There are literally thousands of different sources for tanking discussion and information out there on the internet, but everytime that Blizzard starts talking about their design philosophy with tanking I can’t help but be glued to the screen. The following quote really makes a lot of sense with the game’s current setting.
Tanking in WotLK
The goal [...]

PvE raid content difficulty
Keep in mind that guilds like this are comprised of people who have bested every raid encounter we’ve released since Onyxia and Molten Core. They’ve made it a focus for years now to conquer every piece of PvE content we put out there, and do it first. Knowledge, experience, and teamwork are [...]

To feebly try and make up for the weeks I have not posted any Warcraft Comics, here are SEVEN in a row for you. I’ll try and be more consistent with these at least once a week maybe every two weeks now since there’s a lot more to do around here. Still my weekly comic [...]

I don’t mind going into a dungeon and knowing that it’s going to be a fun and easy experience that will take maybe at most 45 minutes. The break in overworld questing is always nice because it throws something new into the mix. You can stop worrying about tagging mobs or waiting for respawns or [...]

So how many of you are level 80? How much sleep have you gotten and do you feel like your innards are starting to liquefy themselves in a desperate bid to feed yourself. I myself am only 74 (about one bar away from 75) but I’ve managed to keep a healthy balance between husbandry, fatherhood, [...]

Little different here with Spoon’s Eye View. I won’t be doing a class or spec but tanking in general. Now this isn’t going to be a workshop in how to tank because I don’t know it all for one and it way too massive a subject to try and tackle with just one post for [...]

So how many times exactly have you had to answer this question over general chat in the Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord? Seriously. I mean I had to tell a guy the other night where the mailbox was because he couldn’t muster the effort to find it himself.
What is it about new content that makes [...]

From all of us Beta testers that have had to answer this question about 4,000,000 times so far.
HORDE! New Zepplin in Orgrimar takes you to Borean Tundra! New Zepplin in Undercity takes you to Howling Fjord.
and…
ALLIANCE! Boat from Stormwind goes to Borean Tundra! Boat from Menethil Harbor goes to Howling Fjord!
Thank you.

The first lore figure we’re looking at is Tirion Fordring. A man of great honor, a devout follower of the Light, and one of the original paladins of the Silver Hand; we explore his beginning, downfall and rising. You’ll see this amazing paladin in Valgarde (Howling Fjord) if you are starting Northrend there, or the [...]

Ho There!
Bill here again with a few reputation questions for WoTLK!
1. As a main tank warrior, are there any factions that award essential ‘tanking’ items? I’d like to make my time leveling and grinding efficient, so if there were certain factions I could aim for early on, that would mean all the less rep grinding [...]

Cryptic words from Nethaera aren’t too uncommon, but in this context I can clearly see she’s being sarcastic. Now I don’t mean that in a negative sense mind you, this Scourge invasion has been incredibly sweet. For those of us bringing alts turned mains to level 70 it’s been a Godsend.
People will find any reason [...]

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 [...]

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 snatched this one up from my own gallery that I’m bit by bit uploading tp the Spooncraft Gallery located on Flickr or on the sidebar of this site.
Of all the places in Northrend that really made my jaw drop and a chill run down my spine in pure elation and excitement, the first of [...]

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 [...]

With Patch 3.0.2 coming out today (long maintenance) it’s officially the end of Arena Season 4. So what do arena players have to look forward to then with the new class changes and such besides extremely manic skirmishes where you have to relearn your class and different comps?
Why, two new arenas of course!
Orgrimmar Arena
The Orgrimmar [...]

After painstakingly scouring all of Dalaran best I could, I have for you this visitor’s guide for new players coming to the great Violet City.
Now, Dalaran really is a work of art, the city looks BEAUTIFUL and you can tell a lot of work went into every little detail. This place is MASSIVE as well [...]

I’ve been having a hard time keeping track (for myself) of all the different places we;ll be raiding in the Wrath of the Lich King. It’s a new learning experience for all of us when you will no longer hear people looking for groups to ZA or Kara and so forth; but instead will have [...]

So this is more lore stuff but it’s been a while, and since this morning I’ve been getting all juked out over the arena and Wrath of the Lich King PVP stuff I figured it’s a good time for lore now.
The faceless ones are these guys. You can check out the full info in the [...]

Coming straight from the home page:
We’ve just added an interactive map of Northrend to the Wrath of the Lich King website. This map includes information about Northrend’s dungeons, Alliance and Horde settlements, faction bases and neutral cities as well as individual zone maps and screenshots of each region.
Check out the interactive map of [...]

Once more we dig into the grab bag.
PTR - Character Copy
Following the release of patch 3.0.2 for testing, we are seeing some incredibly high levels of activity on the Public Test Realm. As a result, the system is still struggling to handle the very large numbers of players attempting to copy their character, and the [...]

Here’s an update on a couple things…
- The last bits of flying design work are in and you should see it in the next push. We have removed the rocks floating around the city from the dismount zone. The rules are still the same as I explained in my last post. Please test it out [...]

HK Titles & Black War Bear reward
Actually, we moved the “of the Horde” and “of the Alliance” titles to 100K HK’s.
The new reward for “For the Horde” and “For the Alliance” is a Black War Bear. (src)
New Feat of Strength
We added a Feat of Strength for having the Tabard of the Protector. (src)
About the new [...]

Icecrown
It’s partially implemented. Work is still ongoing but we felt like it was stable enough to at least get some feedback.
Because it is not completely finished, you’ll want to adventure there at your own risk. Quests will have some bugs or be unfinished and it’s likely that creatures are either under-tuned or over-tuned. Also, rewards [...]

The loot lists are going to be far from complete and I have waited until the later end of the day in the hopes that more information would become available since the nature of posts like this leads new things to be discovered all the time. That means that I have to keep constantly updating [...]

So people are already starting to say Naxx is too easy. Hell it was all of what, 2 days(?) until Premonition and Vis Maior already cleared the 10 and 25 man versions.
We expect Naxx to be the easiest raid dungeon in WotLK. If experienced Sunwell guilds were repeatedly wiping, the dungeon would be overtuned. The [...]

There was a known issue where players in the Stormpeaks doing… something, was causing the server to crash. By server I mean the Northrend continent.
Storm Peaks is crashing because of an Art/Engine related bug. There is no way we can hotfix Storm Peaks. We’ll need to patch to fix it. (src)
The same can be said [...]

A heads up for you folks to not forget, some of these models are temporary until the real models are added to the game. It’s a Beta and they are not done yet, if that’s not obvious by this point then I don’t know how else to help you

via MMOC

Premades weren’t supposed to be active today - Actually, the premades being available on the existing realms was a mistake. They are being removed. There will be a specific premade realm. (src)
Premade Realm - Murmur will be the new Premade realm. Premades will be removed from “Northrend” and “Lich King” (src)
The rate at which you [...]

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 [...]