I recently had to give a crash course to a friend of mine on the Isle of Quel’danas and the Sunwell dailies. As typical of any PVP server, the sunwell isle is pretty much a major hotbed of world PVP where you play hide from the guards and stay away from the forest or beach. [...]

1. Lack of new content and summer weather are leaving raids short handed.
2. Stagnation of new content is causing some members to jump to “more hardcore” guilds in the hopes of seeing more of Sunwell.
3. Lack of new content and lack of community goals is dragging down morale and general interest in the game.
4. PVP [...]

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 [...]

Soul Flay now targets the player with the highest threat against Kil’jaeden, regardless of the distance between the player and Kil’jaeden. Which I guess means something to people hitting KJ because I honestly don’t know what any of this means lol.
We’ve just deployed a hotfix to all regions that changes the targeting behavior of [...]

Well that about does it folks. All the new content has been conquered for the most part and we got the World 1st and now the US first.

Congratulations go out to Deus Vox from US-Laughing Skull on their kill. Here is their raid lineup followed by their drops. Funny thatwith Illidan we got a bunch [...]

You maniacs need to stop crashing my site seriously lol. Nah I just need to yell at server people for screwing me and mine up left and right.
So hey mmo-champions and WoR got a pretty solid list of the loot that’s going to drop off Kil’jaden. There are a few choice pieces on there I [...]

Death Wish has been giving a few attempts at the Kil’jaden encounter and have these screenshots to share. Any bets on how long until he’s downed?

The race for World first Kil’jaden kills, Legendary Bow drop, and US first is on!

New M’uru loot. Aegis of Angelic Fortune should be making your healers very happy, considering you can go see the encounter. Sorry that I can’t get the loot link working but Wowhead and WOWDB don’t have it in their database.

I haven’t seen this anywhere else and maybe it’s old news but this is the first I’ve seen of it. There is now an NPC in Shattrath aligned with the Shattered Sun Offensive, he’s near the portal to the Sunwell Isle and he sells the new Heroic Badge loot that once could only be obtainable [...]

Not sure if this made it to the mainstream let alone how many of my readers are fighting M’uru right now, but here’s some information released today.
We’ve changed the Negative Energy spells cast by M’uru and Entropius to no longer cause spell interruption on the target. This should ease the frustration of the encounter [...]

Thanks to Teza again for snagging this interview with Essath, the Rogue that owns a Blackened Naaru Sliver and was able to explain it’s functions and details for us.
Basically the proc consists of 2 procs. Battle trance that is the actual proc, has a 45sec hidden cd and Combat insight thats the stacking [...]

As some of you may know, Chinese provider The9 forcefully opened the gates and accelerated the Sunwell progression as far as Phases with the SSO event on Chinese servers as they got access MUCH later than we did. As much as some of us disagree with this, it’s not something we can change at all, [...]

SK-Gaming got the World first kill on M’uru earlier and they finally released their video footage of the fight. It’s from the point of view of two raiders;
Valandu & Morphling (hell yeah enhancement shaman)

Size - 431Mb
Runtime - 9 Minutes
Resolution - 1680×1050
Tracklist
Grendel - One Eight Zero (Life Cried Remix)
It’s a Dream - DJ [...]

Here is an updated M’uru loot table. All of the links are provided by WOWDB and you should follow the key beneath for items that can be obtained from the trade in vendor located on the Sunwell Isle (she’s on the boat). I also updated my little compendium page thing.
* (v): Blizzard implemented “Raid Token [...]

Congratulations Exodus from US- Kel’thuzad server. You guys made it happen and once again we see tons of Shaman and yes, another Enhancement shaman there kicking ass in the bleeding edge of WoW raiding. So I want to rub it in the face of a few more nay sayers that always told me Shaman were [...]

May 4th on the EU-Vek’nilash server, SK-Gaming managed to get the world first kill of M’uru, the fifth boss of Sunwell Plateau. Only Kil’jaeden remains but we’ll have to wait for the opening of the last door of the instance in a few weeks. I have to admit that it gave me the warm fuzzies [...]

Just a quickie update for those that may have missed it.
Void Shatter (skill: 360) requiring Runed Eterium Rod (Skill: 375) is a bug that is being fixed in patch 2.4.2.  (src)

Looking at the new weapons available for heroic badges and you wonder where are the swords, the maces, the bows? Looking at the weapons available you can see that they aren’t really designed to fill out every spot and with good reason. What I don’t like (although an intelligent answer) is Blizzard’s response to the [...]

Go get em tiger! M’uru is now open and available. All guilds who managed to defeat the Eredar Twins will be able to access the next to last boss of Sunwell Plateau known as M’uru. This boss had very little testing on PTR and no guilds managed to bring him down (not even close to [...]

I brought this up a while ago, that if you defeat the Eredar Twins boss encounter in the Sunwell Plateau using a reverse kill order, then you’re rewarded with more loot. This is a good thing. Obviously the fight becomes more difficult but the payoff of more Sunmotes and some more epics sweetens the deal. [...]

Proudmoore (US) is just tearing up the progression with the Sunwell Offensive. According to Gorgonnash.info they were the first server to break into Phase 3 and unlock the heroic badge loot vendor. They just completed Phase 4 of the Shattered Sun Offensive, and it triggered the availability of epic gems on Shaani the [...]

A while back there was a bug on the official armory website where it was displaying the epic gems available for 10 badges each. Checking the PTRs that was indeed false as they are still 15 badges per and about 43 gold per pattern from Shaani.

Also there’s a new trinket available for honor points but [...]

Just a little something for the anglers out there. This information comes from El’s Extreme Anglin’ with some sour news as fishing in the Isle of Quel’danas has been rendered pointless in the long run. We can’t directly catch Luminous Bluetail anymore directly.
Bloated Giant Sunfish now contain 1-4 Lightning Eel, 1-2 Luminous Bluetail, 3-5 Seaweed, [...]

Here it is folks, on the current PTR all the gates blocking advancement in the Sunwell Plateau are down! That means M’uru is accessible, and that also means Kil’Jaden is too. Get ready for some major flooding of new drops, boss videos, and PTR firsts!

I’m not sure if this is intended by Blizzard or just a fluke. But Vodka found out that a reverse kill order (Sacrolash first then Alythess) would make the Eredar Twins drop an extra epic item and 4 more sunmotes. Hopefully this is not a bug and works exactly as it should, the encounter [...]

Hortus updated the 2.4 Known Issues list with several additions (see below):
General
• Players can be randomly ported into the wall or down into the Menagerie while taking control of a chess piece in Karazhan.
UI
• A cursor is not displayed when mousing over NPCs with repeatable quests from range.
Quests
• Completing “Fragmented Magic” does not teach the [...]

People are getting all sandy over the art of the new Badge loot and even to a degree the new Sunwell Plateau drops. I honestly don’t see what all the crying is about. The gear doesn’t look bad, the badge gear itself too isn’t meant to be a replacement for T6 quality gear; it’s a [...]

I ate this up. Everything about the interview is right up my alley and has opened my mind to some very interesting theories that now seem to have a lot more credibility to them. Basically the whole thing is about the design in art and gameplay behind Patch 2.4 and the Sunwell experience. As well [...]