WoW News 01/16/10
Here it is, your daily dose of all things WoW from across the world wide web!
Breakfast Topic: What are you doing to protect your account?
While it is certainly nothing new, it seems that you can’t spit without hitting someone who has, or has had, a compromised account. These WoW account predators are getting more clever by the day, with using everything from keyloggers, sham contests, betas and security checks, to even grabbing an account and immediately attaching an authenticator to it.
The High Inquisitor: Why Doesn’t Azeroth have Changing Seasons?
It’s the dead of January, and my usually decently warm spot in the world on the eastern coast of the U.S. is downright frigid. Even my friends in Florida have been seeing wintry temperatures below freezing. It’s days like today that I’m happy to escape to Azeroth.
…But wait! The different zones of Azeroth remain basically the same year-round. Northrend is a chilly place no matter what time of year, seemingly stuck in a perpetual winter. And Durotar… well, have you ever seen snow there, or anywhere else that it doesn’t fall regularly? What is going on with the seasons of Azeroth!?
THL Podcast Ep. 19: The Boys are back in town and decide to have a 3-way
Welcome Back to The Hunting Lodge Podcast! That’s right! The Boys are back in town! Brigwyn and Daewin are back together again after the holiday break. We hope you’re not like Dae recovering from some bug, but are in good health, and full of vim and vigor as we kick of a new season and new year!
And guess what! We had a very special guest host joining us. So if we seem even more distracted than usual, well you can blame the fact we had a lady with us. Yep, hard to believe I know but Dae and I cleaned up the Lodge. Threw all of the dirty clothes in the closet, and shoved the games under the bed. Okay, maybe we didn’t go through that much hassle, but I did put on a clean shirt and made sure Daewin did also.
How to manage a full-time job and WoW in 4 easy steps
Two weeks ago I started a new job. Not a big deal… except it’s my first 9 to 5 (6, actually) job, and that’s been messing with my WoW schedule.
Until now, all my jobs had been very flexible – I regularly played in the morning and then worked from noon until raid time. This had a few very obvious advantages: farming when no one was online, less lag in Dalaran and so on. And, of course, much more time to play.
You may remember in my 2010 looking forward post one of my achievements was the to get the lovely mechano-hog. Luckily last night I turned badass… I even had a full set of leathers! (arf arf)
World of Warcraft: Armory Updated; Second Dev Chat Tomorrow
The WoW Armory has received a pretty significant update today. The Armory now features a 3D model viewer, replete with robust features such as a fullscreen mode with quality options, background selection, and the ability to view your character performing a variety of emotes and animations. Your interactive character model can even be embedded on your favorite social networking site or guild site forums!
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Three new folks later in our Halls of Stone run and I had to laugh.
The first person left because they were called to dinner. Apparently by Mommy. After needing for an off-spec item, purple no less. Not before posting the one fight where they happened to top the damage output list. (I didn’t want to embarass sonny by posting the overall damange report for the instance.) So off went sonny boy, to eat dinner.
So last you heard from me, I was getting ready to try out a Core Hound for use in arena. To bring some of you up to speed, my only arena team this past season has been a 2v2 with a Ret Paladin. I like 2v2 because it only requires one other person, and in my case, I don’t need to rely upon a healer. I’ve never had very good luck with 3v3 either due to schedule conflicts or just not being able to find the right people.
The first third of Pit of Saron: 5v2
I think my tank in yesterday’s Heroic Pit of Saron let me die on purpose to teach me a lesson. And this tank wasn’t completely in the wrong. If rule number one of DPSing is: Manage Your Threat, I was failing.
Disclaimer: Cassandri is a Shadow Priest. I will do, to the best of my ability, what Shadow Priests do best in any given situation. I should also point out that I will focus fire a few select mobs even if the group is too busy AoEing. Because, well, kill the dangerous one first, hey?
I realized this weekend that my long-ago comments on consumeables were lacking.
Kibler’s Bits are a cheap, easy way to buff your ghoul as an unholy DK. Your pet gets 20 strength and 20 stamina. On most servers you can find the buzzard meat for 20-50 silver, or if you’re bored you can farm them up easily in Hellfire Peninsula without competition.
On the other hand, min/maxers should know that Spiced Mammoth Treats are in fact, better. It gives your ghoul an extra 10 strength and 10 stamina. They also cost more, with mammoth meat being a northrend meat and is used in some decent raid foods, particularly by non-fishermen/cooks – and a northrend reagent (Northern Spices). It may run you any where from 1-3.5g depending on your server.
Should Tanks and Healers Get the Biggest Rewards?
Gordon, from We Fly Spitfires, recently wrote a controversial guest post on World of Matticus, Tanks and Healers Should Get The Biggest Rewards.
I think a lot of the controversy comes there are several issues entangled together in this piece. If we unravel the issues, I think a clearer picture emerges.
Gordon says:
Tanks and healers are the most important classes for any group…These are the two most important classes that exist in any MMORPG. But the DPS? They’re just meat in the room.
This statement is true for certain levels of play, but completely and utterly false at different levels. At the lowest levels of skill–for example, normal dungeons, easy heroics, Naxxramas–yes, the tanks and healers are the most important. A solid tank and healer can carry the DPS to victory. A bad tank or healer will probably wipe the raid.
My baby horde druid is now in Northrend, and having attained level 71, has her pretty epic flight form. This shot, however, is from right after she got her plain old regular flight form, at level 60, in Hellfire Peninsula, but I love this Christmas Eve shot for the gorgeous sky.
I’m no fan of HFP due to many bitter memories of quests that took hours and respawns that randomly went from taking forever to all popping at once on top of you back in the early days of BC.
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