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Reputation Silithus

Grinding Reputation In Silithus (Cenarion Circle) I wrote this exact post on my guild site, so if you recognize it from there, I guess you know who I am :) Many people have asked how I have ground up my reputation with the Cenarion Circle so quickly. My rep gains and notes may be off slightly. I had to try and recall much of it, and find stuff on the net. Please check your rep gains after each, to make sure you still get rep for dukes at honored for example (because you don’t at revered) Neutral to Friendly (3000 rep)

Naxx attunement

The Naxxramas attunement has been officialy announced 1) At Honored with Argent Dawn, you have to give the following materials : 60 Gold 1 Righteous Orb 2 Nexus Crystals 5 Arcane Crystals 2) At Revered with Argent Dawn, you have to give the following materials 30 Gold 2 Arcane Crystal 1 Nexus Crystals 3) At Exalted with Argent Dawn, the Naxxramas Attunement is FREE.

Nefarian howto

How to kill Nefarian Mods Facts Consumables Phases Strategy

Onyxia Horde Quest Line

Onyxia Quest Line 1) Go to Kargath and speak to Warlord Goretooth in the tower. Click his conversation item repeatedly to receive Warlord Goretooth's Command. Use this item to receive the quest, Warlord's Command. Warlord's Command Slay Highlord Omokk, War Master Voone, and Overlord Wyrmthalak. Recover Important Blackrock Documents. Return to Warlord Goretooth in Kargath when the mission has been accomplished. Important Blackrock Documents: 0/1 War Master Voone slain: 0/1 Highlord Omokk slain: 0/1 Overlord Wyrmthalak slain: 0/1 Rewards can be found at http://www.thottbot.com/index.cgi?q=1359

Battle plan 4

World of Warcraft Battle Plan Vol. 4 Since our previous Battle Plan, World of Warcraft has gained a considerable amount of new in-game content, as well as improved and expanded service features -- all of which have been focused on enhancing the game experience for our passionate, ever-growing community. One example of the new content we've added is Naxxramas, a multi-winged 40-player raid dungeon that pits players against the forces of the lich Kel'Thuzad. We've also revamped Light's Hope Chapel to make it a fully functional and exciting quest hub. In addition, many new items have been implemented, including new PvE and PvP armor sets, along with a powerful new Legendary caster item. In terms of service enhancements, many players have taken advantage of the Paid Character Transfer service, which enables players to move characters between realms. Also, we've decreased battleground queue times by implementing the new cross-realm battleground feature. By allowing players across several realms to play in the same battleground, wait times have significantly improved for most battleground matches. We've worked hard to deliver these new content and service features while simultaneously developing our first expansion pack, The Burning Crusade. In preparation for the expansion, we will be releasing one of our biggest content updates ever for World of Warcraft, called "Before the Storm."

Mana consumables

Mana consumables While in combat, as many know the BWL and AQ fights last much longer than an average 8k Mana pool, and so we must keep our mana flowing in order to keep our tanks and dps alive. This is written as simple as possible, keeping it both short and detailed for any kind of player, both casual and hardcore alike.

Druid tree form dance

Teremus

Easy Gold with Teremus The Devourer I'm sure many of you have visited the Blasted Lands at some point and have noticed the large dragon that always seems to sneak up behind you while you are questing/farming? Well, if you and a few of your friends are level 60, then you have found an ample source of gold.

Flying mount video

Burning Crusade Flying Mount Video

Warrior charge macro

Warrior Macro Charge DURING Combat For all you warriors out there, might get nerfed in 1.12. Just copy and paste, and please try not to tell people out of mps, shh!

Farming AQ20 larval

Making Gold in AQ20 Well this have to be done AFTER you clear instance with your guild. Since Blizzard did give 3 days reset time no mobs are respawned (almost none) and this give you oportunity to go inside and kill easy mobs like Silicate Feeder http://www.thottbot.com/?n=936773 who drops Idols, Scarabs and Larval Acid. Silicate Feeder are located near 5th boss (Ayamiss the Hunter) and can be soloed but watch not to pull flying packs or 2-3 Feeder.

Patch 6144 Unofficial notes

Nw Beta Patch 6144: Unofficial Patch Notes General: - Talents refunded - flightpath fixed for area 52 <-> stormspire - quest turning point still bugged no teleportation - Sha'tar reputation vendor added to Shattrah - Sha'tar guards now give directions - Shadowmoon Valley is not open. - Female blood elves stand differently and have some new idle animations. - Glowcaps can no longer be picked up from any distance. - Blood elf female weapon size was increased. - Thrallmar reputation rewards were buffed. - New graveyard near Kirin'var Village. - Bankers added in Area 52. - Goblin engineering teleporter added in Area 52

Reputation points

Reputation Factions and Grinding Timbermaw Hold Argent Dawn Thorium Brotherhood

Farming Spots

Farming Spots There are people who use professions to make their money. They run around picking flowers, or hitting rocks, or making funky items to sell. Now, honestly, i'm not one of those people, heh. What's farming? When i'm strapped for cash, I farm. Farm, farm, farm. As in, I kill mobs repeatedly. Farming is a consistent thing, you must be consistent with your kills, spend as little downtime as possible, and you want to kill every desired mob you come across. Why farm? First of all, there's no real expense. Apart from buying food/drink, or repairing your gear once every few hours, you're making pure profit. You can get a lot of money out of manufacturing professions, but leveling these means they become a money sink, and unless you put in the time and money to grab those rare recipes that people REALLY want, you're going to be spending more than you'll be making. Farming gets you pure profit, and depending on your luck, you can make more selling a single drop than spending a week making / gathering stuff. You get money, greens, blues, sometimes phat epixx, and all you have to do is going around killing stuff. That's farming.

Frost Oil

Great WoW Cash Gold Horde or Alliance Here's a good way to make some decent money by buying the "Frost Oil" recipe. This recipe is needed by a TON of alchemists, and non alchemists of both the Horde and Alliancefor a level 37 quest. Nifty thing about this recipe is, the vendor who sells it has a "limited supply" which basicallymeans he only sells 1 every hour or so, for 25S a piece. This recipe is in big demand, and I grabbed one and sold it at the AH for 2G. Here's the info on the location etc of the fellow who sells it: http://www.thottbot.com/?i=5216 For all your crafty folks out there, the specific recipe always shows up in the same location in hisvendor window. Why not set up a macro to "search" for this recipe every 5 seconds or so? If it'sthere, buy it..........you can completely control the market for this quest. Best part is a "series"quest with this portion being part 3 of the quest. People desperately want to finish it, if youcontrol the entire market on your server for these recipes you can become a very rich man. Once I get back out there I'll make a macro to do just that, it's not difficult in the least so I'msure some of you other crafty macro heads will make one for yourselves.

Lvl 40 mount cash

Start farming for your mount just one level before 40. You can actually start at 38, 37 if you have high dps. Easily generate the needed 90g for your mount in 1/2 day!! Just north of the Gurabashi arena and just west of the Jungle Stalkers there is a small area where the "Cold Eye Basilisks" dwell.

Alchemy BC

Alchemy Burning Crusade recipes and reagents

Leatherworking BC

Leatherworking Burning Crusade recipes and reagents

Tier 4 video

Tier 4 Set Video

VGA trailer

Warcraft VGA Movie

Warcraft lag 2.0

Patch 2.0: How to solve lag and fps issues in WoW 2.0 As you might have noticed in WoW 2.0, some disturbing latency and fps issues appeared, few things have been tested until now to fix this problem, however none of them worked until today, a fix has been found to solve our lag and fps issues Now to the main subject, its a quite simple way to fix your issues, you will have to create a "WDB" folder inside your "Cache folder" folder (which one already exists in your World of Warcraft directory), then you create an "enGB" folder for english/uk client (enUS for american client, deDE for german client, frFR for french client) within "WDB" folder. Once you log in it will populate your "enGB" folder with different files, then you should notice an improvement (or solve) in your lag/fps issues which appeared with last patch 2.0.

New 2.0 Warcraft macros

New 2.0 Macros List is here (targeting, using, pets, casting, action etc)

Druids 2.0 macros

Druid Credits: Beirras WoW's macro scripting language in version 2.0+ has been completely overhauled, so most old macros will no longer work. [.......]

Hunter 2.0 macros

Hunter macros 2.0 Credits: Zanzer BASIC PET COMMANDS: Pet Orders: Attack, Follow, Stay /petattack /petfollow /petstay [.......]

Mage 2.0 macro

Mage Credits: Myrafae of Destromath. The following changes and macros are by no means comprehensive. Important changes: 1. Functions used in /script that cast spells, target, or use items are no longer usable in addons/macros. They are protected and can only be used in Secure Templates. [................]

Rogue 2.0 Macros

Rogue 2.0 Macros Credits: Ming and fellow rogues. No longer needed: Self-Bandage (Self-cast is now built into the UI) 1) Riposte/SS /castrandom Sinister Strike, Riposte [...........]

Warlock 2.0

Warlock Credits: Morthoul of Blackhand At several points I mention "Garguk's macros", and making 2.0 versions of them. These are macros from the old forums, preserved in the forum sticky here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11541195&sid=1 Trying out 2.0 versions of these macros, and sharing them here, should help the maintainer of that thread update it faster. [..................]

Paladin 2.0

Paladin 2.0 macros Healing: Tried and true backbone of the class. Here is the macro for Flash of Light: /cast [modifier:alt,target=player] Flash of Light; [target=target,help] Flash of Light; [target=targettarget,help] Flash of Light; [target=player] Flash of Light [............]

Priest 2.0

Priest 2.0 MACROS Credits: Anaea of Aerie Peak Crowd Control Macros /cast [harm] Shackle Undead /stopmacro [noharm] /p Shackling %t! DO NOT TOUCH! [...............]

Warrior 2.0 macros

Warrior 2.0 Macros Credits: Jedroth weapon swaps (you shift-click your weapon / shield etc into your macro ..) DW to 2h and back to DW : /equipslot 16 Maladath, Runed Blade of the Black Flight /equipslot 17 Qiraji Sacrificial Dagger /equipslot 16 The Untamed Blade [...............]

Sylvanas singing

Sylvanas singing in Burning Crusade

Gnomish TBC Intro

GNOMISH TBC INTRO "When the The Burning Crusade cinematic intro was released the whole gnomish community was shocked, there where no gnomes included in the intro!" Eb.

Fishin in TBC

Introduction When Blizzard started revealing details of the expansion, they promised some fresh fish: "We're still evaluating some ideas for fishing that we're not ready to share yet, but I can tell you that there will definitely be new high-level fish for our anglers to catch in the expansion." - Frank Pearce, Executive Producer, July 2006. And not much more has been known until now. The information on this page is taken from the beta version of The Burning Crusade. It will probably contain spoilers. Most of this information is first-hand - collect by myself. I will continue to update it as more discoveries are made. Last major update 1 December 2006, based on beta 2.0.0-2.0.2 (I can see no changes in 2.0.3).

Pinchy

Mr. Pinchy and Magical Crawdad Mr. Pinchy is an exceptionally rare catch from Highland Mixed Schools, first found by Roopert and confirmed by El. Mr. Pinchy is classified as rare and is bound to you on pickup, so be very careful when using automatic loot/re-cast. I caught one after 375 pool catches, and then nothing more from a total of over a thousand catches. Your mileage may vary. And someone will always manage to cast a line and pull Mr. Pinchy straight out. But the "catch rate" seems to be in the order of 0.1%. Since you'll struggle to get more than 50 catches an hour, expect to invest most of a day to catch this. ((Mr. Pinchy is assumed to be a reference to Homer Simpson's pet lobster of the same name in The Simpsons.))

Hyjal Att

World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal Caverns of Time: Mount Hyjal will ship with World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade expansion retail launch. The dungeon requires 25 player raid groups. However, not everyone can enter the dungeon. This dungeon requires many pre-requisites

Blue weekly 1

Blue Weekly - 1: Weelky tracking of important Blue posts All important Blue Posts (Blizzard Posters on official forums) weekly tracked and compiled in the form of patch notes. Week: 2/12/07 - 2/19/07 Raids and Dungeons hotfixes - Players can no longer avoid Grull the Dragonkiller's shatter damage through immunities (source) - Fixed an issue where The Maiden of Virtue would despawn upon a reset of the Karazhan instance (source) - Fixed an issue with players losing control of the chess pieces in Karazhan (source) - The door at the top of the elevator in Tempest Keep: Mechanar should now properly open if players die to Pathaleon the Calculator (source) - Murmur's Touch is properly removed from players when they zone out of Auchindoun: Shadow Labyrinth (source)

Undocumented 2.0.7

Undocumented Changes in Patch 2.0.7 With the new patch 2.0.7, several changes undocumented in the patch notes have been noticed, which we have listed below (feel free to report anything new undocumented in patch notes), most of those changes are related to bosses/instances. General - Reduced spawn rate on Elemental Plateau in Nagrand. Professions - Lots of crafted items got their stats changed (Leatherworking, Tailoring, Blacksmithing, etc...). Cant list them all, since there are too many.

Illidan is here

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade: The Black Temple Originally founded as a Draenei temple, this plot has been conquered and despoiled many times throughout the history of Outland, removing any spiritual grace it may have once held. The Black Temple has been the stage of the Orc Horde's blood curse, a fortress for the then-mortal Ner'zhul, and a prime staging ground for the Burning Legion's campaign of destruction. Most recently, it has been claimed as home by Illidan, where he and his minions make their bid for power over the remnants of the shattered planet. Now, it is up to you to face the malefic forces of Illidan and his minions in hopes of freeing Outland from chaos and tyranny. Black Temple is a 25-person raid dungeon located in Shadowmoon Valley. * Explore an ancient site steeped in Warcraft lore * Gain access to more than a hundred new rare and epic items, including tier-6 armor sets * Choose your path through a nonlinear level-70 raid dungeon, as you make your way to... * Face Illidan himself

Item Lifetime recovery

Blizzard changed the item recovery from 1 item / lifetime, to 2 items. In addition, each 6 months you gain 1 more item recovery back if you used... Which sincerly, is not bad at all :)

Tempest Keep exploration

Nihilum posted the first Tempest Keep 25man exploration movie

Transmutes structure

Transmutes structure (click for full size)

Patch 2.0.10 updated

Patch 2.0.10 Updated General * Some logic was fixed in the "Natural Remedies" quest so that Pathaleon the Calculator's Image will always spawn during the ritual. * Goliathon and his shardlings can no longer be pulled to nearby areas that have guards. * More fixes implemented in the "It's a Fel Reaver, But With Heart" quest to keep the Scrapped Fel Reaver from breaking. * The Orb of the Blackwhelp and Hallowed Wands can no longer be used in combat, and the transformation will be canceled if the player receives damage. * The Scrap Reaver in Netherstorm repairs reduced from 10,000 health to 8,500 health over 10 seconds. * Battle of the Crimson Watch o Illidari Mind Breaker has been weakened. o Illidari Highlords can now be CC'ed but not Charmed.

Patch 2.0.10 hotfixes

This Week's hotfixes Patch 2.0.10 hotfixes: - "We're working on a hotfix to fix spawning issues with the Lurker Below. We hope to have this hotfix complete by tomorrow afternoon (or sooner)." Tigole (Source) Note: The Lurker Below is a Kraken like boss in Serpentshrine Cavern. - Nightbane will no longer cast "Bell...

New hotfixes

Warcraft hotfixes: Hotfixes 20/03: * A hot fix has been deployed. This fix will not take place until maintenance occurs in each region. This fixes a bug where coil fang ambushers would sometimes evade unnecessarily. 19/03: * The haste effect from the Mongoose encha...

Tier 6 bonus

Tier 6 Armor Sets names and bonuses WoWhead has Tier 6 Armor Sets names and bonuses, according to one (Skosiris) of the WoWhead's administrators these item sets have been extracted from the latest game data files. Keep in mind, those bonuses havent been yet officially confirmed by Blizzard, the only information given by Blizzard on Tier 6 armor sets is the drop location which is Black Temple.

Kharazan Fly Point

There is a roumour out there, that Kharazan has a FP....

PTR 2.0.12 Patch Notes

PTR 2.0.12 Patch Notes Drysc posted PTR 2.0.12 patch notes on the forums, its mainly made of bug fixes as you can read below: Mac - Improved memory usage and stability under Mac OS X 10.4.9 using multi-threaded OpenGL. Bug Fixes - Attempting to turn in a guild charter with a signature from a player that formed his own guild will no longer result in an inappropriate error message. - Using the customer support "Auto-Unstuck" will now trigger the one-hour cooldown on the player's hearthstone. - Arenas Players will no longer be able to see their opponents in the Combat Log of an Arena match-up before the game starts. - Battlegrounds Eye of the Storm: Players should no longer be able to exit the bubble before the match starts. - Mechanar The gate at the top of the elevator in Mechanar will now remain open while attempting the gauntlet and after Pathaleon the Calculator is killed. - Caverns of Time: Old Hillsbrad The Escape from Durnholde event will no longer break during the church part of the encounter. - Various localization fixes have been applied.

Enchanting in TBC

To be part of those enchanters that “gotta catch’em all”, with TBC additions and the new way to get your Formulas (almost half of the drop ones, are BOP and can’t be seen except by enchanters..). AH will still be our friend for some, but pull out your forks and pikes we are facing a good bunch of ‘em scattered all across outlands with that same 0.1-1.3% average drop rates! *CHEERS*, I like to kill stuff, so I enjoyed farming them, I cant put my seal of certitude on all the locations ill write down, I droped most of them and/or saw a friend did. Thottbot helped me fill the gaps. Feel free to add any precision so we can make the most accurate list. Bare with me, English is not my first language and only in MMOs i have to use it, :D. FYI: I skipped all Trainable ones, for Obvious reasons, we aint at kindergarden here, we are formula thirsty hardcore farmers. :D

Farming spots in TBC

FARMING SPOTS in The Burning Crusade Motes/Primals of elements and other things have become important now in crafting and as such can easily be worth alot on the AH. The best places to farm these motes are in places only accessable via farming mount. Such areas are the elemental plateau in north-eastern Nagrand or Skettis in south-eastern Terokkar Forest. At Elemental Plateau you will find 'raging' elemen...

Twink Guide

TWINK GUIDE Best Race: Dwarf, Blood Elf GEAR Head: Lucky Fishing Hat (+100hp) Neck: Honored wsg neck Shoulders: Talbar Mantle Back: Sentry Cloak (+70armor)/Engineer's Cloak(+70armor) Chest: Blackened Defias Armor (+100hp/+4allstats) Wrist: Beetle Clasps (+9stam)/Steel-cla...

Grinding in Terrokar

Guys recently i founded out a place in outlands where , lots of Easy gold to be made , lots of stuff to kill , ultra fast spawn, only one word : Glee. In Skettis in Terrokar forest. (roughly 65,78) for non-coords users, a little bit south-east of Alerrian Stronghold , west of Shadowmoon valey. A flying mount is Required. Mobs are 70-72 (some Elites) , depends of your buisness there. Personally i go there for 2 reasons: Skettis Surgers and Furious Crawdads

Patch 2.1.0 - aka fixing

PATCH 2.1.0 PREVIEW Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about the same subjects – subjects that have been addressed in an upcoming patch – so I wanted to let you guys know where things stood. The Rogue Situation We’ve done a tuning pass of many of our dungeons/bosses/encounters to ensure that nothing overly punishing occurs to “melee DPS’ that would lead people to favor ranged DPS over Rogues/DPS Warriors etc. Also, we’ve changed the NPC cleave mechanic so that it’s now a frontal cone ability rather than a 360 degree chain attack. Swe...

Black Temple key

...1 april news... Blizzard put public how to get the Black Temple key... http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/btattunement/index.html With this ocasion, the holy resistance gear goes wild http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/factions/baari/index.html

Profession Review

Profession Review: Blizzard Update We have taken the time to put together a brief preview of the Profession changes for the upcoming content patch. This list does not contain all of the upcoming changes, but instead gives a brief look at what is to come. Alchemy - Elixirs now stack in two categories, Battle (Offensive) and Guardian (Defensive) Elixirs. You can only have one of each type of Elixir up at a time. As a result Elixirs now stack with class abilities such as "Arcane Intellect." - Four new defensive elixirs have been added. Two are on trainers, one is in Halaa and one is in Cenarion Expedition. - "Flask of Petrification" can no longer be turn

Next patch content

End Game Content Preview: Official Infos on the next content patch The next content patch and the opening of the now defiled Black Temple, home of Illidan and his minions has long been known. However, the patch is also introducing a great deal of new solo and 5-person content as well, with new rewards, factions, outdoor bosses, and items. As we’re approaching the release of the patch we wanted to share a glimpse into some of the upcoming content that hadn’t yet been confirmed for this next patch, or hadn’t even been heard of until now. Druid Epic Flight Form The Druid Epic flight form will be available through a series of quests, similar to the Warlock and Paladin Epic mount quests befo

Elixirs preview

In an upcoming patch we will be changing the way elixirs function, allowing a player to only have two elixirs on them at any one time. The change will allow you to use one offensive elixir, and one defensive elixir. All elixirs will be set into one of these two categories. This also means that although elixirs of the same type cannot be used at the same time, they will now stack with class buffs. We’re making this change for a number of reasons. - By allowing players to use any number of elixirs it was necessary that we balance raid and dungeon encounters with the idea that all players in the group had the potential of having all available elixirs on them. In many cases this resul...

Tier 6 sets

TIER 6 PREVIEW MOVIE

Druid epic mount

Druid EPIC mount quest line

New PTR patch

PTR patch notes update for 5/17/2007: list of changes The full patch notes can be found here. General * Taunts: The taunt system has been adjusted so that Warrior Taunt, Druid Growl, and Paladin Righteous Defense will now grant the player the correct amount of threat even when the creature or its target is crowd controlled. * Dodge Rating: Low level players now calculate dodge from dodge rating at the same rate as level 34 players. * The negative effect of the orc racial ability Blood Fury no longer stacks with other effects that reduce healing (Mortal Strike, Wounding Poison, etc.) * Characters can now speak with Orphan Matron Mercy in Shattrath City during Children’s Week to mentor a draenei (Alliance) or blood elf (Horde) orphan. Shattrath orphans have a whole new line of sight-seeing requ...

Irc Chat Developper

Irc Chat Developper with Kalgan and Tigole: Live report Developper Chat is now finished, Patch will go live tomorrow. As i am writing these lines, World of Warcraft Lead Designers Tom Chilton [Kalgan] and Jeffrey Kaplan [Tigole] (they are in charge of game systems, balance and world design) are currently answering various questions on #StraticsHoC channel (server: irc.glowfish.de).

Undocumented 2.1

Undocumented changes Please bear in mind some of the following may be bugs. Classes You can now block attacks while your shield is in the sheathed position. Previously, Warriors, Shamans and Paladins were vulnerable while using instant-cast abilities that caused their shield to momentarily appear on their back. Druid Base cost of untalented shapeshifting reduced to 35% from 44% and Travel/Aquatic/Flight reduced to 13% from 16% base mana (that includes swift flight form as well). Moonkin Form and Tree Form now have...

Patch 2.1.2

A new PTR patch will be available tonight (or early tomorrow) to players, here is what we can expect (Arena Season 2 items and new honor rewards). We expect the PTRs to open up for testing of patch 2.1.2 late tonight. Please note that you should patch your client to 2.1.1 before running the PTR install. World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.1.2 General * Arena and Honor Rewards: As part of the inauguration of Season 2, the costs of all Arena items and Honor items has been reduced. * Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer play sounds when there is nothing to dispel. * Players can no longer fail with skinning at maximum skill. * Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one Angered Nether-wraith. * Some new cooking recipes are available from Kylene in Shattrath City. * A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and...

Warcraft items database

New Warcraft Items Database http://armory.wow-europe.com/item-search.xml

Patch 2.1.2

Patch 2.1.2 going live Patch 2.1.2 Notes US servers are currently being patched and here are the patch 2.1.2 notes: General * Arena and Honor Rewards: As part of the inauguration of Season 2, the costs of all Arena items and Honor items has been reduced. * Improved Mend Pet, Abolish Disease, and Abolish Poison no longer play sounds when there is nothing to dispel. * Players can no longer fail with skinning at maximum skill. * Spellcloth: Creating spellcloth will once again only summon one Angered Nether-wraith. * Some new cooking recipes are available from Kylene in Shattrath City. * A recipe for a superior resilience gem has been added and is rumored to be held by the residents of Halaa. * Procs: Most procs are set to trigger only from spells that cost mana, but inadvertently disallowed spells that cost a percentage of base mana. That bug has been fixed and so such spells will now trigger many procs they did not pre...

2.1.3 Issues

List of known issues for the patch 2.1.3 General - Shoulder armor is significantly smaller on Orc Males than previously. - Male Night Elf Off-Hand Weapons are not properly aligned with the hand. - Dwarven Female off-hand equipped items are universally over sized. - Bloodelf male's legs clip into all chairs in the game. Environment - There is a chair in Sunfury Spire which is displaying internal information upon mouseover. - Adamantite Bound Chests and Heavy Fel Iron Chests contain improper loot. Spells, Talents, & Abilities - Critical strike damagereduction percentage gained from resilience rating increases as theattacking player gains more +critical strike damage bonus talents. - The abilities Blazing Speed and Retaliation do not work corre...

Zulaman

E3 2007: Zulaman infos, Voice chat and Guild bank Some fresh infos from E3 2007 (Gaming Event in Los Angeles) on the following subjects Zulaman, Voice Chat and Guild Banks. Zulaman (10 mans instance) - Outside raid zone - 4 animal god bosses (dragonhawk god, bear god, a lynx god and a god of evil) - 2 final bosses after you defeated the four animal bosses: A Witch doctor boss and Zul'Jin himself. - no key or attunements required - Trash mobs who can call for help by beating on near...

Broom Mount

2.2 Broom Mount preview!

2.2.0 New infos

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.2.0 General • Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time effects by the same percentage. • Corrected the damage modifier calculation for Resilience when the attacker has bonus critical strike damage. • Power Regeneration: Any effect which triggers a change in your rate of power regeneration (Mana, Rage, Energy, Focus) will now cause an immediate reward of some power at the old rate of increase, and then begin new “ticks” of power at the new rate approximately 2 seconds later. This was done to improve functionality of abilities such as Evocation and Innervate so that they did not have...

Spectral tiger

Spectral Tiger

Wrath of the Lich King

Next Expansion: Wrath of the Lich King

Details of Wrath expansion

From BlizzCon Panels Northrend will have two points of entry: - Howling Fjord - Borean Tundra What about the Capital City: Dalaran (moved to Northrend) Improvements and additions: - Siege Weapons - Destructible buildings - New Battleground: 15 person battleround, 30-40 minutes estimated time to finish it *Destructible buildings *Siege Weapons - New arena season, gear and map - New, non-instanced pvp (Exterior PvP zone): Lake Wintergrasp Introduction to the Death Knight Class - Designed to fullfil both tanking and DPS roles - Deathknights will tank with 2h or dual wield - Death Knight is a hero class-- can't roll as a level one char...

Lich King Trailer

Expansion: The Wrath of the Lich King Trailer

More infos about Wrath

From Blizcon, good news arrived - Moonkin itemization in PvE is being worked on - Priest Ability "Lightwell" will get some scaling from gear - Death Knights will have their own Rune Resource system Mana regen is a flawed mechanic for Mages and Shamans and Hunters, people don't have mana and that's why there are so many Shadow Priests. Real mana regen needed The Spirit stat in general will be improved for WotLK. Will the ability to force groupmates to change tar...

BlizzCon professions

BlizzCon Professions and Items Panel Things to come - Free spell damage for healers - Legendary ranged weapon in the next 25-person raid dungeon. - Zul'Aman (they showed 2 ZA weapons, see below) 1h dagger, 98.6 dps, 21 agility, 40 atp and ignores ~154 armor. Things we want to do more - Improve Professions only items (e.g: alchemists getting specific pots only them can use) - Create Great Leveling Gear: up to lvl 80 gear usable in Northrend - Provide what's missing: Crafting should be able to fill itemization gaps Things to improve - Engineering is going to get some love - Transmute: Change to a daily cooldown - Discoveries: They will make some easier to get - Vendor Recipes: No longer vendor camping, it will be random but not campable New Profession: Inscription - Not Alchemy or Enchanting: no scrolls - Inscribe Spells and Abilities with power: Enhancing your spells and abilities to make them more powerful (e.g: mortal could deal more dmg, kidney shot could last longer) - Create Completely New Items: They can't talk about it but there will be a whole other side to inscription than making spells and abilities more powerful. Coming Soon - Profession Daily Quests - New Crafter Only Gear: More of the best in slot stuff, Jewelcrafter only gems, Alchemist only potions. - Smooth out Progression 275 to 300 gap particularly New Enchant: Executioner -- Zul'Aman - Armor Penetration proc (proc rate similar to mongoose) Use: Learn how to permanently enchant a Melee Weapon to occasionally ignore 840 of your ennemy's armor. Requires a level 35 or higher item. New Cooking Recipes - melee hit food, spell crit food

Shaman Talent changes

BlizzCon Day 1

BlizzCon Day 1 WRATH OF THE LICH KING Blizzard announced its new expansion to World of Warcraft today - Wrath of the Lich King. What we know so far: - Level cap will be increased to 80 - New spells and abilities will be added for every class - New talents (up to 51-point tier) will be added for every class - New battlegrounds and arenas will be implemented - Siege weapons and destructible buildings will be a part of PvP (possibly used in PvE - unknown at this time) - New profession: Inscription. Inscription allows the inscriber to permanently enhance the recipient's spells (e.g. by Tigole - Fireball could be a shorter cast time, more direct damage, more DoT damage, etc.) - New (and changeable) hairstyles, new dances - New 10- and 25-man raids - New Hero Class (made available by epic end-ga...

Fun Molten Core 2

Remember this is just for fun!:)

Death Knight FAQ

Blue FAQ on the Death Knight Vaneras (Blue Poster) just posted a summary of recently given information about the Death Knight: There are a lot of things still being worked out with the Death Knight class such as specific spell abilities. Unlike a traditional caster type however, a Death Knight's spell power comes from runes that are etched into their blade. Think Warcraft III when you think about the possibilities of abilities for the Death Knight. I say possibilities because things are still in process for the development of the class and there will be (of course) a lot of testing for balance done. Given that this is our first Hero class we're unveiling, you can be sure we're going for the coolest of the cool for this class. Runes and Mana pool Is the Death Knight going to have a mana pool? The pictures from BlizzCon show spells using mana. The runes they inscribe on their weapons are their mana pool (of a sort). As they use their abilities, the runes will be exhausted. After a period of time the runes will refresh. So, they don't have a traditional type of mana pool. You'll most likely see some screenshots of it, but the Death Knight (at current) has three different types of runes that they can inscribe on their weapon: Blood, Frost, and Unholy. Runes can only be inscr...

Naxxramas at lvl 80

Naxxramas 25man in Northrend: Tigole interview Tigole in a Q/A interview for mmo-gamer, answered about taking Naxxramas to Northrend and retune it for 25 man raid size lvl 80: Q: On the subject of raids, I obviously don’t know the exact numbers, but there are rumors floating around on the internet that only something like under two percent of players in WoW actually make use of the end-game raiding content. How do you respond to the notion that you are catering to a small, vocal minority, while ignoring the large majority of casual players? A: I think that’s kind of a misconception that we’re only creating content for a small group of players. First of all, our statistics show that our most popular instance is Karazhan, that’s getting done by more players right now—each day we get statistics that show what our most popular insta...

Utgarde Keep Preview

Utgarde Keep Preview, Tigole interview by Curse Utgarde Keep Preview Gameriot published a short footage of Utgarde Keep which is the first dungeon appearing in Wrath of the Lich King. It will be found in the starting zone, Howling Fjord, and intended to be completed by 5 level 70's. This footage is probably featuring the first of four Wings (only that wing was available for play at BlizzCon 07).

2.2 and voice chat

Voice chat in-game Voice Chat - The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game. Players will need to go into the options menu under Sound & Voice to activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone, speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game audio when a voice communication is received), as is a "push-to-talk" setting. Right-clicking on a player's name now includes the option to mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat and text chat from that player. Voice chat is currently available only for parties, raids and custom channels; there is no cross-server battleground voice chat at this time. Please be aware, that this is a brand new feature and although it has been tested by Blizzard QA there are still many outstanding issues and we expect to find many more as we roll it out to a larger test group. Please be diligent in reporting bugs either via this forum or the in-game feedback tool, and be patient with us while we work out the kinks in this new system. In order to facilitate additional testing, a second PVP server has been brought online, and the server population limits have been increased to lessen queues. Updates: Known issue: the new build has known issues with Voice Chat not working on PowerPC-based Macs but should work correctly on an Intel Mac. We will fix the PowerPC build for an upcoming update on PTR, and we're sorry for any inconvenience.

More in 2.2

2.2 PTR notes update, Arena Season 3 and future contents 2.2 PTR patch notes update The 2.2 PTR patch notes have been updated, here are the changes: * Voice Chat - The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game. Players will need to go into the options menu under Sound & Voice to activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone, speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game audio when a voice communication is received), as is a "push-to-talk" setting. Right-clicking on a player's name now includes the option to mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat and text chat from that player. * Chat Channels- New Chat Channel controls and functionality are now available under the chat tab in the Social Window of the interface. The interface will now show the channels players are in or are available, depending on the area of the world they are in, along with new private channel controls. * A new feature for reporting players as being AFK in battlegrounds by right cli...

2.2 PRT notes

2.2 PTR patch notes update: New changes Professions Jewelcrafting *A new recipe for Steady Talasite is now available from the Halaa vendors, at the cost of research tokens. This superior green gem grants resilience and stamina. Blacksmithing * Added a new recipe for Ragesteel Shoulders that drops from an unk...

More Lich informations

Voice Chat FAQ: Blue Post Nethaera just posted a FAQ about their new ingame feature: Voice Chat Q: What is the new voice chat feature in World of Warcraft? A: The voice chat feature is the proprietary in-game voice communication system for World of Warcraft. It allows World of Warcraft players to communicate with each other using a simple-to-use interface that is seamlessly integrated with the game. Q: Is the voice chat feature free? A: There is no additional charge to use the voice chat feature; it is included with your monthly subscription fee. Q: How does the voice chat feature work? A: The voice chat feature is fully integrated within World of Warcraft. You can enable voice chat by acce

More Lich informations

Games Convention informations General - The art for the expansion will look more like classic Warcraft (gothic fantasy), and less like Outlands art (high fantasy). (4) - WotLK will have "just as much" 5-man instances as TBC and more 10-main instances due to the popularity of Karazhan. (4) - The world map is rough and players can expect the map to change and new things on the map will be revealed over time. - When asked about class balance, they said they had no plans for any major changes to classes. (4) - Future hero classes could be Demon Hunter, Arch Mage, and Blademaster. (1) Leveling - Current plans are for a pre-expansion change to the experience curve and gain. - Levels between 20 and 60 are going to have the experience required per-level reduced, and the experience rewarded by quests is being increased by around 30%. (3) Heroic Badges - In addition to the new items added in 2.3 to the heroic badges vendor, Blizzard might add new armor sets to that vendor. (3) Flying Mount Level - From a design standpoint, we don’t want people to just fly over continent and skip things when they are leveling up. Instead we want people to explore and experience the environment around them when they first reach the shores of Northrend. You will walk (or ride) from one quest to another as the zones unfold before you instead of just flying over it without batting an eye. At some point though you will definitely be able to fly in Northrend. We are currently thinking around level 78, but haven’t made a final call on this yet. Dustwallow Marsh - A new goblin town with seve...

Games for Windows

This month's Games for Windows magazine has several unheard-of informations, you can read about them below: General - There is concept art of Dalaran and The Nexus - both look pretty cool. The Nexus looks like this huge purple beam of magic shooting towards the sky, with rings surrounding it that look like little islands you could probably land on with a flying mount. - Metzen says he doesn't want the end of Arthas' story to be predictable, as he says a "Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected" type of feeling. - Metzen feels the Burning Crusade never really had an "ending" moment. Killing Illidan wasn't it because he didn't like the Legion either. So Sunwell will be it - The Blood Elves are trying to reinvigorate the Sunwell using energy ported from Netherstorm (i.e. the Mana Forges), but supposively rebuilding the Sunwell is an excuse to summon Kil'jaeden. - There is that quote that someone posted earlier in the forums that Kil'jaeden is not fully summ...

Free month and mount

Blizzard started a new "bring-back-your-friend" strategy, offering 1 free TBC month: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/resurrect-a-friend.html (and a cute spectral mount)

Alterac Valley changes

Alterac Valley changes There are quite a few changes coming, all of which we hope will culminate into making players want to participate, and ultimately win the battleground. Obviously as most people know we have the anti-afk reporting measure, by which you can right click on someone in the battleground and mark them as AFK. With enough reports they receive a debuff that keeps them from earning honor in that battleground, and only by entering combat can they remove that debuff. It's going to help, but it's certainly not enough on its own.

Draeneii dance Tunak

Draeneii dance source Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun (.mp3 download) And Original

Patch 2.2

Patch 2.2 notes General Brewfest has begun and members of the Horde and Alliance can enjoy a multitude of activities, quests, items, and even Ram Racing. As Brewfest is about beer and food, revelers can sample the best beverages available in the world. Hallow’s End: Observed by both the Horde and the Alliance, Hallow's End is the celebration of the break between the Forsaken and the Scourge. Adventurers can speak to innkeepers to get silly masks to wear during their adventures, and much more. This is just one way to celebrate Hallow's End. New Holiday World Event: The Headless Horseman has been seen terrorizing local villages. World Environment Added a new graveyard to the Southern Barrens. Added a new graveyard to the Western Plaguelands. Added a new graveyard to the Alterac Mountains. Added a new graveyard to the Searing Gorge. Added a new graveyard to the Badlands. Added two new graveyards to Tanaris. Added two new graveyards to Winterspring. Added two new graveyards to Stonetalon. Added two new graveyards to Un'Goro.

More 2.2 changes

More 2.2 patch changes World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.2.0 The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/ General - Voice Chat - The new Voice Chat feature is now available in game. Players will need to go into the Options menu under Sound & Voice to activate it. Volume sliders are available for the microphone, speakers, and game-audio fade (which automatically lowers the game audio when a voice communication is received), as is a “push-to-talk” setting. Right-clicking on a player’s name now includes the option to mute or unmute that player. Muting another player blocks all voice chat from him or her; the ignore feature now blocks both voice chat and text chat from that player. For the Voice Chat F.A.Q. visit the following links: http://forums.worldofwarcraft....15291&sid=1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft....12664&sid=1 - Chat Channels- New Chat Channel controls and functionality are now available under the Chat tab in the Social window of the interface. The interface will now show the channels players are in or are available to them, depending on the area of the world they are in, along with the addition of new private channel controls. - A new feature for reporting players as being AFK in battlegrounds by right clicking has been added. When enough reports are registered, a 60 second debuff will begin to count down. Once the timer is up a new debuff will appear that will prevent the player from gaining any honor while it is on. This debuff can be negated as soon as the player engages in PvP combat. - Haste: Haste has been rebalanced. It has returned to the ratios from the launch of Burning Crusade. Melee attacks and spell casts will now benefit at identical rates from haste. This change results in a reduction in the benefit of haste for melee attacks and an increase in the benefit for spellcasters. - Troll Berserk: The spell haste on this ability was incorrectly too high and has been corrected. - Resilience Rating: The reduction to the percent chance to get a critical strike now also reduces the damage dealt by damage over time effects by the same percentage. - Daze: Defense skill will no longer reduce the chance players have to receive the Daze effect when attacked from behind by enemies. - Area Spells: In some cases guards in neutral areas would not aggro against pvp attacks from area spells. That is now fixed. - Corrected the damage modifier calculation for Resilience when the attacker has bonus critical strike damage. - Power Regeneration: Any effect which triggers a change in your rate of power regeneration (Mana, Rage, Energy, Focus) will now cause an immediate reward of some power at the old rate of increase, and then begin new “ticks” of power at the new rate approximately 2 seconds later. This was done to improve functionality of abilities such as Evocation and Innervate so that they did not have wasted “ticks”. - Mac Movie Capture: the Mac client can now capture in-game video to QuickTime movie files using a configurable choice of codec, resolution, and frame rate. Two new entries have been added to the Key Bindings dialog for start/stop recording and for cancellation of a recording. For more detailed configuration options please see the Mac Options panel in game. Mac OS X 10.4.9 and QuickTime 7.1.6 or better are required. Not all machines have enough performance to smoothly capture video at high frame rates; end user experimentation will be required to find appropriate settings for each system. - Pets are now affected by Paladin greater blessings. - Kill Triggered Effects: Effects that trigger from killing your target will no longer trigger from killing your pet. - Non-combat pets may not be selected as the target for spells or abilities. - Non-combat pets now have the tag “Companion” instead of “Minion”. - Being attacked by guardians, such as summoned Treants, will no longer automatically cause neutral guards to attack you. - Meeting Stones can no longer be used to summon players that do not meet the level requirements. - Damage and health leech effects always affect flying players even if they are immune to the rest of the spell’s affects while in flight. - Troll Berserk: The spell haste on this ability was incorrectly too high and has been corrected.

Patch 2.2 undocumented

Undocumented 2.2 Patch Notes As in every patch, there are always changes omitted from the official patch notes, Viral of Stormrage, together with the wow community made a compilation of these undocumented changes, which one can be seen below: World - New music added to Honor Hold as well as the inns of Ironforge, Stormwind, and Ratchet - Cho Threadstrong has new sayings he shouts at the fruit vendor (poor fruit vendor) - Griftah unceremoniously ousted from Shattrath. Now sadly selling his fine wares (at unreasonably cheap prices!) in Terrokar Forest, just outside of the city's south-eastern tunnel at 36, 30 (Thanks, Meadows) - Flavor text added to goblins at zeppelin flight points - Chests in Tempest Keep: Mechanar have had their spawn locations change slightly making it impossible (or more difficult...never underestimate a players's tenacity) to solo - Boats received new music (again? confirm?) Character Models, Animation, & Spell Effects - Orc shoulders and off-hand weapons fixed (possible overcompensation for previous bug?) - Male night elf shoulders arc differently (possible bug? No one seems to mind) - Cyclone graphic changed to, and I quote, "look more awesome." Awesomeness confirmed - Evocation's graphic effect updated, seems to be a blue version of the confirmed-awesome cyclone update - Windfury finishes the updated cyclone trilogy, now larger and darker; fans are divided! - Prayer of Mending received a new animation - Hurricane visually seems more selective, targeting victims with bolts of lightening bolts followed by loud booms - Nethermine Ravager's rock shell ability received a new spell effect - Druid Moonkin form has a new bandaging/crafting/using animation - Undead epic horse mount trails longer flames - Murloc Suits can now /kneel, /laugh, /point, /sit, /talk, and /cheer - Shaman ghost wolf no longer holds weapons or shield while attacking - Weapons while in moonkin form appear to have shrunk - Mass Dispel no longer has a graphic, just shows the dispel animation on anything in the area - New, flashier graphic for Blessing of Protection and Blessing of Freedom - Thunderfury' proc does the same thing as Evocate, Cyclone and Windfury (consider it an epilog) - Spectral Tiger Mount (and Swift Spectral Tiger) updated with brighter armor and fewer seems - The Astromages inside of the Mechanar had their fire aura effect changed in appearance. Much taller now and has a different graphic surrounding them - Druid basic flight form flaps it's wings slower now

New trinkets and stuff

New PvP Trinkets, Paladin Changes, DK Interview: Blue Posts, Interview, Lore Daily Blue (Blue Notes that matter) New PvP Trinket in 2.3 There are a few new pvp oriented trinkets for 2.3. All versions of the trinket have a click effect to gain 1750 max health (kind of like the old lifegiving gem effect), along with a passive effect (your choice of 47 spell damage, 40 spell crit rating, 80 attack power, 40 melee crit rating, or 88 healing). Any resilience? Nope, we did the clicky max health instead of resilience in this case (some players are at or nearing the resilience cap already). Actually, they cost badges of justice, which will also be available off Kara and Zul Aman bosses. They're open to all classes. The click effects share a cooldown though, so you won't be able to stack that effect. We like to encourage players to mix it up a little to a reasonable extent. Obviously, I can't argue that you personally will have more total fun if you also do a little PvE to go along with your PvP, but we do feel that for most players it adds up to a better overall play experience. That being said, you certainly can tank heroics in s2 gear.

AV Changes in 2.3

Alterac Valley Changes for Patch 2.3 As a continuing part of our improvements, we will be implementing the following changes in the next patch. Strategy can be an important element of any battleground. We want to emphasize this in Alterac Valley more and give players additional meaning to both defending and attacking. To push the strategic element of the battleground to the next level we have changed how players maintain their reinforcements or deprive the other team of theirs. Each team will have a starting reinforcement count. Reinforcements can be lost in significant amounts if a tower is destroyed or if Captain Galvangar or Belinda Stonehearth is killed. For each team member death, an additional reinforcement will be lost. On the death of General Drek’Thar or Vanndar Stormpike, all reinforcements are lost and the team is defeated. At any point in time, if a team is reduced to zero reinforcements, the opposing team will win the battle. Defending your own teammates, towers, and key NPCs will be an important aspect of maintaining team resources and achieving victory in Alterac Valley. Warmasters can be the boon or the bane of any team. They are an important element for the defense of your general or the defeat of the opposing general. Warlords and their general will be more closely linked in the next patch. Pulling one is a guarantee the other will come as well. Each team begins with four Warmasters. Destroying a tower will eliminate the associated Warmaster. Unlike the current game play, however, destroying the enemy tower will not add a Warmaster to your own side. We will be changing the pace of the battle slightly with a reduction in the time needed to control a tower or graveyard. Where it currently takes five minutes to gain control, the time will be reduced to four minutes. The honor for capturing a tower will also be increased. Graveyards can be an important resource for getting your teammates back into the battle more quickly. Currently, players can sometimes be sent to their starting tunnels far from the battlefront. This can often be an inconvenient location to respawn and more out of the way from the action than we would like, to correct this, players will instead respawn at a team-controlled graveyard. Should the team not have a graveyard under their control, they will respawn in the starting tunnel. Players will only be awarded bonus honor during the battle for destroying enemy towers and slaying the enemy Captain. Once the battle is concluded, bonus honor will be awarded for intact towers, a surviving Captain, and for victory in battle. The bonus honor awarded should be similar to previous totals, but will reward players for taking more active roles in Alterac Valley toward defending or attacking key locations and NPCs. Lastly, we are changing NPC interactions within Alterac Valley. We have reduced the number of elite NPCs in Stormpike and Frostwolf holds as well as sent all Commanders and Lieutenants out of Alterac Valley. They are currently in search of other battle opportunities. This should reduce the amount of NPCs that players will have to fight and place more focus on PvP combat over key locations on the map. Strategy is the name of the game in Alterac Valley, and these changes will bring out the need for more teamwork and coordination from both the Horde and the Alliance as they vie for domination of this battleground.

2.3 Patch notes

2.3 PTR Patch Notes Last Update: Patch Notes have have been updated with additional changes for all classes. Notes for US PTR: - PTR will be available to the public after 6PM Pacific time. - There are No Pre-mades for 2.3 - All previous PTR characters were wiped. - There are no equipment vendors (McWeaksauce Brothers) on the 2.3 PTR - There will only be TWO PTR servers, no PVP II - The PTR Authentication server was updated on Monday October 8th. If your account was not valid prior to the authentication update you will not be able to participate in the 2.3.x PTR phase. If your password was changed after October 8th then you may be able to use your old password on the PTR. - The new Guild Banks feature is currently turned off on the PTR, it will be activated later. World of Warcraft Test Patch 2.3.0 Zul’Aman Zul'Aman is a 10-player, level 70 outdoor instance located in the Ghostlands. Players will be able to confront six new bosses including the Forest Troll Warlord Zul'jin. Guild Banks Introduced The Guild Bank is a shared repository for an entire guild and will be accessible through new NPC’s called guild bankers. The Guild Bank will allow players with the appropriate permissions to store items and money for use by the rest of the guild. Permissions to withdraw and deposit money and items are controlled by the guild leader through the guild controls menu. The Guild Bank is divided up into separate tabs so that the guild leader may restrict access or group items into distinct categories. - Up to 6 purchasable tabs each containing 98 item slots - Permissions to view/deposit/withdraw per tab - You may use your Guild Bank withdraw limits to pay for item repairs (now enabled on all merchants) - Transaction logs of the last 50 actions in the bank vie[...]

Sinister Squashling

Headless Horseman drops now a pet "Sinister Squashling":

Best Guild Invite ever

Utgarde Keep informations

UTGARDE KEEP in Wrath of the Lich King Location: Howling Fjord Players: 5 Wings: Utgarde Keep, Utgarde Pinnacle Level Range: 70-72 (Utgarde Keep), 80 (Utgarde Pinnacle) Enemies: Vrykul, Proto-Dragons, Scourge Theme: Vrykul Fortress resh from your many victories in Outland, you have heeded the call. Brave adventurers are needed to battle the massing Scourge in Northrend. The towering, ominous Utgarde Keep is a sight impossible to miss for players arriving in Howling Fjord, and likely the first dungeon experienced in Northrend. The design process behind Utgarde Keep, and the other dungeons of Wrath of the Lich King, has evolved from years of experience developing for World of Warcraft. How exactly do you dream up a dungeon? When Blizzard started working on Utgarde Keep, they knew from the start that we wanted some sort of “impenetrable fortress in the side of a mountain.” In considering the continent of Northrend’s history and geography they pretty quickly found a source of inspiration for Utgarde Keep, and to an extent the entire region of Howling Fjord, in a combination of elements from Norse mythology. One of their goals was to make the starting areas feel more “human.” The presence of the Vrykul, the imposing half-giant warrior race native to the region, and the architecture connected to them helped achieve exactly that. Utgarde’s design ties closely into the creation of Howling Fjord as a whole. Less high-concept than the otherworldly and wildly diverse regions of Outland, Blizzard want the zones in Northrend to follow a geographic theme that’s more consistent with the familiar geography of Azeroth. Many of Northrend’s regions originally appeared in Warcraft III -- such as Howling Fjord, one of the two starting areas and also where Utgarde Keep is prominently located. Howling Fjord’s Azerothian feel stands in sharp contrast to the stark, alien beauty of Hellfire Peninsula, and this should help players establish an immediate connection to the expansion’s new environments.

Engineering gas clouds

Gas clouds visible on mini-map now

Patch 2.3 notes

World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.3.0 The latest PTR patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/ The Gods of Zul'Aman The stronghold of Zul'Aman has stood for millennia as the Amani trolls' seat of power and bastion of the fearless, cunning warlord Zul'jin. Zul'jin has spent several years plotting behind Zul'Aman's walls. Furious at the Horde for allowing his hated enemies, the blood elves, to join its ranks, he eagerly embraced a scheme that the witch doctor Malacrass recently proposed: to seal the power of the animal gods within the bodies of the Amani's strongest warriors. Now Zul'Aman's army grows more powerful by the day, hungry to exact vengeance in the name of its fearless leader, Zul'jin. Guild Banks Introduced The Guild Bank is a shared repository for an entire guild and will be accessible through Guild Vault objects near existing banks. The Guild Bank will allow players with the appropriate permissions to store items and money for use by the rest of the guild. Permissions to withdraw and deposit money and items are controlled by the guild leader through the guild controls menu. The Guild Bank is divided up into separate tabs so that the guild leader may restrict access or group items into distinct catego....

Patch 2.3.2 notes

2.3.2 PTR Patch Notes (Undocumented changes in green) http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.3.2 General * /timetest is a command that can be run to provide information on game performance. /timetest 0 turns the command off. When the command is issued, the next time a player uses a flight master to travel, certain statistics will be measured and displayed at the end of that flight. All weather effects and spawns are shutdown during the test. * Quest givers with blue question marks no longer show up on the minimap. * NPC's who you have completed a quest for will display a question mark on mouseover rather than an exclamation point. * The bank controls for the guildmaster level of a guild is now grayed out. A guildmaster always has full access to a guild bank and this cannot be changed. * A "Withdraw-Repair Only" button has been added to the guild bank controls. If this is set for a guild rank, then that rank cannot actually withdraw funds from the guild bank, but they can still use that daily amount of money for repairs. * You will now automatically stand up when attacked, even if the attack doesn’t land. Druids * Ravage damage buffed: Ravage the target, causing 385% damage plus 514 to the target. Hunters * Aspect of the Viper: The hunter takes on the aspects of a viper, regenerating mana equa...

Feast of Winter Veil

Feast of Winter Veil As a reminder Winter Veil festivities are starting today and run through until the 2nd of January. Here are some of the new features: - The Preserved Holly that players can get from completing special holiday quests can now be used on flying mounts. This will temporarily turn their flying mount into a flying reindeer that trails sparkles as it flies through the air - Handful of Snowflakes – this is a new item you can obtain by /kiss –ing a Winter Reveler NPC. It will create a light snowfall above any targeted player. - Burning Crusade Holiday Bosses – as in past years, certain bosses will be dressed in a festive fashion and will drop seasonal hats when defeated. The holiday versions of the bosses will begin on Dec. 25 and end on Jan. 2. These bosses include: • Grand Warlock Netherkurse (Shattered Halls) • Grandmaster Vorpil (Shadow Labyrinth) • Exarch Maladaar (Auchenai Crypts) • Captain Skarloc (Durnholde Keep) • Nethermancer Sepethrea (Mechanar) • High Botanists Freywinn (Botanica) - Mechanotoy – This is a new gift that can be obtained from under the Winter Veil tree in Ironforge and Orgrimmar. It lets you summon a Mechanotoy non-combat pet to follow you around.

Phoenix Mount sold for 190000g

On December 26th, 2007 the phoenix mount summoned through using Ashes of Al'ar appeared on the Molten Core server in China. Soon after its appearance, the phoenix mount was bought by a player at 190,000 wow gold (approximately 700 us dolars).

New patch for Warcraft

Weekly Maintenance, Patch 2.3.2 This Wednesday there will be an extended maintenance to apply patch 2.3.2. Please note that all european realms will be offline from 03:00 until 11:00, Paris time (CET). Thanks you for your patience and understanding. General * /timetest is a command that can be run to provide information on game performance. /timetest 0 turns the command off. When the command is issued, the next time a player uses a flight master to travel, certain statistics will be measured and displayed at the end of that flight. All weather effects and spawns are shutdown during the test. * Effects triggered from being critically hit: Many abilities and talents were changed in 2.3.0 to allow them to trigger from critical strikes that occurred while the player benefitting from them was sitting. * Quest givers with blue question marks no longer show up on the minimap. * NPC's who you have completed a quest for will display a question mark on mouseover rather than an exclamation point. * The bank controls for the guildmaster level of a guild is now grayed out. A guildmaster always has full access to a guild bank and this cannot be changed. * A "Withdraw-Repair Only" button has been added to the guild bank controls. If this is set for a guild rank, then that rank cannot actually withdraw funds from the guild bank, but they can still use that daily amount of money for repairs. * You will now automatically stand up when attacked, even if the attack doesn’t land. * Boat and zeppelin vendors and NPCs are are back on duty. * Reduced network latency by disabling the Nagle algorithm. PvP * Warmasters/marshals in Alterac Valley now increase each other’s maximum health and dam...

2.3.2 Problems

2.3.2 Known Issues List General - Dwarven racial Find Treasure is deactivated on death. -Undead Males main hand weapon is appearing larger than previous builds. -Equipping a thrown weapon while in the middle of an Auto-Shot will cause animation issues. - The Gnome racial ability Escape Artist does not remove the Unstable Cloud debuff. - Deleted characters take up space in an arena team. Environment -Inappropriate tooltip is displaying when a player hovers over Shartuul's Transporter on a flying mount. -Relogging on the flight path from Southshore, Hillsbrad Foothills to Ironforge, Dun Morogh in the entrance to Ironforge causes players to fly through a wall. -The flight path from Stormwind to Rebel Camp, Stranglethorn Vale clips through a tree outside of Stormwind. -Alliance flight path between Booty Bay and Stormwind goes through a tree. -There is a Feralfen Idol that is sunk into the floor in Feralfen Village, Zangarmarsh. -There is a tin vein in Hillsbrad Foothills that is unreachable. -There is a section of water that is clipping oddly into one of the waterfalls in Hatchet Hills outside of Zul'Aman. -The message "Zul'Aman Exterior InvisMan gains Cosmetic - Flame Patch X.X" appears in the combat log whenever a troll hut is burning in Hatchet Hills. -There is a leanto in Agama'gor, The Barrens that has no tooltip appearing but will be highlighted when moused over it. -Players can wall jump a portion of the hallway to Gruul in Gruul's Lair to reach a overhanging log beam where they can evade the mobs. -Charge, Intercept, Intervene , and Feral Charge are displaying odd behavior when being used at 10 yards vertical range. Quests -There is a typo in the Quest Description Text of the Dustwallow Marsh quest "Thresher Oil". -There is a punctuation error in the acceptance text for the quest "Inspecting the Ruins" . -The quest description of "Super Hot Stew" does not state exactly how many ingredients are needed to create a Demon Broiled Surprise . -Splintertree Raiders do not respawn with Toerk if Duriel Moonfire and her guards are killed while the Raiders are still alive. -The quest description text for "The Corpulent One" refers to it being a group quest. -The quest "Bark For Drohn's Distillery" is unattainable if the player has certain quests in his/her quest log. -Quest Items are not lootable from chest objects when their tap list is issued on creation, and the object is summoned in via a pet. - After applying the Healing Salve to a Debilitated Mag'har Grunt (16847) for the quest "Adminis...

More issues

More World of Warcraft patch issues Mage - Frostbolts are not proccing judgement of wisdom. It appears that frostbolt is the only spell currently affected by this issue right now. (src) Warrior - Offhand Whirlwind Crits do not proc Flurry or Rampage. UI - We confirmed the combat log is not showing resists/failures correctly on subsequent ticks of abolish poison. The resistance (vile poisons) is still being applied it's just not showing up correctly in the log (it's working correctly its just not telling you that it is). We are working on a fix for the log and it should be in a future patch. Alterac Valley: Capping Snowfall Graveyard takes more time than intended We are aware of this issue and it will be fixed in an upcoming patch. Hunter: New Volley graphics temporarily reverted The new graphic was causing performance problems and had to be temporarily reverted. The new graph....

Guild bank will sell items

Soon we can sell items from guild bank to members We've been exploring ideas about letting guild masters set prices for items from the guild bank. We hope to get some cool guild bank improvements in over time. Interview with Tyram, a golden player (who reached the gold cap) You might have heard/read about it yesterday on several sites, a german player "Tyram" reached the Gold limit which is 214.748 gold, 36 silver and 46 copper. A gamemaster admitted that him and the EU gm team are amazed that a single player managed to reach it, he also confirmed the gold cap. Lifeblood of Spinebreaker server posted (WoW Forums) that the gold cap made perfect sense. Since the maximum limit is 2 to the power of 31, it is a signed int32 - a type of coding used by most developers. All in all, the total amount is plus or minus 2,147,483,647 copper. Unowiel from WoWszene.de interviewed that particular player "Tyram": Unowiel: Please introcude yourself to the community! Whats your name, how old are you and where are you from? Tyram: My name is Christian, I am 28 years old and im from Hamburg. Unowiel: Since when do you play WoW and how many hours do you approximately play each week? Tyram: I am playing WoW sinc...

2.4 Patch revealed

Patch 2.4 The Sunwell Isle The Aldor and the Scryers have made their way to the Sunwell and finally put their petty squabbles aside to form the Shattered Sun Offensive against the demonic forces of Kil'jaeden and the corrupt Blood Elves led by Kael'thas Sunstrider. Shattered Sun Offensive representatives can be found in Shattrath recruiting Horde and Alliance alike for the battle for the Sunwell Plateau and the Magister's Terrace. General - Silence and Interrupt effects are now subject to diminishing returns. - The Sunwell Plateau is a 25-player, level 70 raid instance located on Sunwell Isle. Players will be able to face the demon lord Kil'jaeden himself. - The Magister's Terrace is a 5-player, level 70 dungeon located on Sunwell Isle. Players will be able to finish the fight with Kael'thas and his corrupt Blood Elves. - The Backpack has been redesigned. It will now start as a 10 slot bag, but it will gain 2 slots every 10 levels. New characters will be given an additional 6 slot bag. Existing characters below level 30 may have items moved to their mailbox that no longer fit in their Backpack. Players affected by this should also find a 6 slot bag in their mailbox. - Abilities and items with aura effects will no longer reach as far vertically as they do horizontally. - Several new emotes have been added to the game. Players that wish to make use of these emotes should use the "/emotelist" command. - Random-stat items that provide bonus healing will now properly provide approximately 1/3 bonus spell damage. - The troll Berserking racial no longer requires mana, energy or rage to use. - The gnome Escape Artist racial cooldown has been increased to 2 min, from 1 min 45 sec, but now provides a 5 sec immunity to movement impairing effects. - The human Perception racial cooldown has been reduced to 2 min, from 3 min, but the duration has been reduced to 12 sec, from 20 sec. - The human Diplomacy racial now also increases healing received by 3%. PvP - Additional bonus honor is now rewarded on a Battleground Holiday. - Picking up and dropping the Flag in a Battleground now has a distinct visual and auditory effect. - Warriors will now be able to use Commanding Shout and Battle Shout for free for a few seconds after being resurrected by a Spirit Guide in a Battleground. - The points awarded from capturing the flag in Eye of the Storm has been increased. - During a period of excessive arena queue times the matching system will loosen its requirements, effec...

Warcraft bugs in 2.3.3

2.3.3 Known Issue List updated Hortus changed the 2.3.2 Known issues thread to 2.3.3 and made some additions. We will only list the new additions, the full listing can be read on official forums. General - Male Blood Elves do not blink. - The Gnome racial ability Escape Artist does not remove the Unstable Cloud debuff. Environment - The chests in Zul'aman can be looted by other players who were not in tap list. - Burning troll huts on Hatchet Hills are not dealing any fire damage. - Wooden spikes jutting from pillars in Circle of Blood arena are causing line of sight issues. - There is a floating tree root northwest of Garadar in Nagrand. - The Legion Ring boundary markers occasionally disappear. Quest - The level range of the quest, Bring the Light is inconsistent with the level range of the Razorfen Downs dungeon. - The quest "Delivery to Tranquillen" cannot be accepted if you have "Suncrown Village" in your quest log. - Cipher of Damnation shows place holder icon on the castb...

Loot generation is random

Loot generation clarified by Drysc Loot is generated upon creation. As soon as you step into an instance, or a mob is created in the world, the loot that's going to drop has already been determined. What are the variables in the random generator's kernel, is it based on some attribute of the players in the raid, or the raid leader? Heh no, I believe it uses a time stamp to seed the generator. So, there's nothing you can influence within the game that would alter or coerce the generator. So what you are saying is that we've killed Curator at the exact same second each week for the last 7 weeks, to acco...

Warlock summon restrictions lifted

In 2.4 the summoning restrictions are FINNALY lifted! Warlocks can summon now in Netherstorm, and more important they can summon the members inside instances without beeing needed to go outside. Of course will start a frenzy of swapping characters and alts based on encounters, but this is a change what all players waited for long long long time.

Alterac Valley in 2.4

Alterac Valley changes in 2.4 *Alterac Valley will see a few very significant improvements in the next patch and we wanted to share the details of what we have planned. The first change will be to move the Horde's starting tunnel back to a more equal distance from the first objectives, which will help evenly distance the starting points for each side across the terrain when the battle commences. In addition, the General and Warmasters for each faction will receive a stacking buff from each other that boosts their health and damage. The more of them that are still in the battleground, the more dangerous they will all be. This will put a greater focus on destroying (and defending!) the towers that remove the Warmasters as players work toward defeating the appropriate General and conquering the land. Also Balinda Stonehearth has been studying her spellbooks to become a more challenging opponent to the Horde and will do more damage with her spells. The additional health we recently added to Balinda and General Vanndar Stormpike will no longer be needed with these improvements and will be changed back to their previous amounts with the patch. With these improvements teamwork and strategy will be more important than ever from beginning to end as the Alliance and Horde battle for victory in Alterac Valley. We'll see you on the battlefield.

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.4.0

World of Warcraft PTR Patch 2.4.0 The Sunwell Isle The Sunwell Isle is now available for play. This area includes a new quest hub and 5-player and 25-player instances. Join the Shattered Sun Offensive in shutting down Kael’thas’ nefarious operations. This new force is comprised by both the Aldor and Scryers and is led by the Naaru. Players will take part in claiming Sun’s Reach and setting up a larger base of operation to stop Kael’thas and the Legion. Combat Log Improvements The combat log has undergone improvements that allow more robust combat filtering including the ability to define custom colors for enemies and friends as well as combat filtering for self and others. General The combined forces of Shattrath have launched an attack on the Isle of Quel’Danas, to confront Kael’thas and the Legion at the Sunwell and surrounding areas. Players will now be able to gain reputation with the Shattered Sun Offensive and participate in a new set of daily quests. A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World’s End Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted ease of passage to the Caverns of Time. Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers. Spell Haste: Spell haste now reduces the global cooldown on spells, down to a minimum of 1 second. This change does not apply to melee and ranged abilities. Item Cast Spells: Many spells cast by items were being cast as if the caster were the same level as the item. Most of those will now cast at the player’s level, giving them a reasonable chance to miss, be dispelled, or be resisted. Resilience: Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduc...