Maybe this thing will keep snowballing. We got Koraa (a Shaman class designer at Blizzard) posting on our forums regularly now and her cryptic message about the Shaman community being finally vindicated in WotLK seems to be holding water.
Totems are in the physical school now. (src)
This means that even when Silenced or Spell Locked you [...]

It’s a really well placed argument and it deserves a look. This sort of thing was answered partially in the Blizzcast where Kaplan spoke about how Heroic Badges in the expansion are going to be probably (not set in stone) broken down by Tier. So that you will get different badges for the different levels [...]

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 [...]

I have two Lv. 70 Shaman. I’ve got one in pretty much full T4 armor with bits and pieces of T5 and T6 equivalent weapons and items. The other was my original Orc Shaman with roughly 30,000 lifetime honor kills, a full season 1 elemental set that I got in the arenas not in the [...]

NO! Downloading clients and hacked Betas is awesome for your personal security and identity.
No Beta phase is currently active. (src)
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Let me show you something. Penguins are black & white flightless birds found in Northrend. Tuskarr breed penguins as farm animals. It seems that wild penguins are led by a large member of the race known as the Penguin King. That comes from the Wiki. As well if you played Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne [...]

If you can get through the crapped out websites long enough (or just have the podcast subscription like me) then you’re in for a treat! Blizzcast 3 is out. All the infamous questions and answers are therein.
The transcript for Kaplan’s interview can be found after the break but here’s the start! Listen to the [...]

The bestiary page for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King has been updated with a new creature and several new screenshots from the upcoming expansion. Learn more about one of the new species you’ll encounter in Northrend, the Magnataur. Sounds like a metal band, which is awesome. If you played Warcraft 3 The [...]

Blizzard added a new fan wallpaper to their Wrath of the Lich King wallpapers section. You’re basically looking at Arthas himself, the Lich King, and the splash comes from the main Wrath page.

So it seems Blizzard has secretly edited the official Death Knight page to change the description of each talent tree. They basically have made it so that each tree now has a pretty well defined mix of utility and definition. Before, the Blood tree simply said it was the DPS tree, Frost was for tanking, [...]

For a while there any and all questions regarding the expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) were answered by Blue CMs with “The answer will be in the next Blizzcast.” So right now I’m pretty much chopping at the bit to get a listen on the next episode. Blizzcast #3 has had some major delays [...]

A very good question indeed. Right now its pretty much part of the game design that melee classes scale better with gear than casters. It’s not even an issue of melee getting better treatment than it is just how the world works. A mage who is completely naked can fight a warrior who is also [...]

Very few people yesterday got a chance to see what appeared to be an AB test by Blizzard that maybe was not meant to be public, but we got to see what our forums are going to look like when Blizzard switches gears 100% from Burning Crusade to the Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard [...]

Howdy folks, as usual it’s another Friday although this week has been short due to the holiday earlier. News has been slow which also is normal. See this is the normal flow of things as one chapter in the game comes to a close and we have this weird lul period inbetween expansions.
Wrath of the [...]

Myself, my wife, and a few friends rerolled on a Horde server a few weeks back. Most of us had a Horde character above level 30 me being the only 70 but it’s been nice to take a more relaxed approach and be back amongst mah peoples. Watching them all level through some of the [...]

People are (with good reason) wanting some more details pronto on the redone Naxxramus. A lot of us (I did a little bit) got to experience Naxxramus before Burning Crusade and even some that have for the first time at Lv. 70 just to see it. For a long time (I’d say even now) players [...]

We’ve been discussing this a lot. The PVP aspect of the game is a big lure for me but more than that I enjoy this universe and the lore as well as the raids and dungeons. It’s just appealing to me. With that said right now we’re engrossed in some major discussions about the raiding [...]

I understand and I guess agree with Blizzard in that they don’t have any plans (means no) to add a 3rd primary profession slot into the game. As it stands now you can take two professions and then you’re done. Yeah you can have first aid and cooking and fishing but those are secondary professions. [...]

This post here is to bring the pretty for you folks. As always stuff taken directly from the Alpha is frowned upon big time but these have been officially released so enjoy. I tweaked one or two of my favorites so I can use it as my desktop background, demand willing I’ll put those up [...]

The raiding community has been buzzing with the release of the news that in Wrath of the Lich King all raids will be available in either a 10 or 25 man version. In other words (logically speaking from a developer standpoint) they would have to build the instance from the 10-man perspective first and then [...]

I like this a lot. As much as I really dug a lot of the old instances (and still feel nostalgia for them) I sober up after a while and remember the overwhelming bad times with super long instances where the loot really just never dropped. Damn Valor shoulders, THEY’RE A FREAKING MYTH THEY AREN’T [...]

As always you know nothing is final until the game is on store shelves but for the most part this is pretty much set for the expansion.
It means on realm X, you can have only 1 Deathknight. On realm Y, you can have only 1 Deathknight. But technically, once you have a character to unlock [...]

Somebody actually likes BRD. I mean yeah it’s not a bad instance but it’s about as big as Hellfire Peninsula and a royal pain in the ass unless you have GPS or a Sherpa guide.
Anyways here’s some more verification on what Blizzard has planned for the 5-man content in Wrath. I reported this from the [...]

I was going to report this yesterday but I wanted to let the thread grow a bit and get more of Nethaera’s special touch to it before I spread it here. There are a lot of really good questions that will most likely make it into the official FAQ for the expansion regarding Death Knights, [...]

Are crap. I have been getting emails left and right, conversations with friends leading to arguments, even in my own head I’ve debated showing all the leaked Alpha stuff on this site. Maybe I’ll poke around and find a way to clear my conscience and share some of the monsters and other goodies but even [...]

Well like I said before it’s not really 100% official until Blizzard decides to put it up on their site. Lo and Behold. (src)
We’ve just updated the official Wrath of the Lich King web site with new information about the upcoming expansion. Visit the new death knight class page to learn more about the [...]

I would agree with the CM on this one. Even with Paladins and Druids in Burning Crusade getting some tanking utility, the best tank for many situations will always be a Warrior through the pure mitigated damage and tons of tools (shield block, shield wall, last stand, etc) they’re given.
I will say this much though, [...]

This is a very good question. Many of us play on a server that has been designated as “full” meaning that server may not be at 100% capacity but you’re not allowed to create anymore new characters (new as in different account) on the server.  With the addition of the Death Knight class you’re only [...]

The site to signup for the Friend & Family Alpha is available and I guess we can consider that the alpha officialy started. As a reminder this is restricted to Blizzard’s employees and their friends/family and it’s not public in any way, you won’t get any mail related to this phase of the beta.

This is hands down one of the most wicked looking machinimas. It has the potential to be one the GREATEST works in machinima. Notice something important too. This is NOT the cinematic you see in Wacraft III.
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It’s very short but still a good teaser. Trailers are long, teasers are short. So… where were you when [...]