Spooncraft

With the activation of the level 80 premades it’s only common sense to think that Naxxramas is going to be released with the next build (which will probably be when the servers come back up, or am I the only one having connectivity issues)
The trash has indeed been adjusted. Highlights include:
- Longer trash sections between [...]

This news is coming from WOR where it was recently discovered that typing:
/console showThreatMeter 1
/script function IsThreatWarningEnabled() return 1; end
Would bring up a still underconstruction threat meter UI. The finished product will be quite interesting as it’ll grant addon writers more accurate resources for developing their own threat meters.

I saw this over on the Death Knight Info forums and think it’s the coolest looking quest in the game. It’s one thing to be in a siege weapon blowing shit apart, another to be ground pounding it with the infantry trying to hold ground; but when you’re leaping from dragon to dragon completely dismanteling [...]

Baron Rivendare.
WHAT?
For those that do not know, in the original Naxxramas (40) the final encounter in the Death Knight wing were the 4 Horsemen. Four Death Knights you had to fight at once and Highlord Mograin (the Ashbringer) was one of those Knights. He would drop the Corrupted Ashbringer. With Wrath of the Lich king [...]

Some of these can make for some good Photoshop fodder or as is Desktop Backgrounds so enjoy folks, with the new build we got some new loading screens for the raid dungeons and new rebuilds of the maps for Crystalsong Forest, Strand of the Ancients Battleground, and Northrend itself. Images from WOR because I’m still [...]

This is something we got to hear a little about in all the developer panels at the WWI 2008, Championing. As long as you wear the tabard of a faction, you gain reputation with that faction in any Lv. 80 dungeon in addition to whatever reputation the mobs of that dungeon award.
Naturally they’ll make it [...]

This is pretty major news. I’ve had to let it all sink in and try to make sense of it and so far I’m confidant I grasp the severity and scope of this change. Read on and leave your own thoughts. (src)
With the release of upcoming content patch players will see a change in the [...]

There isn’t much to say. I won’t fill this post with the typical bullcrap and fluff extra junk to try and waste your time. Just watch the video. If you can’t see it because you’re at work, then I’ll give you the short version.
Lone Death Knight walks into Onyxia fight. 21 minutes later the Death [...]

As always my thanks go out to the greater Death Knight community (Jayde from World of Feedback and Kenzi from Deathknight-info) I have had these videos on my desktop all yesterday and now they can be streamed so I share with you very sweet things.
Jayde was spec’d frost and there are two parts to the [...]

In reference to my last post about the raid stacking discussion in Wrath of the Lich King; here is a Q&A session pertaining to that. (src)
If it comes down to needing one of nearly everything… raiders would either have to be happy with getting less playtime in raids or you would have to hope your [...]

Even if you don’t raid, read this. Do yourself the favor and read this.
As we’ve suggested a few times, we are currently taking a serious look at all of the various buffs and debuffs classes can bring to parties and especially raids. A few of these changes have shown up in the recent build, and [...]

Alright there were a lot of changes. Tons of new content to explore. I’ll be updating A LOT today so by all means check back often.
The level cap will be 80. Storm Peaks will be available. Icecrown is still unavailable.
We’ll also make the following dungeons available:
Halls of Lightning
Halls of Stone
Caverns of Time: Stratholme
The Occulus
Utgarde Pinnacle
Heroic: [...]

Tanking in WotLK & Blessing of Salvation
One change we made recently is baking in the old bonus from Blessing of Salvation into tanking forms. Up until now you were pretty much just doing without the old Salv because there was no way to replace it, and many raiding guilds will tell you that buff is [...]

I saw this the other day and didn’t get around to posting about it sadly. But to make up for it here you have in all his splendor! The mighty Jaydefury of renowned World of Feedback has been pretty much my mentor of a sorts with Death Knights, and watching this video really opened my [...]

Prepare for another rant, I’m in a mood today.
I like it when a topic is talked about so much by Blizzard that I get sick of it. That shows me deep down that Blizzard is trying their best to make sure they get it right. In an MMO, that is no easy task. We now [...]

One of my more favorite quests (and presumably all of you too) in the Burning Crusade is the Ring of Blood quest in Nagrand. It has great rewards for the level, it’s fun, gives tons of gold and experience; overall a pleasant experience. Also it’s a great place for some pretty heated PVP battles.
I was [...]

Threads have popped up in several class forums that seem to be converging on a few of the same issues.
Tanking design:
1) Our goal in Lich King is for all 4 tanking classes to be viable.
2) We would like for tanking to be a little more fun. I’m going to leave this vague on purpose, but [...]

Raiding in the World of Warcraft has had more than a few face lifts over the past year. So where exactly does that leave us now? What will be changing now in Wrath of the Lich King? A lot in a very good way it seems. They’re changing some of the boss mechanics so when [...]

Badge of Justices / Arena & Honor Points in WotLK will be handled differently than they currently are.
~The current Badges of Justice should still be obtainable via level 70 heroic dungeons after Wrath of the Lich King launches but only used for level 70 gear. We currently plan to continue with a badge type of [...]

Hey folks, I told you I hadn’t forgotten about my PVE friends. Right now I’m not 100% sure that I will have the time and patience to write a fully updated and accurate dungeon and PVE guide for Northrend and WotLK but I will do my best when information is much more concrete.
Just know that [...]

This is going to be a very nice feature folks. Hell this might be the definitive addition to the game’s raiding scene so far. There have been many mods and such that can do the same thing but getting everybody in the guild who’s actively raiding to keep track and actually download the thing can [...]

This entire article comes courtesy of World of Raids. I really love their site and have been a follower of Teza for a very VERY long time. The writeup was so perfect that I cannot best it in my own words. Frankly I feel as if the writer was speaking from my mind (in seeing [...]

The very generous folks over at WoW Radio have released a second instance video. If you remember not too long ago they recorded their exploits running through the entire Utgarde Keep instance and this time around we’re getting a real treat with the Nexus.
It’s still Totalbiscuit and his group so we’ll still be graced with [...]

No no, not the band, the giant Titan daughter being. Here’s a quick writeup from some of the beta testers on WOR that managed to score some very nice titan lore (that I have been dying to see anyway) in the Sholazar Basin.
One of the new things in the old world brought by WotLK is [...]

So basically we all wanted to know how we would unlock flying in Northrend. Blizzard already told us that at level 77 it would be possible, but fears of a long quest or a money sink were pretty much common place. Reality is very far from that. It’s an easy and fun quest with some [...]

There’s not much else to say, this is an awesome change that people were already anticipating and I (along with any other Death Knights) am really looking forward to.
Yes, we’re planning on speeding up leveling in the 60-70 range. Keep the feedback coming. We are still adjusting it. Let us know what levels you are [...]

This is intense. This is a video of the final quest in the chain of the Death Knight starting area. The short version, you are one of the vanguards in a massive scourge army that will destroy Light’s Hope Chapel! I eat this stuff up man woot!

Lask Dk quest chain from Masteve on Vimeo.
Update: For [...]

After you do everything need be in the long quest chain involving Ebon Hold and the first few levels of the Death Knight, your gear will look like this. Thanks Kenzi for the image.

Why should the 25 man raids, which are no more difficult, except in terms of logistics, be rewarded BETTER QUALITY of gear as opposed to GREATER QUANTITY of gear?
The 25 person raid dungeons are likely to have more difficult encounters, on top of the logistical aspect, because with more players available there will be more [...]

Another real quick upgrade for the T6 raiders out there.
We recently pushed a hotfix through and you should once again get those nice green glowing infernals to deal with. (src)