2008年12月7日星期日

WoW Insider's top ten stories of all-time

Today, December 6, is the third anniversary of our little site. We actually started posting a few weeks beforehand, to get up and r wow powerleveling unnin buy cheap wow gold g, but the official launch was over on our parent Joystiq on December 6th, 2005.

Since then, we've posted over 12,000 posts, commenters have commented over half a million times, and people have visited the site over two hundred million times (millions more if you count all buy warcraft gold the RSS readers out there). Oh, and we've covered nine classes, 27 builds, nine major content patches (and hundreds if not thousands of class and content changes), and absorbed the angry yells, QQ tears, cheerful applause and apathetic mehs of all of you hundred of thousands of readers. What a ride it's been.

And so, to look back at our little piece of history today, we figured we'd check back over the records (all the records we have), and buy cheap wow gold come up with a top ten list of our most popular stories of all time. Keep in mind that this is a list of our most popular stories -- while it does include our most popular posts of all time, we had to make a few tweaks and filters to make it al wow power level exploit l make sense (our most popular page of all time, other than the front page, surprise, is actually page 2).

But this will offer you a good look at just what WoW Insider is all about -- from our great looks at some of the biggest stories in Warcraft, to an interesting view of just what you, our readers are really interested in. Thanks for the memories -- the site has only gotten bigger almost every single month during the past three years, and that's because readers like you come and visit to see what we're posting.

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The New York Times opines on Wrath of the Lich King

The New York Times has covered WoW before, and a couple days ago, they did again. Via sister site Massively, w buy gold in wow e find this article by writer Seth Schiesel. In it, he provides yet another paean for Blizzard's amazing work on the expansion, free wow gold guide and touches a little bit on the casual versus hardcore dichotomy.

In Burning Crusade, he was the hardcore, racing to level 70, eschewing sleep and sustenance to get those server firsts, eventually causing him to burn out and quit the game for a time. In Wrath of the Lich King, he's been a casual wanderer, enjoying leveli buy cheap wow gold ng slowly, surrounded by the other hoi polloi and "journeyman adventurers" taking the game at a slower pace. In the end, though, what pleases him most is that the friendships. The article is a nice little testimonial of the way this game has shaped our lives and forged and strengthened friendships, and it's certainly a nice read on a cold Saturday afternoon like today, whether you're casual or hardcore. After all, we're all just players.

The rest of the wow power leveling fight is all about spores. Loatheb summons spores throughout the fight (more frequently on heroi wow + powerleveling c) and the spores give a beneficial debuff, Fungal Creep, increasing crit chance by 50% and reducing threat caused by zero to the five closest people. Other than the tank, everyone in the raid should get this debuff, so organise into groups (it's usually easier to simply start at group 1 and work through to group 5, or vice versa depending where your highest DPS members are). When a spore appears, the group whose turn it is -- and that group alone -- should bunch up next to the spore and kill it to get the debuff. Note that the spores have wow power leveling low health and only apply the debuff in a short-range area, so don't be too hasty or too late to move.

It helps to have someone calling out which group's turn it is, although boss mods can do this. In short, keep yourself alive, get spores when it's your wow gold turn and use the healing window wisely.

Differences between normal and heroic: Spore frequency higher on heroic In next week's Ready Check we'll be venturing into the Deathknight Quarter, so stay tuned!

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2008年11月22日星期六

Bear armor and FAP changes coming in 3.0.4

Hi, Feral fans! When last we met to ta wow gold cheap lk about a big Ghostcrawler post, he previewed that they were working on changing the bear armor bonus so it didn't work on jewelry, cloaks, and weapons any more, and on doing something about feral attack power (as seen on feral staves). world of warcraft gold farming He didn't have details at the time, but said he'd get back to us. As GC is a crab of his word, he's now come back to let us know exactly what's going to happen, and when. Only cloth and leather armor (excluding capes) will b wow powerleveling enefit from the armor multiplier on bear forms. This means armor from trinkets, rings, necks, and weapons will not be multiplied. However, Survival of the Fittest is gaining the additional effect of adding an additional 22/33/66% to your armor from cloth/leather. Net armor should stay the same. Feral attack power will be removed. Instead, attack power in feral forms will scale based on weapon DPS. As with the armor change, this should make no actual di wow powerleveling wow gold fference to your performance - the conversion will be such that your DPS remains the same. What it does do is make it so some staves might be useful to both hunters and druids (for instance), or some two-handed maces might be useful to feral druids. In Ghostcrawler's words: "This does not mean we are no longer going to create bear and cat weapons, just that those weapons will be slightly less niche than they are now." These changes will be cheapest wow gold coming sometime before 3.1 (Ulduar), which I've been referring to as 3.0.4 (though perhaps 3.0.x would be more accurate). Both great changes in my opinion; the armor change should give us more viable options for tanking jewelry and weapons, instead of being forced to hold on to whatev wow power leveling er has armor. And the FAP change will just mean we don't always have to DE a feral piece if the one or two ferals in the raid already have it; and conversely, there won't necessarily be only one weapon in a given raid that's of use to ferals (I'm looking at you, Stranglestaff).

Bear armor and FAP changes coming in 3.0.4

Hi, Feral fans! When last we met to ta wow gold cheap lk about a big Ghostcrawler post, he previewed that they were working on changing the bear armor bonus so it didn't work on jewelry, cloaks, and weapons any more, and on doing something about feral attack power (as seen on feral staves). world of warcraft gold farming He didn't have details at the time, but said he'd get back to us. As GC is a crab of his word, he's now come back to let us know exactly what's going to happen, and when. Only cloth and leather armor (excluding capes) will b wow powerleveling enefit from the armor multiplier on bear forms. This means armor from trinkets, rings, necks, and weapons will not be multiplied. However, Survival of the Fittest is gaining the additional effect of adding an additional 22/33/66% to your armor from cloth/leather. Net armor should stay the same. Feral attack power will be removed. Instead, attack power in feral forms will scale based on weapon DPS. As with the armor change, this should make no actual di wow powerleveling wow gold fference to your performance - the conversion will be such that your DPS remains the same. What it does do is make it so some staves might be useful to both hunters and druids (for instance), or some two-handed maces might be useful to feral druids. In Ghostcrawler's words: "This does not mean we are no longer going to create bear and cat weapons, just that those weapons will be slightly less niche than they are now." These changes will be cheapest wow gold coming sometime before 3.1 (Ulduar), which I've been referring to as 3.0.4 (though perhaps 3.0.x would be more accurate). Both great changes in my opinion; the armor change should give us more viable options for tanking jewelry and weapons, instead of being forced to hold on to whatev wow power leveling er has armor. And the FAP change will just mean we don't always have to DE a feral piece if the one or two ferals in the raid already have it; and conversely, there won't necessarily be only one weapon in a given raid that's of use to ferals (I'm looking at you, Stranglestaff).

2008年10月21日星期二

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I love those moments in Public Quests when, on the final stage, the enormous boss monster stomps into the area and the final, epic conclusion begins to draw near. What will that boss do? Will he cast a nasty DOT? Perhaps he’ll throw us all back into the aggressive monsters waiting along cheapest warhammer gold the fringes? It warhammer online powerleveling ’s a great adrenalin rush! Also equally, if not more so, are those moments in RvR when you’re attacking the keep doors while the enemy pours down boiling oil, siege weapons are firing on both sides, and any moment you’ll storm into buy warhammer gold cheapest the Keep where the final outcome will be decided! You know what would be cool? What if we combine the two? In th buying warhammer gold e skirmish areas around the entire world during the Halloween holiday, there will be boss monsters lurking for players to kill. They’ll have cool loot on them, of course, so players from both sides will want to take them down. warhammer power leveling buying I’m sure Order and Destruction will play nicely with each other and share equally with each other for the spoils of the fight – yeah right! What else would you expect from a Warhammer holiday? Trick-or-treating? Nah! Beating people over the head? Oh yeah! In a buy war gold ddition to the awesome conflict happening out in the RvR areas, we’ve got some unique encounters cooked up for anyone wanting to do some PvE Monster slaying. I don’t want to spoil all of the amazing stuff we’ve got planned, but rest assured that it’ll be “cool,” rewarding, and very Warhammer. Thanks for playing WAR, I’ll look for you out there on the battlefield! ~Mark “Wouldn’t it warhammer gold cheapest be cool” Davis

2008年9月18日星期四

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They just need Cheapest wow gold more block rating but can stay ungraspable longer than we can due to how their abilities work vs. ours): we've yet to Warhammer Gold see how this is going to play out. With the addition of DK's as tanks, removing CB's keeps them from having to rely on a gimmicky high parry

(Since they won't use a shield to tank) to avoid being crushed, but it also means that warriors will need a means to stay competitive with Warhammer Power leveling other tanks. Threat seems to be getting entirely reworked, so for now I'm cautiously optimistic about where tanking is heading for protection spec warriors, and indeed, all warriors.

I'll go so far as to say that arms and fury warriors will be tanking in Wrath. I don't expect them to be dedicated main tanks for raids, but I wow power leveling do expect to see them tanking in five mans without respecting, and that is without taking the possible two talent spec idea into account.

As we continue to expand WAR after release, we will do what we did with Deco; continue to raise the specs for the game Wow Gold as hardware anarchy online credits improves (while keeping backwards compatibility for a long-time).

2008年9月9日星期二

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Bear Shamans turned out to cheapest wow gold be competent combat classes with healing capabilities. To be honest, that's what I thought this class would be going into it: Arc’s version of wow gold a druid class. Where the Bear Shaman surprised me with its melee capabilities, the Tempest of Set did the same with its offensive magic. I knew that this class employed a lot of snake and lightning-themed aoc gold magic, but Fandom went pretty wild with everything -- in a good wayOf course, you still have all the healing standbys, although at level 20 I didn't see a revive spell for the Tempest of Set (but I could have rose online zulie simply missed it somehow). Truth be told, I spent a lot of my time using the Cobra Stare spell to snare my enemies while I pummeled them with lightning attacks. Of course if someone nearby needed it, throwing out heals was certainly do-able. Healing just is not what I wanted to focus on ffxi gil when there was a chance use giant magical snakes and lightning on my enemies. If you want you’re standard, straight up healer, and then here you go -- play a Priest of Mitral. To be honest with you, it's cheap ffxi gil a satisfying experience.
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