Posted on December 29th, 2009 by admin
One of the things that jumps out at me while reviewing September is that it was a fantastic month for Moviewatch. Apart from that players were occupied with the new version of Onyxia, the Argent Coliseum, still discussing some questions raised by BlizzCon, and arguing over whether Garrosh was a jerk or what.
WoW Moviewatch: Warrior’s Dream: My nomination for the best Moviewatch of the year. A lovely film, well-made, beautifully scored, and it crammed a thoughtful story (and insight concerning the sometimes-uncomfortable perspective on ourselves granted by nightmares) into 5 minutes.
Faction change service now available: A feature players had been wondering about getting for years suddenly went live. Did things go crazy? Maybe a little.
A critical examination of Garrosh Hellscream: Garrosh, as we’d previously observed, is not among the more well-received NPCs these days. Rossi asks — how did this guy go from the demoralized Orc we see in Nagrand to the arrogant jerk we find in Northrend?
Ask a Faction Leader: Garrosh Hellscream: On the subject of Garrosh, personally I found this AAFL to be among the funniest in the series. If that whole Warchief bid doesn’t work out for him, Garrosh has a bright future as an interior designer.
Yogg-Saron in blues: A
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Posted on December 24th, 2009 by admin
Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky be your host today.
Let’s be honest. The holidays are fun and everything. Getting together with the extended family, having some good food, sharing in each other’s joys — good times all around. But there gets a certain point where you just want to say “Enough is enough already, let me go do something I want.” Is it a bad thing if that’s already happened to me?
Today’s holiday listening music is from the Vince Guaraldi album A Charlie Brown Christmas. It’s one of my favorites, Guaraldi is a masterful piano player and creates one of the most iconic jazz performances out there. It’s one of those songs that you can hear and immediately place it as coming from Charlie Brown.
Possum asked…
“How do I cross-server ignore someone?”
You should be able to just right-click on the guy’s portrait and select “Ignore.” Some people have said typing /ignore username-servername works, but others have said it hasn’t.
I can’t 100% verify that it works, but I know that I’ve put a few terribads on my ignore list and haven’t gotten them
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Posted on December 21st, 2009 by admin
A present? How lovely! Let me just open it and … oh, hey. It’s a very small gnome. In very revealing clothing. Okay, I appreciate the thought, but you obviously know nothing about my taste in gifts. Is Chris Hansen going to show up and ask me to take a seat? I hope you at least kept the receipt so I can exchange it for something in my size. (Thanks to Nura of Terenas-EU for the pic.)
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Posted on December 17th, 2009 by admin
The image above is a little tough to read, but you can probably get the gist: someone posts on the forums that secretly, he’s been taking things from the guild bank and selling them off on the AH to make money for himself. He posts on his alt, supposedly, but whoops: he leaves his forum signature up. And the very next post is someone from the guild saying he’s been caught red-handed, with a gkick imminent. Moral? Steal if you want, we guess, but never, ever tell. Or at least don’t use your forum sig when posting on your alt.
Much more drama, downed, and recruiting news in this week’s Guildwatch, which starts right after the break. We are super low in the buffer for tips, so please be sure to let us know about your guild’s action in Icecrown, any recruiting you’re doing, or any drama you see on the forums by sending us a quick email at guildwatch@wow.com. Thanks! Enjoy this week’s column.
DRAMA
Usually, simple ninjas don’t even rate in this column any more — they happen too often to count. But this one’s brazen enough (and on Onyxia, too) to be mentioned here. Over on Dath’remar, Tuffauzy of Heavy Artillery put together a pickup group for the big black dragon, and once the dragon was down, he proceeded to go
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Posted on December 7th, 2009 by admin
Blizzard has posted a Dungeon Finder Tool Mini-FAQ this morning. The Mini-FAQ is a nice rundown of some of the more important facts that need clarification. It’s more or less a polished up version of the questions Zarhym answered over the weekend.
As we talked about last week, patch 3.3 should be coming out tomorrow if there has been no major additional problems.
The entire Mini-FAQ after the break.
Gallery: Patch 3.3 PTR: New LFG interface
From Slorkuz:
Will the random heroic search have the option of excluding certain Heroic instances?
The dungeon finder will not let you exclude a specific instance, however – if you have already run a specific dungeon it is much less likely that the random heroic search will place you in the same dungeon again (on the same day).
Will players still need to purchase keys to queue for TBC heroics?
The tool complies with all standard requirements for entering a heroic dungeon. For example, if you log into the game right after 3.3 is released and queue for a random heroic dungeon, you will not be placed in instances such as Icecrown Citadel – Pit of Saron or Halls of Reflection unless you have cleared all the pre-requisites (previous wings in those cases) to unlock said instance entering (i.e. you must still clear Forge of
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