in the previous expansion.

It’s not that these trinkets possessed a very high item level. It’s that they wasted no points on stats that weren’t absolutely perfect. So later, when higher item level gear became available and spread their points among sub-optimal stats, the Darkmoon trinkets still had more of the stats that you really really wanted.[hide]Continue reading WoW Rookie: All about Darkmoon cards[/hide]Filed under: [hide]WoW Rookie[/hide][hide]WoW Rookie: All about Darkmoon cards[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 07 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]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!

Enchanting Cataclysm gear takes [hide]Hypnotic Dust[/hide], [hide]Celestial Essences[/hide], [hide]Heavenly Shards[/hide], and [hide]Maelstrom Crystals[/hide]. I’ve spent the last week making and selling scrolls, and this has led to the discovery that these materials are not currently being used in the ratio they’re being made. Celestial Essences are, by far, the bottleneck.

This is not a scientific fact, but I sell a lot of scrolls, and that means that my materials use is probably a representative sample of my market’s actual materials use. If you simply look at all the enchants at [hide]ilvl 300 and up[/hide], the ratio of materials used will be different than if you look at a sample of actual market data. Actual market data will include the fact that some enchants sell better than others. One could, however, take a look at [hide]Wowpopular.com’s enchant list[/hide] and weigh each recipe by the number of stars they give it to get a general idea.

That said, let’s look at the best and cheapest ways to make Celestials.[hide]Continue reading Gold Capped: How to generate Celestial Essences[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Economy[/hide], [hide]Gold Capped[/hide][hide]Gold Capped: How to generate Celestial Essences[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 07 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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Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you [hide]Scattered Shots[/hide] for [hide]beast mastery[/hide], [hide]marksmanship[/hide] and [hide]survival[/hide] hunters. Frostheim of [hide]Warcraft Hunters Union[/hide] uses logic and science (mixed with a few mugs of dwarven stout) to look deep into the hunter class. Mail your hunter questions to [hide]Frostheim[/hide].

Several weeks back, WoW Lead Systems Designer [hide]Ghostcrawler[/hide] made a passing comment about the input of the community in continuing to refine the talent trees, and since then, we’ve run with it. We’ve talked about [hide]improving the BM tree[/hide], [hide]improving the MM tree[/hide], and [hide]improving the SV tree[/hide]. We’ve been swarmed with fantastic suggestions in the comments, including lots of things I didn’t think of but made me say, «Oh, yeah — that’s exactly what the tree needs!»

Now if we were rogues, or mages, or some other support class, we’d be sitting on the porch with our lemonade patting ourselves on the back for a job well done. But as hunters, it’s not enough to just examine the hunter trees — we have our pet trees to look at, as well.

Join me after the cut as we dig into the three hunter pet talent trees and discuss how they could be refined, added to, and improved to complete the hunter experience.[hide]Continue reading Scattered Shots: Improving the hunter pet trees[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Hunter[/hide], [hide](Hunter) Scattered Shots[/hide][hide]Scattered Shots: Improving the hunter pet trees[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 07 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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Each week, WoW Insider’s [hide]Mathew McCurley[/hide] brings you a fresh look at [hide]reader-submitted UIs[/hide] as well as [hide]Addon Spotlight[/hide], which focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond — your addons folder will never be the same.

Welcome to Magical Mat’s Addonitorium and Fun Palace, where all of your user interface and addon dreams come true! Gaze at the mystical River of Lua. Treat your eyes to the unbridled spectacle of the Profile Forest. Enter, if you dare, the dreaded Cave of Errors … Actually, I lied. There isn’t an Addonitorium; it’s just my living room. The Fun Palace is a closet with a vacuum and a Swiffer. The wet kind of Swiffer.

This week’s addon really isn’t an addon, but I think that the functionality that this feature provides — and provides for everyone regardless of what you download — has changed a great deal for the better over time. With patch 4.2, Blizzard introduced a new Raid Profiles interface option for players to tinker with. Customization on a Blizzard feature? Say it ain’t so! Credit where credit is due, kind readers, for Blizzard is on the path to perfection with these additions to its new raid frames.[hide]Continue reading Addon Spotlight: Blizzard’s built-in raid profiles[/hide]Filed under: [hide]Add-Ons[/hide], [hide]AddOn Spotlight[/hide][hide]Addon Spotlight: Blizzard’s built-in raid profiles[/hide] originally appeared on [hide]WoW Insider[/hide] on Thu, 07 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]