We here at WoW Insider see every day just how many great artists are out there in the World of Warcraft community. We’ve interviewed them, we’ve written about them, and now we want to know if you’re one of them so we can give you some sweet prizes. We have in our hands four prizes from SteelSeries to award the best and most creative artists in our audience. All that you need to do to enter is make us a piece of fanart. Draw (or paint or whatever it is you do) a picture of how you imagine the WoW Insider crew would look in the World of Warcraft. One of us, two of us, many of us, whatever you like. You don’t get pictures of us to work off of, just let your imagination do as it will. Are we heroes fighting epic battles? Are we just lowly Stormwind commoners? Are we cute little beasts going on zany adventures? You have from this very moment

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. With Ulduar proving to be more difficult than Naxx, raid leaders wow goldare focusing more and more on performance issues. Raids are finding out that they can’t just carry their weakest players through this ancient Titan stronghold the way they could through Kel’Thuzad’s floating magical loot pinata. One raid leader in particular has a performance issue with a bit of a twist: The problem player is the wife of one of his best raiders. I warn people that this is a long e-mail, but it is well written and the details are important to what follows. TLDR version is after the break! Hello, Scott I am an officer in my guild and a raid leader for a semi-casual raid (non-Heroic). I am facing a problem that seems perhaps not too uncommon for

In a world where the battle between the Horde and the Alliance is fought out in grueling games of Capture the Flag and King of the Hill, the AFKPlayers are back with a believable and entertaining new battleground. Check out their new machinima, Major League Azeroth. This new video by the Taiwanese AFKPlayers manages to tie in both tongue-in-cheek comedy and some fun shots of the mysterious new raid instance, Ulduar. Brann Bronzebeard makes a guest appearance during the film, and ultimately is responsible for the game’s outcome. Part of what I love so much about MLA is the firm understanding AFKPlayers show about the WoW community zeitgeist. Cracks and references about King Wrynn mirror things I’ve said in my own Guild chat. When a Death Knight steps up to bat, the authors issue subtle nods to things we all think about the new class. Even without

So here’s the deal. We’ve been told we have more Argent Tournament content coming, that’s a given. As late as a couple days ago, Blues were telling us, for example, that we’ll definitely see more ways to earn Champion’s Seals. In short, come 3.2, it seems more than likely that we can expect the Goblins to be done building that coliseum, and the next phase of the tourney to be underway. So the question is, what exactly will we see? I can’t help but hope to see the return of the old factional armor. I’ve complained about this before, but I miss the distinctive look of many of the old faction-specific PvP armor sets, especially for plate wearers. It offered a distinct fashion and way to show off your factional loyalties if faction-based RP or Battlegrounding was your pleasure. Sure, it technically still exists in the level

And now, for something completely different, check out Yumfries’s Sisqo + WoW = The Gnome song. I was tipped off to this video by Selserene, and I’m really quite glad for it. This video is a lot of fun, and it has more than a few “laugh out loud” moments. The lyrics to the song are hilarious. I think the poetry touches an inner gnome in all of us. Who hasn’t watched a Shetland Rogue get their groove on, and thought, “I like it when the gnomes go boing boing boing”? Yumfries was clearly aiming at comedy with his parody, and he did so in a light-hearted, harm-free way. I prefer wow goldparody that isn’t mocking or belittling, and Yumfries isn’t out to make fun of anyone in particular. He’s just poking fun at the whole too-seriousness in all of us. The video itself is pretty funny, too. Behold the glorious

Ever since Wrath of the Lich King was in beta, my least favorite daily quest was The Alchemist’s Apprentice from Zul’Drak, part of Troll Patrol. I could zoom through all of the other Troll Patrol quests without any stalling or hesitation, but this one would hold me up forever with its stupid Seasoned Cider Sliders and Muddy Mire Maggots. It never kept me long enough for me to fail the Troll Patrol timer, but it kept me long enough to be an extreme annoyance. At this point I’ve memorized where all of the weird little ingredients are in Finklestein’s lab, but now that I’ve started reading Flame Shock, a Shaman blog, I realize how silly I’ve been. I don’t use a lot of mods, so I never think to look for mods for very small, very specific things like a single quest, but it turns out I really should have, just like when most