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.

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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)

I snagged these images from MMOC since they have the best resolution out there. Watermark won’t be there when I get the chance in October to take my own images from Blizzcon 08′ but for right now here’s just some visual validation of all the news that we’ve been reporting in regards to Raids & [...]

So with all the disclosure from the previosu weekend settling in we have a lot of information to sift through. A lot really isn’t debateable and comes across as very self explanatory. It’s the little details now that are going to be scrutinized and with good reason.
Right now pretty much all raid dungeons (with the [...]

It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that Naxxramas is going to be moved to Northrend and will be an end game raid in Wrath of the Lich King. A lot of players (myself included) consider it to be the crowning glory of the raid game since it was the best designed originally and [...]

Here’s the most updated list of information that was disclosed at the WWI about raiding and dungeons in the coming expansion. For the sake of keeping things cropped on the front page I have placed pretty much all the written information after the break. You might see some things repeated moreover but different sources provided [...]

First I’ll get a little into the argument about 25-man raids vs 10-man raids in the expansion. See here’s the one thing that people can’t seem to wrap their minds around. Raids scale in difficulty as they progress when Kara first came out it was considered hard and today people are complaining that Kara easy-mode [...]

I don’t know why people keep asking for this. I understand that the nostalgia of hitting a big grand army of 40 people seems so wonderful and truly epic. But as soon as you hit it you’ll lose the desire and remember how fucking terribad it was. Perfect example you can try for yourself. Remember [...]

Neth was gracious enough to give us what little insight is currently available by any means on the Arthas encounter. There is very little known about the event right now outside the hallowed doors of Blizzard dev. meetings but here’s what we know so far. (src)
When it comes to whether or not Arthas will be [...]

Just got back a little while ago and am trying to pick up the pace. Here are some random Blue comments from today that might peak your interest. The post is rather long but has a lot of very solid information in it by Blizzard posters on the official forums.

I really can’t get a solid stance on this. Frankly I think it was an awesome instance and I love the fact that there is little to no trash, whereas Karazhan and the 25-man dungeons (barring Magtheridon and Gruul) have hours upon hours of trash. I know it’s a pacing mechanic but it’s fucking annoying. [...]

I just got this email a few moments ago and the question couldn’t be better.
Galladon wrote: So we know that all 25 man raids will be able to have the 10 man option, but have we heard anything about strictly 10 man instances, like Kara and ZA?

I got this article over at WoR since they’re more European than I can ever hope to be what can I say I love what Teza has done. On to serious stuff, another one of the big mega guilds (the famous types) is gone. This is akin to Nihilum disbanding.
Is a new disease spreading [...]

The Seven killed Kil’jaeden at 19:16 CET on Sunday June 1st. Congratulations to them! As you know The7 is a major guild over in WoW China, they downed Illidan in tier 3 gear, 52 days after the release of Burning Crusade in China; which is pretty damn impressive. There was also some controversy due to [...]

I saw this today on the WOR forums and thought to myself “So that’s why I died.” For the longest time I would blame otherwise amazing healers for me instantly getting KO’d by bosses knowing full well that it shouldn’t have happened. Here’s a blurb form the download page. I would advise any and all [...]