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The developers and community managers have been very busy lately answering questions and giving out pretty solid details on feedback in the official WotLK Beta Forums. Here’s a bunch of the more general posts that aren’t about class changes and such. I’ll be going into detail on anything vague in orange text after the quote.
Azjol-Nerub [...]

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 [...]

Here are a few screenshots and some video footage of Dalaran as it gets the touch of life from Blizzard. I have to admit, my last complaint about neutral cities must have been heard by them because this city is turning out to not only look A LOT better than Shattrath but as well has [...]

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 [...]

I know Gelleth is going to flip over this. I’ve met maybe two or three people in my years playing this game that have upwards of 20 different pets/mounts and that’s a lot of bag space or bank space. It’s just been announced on the European Forums (time difference should be announced on the US [...]

Leiah over at World of Feedback was in the WotLK Alpha and was kind enough to show off some really impressive Death Knight gameplay. We’ve all dreamed and theorycrafted about how the class will work. Right now all my dreams and hopes are validated with this footage. Blizzard’s shock & awe tactics have pretty much [...]

Earlier today I posted a video showcasing the introduction flyover that you would normally get when you create a character for the first time. This video is from the same author only the video is longer and available in HD. I must say even though the Death Knight created is a gnome, hands down this [...]

Here is pretty much the big massive list of all the achievements you can get in WotLK under the new system. There are roughly 113 something images but the load time is rather quick for each. Check after the break.

Well, it’s not a ranged weapon but it is a relic. A new kind of relic known as a Sigil will be taking that slot in Death Knight equipment. Funny enough we’re getting two updates in one image, here is the quest that gives you the ability to summon your mount, and at the same [...]

As you should know by now, Ebon Hold is the home of the Death Knights. For now that’s the only place I know of that has a Death Forge where you can change the runestone buff on your weapon, let alone the only place I know of where DK trainers are. It looks… amazing.
Here’s a [...]

Alrighty to kind of save on some writing space and give you all images to work with here is a mega gallery gathered from WOR. Any questions about what you’re seeing should be posted as a comment and I’ll reply as quick as I can.

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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 [...]

It’s begun.
The beta test is up and running. Just got word that the beta downloader is in action and delivering data to those that have access to it (thanks WotLK Wiki for the breaking news). It’s pretty obviosu now that Blizzard has switched over to the beta phase in WotLK testing. Expect invites very soon [...]

There is a lot of drama as always within the Shaman community. We have… how do you say, been the bastard red headed step children of WoW since classic vanilla WoW.
This post is turning into an article which is turning into a big fat rant about how shaman were pretty much shat all over by [...]

Something we knew about from the Alpha a while back but here it is making the official page! Awesome news!

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We’ve just released a preview of the achievement system, one of the many new features that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the [...]

I’ll flat out say it, Neutral towns bother the hell out of me. The Horde and the Alliance should NOT be working together other than precious few situations and instances where there is no other choice. Warring factions or nations don’t band together until something catastrophic occurs. Like in real life, all religions and countries [...]

Right now there really isn’t a way we can accurately guess how the economy will shift in the coming expansion. At the same time Blizzard has been pretty vague in explaining any new money sinks. With no new mount skill (so far) it’s interesting to imagine the possibilities.
Right now I would venture that Herbalism and [...]

The title is self explanatory. Click this image for the full size.

With the friends & family Alpha testing phase done, news (obviously) has been really shitty (thus the slowdown on Spooncraft) but as I am not Blizzard nor in any way affiliated with them (yet) I can’t tell you when the Beta will hit. I [...]

Kenzi scored these pictures a while back but it didn’t get the attention I think it deserved. Vordrassil looks to be a pretty creative place and as far as lore goes it’s a nice little branch (no pun intended) in the whole World Tree arc.
Nordrassil was the big bad World Tree we all know from [...]

Hey everybody, first off this isn’t an official preview like Blizzard is so pent on doing before expansions. On the contrary what you’re going to see and read is more lore and unfinished yet really compelling footage of the underground zone that is Azjol’Nerub.
I really hope it keeps as an underground zone entirely where you’re [...]

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 [...]

If you combine everything said in Paris during the Worldwide Invitational and the very limited snippets of discussion by Blizzard on the Alpha forums it’s safe to say that the Paladin class is probably going to have some serious changes to the way they work. The main emphasis being on reducing the random burst and [...]

Hopefully you’ve had some time to fiddle around with the talent builder and got to see some of what’s in store for us in the expansion. However without knowing the actual spells and abilities we’re at a loss for making sense of a lot of these talents.
Here is a comprehensive list of those spells & [...]

I posted an older image of the Undead Flying Drake mount in WotLK not too long ago but we’ve already known about it for a long time. Kenzi scored some really solid pictures off a private server of the mount with a little more detail so it’s only fair that I share them with you [...]

I’m still hunting down better versions of videos but for now this seems the be the only one that actually has something you can look at. Frostfire bolt currently looks like a frostbolt that can proc ignite and the fire dmg stun effect if you go into those talents. The deep frost talent to stun [...]

Welcome back to Part 2 in my little Mage experiment today. Here’s where we go into the talents added/changed in Wrath of the Lich King.
Here are the new talents.

I find myself spending more and more time analyzing mages currently and in the coming expansion. Mainly because Nessaja plays a mage and I like to be useful in helping out with ideas and ways to spec/gear etc. So I figured that since all the Alpha news is slowing down to barely even a trickle, [...]

Paladin Schmaladin got another post up from pictures she received from a friend on her cell phone. This was the same guy that works for a printing company (?) and got the pictures of the Collector’s Edition Box I posted before the 4th of July weekend.
Here in these images you can see what easily looks [...]

Bornakk hooked us up with details about how flying mounts will work in WotLK. We already know that they’re going to be made available at level 77 which works out well since there are some instances in the Storm Peaks (Titan area) that will require a flying mount to access, like the Halls of Lightening/Stone.
It [...]