WoW News

If your server is crashing and burning then time to jump ship folks. Blizzard is opening up 22 US servers for free character migration. Or if you’re Horde and guildless you can come to Altar of Storms and join the Spooncraft crew!
We will be offering free character moves from a selected high population realm to [...]

I was thinking that with all this scourge stuff going on and an official introduction of Grand Apothecary Putress, it’s be a great time to show you all again what the Battle for Undercity is. There is a lot going on now even if you can’t see it. Blizzard is doing an incredible job shaping [...]

Whatever your experience with this event, it’s over. In the short short time I placed the poll on the sidebar asking if this was a good event or a bad event, and so far it seems that a few more of you like it than dislike it. Personally, they could have done better.
I would have [...]

Howdy folks. This is a  little update for those of you not sitting at level 70 or perhaps wanting to help gear out an alt with some pretty rare and strong instance loot. Just like last time the Scourge invaded Azeroth, there are new and unique bosses in several undead-esque instances.
Sever: Lv. 21 Abomination in [...]

Alright ladies and gents, got another update for you. Holy shit two updates on a Sunday that’s unheard of.
There are new quests available from any commoner in a main city. The quests send you to some folks right outside of A’dal’s room, who will then send you to your faction leader. During this FedEx style [...]

I went over last night all the stuff going on now with the Necropolis’ attacking, the new boss in Kara (can’t FUCKING believe a Hunter beat me for that thing…), and the scourge plague spreading even faster.
Well if you haven’t experienced it yet, all hell is breaking loose.

The duration for you to turn into a [...]

Alright folks here’s my next update.
The main phase of the Zombie Invasion has begun!

The infection now lasts 2 minutes instead of 5 so expect even more plague spreading.
Necropolis from the pre-Naxxramas events are back throughout the world! The undead scourge are everywhere! The pre-naxxramas mini-boss in Stratholme is also back and still drops his level [...]

There are a lot of changes coming up including the great Paladin nerf (I really don’t think it’s so bad honestly) as well as the Hunter changes to aspects and such.
Death Knights got a little tweaking in the way of DPS increase in Blood. Druids got some barely noticeable drops in their DPS for feral [...]

It’s a pretty touchy and frankly, ugly subject right now. With the mass merging of raid buffs, the typical raid composition has been tossed out the window and there are many more opportunities for the average raider to find a spot come Wrath of the Lich King.
Our goal was not to remove anything unique from [...]

My first character was a Paladin that I dumped at about level 33 before taking up the first Spooner (Warrior) so the class itself has always had a really strong spot in my heart. So now that I’ve been playing my Paladin a lot more I can really see a lot of what the community [...]

Via MMOC, there’s a new boss in the game. This information was data-mined off the Beta and it appears to be pretty legit. Major props to Boubou for figuring this out.
The next phase of the WotLK world event will feature a new boss located in Karazhan: Prince Tenris Mirkblood. Tenris is part of <The San’layn>. [...]

With Death Knights using what appears to be a modified energy system (think being a rogue with 3 energy bars and a rage bar), and feral druids pretty much being rogue clones in cat form; what’s the actual reason that rogue’s combo points are built on the target and not the player?
Personally I think that [...]

Somewhat related and somewhat different. I figured I’d lump both of these topics into the same post.
I wanted to start talking about healing because it’s on our radar. But we are considering some major changes, so it is going to be a long term design and not something we’ll patch in a week or two. [...]

Nessaja should be writing this right now not me, bah! Could use some feedback from mages that visit the site, I can’t remember the last time I even had a mage other than Nessaja comment here. A little bit of prospective would be nice. Right now from an untrained point of view, I think Arcane [...]

This has always been something I wanted to get since the game first came out and the mount made available. Baron Rivendare (the original Death Knight Boss in WoW) has such a slim chance to drop his own epic land speed mount as well as runeblade. Blizzard has seen fit to increase the drop rate [...]

Druid
Consequences of 10% armor increase on bosses for feral druids
It will hurt Feral dps, but we also needed to hurt Feral dps a little. Cats with a cat spec really hurt stuff now.

It will be a slight threat nerf to bears and warriors (and DKs and paladins slightly less) but tank threat is so enormous [...]

Zombies + Durability Damage
I just take off all my gear. Your gear stats will not help you as a zombie. (src)
Zombies can talk to each other regardless of their faction
Zombies are members of the Scourge and can communicate with one another. It makes you wonder where else in the world zombies will find friends. (src)
That’s [...]

So much fun. Here is how you get infected by the plague :

Pick up one of the Suspicious Crate in Booty Bay, trying to loot one will instantly infect you.
Stay in one of the poison cloud used by zombies
Get damaged by a zombie.

When you’re infected, you can either run to a nearby Argent Healer or [...]

UPDATE: There are crates in Booty Bay that when clicked on will infect you with the Plague! The Cult of the Damned is starting to kick it up! I won’t be disappointing them muahahahaha BRAINS!
Via MMOC
As I write this news, it looks like the pre-Wrath of the Lich King world event has been started on [...]

Mikinbin has just exploded, can’t wait for him to read this.
As I posted recently in the hunter forums, we increased the armor on level 83 raid bosses by 10%. This will be a nerf to warrior dps.
In the case of Arms and Protection, we don’t think any adjustment is necessary at this time. Arms is [...]

As I have suggested a few times, we are concerned that hunters of all 3 specs are doing damage that is clearly superior to other classes. While we’re trying to achieve closer parity among specs of all classes with regard to dps, and we want to particularly make sure that hunters, rogues, mages and locks [...]

Coming from this post.
With the launch of the Echoes of Doom patch (3.0.2), certain items in World of Warcraft now bind to an account (account-bound) rather than to an individual character (soulbound). These account-bound items can be transferred between characters as long as they are on the same realm, in the same faction, and on [...]

We have finished a fairly comprehensive look at the dps of various classes and specs and are concerned that warlock dps isn’t quite where it should be. It’s not abysmal by any means, but we think it should be a little higher.
To give warlocks a little extra nudge in PvP, we increased Soul Link up [...]

We have concerns about how bursty dps has become in PvP. On the other hand, we’re pretty happy with mage dps in PvE so we want to take care not to hurt it.
For example, we discussed shifting some of Arcane’s damage between Arcane Blast and Arcane Barrage, but that actually does hurt one of Arcane’s [...]

As I have posted a couple of times recently, we decided to raise the armor of level 83 raid bosses by 10% to correct for some dps difference between casters and melee + hunters. I wanted to address the issue head on with the rogues.
We have done a lot of testing recently, and concluded that [...]

UPDATE!: It’s 11:42 PM EST and shit still aint’ working WOOO HAAA!
This post just went up:
Our realm technicians have been looking into issues affecting several realms and instances this afternoon. We will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.
In the mean time please refrain from creating additional threads about realm issues, as [...]

There are plenty of changes going on and you can check the full notes in my previous post here. But for the most part here are the biggest changes I noticed. Anything I missed please reply in the comments.

Orcs: Bloodfury is off the global cooldown so time to integrate into most big spells and attacks [...]

Get ready folks, I’ll be making another post shortly with a breakdown for what these changes mean. You can always check the patch notes here.

Another REALLY good discussion going on in this thread about skill and DPS and how some folks will cry wolf at their low output and blame it 100% on Blizzard or the class rather than themselves. It just strikes me as funny that people assume they can enter an instance without gems, enchants, smart talent [...]

The server itself isn’t broken per say, but the Battelgrounds are either always down or completely unplayable. There are mad reports of instances trapping players inside, servers crashing, world servers going down, people unable to logoff or login, cats and dogs living together, MASS HYSTERIA!
It has been nearly a week since we launched the biggest [...]