WoW Fashion

World of Warcraft fashion for the undead.
(Photo by Judith White of Bloomberg News, via NY Times)

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Another Good News, Bad News Scenario

Rarely am I organized enough to bookmark game issues so I can check back later and see "whatever happened to that promised fix?" Oh ... like, say, the World of Warcraft Global Cooldown changes back in November 2007.
And here was the promise, as writ by Drysc, dripping …

Casuals do most of the living and dying in this game, is it too much to have them live and die in a couple of decent epics?

Whilst I was marveling at the warlock ner ... changes as proposed on the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm, aka Patch 2.4 "We Hate You All, but not you rogues because you have so little in this life it would be cruel to take anything away", I found this nerd rage …

Remember kids ...

(via World of Warcraft's new statement on buying gold and its "long-lasting effects on players' personal lives that can take years to recover from.")

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Where in the WoW?

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The 2.4 Nerfing Heats Up

World of Warcraft's dev-head Kalgan (Tom Chilton to his mom) is taking a beating today across the forums. He's no stranger to hate, particularly on the priest forums, but the accusations are flying today in light of the updated Patch 2.4 notes. (Here's the WoWWiki …

The Archmage Tours the World (of Warcraft)

You know the Archmage Vargoth's Staff for summoning the Image of Archmage Vargoth when doing those Netherstorm quests in World of Warcraft? If you're a packrat (like me), you've kept the staff just in case you have another quest turn-in three years from now which might …

A Cow and his AVs

This cow named Unforgivable from the World of Warcraft Elune realm (Ruin battlegroup) tracked various stats from his Alterac Valley matches for 96 hours -- that's 202 AVs.
Before I quote his findings, recall that the Ruin Horde aren't doing very well in AV; only a .749 …

Coming Soon in a Hotfix Near You

La la la, it's good to be a rogue.
Since this is all over the World of Warcraft boards and the (mostly-boring) game video sites, take a look (or just read) about rogue chest farming in The Underbog. In addition to the linked video in that thread, there's several other …

WoW Ruins Marriages IRL

Duh, amirite?
Former Blizzard employee Jocelyn bought World of Warcraft for her (now ex) husband Peter's Christmas present in 2004. Big mistake. Less than a year later she had moved out.
I had set aside 30 minutes for us to watch a television show together, and he …

Your Raid

From the World of Warcraft general (and class/realm/guild relations) forums, These are the People in your Raid by level 10 posting alt, Peri of the Terokkar realm (I think. It's been passed around all the forums so many times now, who knows.):
The Raid-
You raid with …

Where in the WoW?

Zealotry is alive and well in World of Warcraft.
Now, for something completely different. I've been running my alts through the paces of the Love Fest in WoW because I really want to score one of those Truesilver Shafted Arrows. Annoying guildmates year-round is a …

U Wouldn't Want to Touch That

While I was waiting for the cooldown on my World of Warcraft lunar festival invitation to the land of free portals, I was watching the various NPCs go through their dance routines and became curious about the male gnome dance origins.
The first Google result was this …

Warlock Looking for Head and a Producer

I'm thinking this guy is better live than in the studio, but nevertheless, an (almost) epic World of Warcraft thread about a warlock and his quest for the Zul'Aman Hex Shrunken Head: What would you do for a ZA run?
The setup:
you've probably guessed it. im a horde …

Twenty Things Foton Did on Holiday

Here's the quick version of what I've been up to the past month, besides taking some time off to sharpen my axe:
1. Holidays. Duh.
2. Traveling for the holidays.
3. Finished a major project at work. Ka-ching!
4. Traveling for work. Bleh.
5. Updated the blog …