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very two years, the Spirits of Competition grow especially fervent, and draw close to the mortal realm. During such times, members of both the Alliance and Horde can honor the spirits and earn Competitor’s Tabards by seeking to defeat one another in the battlegrounds. For victory in competition, they can also earn the spirits’ favor [...]

PVP right now is one of the most vivid and important parts of the game to me. Sure there are times where I’d rather see content (when it’s new and shiny and I haven’t seen it obviously) but as soon as the afterglow fades it’s all about PVP for me.
There isn’t much going on right [...]

Jayde says it best, I seem to get the “Dear in the headlights” look 90% of the time I run into an alliance. Which is how I imagine a lot of players are going to react when they run into a Death Knight in live. Here is a video of some pretty straightforward steamrolling.
There isn’t [...]

Staring off with this screenshot. I like to see the Horde get it’s balls back. It’s time to raise your axe arm high and start kicking some ass.
This is a short gripe. Remember when there were only a few Neutral Factions that mattered? Remember when grinding rep had a purpose and there weren’t 50 million [...]

You know I could do the customary thing all these other sites are doing and give you a massive OMFG list of everything going on in this Patch, but that got boring after 3 pages. So instead here are the patch notes and I will go line by line explaining what EXACTLY this means. A [...]

Living in Miami Florida and only a few hours (if that) drive South of Orlando, I was strongly considering attending this event to try and cover it but alas, money and work schedule kind of threw a big wrench in the works. Here’s the excerpts from MMOC.
Gotfrag.com posted a long and very interesting preview of [...]

This is downright hilarious. I mean seriously fucking hilarious. I remember a long time ago me and the wife tried to uel each other while completely and utterly destroyed by alcohol and mind altering substances. I think by the end of the night I was laughing on the floor in tears, while she was running [...]

A lot of people can say the same thing as me on this subject. Lake Wintergrasp and the revitalization of world PVP is a VERY BIG FUCKING DEAL in the coming expansion.
Already a lot of people are pretty much dismissing the entire project with worries and jaded cynicism that it’s going to be just like [...]

June’s month long poll is done. At 202 (million) votes we have the results. I’m happy to say that (by a small margin) World PVP took the 1st place as to what PVP changes people wanted most in Wrath of the Lich King.
Good news is that they’re getting their wish. With the introduction (and finally [...]

Wrath of the Lich King - Northrend BG Preview from el'anon on Vimeo.

Ahh PVP. The lifeblood. Blizzard actually gave us some pretty good insights to the PVP game coming up in Wrath of the Lich King.
Like my previous posts this is a massive dump of information but it’s been organized into something less painful to read. Click “Read More” to see the full post as all of [...]

This is going to make mages and warlocks both very happy. I on the other hand would normally be bothered since I normally go purge happy whenever I see a warlock or mage, but at least this way I conserve a little more mana.
Mages

Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor, and Molten Armor are no [...]

I don’t know about you all but I am actually pretty pissed at the way the current system works for BG queues. Maybe I’m just being nostalgic but I really miss the days before cross server battlegrounds. There were guilds devoted to PVP. You had a sort of fame throughout your server. There was actual [...]

Phase 2 of the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament’s second qualification round has begun. Tournament participants have had ample time during the practice phase to hone their strategies, try various team compositions, and gain experience playing with their team. It’s now time for the real games to begin again for the last chance to [...]

So my people, you wanted pictures? Visual? Images? Informationz!?
There’s a new poll up, you should vote!
I enjoy big grand holy crap entrances so let’s start this off with a big bang. Hopefully once we get to use these bad boys there will be some pretty big bangs. Keep in mind that the current plan is [...]

A new page of Teh Gladiators is out, go check it out. This is one of the few really solid quality WoW comics out there.

This video really made me laugh because it brought back some memories. Back in classic WoW me and my buddies used to get together every other week and throw a little LAN party at somebody’s house. Usually meant heavy drinking, modded out Unreal Tournament, and then Starcraft or WoW group PVP. Some of the most [...]

Gnomes have a pretty powerful racial although for the longest time it was unabated and I would argue a little bit imbalanced in a PVP sense. A while back there were some changes and today we’ve got some complaints probably by somebody who was just ill informed. Anyways here’s the low down on Escape Artist.
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Going to keep it really simple today with the Arena Season 4 buzz that’s picked back up again. I wish there was more balance right now to the news with PVE stuff or other changes but this late in the cycle for Burning Crusade there isn’t much in the way of PVE that’s going to [...]

Alright folks here’s the official word! The start date for the US will be June 24th, EU starts June 25th. Following suit with the internets, I’ll be posting some recaps on the Arena Season 4 gear and all the news therein.

We’re currently planning to end the third Arena season and begin Arena Season 4 [...]

I agree with Blizzard, although 2 minutes can be FOREVER in a combat situation. Ever play Planetside? There’s about 40 people spawning at the same time every few seconds and a few people in some heavy arms can pretty much own the battle until you get pissed and logoff. We have to wait to rez [...]

Thar be rumors.
Arena season 4 is not going to start on the 17th. Odds are that it will begin sometime in mid July so that people will have around 4-5 solid months before we hit the peak expected release time for the expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King.
That is interesting, I wonder why [...]

Tom Chilton (Kalgan) had an interview with PC Gamer where, get this, he revealed that spell-damage only type gear will get replaced by a new system in WotLK.
PC Gamer: What else is changing?
Kalgan: We’re also going to be doing away with spell-damage only type gear. We’ll be moving to a system that, as part of [...]

Brutal Gladiators of the future weep. I on the other hand just kind of sit here and ponder life’s mysteries. LOL ok so now the hardcore OMFG I am AWESOME AT ARENAS! people can officially bitch and moan about PVE ruining the game… seriously you know some dumbass is going to rant about this at [...]

LOL! Yeah dragons are dumb.

For those interested, Blizzard has announced the start of the 2nd qualifying round.
Phase 1 of the 2008 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament’s second qualification round has begun. Tournament participants have two weeks to hone their strategies, experiment with various team compositions, and practice their teamwork. To track the progress of your team and those of [...]

Alrighty folks we got Rat Kiting in Teh Gladiators and easy noob leveling for Alliance in Ding! enjoy.
 

The frustration is still building. With good reason I might add. Let’s look at the latest skirmish with this play by play.
Forum Troll: Stop milking the cow Blizzard! Give us a date, or to hell with you!
Nethaera: It’s never nice to curse people. Information will be given at the appropriate time, not before. Yes, [...]

Gotfrag posted an interview with Kalgan mostly focused on Arena. Here are some highlights.
The idea of “eSports” has been a big part of Blizzard’s corporate strategy, what impact do you think eSports has on the success from a business side for Blizzard and other game developers? We understand that Blizzard has established a dedicated eSports [...]

Tauren rogues lol. Slorkuz was brave enough to go in depth with his look at Warlocks in the arena. So he’s hitting Rogues now. I happen to like rogues a lot (though never taken one past 40) so I found this little write up pretty useful. He goes into the different combos for a Rogue [...]