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I was never lucky enough to get a shot at Algalon the Observer when we were running Ulduar 25 as progression. The guild I was in at the time experienced quite some drama over Yogg Saron hard-mode attempts to get Val'anyr. Not only were the attempts punctuated by wipes and frustrating, but the priest who was to recieve the mace was the person who ( Read more... )

I've spent the last few days testdriving the WoW remote auction house beta and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. It includes an update to the iPhone Armory application as well as an updated web interface.

One caveat is that because the character has to exist on the Armory, there's no support for level 1 AH mules. For now, I'm using my Death ( Read more... )

I've been tanking the first wing of ICC with a 232 weapon, having trouble finding a group who were willing to go past 4/12 for a shot at a weapon from Rotface. I started saving for a Battered Hilt and had managed to get around halfway there.

I've only seen it drop twice - once the first week the new instances went live, and last night. I won the ( Read more... )

So we're at least level 60, wearing shiny new quest rewards and hopefully a few instance drops, and have a sensible tanking spec. Now, how do Death Knights actually .. tank ? Lets take a look at the abilities in the DK tanking toolbox.

Frost Presence

I'm sure this doesn't need to be mentioned, but I'll cover it off for the sake of completeness. ( Read more... )

With the popularity of DKs combined with fast tank queues, more people than ever before are rolling DK alts with the intention of levelling through the dungeon system. Most people are aware that DK starting gear is ill-equipped for tanking, but there is a surprising lack of resource on how to gear a 60 DK that's relevant to the current patch. So, ( Read more... )

The majority of my experiences with the random dungeon system have been pretty unremarkable. Whether I'm healing or tanking, I ridiculously outgear the content and the majority of my group ridiculously outgears me. If I'm healing, this leads to me casting the odd PW:S and POM while reading a magazine with the other hand and occasionally glancing at ( Read more... )

Last season Ailith (my husband's current character name) and I tried to arena just for laughs. We only kept it up for a few weeks since while we really loved the game, we had chosen about the worst possible comp we could - Death Knight/Mage. Given our limited chances for success, we hit on a very simple strategy ( Read more... )

One of the conflicts I've had with playing World of Warcraft is how emotionally fraught playing the game can be at times. People who don't game or who don't game in communities can be quite surprised at what they see as disproportionate emotional investment in a game. 'Why?' they ask, 'get that upset over a game ( Read more... )

Even though writing about WoW is far easier for me than writing on any other subject (something as a professional writer I find a little alarming) I've been having trouble updating lately. I've just recently changed guilds for the third time in the five years I've been playing the game, for reasons that were too painful to write about while it was ( Read more... )