Blog Azeroth Shared Topic: Warcraft 2009 Year in Review

2009 was quite a year for the World of Warcraft – the launch of Wrath of the Lich King was late 2008, and most of us spent the holidays and wee months of 2009 exploring Northrend, the announcement of the next expansion, Cataclysm, a host of incredible changes to the game, from the Dungeon Finder most recently to the ability to change your character’s race to the announcement of a Warcraft movie (and it’s director).

SteelSeries announces StarCraft 2 keyset, March of the Scourge mouse pad

SteelSeries continues to work that IP license with Blizzard by announcing two new products aimed directly at gamers: a Zboard StarCraft 2 keyset, and a World of Warcraft: March of the Scourge mouse pad. The Zboard keyset is a limited edition product, customized to make it easier to play the game and includes exclusive artwork. The keys are labeled with commands and shortcuts, allowing the player to pick up the game faster then someone using a normal keyboard. The keyset will MSRP for $24.99

MLG Orlando All-Star Melee

Today marks the first ever MLG World of Warcraft All-Star Challenge. Four teams from MLG 2009 season’s past embark on a new quest for prize money. $1,000 will be distributed amongst the one team that can overcome all the rest here as many different comps and specs will be in play. Look for some never before comp setups seen in LAN environments as well as some orchestrated chaos and communication. Many of the American and Korean players will be forced to try to communicate with in-game body language and skill set.

West Karana » World of Warcraft: I suck at this whole DPS thing.

Bhagpuss commented on my previous WoW article that he never really cared to know how much DPS he was doing in a group, and was just satisfied if the instance went well. I can kinda see his point. It’s a game, right? As long as you’re having fun, the game is doing its job.

That’s one way to look at it. I, though, was a rogue in EverQuest. EQ rogues have a lot more going for them than WoW rogues; there’s a lot of things they can do that make them highly valued for their unique capabilities. They share with WoW rogues, though, the ability to do more single target melee damage than any other class.

Ugly Brothers

I like to put up DK strats after several kills so my dps DK perspective will have to wait, but I wanted to at least post about last night’s visit to the hilarious plague wing.

Yes, it’s a good idea to visit youtube just to listen to the audio before the fight – otherwise you may completely screw up due to a laughing fit! The humor is of course crass at times, but some of the best boss audio anywhere comes from putricide as you are messing with his little buddies!
“Good news everyone!” heh.
After that you can view the strategies to figure out your approach to the bosses.

Elegant Design: Glyph of Life Tap (WoW)

Since a lot of the time I focus on things that I dislike in games, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some small elements that I consider examples of elegant design.

First up, [Glyph of Life Tap].

In the beginning, there was Life Tap. And the warlocks looked at it and saw that it was good.

ICC Lower Spire Cleared!

Tonight, our first night ever taking a look at Saurfang, and we downed him our third try. We had 101k raid DPS which is one of the best I’ve seen from our team. A nice quick raid giving me plenty of time to keep nursing the flu and go to bed early. I believe we are the 6th horde guild on our server (per WoW Progress and our realm forums) to clear this wing.

In Case You Missed This: Seals & Shield Cleaving

If your a Paladin in the Maintankadin community or one that frequently reads the forum over there and keep up to speed on the very latest things then your already most likely well aware of some recent change affecting Protection Paladins having to do with our Seals and Shields use. I’m just going to point you with a little bit of redirect link love to a few of our fellow Tankadins in the community that has already covered some aspect of these latest findings already and this is really worth reading.

Nerfing Assassination Rogues – An Overheard Conversation

Diary, things are a’changin!

As stated by numerous other bloggers and the amount of QQ I have seen on the official forums, ROGUE NERFS are back by popular demand, (demanded by other classes of course).  Rogues are OP!  Rogues do TOO much damage!  Rogues slap babies!  NERRRRRF em!

WoW: How do you take a break from high-end content?

Pouncealot the Flirtatious meets Artorius the Amiable

In the real world I love to explore, I’m the most comfortable being outside exploring nature then being cooped up inside my home. In fact, during the warmer months you can see me working on my MacBook Pro outside. So it comes as no surprise that I enjoy doing the same thing in-game.

Revisiting Razorfen Kraul

Razorfen Kraul (RFK) is another one of those instances that I’ve hardly ever run while leveling up previous characters.

It’s located in the south-west corner of the Barrens in Horde territory. As an Alliance player you usually don’t come close to the Barrens until you head to Theramore sometime after level 30 to begin questing in Duskwallow Marsh. The road to the Barrens leads out from the west side of Duskwallow. RFK is almost too low an instance for earning experience by the time you reach it as Alliance.

Storming the Citadel

Our 10 man band of fearless adventurers went into ICC last night and downed Festergut. We had about 3 attempts on Rotface, getting him to about 50% after our best effort. We made pretty good progress though, and I see Rotface going down within about 3-4 more attempts. I love the trash on the way to those two bosses. Fun stuff and some good rep gains to boot.

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