The Icecrown Citadel raid buffs, Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn, have increased from 10% to 15% today. This is great news for those guilds just on the cusp of downing a boss — expect to see quite a few new Lich King kills and some more progression in the next day or so.
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A few things about this Warcraft-flavored PC casemod, seen over on this Chinese website. First: it’s awesome. Warcraft art is faithfully recreated, and as you can see, there’s a nice Horde montage on one side, Alliance on the other, and the Dark Portal sitting right there in front. Second: it’s probably pretty old — most of that art is from the game’s original release four years ago. So it’s probably not exactly the latest and greatest in Warcraft PC designs (though it might be a little later than the ghost train pirate art). But still, it looks great. And I definitely wouldn’t mind wandering around Azeroth on that rather than my current gigantic black tower of a PC. Update: Turns out the case is for sale. That is, if you want to spend $299 on a case. [via Technabob] www.wow.com
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Reader comments — ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week. Looking for sweet, sweet sarcasm? [1.Local] is full of smart alecs. You’ll get a good taste of sarcasm in this week’s sampling of comments, as well as pointers to WoW’s hottest topics … Oh, and a virtual wave of reader approval. But before we dig in, how about seconds of this week’s WoW-themed dessert? MusedMoose: Dude! It’s the legendary sword Frostingmourne, weapon of the Lick King! … I’ll go now. Us, too. Let’s wipe off the frosting and head past the jump for more of the week’s comments. How not to aggro your tank with AoE Writer Matthew Rossi fired up readers with one of the week’s most popular posts. “Reader UnstØppable writes in with a question I thought would benefit others,” he wrote. “‘Does the Bladestorm aggro problem ever get better? What I mean is, I’ve seen it countless
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com’s weekly column for all things angry and clanky. Matthew Rossi writes it, when he’s not busy being angry and clanky. Dev Chat Update: While today’s post is about fury, it’s worth mentioning that in addition to nerfing Shield Block’s contribution to Shield Slam, we will supposedly see a threat buff to the ability. Hopefully it’s a scaling, and not a static, threat buff, something that adds X threat for every Y block value or something. They’d also supposedly like to add sustained damage to prot for PvE without PvP burstiness, which would be nice if it happened.. Lately I get plenty of tanking action in raids, to the point where I honestly don’t want to do it in PuG’s. When musing about it the other day I realized that I’m too used to hard modes and progression when tanking: I demand perfection of myself to such a degree that I get tense and stressed over the smallest error in execution. This is possibly admirable (when not taken too far) in a raid setting on a new boss where
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When Monday night rolls around, I have a ritual that I follow without fail: I check the official server status forums and the launch tool waiting for any word on the maintenance window for Tuesday mornings over and over again. Most weeks, I’m lucky to get it by 10 PM pacific, if not midnight. Every once in a while there’s an early announcement, but that’s very, very rare. So it was some surprise to me to see a Saturday afternoon announcement from blue poster Enthati. We’ll be having some downtime this Tuesday from 5 AM pacific to approximately 11 AM pacific. This is honestly probably the earliest I can recall ever seeing a downtime announcement go up. This, in turn, makes me wonder if something’s up. 5-11 is a pretty short window, not enough to expect a patch, I’d think. Of course, I’m all for earlier advanced notice of downtime, so you won’t hear me complain if this early announcement is just a new policy. If nothing else, I’ll be able to go to bed earlier on Monday nights. And on Tuesday morning, you can head over here for
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Good news everyone! The second wing in Icecrown Citadel is open. Inside the Plagueworks, we’ll be taking on the next generation of abominations that Arthas and his lackeys have been working on. Festergut, Rotface and Professor Putricide will be available for your raid. Have you fought them yet? Which one is your favourite? Festergut will be a bit chaotic the first time you go in there. Be careful of the gas in the room. Rotface looks to be a technical fight that demands some precision in movement from players. Watch out for the oozes! Now Professor Putricide? We’ve been fighting abominations in Icecrown and other places. This time we get to fight as one. All you have to do is drink a potion and voila! If you haven’t heard his audio yet, you’ll be in for a treat. He’s got some amazingly catchy sayings. Perhaps in the future, we’ll do a roundup post of the best lines and quotes that Wrath of the Lich King had to offer. If you haven’t done the wing yet, which boss are you looking forward to? If you have, which is your favourite? Note: You
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WoW.com’s final day of Twelve Days of Winter Veil contests keeps on rolling. For the last loot code contest, we’re giving away 1 Foam Sword Rack code courtesy of WoWTCGLoot.com. A rack of foam swords can be summoned. From there, any player can click on the rack to temporarily gain a foam sword that can be used to duel other players or just bonk them on the head. If a player loses a duel, their foam sword will explode into confetti. To enter for a chance to win, leave a comment in this post by Sunday, January 3, 2010, 11:59pm ET. Limit one entry per person and make sure you’re registered with a valid email address. We’ll be choosing one winner randomly from the entrants and contact them via email after the close of the contest. EDIT: Contest closed. Thanks everyone!
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Maybe it speaks to the nostalgic Horde members more than the rest of us, but I think the Interactive Horde Onyxia Attunement Chain is probably Wowcrendor’s best work yet. It has the same subtle sense of humor shown in his previous work, but then takes it up a notch by speaking to one of the single most prominent, painful moments in any Horde member’s life. Like so much of Wowcrendor’s work, it’s not only the in-game references that make his work relay so much truth. It’s also the subtle nod to universal experiences. (For example, my favorite part is when you choose to not do the quest. If you go down that path, your guild leader yells at you to get your act together. C’mon, haven’t we all been there at one point or another?) As a note, make sure you do not simply play this video. The experience is best if you visit Wowcrendor’s start page for this adventure.
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Yesterday, Bornakk said clearly that the Battered Hilt drop that starts the Quel’delar questline was dropping at the right rate, which is much less than when the patch first hit. And then of course, in last night’s fixes, they went ahead and increased the drop rate anyway. He also claimed there were no plans to make it BoP, but who knows what’ll happen in the future? For now, however, you can still buy and sell the quest item for quite a bit of gold. We’ll have to see where the price eventually ends up — on the staff here, we’ve seen anything from 8,000g to over 23,000g, and Twitter tells us that people are paying an average of around 12k or so, going up to as high as 30k (or even shady real money offers in online classified ads). Our own Matt Low has actually seen the drop three different times, and lost every roll. It drops off of any of the mobs in the Heroic versions of the Frozen Halls 5-mans, and as Bornakk says, any class can use it to come up with a pretty solid weapon, so the competition will probably keep the price high, depending on
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Our podcast is live on the virtual air today at 3:30pm Eastern (8:30pm GMT) over on Ustream, and it’s an all-star show for sure. We’ll have Michael “Belfaire” Sacco, Matthew W. Rossi, and Adam Holisky all on the show with us, so I don’t expect to have to say anything. Maybe I’ll just shout out something like “patch 3.3″ and see what evolves from there. But Turpster and I will still be on, and if we can corral these guys, we’ll be talking about how big a change the Dungeon Finder really is, Corehound Pups in the mail for Authenticator users, and this patch in general. Should be quite a show. And we’ll be answering your emails — if you have a question for any of us, feel free to send it along to theshow@wow.com. And of course we’ll be doing the usual preshow and aftershow, so if you plan to turn up live after the break (or listen via the Ustream app on the iPhone), make sure to stick around for a little bit afterwards and we’ll be chatting with you directly. See you this afternoon!
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