Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by admin
This morning’s EU loot card giveaway had over 1500 entries! Not bad for the hottest day of the year and midweek! I’m quite impressed and there were some pretty funny comments in there as well. A lot of people want the giant, er, male rooster.
Well we /rolled and came up with three lucky winners who will be receiving an email shortly. You might want to check out Turpster’s informative video post from this last night which walks you through how redeem loot cards as well as gratuiteous scenes of a giant chicken being ridden by a gnome. Definitely NSFW.
So, without further a do, /drumroll. The lucky winners are:
Max is the proud owner of the must-have chicken mount El Pollo Grande
Chickyhines can now bash the Ogre Pinata to his heart’s content
Maephisto has bagged the groovy Path of Cenarius
Congratulations to all and thanks once again to Tom at Upper Deck International’s UK office.
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Posted on June 29th, 2009 by admin
Hail and well met, Druid colleagues. I ventured into the scary realm of moviemaking in order to capture the new Druid forms on the PTR. Because my Hordeside main copied over first, we’ll take care of the Tauren initially. The Night Elf video is in progress, and I’ve been told that Blizzard fixed the bug where one of the NE bear forms wasn’t properly linked to a hair color, so stay tuned.
Anyway, this is my first video and I apologize for the amateurish quality; I’ll get better (though not necessarily less dorky) with practice, but I really wanted to get this out for everyone who can’t get on the PTR but wants to see what the new forms look like in motion. If you can’t run sound at the moment, the only really pertinent commentary is that: a). The forms are beautiful: b). They look great in motion: c). For whatever reason, the bear butt has actually grown, and: d). The Night Elf video is on its way.
If you’re having issues with Viddler, you can find the same video (in slightly higher quality) here on YouTube.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by admin
The Midsummer Fire Festival should now be live on almost all North American realms. If it isn’t, it will be shortly! Not much has changed since last year, beyond the addition of the achievements.
Speaking of achievements, while we have our guide to the Achievements of Midsummer, you might not be able to make a significant dent in them today if you made rounds with the flames last year. None of the quests seem to have reset from last year, so getting your hands on the holiday currency to buy the items you need is going to be difficult, to say the least. By difficult, I may or may not mean borderline impossible.
I don’t expect this to be a permanent issue, we’ll probably see a hotfix sometime in the near future since the problem is already being checked out. Of course, that’s assuming the issue is something that can be hotfixed. If not, I don’t doubt we’ll see a fix of another flavor down the road. I don’t foresee Blizzard keeping What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been out of players’ hands because of something like this. In the meantime, at least you can still take a crack at Lord Ahune.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by admin
Aeuis brings up an interesting point over on the forums: even though some of the items we get are called “Bind on Account” (or, more properly, Bind to Account, even though most people use BoA as shorthand) they’re really not that, because you can’t actually send them across factions or realms. Of course, that’s pretty obvious to people who’ve been playing the game for a while — Blizzard has never really encouraged cross-faction interaction at all (you can “send” items through the neutral AH, though even that is a bit of a hack, not really the intended purpose). So BoA items are actually bound to account, server, and faction.
But Wyrxian is surprisingly open about “future possibility:” he does say that while Blizzard could allow us to send items between factions if they wanted us to, they also wanted to leave things open just in case the functionality came into view in the future. That doesn’t mean we can expect a change in the next patch, but it does seem to mean that Blizzard is still open to the “possibility.” You’d think it be tough technically (character inventories are all over the place, especially cross-server), but considering that we can now have cross-server battlegrounds, all it would probably take is a tweak to the in-game mail system. One character sends an item, another character receives it.
And really, the only possibility that might come open is just ease-of-use — that’s why BoA and Heirloom items are in the game already, and if Blizzard determines that it would be easier to have you share items between your characters’ factions and servers (perhaps if they upgrade the character re-customization feature to include a faction change?), then it will likely happen sooner or later.
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by admin
Patch 3.1.2 brought it with the usual slew of undocumented changes, but here’s one that appears to have flown under the radar for a while — Mei Francis, Dalaran’s exotic mount vendor, now sells basic Outland flying mounts (read: gryphons and wyverns) at both regular and epic speeds. This is great news for, well, anybody who doesn’t want to go to Outland! I know that when my shaman hit 77 and I bought all of my flying skills, it was a pain to have to go to Shadowmoon Valley to buy my mount, so I can certainly appreciate the change.
Of course, there are even more mount changes in store — a 150% speed flyer at 60, for example — so this is obviously part of the devs’ mission to streamline the leveling and traveling process for players of all levels. A welcome and unexpected change for quality of leveling life — that’s what I like to see.
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 by admin
At first, I wasn’t entirely positive how I felt about Warcraft Meets Star Trek. The author, who goes by muffstermunch, doesn’t have a lot of credits to his name yet, and does say this is his first full-length music video. So, while I was definitely interested in the idea, I wasn’t sure what to think.
As I fired up the YouTube stream, though, my beloved Draenei fiancee saw it over my shoulder. Recognizing the song from old Dr. Demento shows, she started laughing at the dancing gnomes and immediately yelled, “Oh my god, that’s awesome!” So, if nothing else, that experience instantly won me over.
Warcraft Meets Star Trek is one of those machinima pieces that is just plain fun. The sheer ridiculousness of the WoW models chosen to represent the original cast is brilliant. The idea to use of a brooding Night Elf as Spock was particularly inspired, in my opinion. While the ending credits could probably be shorter for most people’s tastes, I think the author has created an overall laugh-worthy, fun music video.
The author definitely won me over with his freshman effort, and I truly hope to see more comedic bits from him.
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Posted on June 11th, 2009 by admin
Addon Spotlight takes a look at the little bits of Lua and XML that make our interfaces special. From bar mods to unit frames and beyond, if it goes in your Addons folder, we’ll cover it here.
We covered another Ackis mod, Ackis Recipe List, just last Sunday. This one is (in my opinion) even cooler, and will be of interest to a wider audience than recipe completists. I Have Macro Lol!, or IHML for short, generates a dynamic macro (like Mounted) for you to use in various situations, like dailies and boss fights. You can use just one slot on your action bar, and the macro will adapt itself to whatever situation you happen to be in.
From the configuration interface (/ihml), you can set up what macro you want to use in any given boss encounter or zone. The macro is generated upon entering a zone or loading BigWigs boss modules for a boss fight (no support for Deadly Boss Mods, as far as I know). You can also set up default macros for parties, raids, PvP, etc.
The real value here is dailies. There are several different daily zones in Wrath, all of which have different items that need to be used. Back in BC, I could get by with just my Isle of Quel’Danas macro; nowadays, if I was still bothering with dailies, I would need about six different macros to swap out if it wasn’t for something like IHML. The boss functionality is just icing. Thanks again, Ackis, for another solid mod to fill a gap.
Download I Have Macro Lol! at WoWInterface or Curse
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by admin
We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
- A couple nice new WoW wallpapers over at Blizzard.
- Rawrcast Episode 21 is out for people to enjoy, and you can also take a listen to Episode 20 with our own Alex Ziebart.
- Wordy Warrior’s Things I’ve Learned About DPS
- And Two Rogues has some Fun Things to do in PvP
- Defeat Dragons has a great piece about Four Keys to Guild Leadership
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Posted on May 29th, 2009 by admin
Rawrshach of <Shindu Belore> on Deathwing writes, “While trying to rid New Avalon of its Scarlet Crusade taint, Rawrshach finds himself surrounded by an unusually high concentration of ghouls. Not exactly his idea of a party, but when you’re an undead cow, you kind of have to take what you can get.” Come on now, tauren make the best death knights. Where do you think the concept of tainted beef comes from? *rimshot*
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Posted on May 26th, 2009 by admin
Hey, remember back in vanilla WoW when warlocks were the most powerful, feared, and complained-about-on-the-forums of all the classes? Synar of <High Solstice> on Stormrage does, and he’s ready to bring happy days back again by taking out the warlock’s main archrival class and gear competitor. However, his attack on the mage trainers at the Wizard’s Sanctum does not appear to have had the desired effect. “Sadly, his show of protest went unnoticed and the Mages went along with their business of staring blankly into their bookshelves,” he wrote.
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