When Blizzard announced that patch 3.1 would include the Argent Tournament, the concept was exciting and intriguing. The idea of a permanent in game event that would feature mounted combat and the building of a coliseum was something totally new and therefore sparked a lot of interest.
The Argent Tournament is a nice source for all sorts of rewards – a new set of daily quests to earn some gold, reputation for your faction and a spiffy title, cool mounts and even some epic quality gear. It’s nice to have more sources for these things to beef up your character and …read more

The more time passes by the more I see how “big” patch 3.1 was really supposed to be. We’re seeing more and more things that should have been released on that day it came out but including it would have meant postponing the release of the patch. Since we’ve been clamoring for Ulduar for so long, the patch had to be released with quite a bit of stuff that weren’t included and are only now slowly coming out.
According to CM Nethaera, the next minor patch will include two cool things – the much awaited Equipment Manager feature that was supposed …read more

In case you’ve been so caught up with the coolness of the new stuff patch 3.1 has to offer that you already forgot, I just want to remind you that there’s something else that’s cool coming our way really soon. I’m talking about the new and improved Noblegarden world event that’s just hours away.
Noblegarden usually comes out on Easter Sunday itself and in the past only lasted one day. This year it got postponed to April 26 but it looks like it could be well worth the wait. The event will last a whole week, ending on May 3. This …read more

Patch 3.1 is still only almost a week old but the normal mode of Ulduar has already been cleared by a few guilds around the world with the many reports of Yogg-Saron kills. But for most of us, we’re still probably working our way up through the different bosses. But I’m sure a lot of us will be joining these guilds in the Yogg-Saron kills eventually.
I thought that posting videos of the world first kill done by Ensidia would inspire a lot of people and also help them learn the encounter. I may not be a serious raider like some …read more

One of the things I was looking forward to with the release of patch 3.1 was the cool new glyphs that came with the patch like Glyph of Life Tap and Glyph of Nourish. As a resto druid who is also a scribe, I was looking forward to switching out my Glyph of Regrowth for the Nourish one. Of course I was hoping to learn it myself but I would have been just as happy to find it in the Auction House and buy it. To make a long story short, I’ve done neither of them and that makes me …read more

The Ulduar raid dungeon was probably the most anticipated feature of the recently released patch 3.1, which also released the dual specs feature and the permanent in game event Argent Tournament. When a lot of people were complaining about the tier 7 content like Naxxramas and Obsidian Sanctum, Blizzard has always pointed out that they were really supposed to be easy and that Ulduar is way harder.
Since the patch came out I still have yet to step foot inside Ulduar so I don’t really know first hand how hard it really is. The past few days was about fixing up …read more

Patch 3.1 has brought us a spiffy new permanent event in the Argent Tournament and with it a bunch of cool new daily quests. Some of the daily quests involve the construction of the Colosseum, a project outsourced to the profit centered goblins.
Players are tasked with the acquisition of stone and wood to be used in the construction but the goblins profit centered approach is quite disturbing. For them they don’t care that the wood is obtained by cutting down trees in the beautiful Crystalsong Forest and obtaining stone from the artifacts near Ulduar.
As seen in the screen shot above, …read more

Blizzard has given us several ways to rectify some mistakes that we might do in the game that we would otherwise pay dearly for. Sold that item in your inventory by mistake? You can buy it back. In patch 3.1, we have also been given a way to play around with our talent specs before finally saving the spec we want. So if you made a mistake in allocating your points, as long as you haven’t finalized and saved it you’re still good.
With the arrival of patch 3.1 this kind of “idiot proofing” has been extended to purchases made with …read more

Last month Blizzard released a new addon development policy to prevent the use of addons that charge money for players to use them. In fact the new policy also discourages the use of addons that ask for donations and if so must only be in a website and not in the game itself. With the release of patch 3.1 where all our addons went poof and are slowly rebuilding and getting updated versions, this new policy has probably taken some effect already with some addons not available for use any longer.
Blizzard has already set a date for the enforcement of …read more

My guild conducted a meeting earlier in Vent about getting everyone on the same page about the patch and Ulduar raiding. Basically it was about expectations – getting everyone ready for what’s to come since Blizzard said over and over that it’s going to be much harder than Naxx and the other T7 content was. We were working on the assumption that we had a week to get ready and iron out the little things, expecting that it’s coming out next week at the earliest. Our guild leader pointed out that the PTR was still up last Friday and that …read more