The Sunwell is at hand!

Here's a World of Warcraft-community project we can all enjoy from the sidelines: Sunwell Event Progress chart for the U.S. servers and the European servers.
U.S. side, Proudmoore is kicking ass, followed by Cenarius, Medivh, Lightbringer and Zul'jin.
Euro-servers, …

Where in the WoW and Two Other Questions

I have three questions for you today.
The first is: where in the World of Warcraft is this?

The second is: when Blizzard poster Hortus wrote this ...
Void Reaver intentionally no longer targets or faces players that he casts Arcane Orb on. This was done to fix a …

Remember the Sunwell!

Aha. So it is a WoW Patch Day today after all!
Why couldn't they just say that yesterday? I don't know. Probably this is a Suits vs The Patch Department thing.
And because WoWWiki and Wowhead are about a billion times more accurate and timely than anything Blizzard …

Where in the WoW?

What in the world was Foton camping?
If you're the sort who celebrates the Christian holy days, have a good holiday. If you're not, enjoy the readily-available bunny and egg-shaped candy. You're welcome.

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Death, Taxes & Guild Drama

Do NOT miss the recent e-drama (and RL drama!) that befell the World of Warcraft guild Death & Taxes on the Korgath realm. The thread is (temporarily?) gone from their public areas, but thanks to Google, the story has been cached.
(All of this is very NSFW: language, …

Where in the WoW?

This makes a nice backdrop for character pics, btw.

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Almost Too Easy

Don't try that prank when you're tired or drunk. If you miss that initial blank space in the chat window before typing /gquit, you'll gquit yourself then have to explain in shame why you need a re-invite to the guild.
That's the voice of experience talking.

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Overheard in Shattrath City

Outside World of Warcraft's Scryer bank, two would-be cybermates are /dancing and chatting in /say.
Mate01: You're such a cute gnome.
Mate02: You're cuter! I'm so gonna stock you.
See that? I hadn't even realized that "stalk" and "stock" are homonyms. Learn …

Jaina Proudmoore and her many lovers

You're gonna love this.
While I was wasting what would be otherwise productive work hours on the World of Warcraft forums, I ran across a post detailing a Horde prank on the Mal'Ganis server by the guild Goon Squad, Elitist Jerks' little feeder guild. (Hell, probably …

Read it in the Sunday Papers

Sunday's New York Times included the full version of the above Geek Love flowchart and a glowing tribute to recently deceased Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax.
It's obvious from the scientific chart that lack of romantic success can be blamed on early exposure …

Overheard in Guild Ventrilo

I'm outside Zul'Aman, cooling my heels on the waitlist, while my guild is clearing to Hex Lord.
Hunter: Hey! How come our target macros don't work on these totems? (The /target corrupted macro from the Halazzi fight)
Raid Leader: Ummm ...
Warlock: Because these …

Where in the WoW?

Not fair for roughly 46% of you.

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Exodus

The "Great Warlock Life Tap Nerf of 20083, another one of those "We're Totally Not Balancing World of Warcraft Around PVP And Especially Not Arenas, But We Are" adjustments, has finally made it to the Test Realm Patch Notes which puts it one step closer to reality on …

The Armory

If you're like me and you're checking your World of Warcraft realm forums for the weekly game of "Who's Flaming Me Now?", you might be redirected to a GoDaddy parked-domain page instead of your flamer's armory link.

You'll be tempted to join the conspiracy theorists …

Where in the WoW?

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