Last week during our 25 man Naxx run, we had to wait for one of our healers to get his PC issue dealt with so we were left really bored out of our minds for quite some time. There were were chatting and jumping around and doing all sorts of things until our attention was drawn by someone in vent shouting “what the heck are you doing?!” as we noticed the macro spam of “____ has prepared a small feast” (of course I left the name blank since the player might not want his character name mentioned). He replied “spelling …read more

The official PTR patch notes for patch 3.1 have just been updated (as usual the latest PTR patch notes can be found here) and if you sift through the walls of text, you’ll find some nice changes coming to make out gaming experience a lot better. We know about the dual spec feature where we’ll be able to toggle between two specs at the push of a button anytime we’re out of combat. Because of this, changes to the UI have been added that will help the talent switching to be much easier like an equipment manager to help us …read more

Vendors in WoW and pretty much any RPG anyone plays, MMO or not, tend to be strange people if you apply what they do in real life. I know it’s just a game and it would make things a lot harder for players if they act like real businessmen and actually think about how everything thy do would affect their livelihood. I’m talking about the fact that the buy anything we, the players, sell them from strange ooze to rotten carcasses to anything under the sun. This is obviously a nice way for players to make some money.
Selling all …read more

I was scanning through some of my old screen shots and I actually stumbled upon some that I took from the vanilla WoW days. A few days ago a few in-game friends of mine whom I met in TBC were talking about vanilla WoW raiding experiences and we ended up talking about our various Molten Core experiences. Because of this I decided to write up about something quite related to this that some of us guildies were talking about a few months ago and just remembered now.
As many of you might know, there’s a quest you get at Blackwatch in …read more

The Noblegarden world event is still a while away but there’s some cool news about it already from the PTR. The PTR has shown a change to the in game calendar where the currently one day event has been extended to a whole week.
This is great news especially for those people who are fond of participating in the game’s world events. This is a great change for me since to this date, I haven’t experienced what this world event is like and I’ve been playing this game since early 2005. As you probably know, Noblegarden is the game’s way …read more

I don’t know exactly why but it was only just the other day when I thought about upgrading my netherweave bags to frostweave bags. I’m really glad I did because that’s 4 extra slots per bag I changed and it really made quite a difference, making me go from scrounging around for extra bag space to having so much that I can actually pick up more stuff that I don’t need and just vendor them for cash.
One thing I noticed while having the frostweave bags made is that it’s the first “regular” bag that requires more than just …read more

It’s still two months too early before we get to see the Children’s Week world event but already there’s some news about it that came out. In the latest build of patch 3.1 in the PTR, the achievement “Once An Orphan…” has been removed from the game. This achievement involves you killing players with their orphans out, hence completing the phrase “once an orphan, always an orphan”. If you think about it, it is quite mean especially since Children’s Week is supposed to be celebrating the event to make these orphans feel loved and happy, not to be mean. Just …read more

Blizzard has been known to insert a lot of humor into their games and this can be very much seen in World of Warcraft. It can be a pop culture reference or just something plain funny. What’s amazing is that these touches of humor can tend to not jump at you unless it really hits you one day. The two pictures below are examples of such at least in my case.

Lately, the hearthstone was the subject of a few changes coming in patch 3.1. The other day, it was revealed that the practice of “ghetto hearthing” will be obsolete when the patch goes live. Ghetto hearthing is the term given to the practice of taking advantage of a mechanic where if you leave your group while inside a dungeon, you will be teleported to your hearth location even if your hearthstone cooldown isn’t up yet. In the next patch, doing so will instead teleport you to the nearest graveyard.
A lot of were complaining about this change since a lot of …read more

Here’s the official Ulduar preview video from the WoW site! Looking at the video makes me think the place looks so cool and in fact it looks cooler than both Halls of Stone and Halls of Lightning. It looks like it’s going to be a really big place though but since it’s a raid dungeon, that’s kinda understandable. You can download the video here.