WoW News 01/20/10 WoW Update, Have You Hugged Your Pug Today?, New Armory is Full of Fun Toys, And More

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I feel like I haven’t been here updating things much. I didn’t get to play much WoW last week either. Nor did I get much Emblem of Frost as a result as well, I just didn’t have that much time to log in while I was busy working all last week at nights. But played a bit on the weekend, and weekend kinda just ended but I can barely remember what I did as well. duh!!

As for my Protection Paladin and gear well I don’t really need anything from Heroics or Emblem of Triumph gear. I pretty much have all the pieces I really need and pretty much did that for the most part all in the first week that I really started playing my Paladin again. I got most of all the emblem gear I need all in one week just running allot of LFD. So pretty much looking forward to raiding for upgrades and just for the fun of raiding and seeing the new content.

Have You Hugged Your Pug Today?

Ok, I have 5 … 5!!! Level 80s.. Two of them are what I would consider “well geared” for current Raid content. One is “decently geared” for older raid content (maybe ToC?) and two others are poorly geared or any raid but they can do alright in heroics.

New Armory is Full of Fun Toys

Like this imbeddable 3-D representation of your character. What’s not to love about this? I can blow kisses on my shadow priest all day long. Alas, I can’t figure out how to shrink this enough to cram it into a sidebar here on the site, or else I would.

This was the most immediately visible of the changes they released to the armory this past week. One of the other fun toys that I may try to incorporate here is a customizable RSS feed of up to five of your characters’ recent activities. You can show their recent achievements, boss kills, and gear upgrades. The gear upgrades and achievements allow you some fine tuning so you can show only epic gear obtained for instance, and show only specific categories of achievements.

Limited Attempts on Putricide

I really like the limited attempts model on Professor Putricide. For those who are unaware, Putricide is the last boss in the Plague Wing of Icecrown Citadel. You get 10 attempts on Putricide each week, after which you cannot engage him in combat any more.

I like the 10-attempt limit. It’s a good number, large enough so that it gives you room to maneuver, but small enough that it really restricts you and causes a good stratification among the guilds. The 50-attempt limit in Trial of the Grand Crusader was way too many. Many weeks, we never even used up all 50. In contrast, only 10 attempts makes it feel like you need to make each attempt count, while still giving you time to talk things over.

A Worthy Opponent

I’m pleased to see that Blizzard has not nerfed Putricide yet as I predicted.

On the other hand, they’ve made it known that their way of allowing ‘everyone’ to see the content is to do something better: buff us. For years, Blizzard has nerfed bosses days or weeks or months into progression to allow the non-world-class the opportunity to kill the big bad bosses they took the time to create for us. This time around, we’re apparently scheduled to get the assistance of the Ashen Verdict who will provide assistance in taking down bosses as the weeks go by.

Will Raimi direct World of Warcraft?

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Updated World of Warcraft Armory

Blizzard has recently updated the World of Warcraft Armory, which for those of you who don’t know, is a site where you can search for specific players, arena teams, etc. The updated WoW Armory has a few new features.