Blizzard reveals new Battle.net features
WoW.com — ... Player accounts, avatars, icons, and friend lists are all planned, and odds are that services like the Armory and even the WoW sign in may be tied to your Battle.net account in some way. Tournaments and rankings will be included (though it remains to be seen how this might be implemented in World of Warcraft), and Battle.net will even offer players the ability to ...

Server:Altar of Storms US
WoWWiki - Recent changes [en] — From WoWWiki Current revision Altar of Storms is a US EST PVP server which opened on 05/18/06 . It has close to a 1:1 activity ratio between Horde and Alliance in the evenings, with less than a minute queue times for Battlegrounds. Being a Medium/ Low population server, it has no wait to log into the game. { Brief History | Progression | Pre-BC } Also: As of 3/27/2008 for lvl 70: Guilds A Alliance Crest Alliance H Horde Crest Horde Server Firsts Pre-Expansion ( Alliance ) holds the first Ragnaros server kill ...

Widget shows character name statistics
WoW.com — Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Human, Night Elves, Orcs, Hunter, Rogue, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Draenei ...

Server:Altar of Storms US
WoWWiki - Recent changes [en] — From WoWWiki Revision as of 00:45, 7 September 2008 Altar of Storms is a US EST PVP server which opened on 05/18/06 . It has close to a 1:1 activity ratio between Horde and Alliance in the evenings, with less than a minute queue times for Battlegrounds. Being a Medium/ Low population server, it has no wait to log into the game. { Brief History | Progression | Pre-BC } Also: As of 3/27/2008 for lvl 70: Guilds A Alliance Crest Alliance H Horde Crest Horde Server Firsts Pre-Expansion ( Alliance ) holds the first ...

Official LOTRO Forum Signatures
Pumping Irony — Turbine announced yesterday in a FAQ post that their official LOTRO character signatures have gone live. This is Turbine’s first attempt at providing a service like this, so hopefully it will be popular and Turbine will expand it’s capabilities. Here’s a signature for Arwellyn: (Scaled to 80% to fit the blog, click for full size) It’s great that it’s able to pull her crafting status, and kinship information (uh wait a minute… I’m an officer now?) which leads to the obvious speculation that someday a feature similar to World of ...

Comment on Sexy Specs, a Rocket, and a Mote-Sucker by Naelum
Comments for Draenic Wisdom — Not Found Apologies, but we were unable to find what you were looking for. Perhaps searching will help. HEROES OF THE HAND Seidhkona Thoryna Iryna Larysa Faustyna Aglaya Antonina Unnamed September 2008 M T W T F S S Aug 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 APPROVED ADVERTISEMENTS Polls Where do you get your game on? PVE Realm PVP Realm RP Realm RP/PVP Realm View Results Loading ... Loading ... Polls Archive Archives August 2008 July 2008 Database Allakhazam Gankbang ...

Getting Some Action
Mad Cow Chronicles — …is this Monday? This is, isn’t it. It’s Monday. Fire the time machine back up, boys! Llanion is on vacation; comments may not be approved until he returns (hang in there!). Thank you for your appreciation. So I picked up my Champion of the Naaru title recently. My guild, alas, does not do 25-mans… and the title requires a kill of both Magtheridon and Gruul the Dragonkiller. Each of these is a 25-man raidboss. My objective was clear: Get into a 25-man raid as a pickup player. My obstacle was equally clear: I like my guild and have no intention ...

WoW Insider interviews 38 Studios' Brett Close about Azeroth Advisor
WoW.com — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Economy, Leveling, Guides, InterviewsLast week we reported that 38 Studios, a company working on its own MMO property, had picked up the Azeroth Advisor, a custom newsletter directed towards players of World of Warcraft. At the time, we were slightly confused -- why would another gaming company want to purchase a guide written to promote and help players of a competitor's game? To get the answer, we went straight to the top, and sat down to talk with Brett Close, CEO of 38 Studios, ...

Timbermaw changes, Armory update, Blue posts
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — Patch 3.0.2 - Timbermaw Reputation changes Patch 3.0.2 made a few changes to the Timbermaw factions and it's now twice easier to level it. Reputation gains for all mobs and quests have been doubled, at level 70 you should get : ...

Guild calendars implemented in the WoW Armory
WoW.com — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, Wrath of the Lich King You all know about the new in-game calendar feature that came with patch 3.0.2, right? Right! The calendar has just been integrated into the Armory as well, and it's really quite cool. By ...

The Scourge Invasion Continues
There and Back Again — skip to main | skip to sidebar There and Back Again Wednesday, October 29, 2008 The Scourge Invasion Continues WoW's subscriber base reaches 11 million. And this is before the official release of WotLK. So much for Warhammer Online. I can see the cues already... Posted by Stormgaard at 6:26 AM [image] 0 comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) First Time Here? Welcome to the Blog! Support Our Vent Server! [image] Support Our Blog! >> 7S Forums @ ...

D.E.H.T.A.’s no P.I.T.A.!
Mend Pet — Since everyone seems to be writing about the Wrathgate quest line, which I have yet to finish still… I’ve decided to post instead my thoughts on another interesting quest line in Northrend, the D.E.H.T.A. For those who haven’t gotten through Borean Tundra, and who don’t mind ...

Armory updated to include stats and achievements
WoW.com — ... specifically, from who's downed the heroics recently to the first characters to 80 on your own realm. I wonder what they'll report on when all the firsts have been taken, but we'll have to see -- that might be an interesting feed to follow (they provide RSS for it as well). Armory updated to include stats and achievements originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

WoW armory revamped to show achievements and more
Massively — Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Endgame, News items World of Warcraft players finally have the moment they've been waiting for. Well, okay, one of the many moments they've been waiting for. The armory has finally been revamped into the updated form Blizzard promised some months ago that will allow players to off the achievements they've earned. The armory version of achievements also contains the same tracking bars and lists for in-progress achievements as are on the in-game interface. For the World of Warcraft player who ...

Achievements online
Mystic Chicanery — OOO the achivements are insidious. Now, not only do you have them in game.. but they’re reflected in the Armory But take everything with a grain of salt. For example here’s one of my achievemnts: ORLY? Lilac… the warlock.. has pickpocketed 82 times? You’re right.. warlocks are totally OP.

Achievements Now Available in the Armory
DeathKnight.info — Blizzard finally got around to adding the achievement and statistics information from in game to the armory, and I’ll be the first to say it was worth the wait! Anything you can find under the achievement interface in game can now be found in your characters armory profile plus there is an option to compare yourself with others! On top of all the cool new features, the newly WotLK inspired redesign also has a news feed on the front page showing all of the server and world firsts! Here is a look at some of the changes: To navigate between ...

Official Armory Update - Achievements and new features
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — Official Armory Update - Achievements and new features As you can read, the armory has been updated with tons of useful features, a lot of them related to achievements. ...

Epic Dolls Episode 57 - Are Achievements the New “Hardcore”?
Epic Dolls — This episode the Dolls cover some news including the new and improved Armory site. We point everyone to some sites that can help you with the tough achievements including the Zone Quest Drops, Well Read and Veteran of the Wrathgate. Leala gives a fashion tip highlighting the hot looks in Northrend for Fall. We share more of what we’ve been up to in Northrend and ponder the question “Are achievements the new hardcore?” Illidarian is back again with a super awesome extended lore lesson about the Man himself, Arthas Menethil. Click ...

Armory fix, DK changes, Blue posts, Wallpaper
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — Official Armory "fix" - Wealth statistics removed If you care about your privacy, this news will probably make you happy. The armory has been updated once again to slightly modify one of the feature introduced last week: the Wealth statistics is no longer available on character sheets. (Total gold acquired, Average gold earned per day, Most gold ever owned, etc ...) ...

Wealth category removed from Armory statistics
WoW.com — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Account SecurityThe Armory was updated with achievement and statistic tracking last week to accompany the new game features introducted in patch 3.0.2, along with tools to compare your achievements and stats to other players on your realm. There was a lot of concern over someone the things displayed out in the open for all to see such as the Wealth stat. How much gold you've had, how much you have, things like that. Players felt it made them into targets of sorts, figuring hackers, scammers and phishing sites ...

ElunesGracePodcast #79 - The Druid
Elunes Grace Podcast — News: Arena season 4 is coming to a close December 9th. Arena season 5 is slated to begin December 17th. The armory got a face lift. Check out the new design . Jinx has 12 new clothing designs and the Murloc Plush toy. Oakshard joins us to discuss the Druid class. Congratz to him and to Gheal for hitting level 80!! Mp3

WAR for the WoW Player
Werit — Are you a Warcraft fan and interested in the new Warhammer game? This article should serve as a primer and hopefully help you feel more at home in WAR. Leveling. In WAR, levels are called Battle Ranks (BR) and there are 40 ranks. You gain experience by questing and killing monsters, just like in WoW. WAR also allows you to gain experience through PvP if you choose. As far as questing content, WAR does not have as much as WoW, but they tend to be less frustrating too. Sides. There are two sides to this conflict, Order versus Destruction. ...

Micro Armory
DeathKnight.info — ... The official WoW Armory was one of those sites that didn’t like my mobile browser, so I instantly started searching for a replacement. ...

3D Armory does what it says on the tin
WoW.com — Filed under: Items There are many Armory sites out there, since Blizzard had the foresight to put the Armory data in XML so anyone who wanted to could use it in alternate presentations. 3D Armory is a new Armory site, just released into public beta. As you might have guessed, the focus of the site is on loading your character's data and displaying a 3D model of your toon; for instance, at top right you can see my death knight and how his gear looks in-game (yes, I'm still wearing my heirloom shoulders). It does what it sets out to do, and does it ...

Alternatives to WoWJutsu
WoW.com — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Ranking, Fan stuff, RaidingIt's very, very rare that pioneers are actually the best at what they do. They have great ideas, and those ideas revolutionize their field... but they're just ideas, concepts. It's not long before someone else improves those initial concepts and makes them the new standard. This more or less describes the situation around WoWJutsu. WoWJutsu was once the number one guild ranking website, tracking progression, boss kills and all of that great stuff. Unfortunately, it hasn't kept up with the times. ...

The Hunter DPS Spreadsheet Guide
The Hunting Lodge — It’s come to my attention that many people seem to have a difficult time with using The Hunter DPS Spreadsheet.  I’m hoping this post might be a guide for those that have questions, problems, or just had a question and didn’t really know how or where to ask. First, let me give some background for you.  The current spreadsheet is based off of the original spreadsheet by Cheeky and Lactose.  But much of what we knew about this original version has changed or is no longer present.  Just as with Wrath of the Lich King has changed  much of the game and is no longer the ...

The PUG Dice
I am a Paladin... — So even though I raid with my guild for 25 mans, when it comes to 10 mans, we have a lot of choices. We can run with guild or set up our own groups. As for me, though I really want the title, "The Undying," and I have been invited to guild runs to attempt this - I still have to pug. Why? ...

Nomenclature
Terra Nova — On the official World of Warcraft forums, there's a long conversation going on about the most common character names. Participants in the discussion are using the Armory to search text strings. The thread itself is a nice demonstration of a large group of people investigating their own ...

Ulduar PTR Testing, Arena Tournament, Blue posts
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — [EU PTRs] Auriaya testing cancelled European players were supposed to test Auriaya in Ulduar tonight but it looks like Blizzard ... wasn't prepared. ...

Blessing of Wisdom / Mana Spring Totem, EU Realm Migration, Arena Tourney Phase 2
Worldofraids News — Stay tuned as there should be a new build today! If you want, feel free to hang out in IRC and chat with us about 3.1 and Ulduar so far. Blessing of Wisdom and Mana Spring Totem Change Quote from: Eyonix ( Source ) We are making a change to these spells so that their benefits are exclusive in patch 3.1.0. The buffs will be equivalent, but will no longer stack. Mana Spring will affect the entire raid instead of just the shaman s party. We felt that both paladins and shamans brought too many unique buffs to a group. Additionally, we have been trying to tone down mana regeneration in large groups, ...

PVP New Armory Feature: Arena Records
TankSpot — Quote: Every Arena team profile on the Armory (The World of Warcraft Armory) now includes Arena Records, new tools that track and measure the performance of every Arena team in World of Warcraft. These tools comprise the Match History tab, the ...

WoW Armory improved with powerful tools
WoW.com — Filed under: Blizzard, PvP, Arena Demonstrative of their commitment to seeing Arenas succeed, the World of Warcraft Armory has been updated with new tools that allow players to scan Match Histories, Opponent Histories, and more ...

Warrior Threat problem
TankSpot — Hello. Have some Threat problem . My guild say have low TPS. Can any check my item / talent and give some help plz? http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Frostwhisper&n=Texnikos Tnx for help.

Fresh Fury Warrior Gear Guide
Part Time Druid — This’ll be my second cross post on Big Hit Box.  So be sure to check out their site as well, they got’s a good thing going!  I used to say I wouldn’t want to be part of any club that would have me as a member, but that turned out to be a lonely proposition.  Now on with the post!   Before I get to the juice, I’ll give a minor update about my guild situation.  I’m still flying solo, and it’s actually quite refreshing.  I’m still able to raid with the same people I was raiding with before.  ...

Battle.net accounts coming to the EU
WoW.com — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Account Security Blizzard's various websites (official WoW site, the Armory, etc) have all been down for maintenance today, and we had no real idea why. Word is coming in from the EU that the switch to ...

Authenticators to be optional for the Forums and Armory
WoW.com — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Account SecurityMany of the people who are actually allowed to surf the official World of Warcraft forums were a little unhappy with the change to Battle.net accounts simply due to the fact that it meant that if you had an authenticator attached to your account, you now had to use that authenticator to log onto the forums, which wasn't needed before. Even if you're allowed to surf at work, and even if the authenticator has a ring on it to so it can be attached to your keys, not everyone feels comfortable carrying that thing ...

Using the Achievements System to Your Advantage
Kree's Blog — [image] Since I've gotten on the  topic of achievements the last week or so lets tie it into guild leadership. How can you make the achievement system work for your advantage as a guild leader? The one thing I have talked about the least when it comes to guild leadership is recruitment. That is because previously our recruitment standards were pretty low and loosely based and I really wasn't very good at recruitment because of it. However we have revamped our whole system (I'll post on that later) and we now use more tools for recruiting. The best thing that the achievement system has given us is ...

AFK on Side Project
Of Teeth and Claws — Excuse the lack of articles here lately - I've been working on a WoW Armory-related side project that has turned out to be both a lot of fun and somewhat time consuming.  Documentation on the Armory is scarce, so a fair bit of reverse engineering is required.  It also doesn't help that the sneaky developers have instituted temporary IP bans for sites that try to  pull too much too fast - working around that has been interesting. ...

Neo’s Guide to Good Pugging
steady shot — I’ve always been very reluctant to PUG. This is probably because of bad experiences early in my WoW playing days. Most of you will have been there too - ninja looters, mage tanks, melee hunters, tanks who can’t … the list goes on. My own experiences have been quite mild, simply because I I’ve avoided PUGs as much as possible - to the extent that if I couldn’t run an instance with a guild group I just wouldn’t bother running it at all. (I’ve been very lucky to have a group of friends who are also a good class mix for running instances, and we’ve played together so long we’ve reached the point where teamwork is ...

20 Questions with Nance of AlteracVolley, WoW Headlines and PugChecker.com
The Hunting Lodge — If you don’t know who Nance is, then you really need to get over to Alterac Volley. This guy is a premium guide writer, as well as a master of the AH and making gold within WoW. Add to that someone that has deveoped probably 2 of my favorite resources (next to The Hunter DPS Spreadsheet of course) out there, WoW Headlines and PugChecker.com WoW Headlines is WoW News, Blog and Information site. You can check out a Blog or Information for every class in the game written by some of the greatest minds to play the game. Add to that, the new site ...

Armory updated for dual specs
WoW.com — Filed under: News items, Talents The Armory has been updated to reflect the new dual spec feature given to us by patch 3.1. It now shows both talent specs for characters that have bought dual spec, and shows equipped glyphs on the talent view. There's also been a bit of a facelift overall, with new buttons for the various sections of a character's profile, and some achievement statistics shown on the main profile page. The "Last Updated" date is a nice touch, although recently I find the Armory usually contains fairly fresh info. I was having some ...

Warhammer Online's Realm War site gets guild support
Massively — Mythic has changed Warhammer Online's default Realm War home page to display a few useful bits of guild information when you are logged in to your account. The new default home page lists your server's zone control war status, a guild overview section including recent ...

Armory temporarily disabled to cut server load
WoW.com — Filed under: Blizzard, News items Today being BlizzCon ticket sales day, Blizzard is anxious to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. In an attempt to lessen load on their web servers, they've temporarily disabled the Armory. In fact, this has been the case since last night, when I went to check out our main tank's armory after the raid (he had just gotten Shieldwall of the Breaker and I wanted to see what he was upgrading from). This is going to be inconvenient for those of you attempting to form PuGs, especially PuG raids. Hopefully ...

wowTwitter is a Twitter just for your characters
WoW.com — ... have gone a step further, and recreated Twitter's functionality specifically for Azeroth's virtual denizens. It's very barebones right now, but basically, after you register, you can punch in any of your characters, "verify" them by changing something about them in the Armory (like unequipping the piece of gear on your wrist), and then you can send and recieve messages on that character, ...

Find in-game friends on Livejournal's WoW Friending meme
WoW.com — The WoW Livejournal communities are really some of the best citizens in the WoW community at large -- they always have interesting discussions and insights going on over there, and if you ever need a question answered or just want an opinion on something in-game, they're always ready with some insight. That's why I think this WoW Friending meme that spirdirslayer has going on is such a good idea -- basically, if you're over on Livejournal and are looking to meet a few players on your realm, you can head over to the page, find your server, and then enter your ...

Resource Site Spotlight: be.imba.hu
Twisted Nether Blogcast — Hi folks! Be.imba is a site that can be used to look up some information about people you’re considering group or raiding with. We’ve all seen people saying “bored 550 imba arms warrior looking for naxx group” or some such. What they’re refering to, of course, is their gear score on the website be.imba.hu. The two questions I will endeavor to answer here are why and how to use this tool. Why? If you’re in a guild large enough that you never need to play with people from outside of it, and you know that everyone is geared and skilled ...

I Want To Make YouTube Videos!
The Ancient Gaming Noob — So says my daughter. This is the payback for letting my daughter watch WAY TOO MUCH World of Warcraft based machinima on YouTube. I have now been tasked by said daughter with formation of our own WoW machinima studio. She even had a little list of videos for me to watch to learn how to ...

Introducing the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory
Worldofraids News — Introducing the World of Warcraft Mobile Armory Quote from: Blizzard ( Source ) Ever wanted to check your raid schedule, look up a piece of PvP gear, or concoct a new talent spec while on the go? The new World of Warcraft Mobile Armory app for iPhone and iPod touch lets you access the official Armory database from anywhere you have a mobile connection, and features much of the same functionality as the Armory website ( www.wowarmory.com ), including: The World of Warcraft Mobile Armory is available now as a free download from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at ...

WoWArmory.com now on Iphone
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — WoWArmory.com now on Iphone I'll make sure to write an extensive review of this wonderful tool as soon as Apple offers to send me a free iPhone. ...

Question: My DPS is MIA am I SOL
The Hunting Lodge — Each week at The Hunting Lodge,  Brigwyn will take one of your questions submitted via email, twitter or in a comment here or The Hunting Lodge Forums and answer them here.  Pretty much no topic is off limits, well almost.  Keep it clean, interesting and fun, and maybe it’ll be answered here.  And if not, well I’m usually pretty good at getting back to you. I got this question from @Legacyofheroes the over on Twitter. It seems Legacy is having the same issue from a lot of other people, how to increase you DPS. question for ya ...

Achieved shares your achievements on Facebook
WoW.com — While we were all wildin' out at BlizzCon last week, reader Peter G. sent us a little note about a Facebook app he's been working on called Achieved that will take your achievements and insert them into your various Facebook feeds however you like. If you want to go the whole nine yards and have your wall plastered with a story whenever you ding an achievement, you can do that, or if you just want to leave it as a small box on your profile page, you can do that as well. The app allows you to leave your actual character name out of the post (if for some reason you're not comfortable with ...

Faction Change Service Now Available - Details Included
Worldofraids News — Faction Change Service Now Available As the title suggests and the quote below reinfornces, faction changes are now available for a fee of $30 USD. What are your thoughts on the price point? Quote from: Nethaera (Source) The new World of Warcraft Faction Change service is now live. As we mentioned previously, [ http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18031079410&sid=1 ] we’ve been in the process of developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their ...

Guide: PuG Herding Part 1
HDO — I don't really know why, but I have been in the mood to PuG raid lately. Could it be the realization that PuGs aren't all that bad? Antsyness in lieu of much anticipated Fall game releases just around the corner? Elevated boredom? Who knows. It's hard to find a group unless you are a healer. Sometimes the best way to find a PuG is to just start one. If you are going to lead a PuG raid, know the encounters. Know what each of the boss abilities does in practical terms, know where everyone needs to stand, know what the tanks healers and DPS need to do, if there are any special roles and when key ...

General At the Top of Your Game
TankSpot — At The Top of Your Game (Character Management Through the Eyes of a Healing Priest) The general concepts and much of the information in this article apply to all players and all classes. The specific context in which I’ll discuss those concepts is that of level ...