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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Posted on November 30th, 2009 by admin
It’s the week after Thanksgiving, and Hornwood of <Collective Conscious> on Zul’jin is still working on cleaning out his leftovers. No matter how much beef he eats, there always seems to be more on the table the next day. Maybe holding Thanksgiving dinner underneath Thunder Bluff this year wasn’t such a good idea. Hopefully, next year’s bash beneath the Aldor lift in Shattrath City would go better.
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Posted on November 26th, 2009 by admin
The @warcraft twitter account has been posting a few carefully taken pictures of something the past couple days, and today it’s been reveled what the object is — a Pandaren Brewmaster Figure that you can buy from the Blizzard store. The little guy is “on sale” for $50, and there are limited quantities available. Everything is first come, first serve, so if you want one I suggest getting getting it quickly.
The figure is of Chen Stormstout, who left his Pandaren home world to find better ingredients to make his brew with. These figures are usually of pretty high quality, and by the looks of it this one is exceptionally detailed. It’s also not a small figure. It’s over 8 inches tall and 4 pounds in weight, which makes it quite a nice desk statue.
Should be a good collectable for this who want it!
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Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by admin
WoW’s 5th Anniversary is still rolling and we have even more great stuff to give away to our loyal readers. This time it’s a gift certificate that will give you $100 credit for merchandise ordered at Swagdog. We have 5 of those codes to give away and you can enter for a chance to win one of them.
The contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), and everyone who enters must be 18 or older. To enter, leave a comment on this post before Tuesday, November 24th, at noon eastern, and please be sure to use a real email that you check often to enter, so we can contact you should you be one of the winners. You may enter only once and five winners will be selected randomly. Each winner will get a code for credit at Swagdog.com with a retail value of US$100. Click here to read the official contest rules.
If you don’t qualify for this contest, be sure to enter our Loot card giveaway and look for more WoW.com giveaways over the next three days!
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Posted on November 19th, 2009 by admin
There’s a distinct lack of crazy drama on the servers lately, and I think it’s not necessarily because the raids are easy (guilds are still hitting hardcore achievements as they should be), but just that there’s no guildbreaker raids out there right now. If you can beat ToC, you beat it, and if you can’t, you can go back and do Ulduar and heroics, gear yourself up, and move on. I will say this: it seems much easier for a guildleader to avoid drama and issues later in the expansion cycle, when gear is plentiful, rather than right away.
That said, there’s still lots of good drama, downed, and recruiting news in this week’s Guildwatch. Click on to read more, and don’t forget to send us your tips (especially drama) via email at guildwatch@wow.com.
DRAMA
Cohesion recently left Terrokar. Our tipster says that their problem wasn’t the server — it was raiders not showing up to raids, and any progression runs “scraping the bottom of the barrel” for people to come with. We’re told that lots of raiders left the guild on their own, transferring off to other guilds. The GM’s solution? Leave the server himself. Everyone’s over on the realm forums saying goodbye, We’re not quite sure it’s the
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by admin
I’ll be up front and admit that I don’t play Upper Deck’s World of Warcraft TCG. If I had oodles disposable income and the time, though, I totally would. It’s just that between the MMOG and, uh, real life it seems pretty difficult to find time to collect cards, build decks, and find people to play with or compete against. That said, I think Upper Deck’s card game looks awesome and I had fun in the short time that I played it back when it was launched. If I wasn’t playing WoW, I think I’d be playing the card game.
More than any other licensed WoW product, I think, the WoW TCG feels extremely tied in to the game world. The art, along with a lot of game references such as NPCs, locations, and spells, make it feel like an extension of Azeroth. In many ways, some of the things that are featured in the card game are canon. I thoroughly enjoy the artwork in particular. They blow me away and I use every opportunity (such as this one) to include WoW TCG card art into my posts. I can’t praise Upper Deck’s graphic design team enough — everything from the cards to the website to associated merchandise feels 100% World of Warcraft.
When the WoW.com office in the clouds heard the rumor that the WoW TCG was about to die a sad and
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Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin
Yesterday’s Breakfast Topic asked about the new Alliance race, but today we’re here to ask about the prodigal Hordies, Cataclysm’s newest Horde race, the goblins. The announcement of the race was a bit of a surprise, but one that made a lot of sense upon further examination. I wasn’t at all excited for goblins at first, but the more I look at ‘em, the more I kinda like ‘em — especially all of the cute hairstyles that the women get.
So, I know that I’ll be rolling at least one goblin. I’m thinking a warlock and … I have no idea. I’m running out of classes I don’t already have an 80 of. But it might be fun to faction change one of my existing 80s to a goblin too. They’d be my first high-level Horde character! I never fell prey to infectious rerollbelfatosis.
So what about you guys? Excited to blaze new trails and be Kalimdor pioneers with your little green man (or woman)? What are you going to roll? Does your goblin have a backstory you’re building? Let us know in the comments and in the poll below!
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