Mailbag Haiku
Resto4Life — Anonymous reader submits: i have 3 questions. which is better a resto or balance? Which is more fun? and what are the abilities of each like what is a balance druid and what is a resto druid. To answer this contact request, I’ve written a haiku (because everything is better when expressed in haiku): I’m Resto 4 Life! Which do you think I prefer? WoWWiki could help. Thanks, anonymous reader dude! ...

Friday Five RP - August 29
Too Many Annas — ... Feel free to comment your answers (or turn them into a blog post of your own!).  If you’re unsure of some of the logistics - I highly suggest starting with www.wowwiki.com - you’ll be surprised how much AWESOME lore there is to be found.  (And no, not all questions will require any kind of lore-related background).  Don’t get too hung up on the details - these are for thinking, and there are no wrong answers! ...

Webcomics in the Key of WoW
Azeroth Metblogs — ... Unfortunately, of all of my webcomics, only a half-dozen of them or so pertain to World of Warcraft. Now, thanks to the fine folks over at WoWWiki, I can find way more than I ever wanted, thanks to their list of ...

Comment on Sexy Specs, a Rocket, and a Mote-Sucker by Naelum
Comments for Draenic Wisdom — ... 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 The Armory Thottbot WoW Wiki Wowhead Druid 4 Haelz Big Bear Butt Blogger Leafshine Mama ...

Link time
Progressive WoW — ... - It may not be the best WoW database site anymore, but it has been around since the beginning and I still find it useful enough that I haven't found the need to switch to Wowhead or Allakhazam, although those are both good sites too. Any of these sites are a searchable database of pretty much anything in WoW, from gear to quests to NPCs and where you can find them. No WoW player should go without it. Wowwiki - I'm sure you've heard of Wikipedia, and this is the WoW version of it. Pretty much anything you'd want to know ...

WotLK: Spoilers Ahead, Read At Own Risk
Eye for an Eye — ... Now, here's where I go from excited to floored. The Royal Apothecary Society was working in concert with Varimathras - simultaneous to all the hubbub at the Wrath Gate, Varimathras made a bid to overthrow the leadership in the Undercity. Here's some preliminary quest text from Wowwiki: ...

Getting Some Action
Mad Cow Chronicles — ... as a pickup player. My obstacle was equally clear: I like my guild and have no intention of leaving. So here’s how you can go about getting into pickup raids: Pretend You’re Applying For Real This means you need a good few things. Many of these I stole borrowed from Seri’s Guide to Applying: How to go about making contact Find (using WoWJutsu, your realm forums, WoWWiki or some other resource) a guild that seems to be running the content you want to be ...

Hanners is Nice
The Egotistical Priest — Sorry I’m late, but there was some argument about how this was - (hey this collar is a bit much, don’t you think?) - going to be handled.  Quane is with me to uh…ow! Assist with this one. Please ignore the leash, it’s nothing. Alright, so it has been called to my attention that I may have acquired a bit of a reputation as coming off somewhat…harsh. Urk! Demanding. Gack! Intolerant. …Especially towards the lesser classes. *strangling sounds* Ouch! I mean other classes. In this vein, I would like to turn to a more positive note. There are so many ...

For Posterity.
Wulfsblood's Writings — ... the new Profession of Inscription for WotLK which arrives as of patch 3.0 when... 3 days ago Vanifae Videotape - Yeah I am late to the party. - I love this version. 1 week ago [image] Featured Articles Posts about the WotLK Beta Gearing FAQ Gemming Guide Karazhan Guide [image] Links Wulfsblood @ The Armory Ulushnar @ The Armory Chaotic Divinity Raidgroup Main Tankadin TKA Something Wow Wiki Wowhead Good Intentions Petopia Wow@Allakhazam Gamewyrd ...

GoogledGnome #23: Escape artist macro
Armaggedon's coming — GoogledGnome #23 Escape artist pvp trinket macro If I got a gold piece for every time I wished I had this macro I would be a very rich Gnome. If I remember right, while it is possible to make a macro that looks like it should work, ...

Seven Sources of Hunter Pet Name Inspiration
Too Many Annas — ... friend of mine, has her pets named Crisolin (crab) and Zaethiir (nether ray) - she’s looking for a Corehound name now. I’m pretty sure Dalbarr’s windserpent Myrgaith has a made up, but very awesome, name too. Use your character’s native language: get a friend of a different race, turn your character’s language to your race’s native tongue, and start spitting out words. Head on over to the wowwiki.com page for your race and look at the available words for ideas too. ...

WotLK Zones update, Arena Points, Blue posts
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — ... Most of these pages have been cleaned, informations about towns and dungeons should be fairly correct and descriptions were shamelessly stolen from WoWWiki for most of them. ...

A Different Way of Preparing for Wrath of the Lich King
airee.net — ... of the previous games will collide with the future expansion! Want to bone up on your lore for Wrath of the Lich King?  Consider perusing the following links: Blizzard’s “Death Knight Lore,” The story “Rise of the Lich King,” “Know Your Lore: Preparing for Wrath of the Lich King” at WoW Insider Articles tagged as Lore on WotLKWiki, and of course WoWWiki’s Wrath of the Lich King article, which spawns multiple links to other ...

Hit Rating Information for Level 80
The Hunting Lodge — ... Focused Aim Talent Points (+1% + Talent Bonus) (1 Point) vs. Level 80 mob: 3.0%, 98.37 HR vs. Level 81 mob: 3.5%, 114.77 HR vs. Level 82 mob: 4.0%, 131.16 HR vs. Level 83 mob: 7.0%, 229.53 HR (2 Points) vs. Level 80 mob: 2.0%, 65.58 HR vs. Level 81 mob: 2.5%, 81.98 HR vs. Level 82 mob: 3.0%, 98.37 HR vs. Level 83 mob: 6.0%, 196.74 HR (3 Points) vs. Level 80 mob: 1.0%, 32.79 HR vs. Level 81 mob: 1.5%, 49.19 HR vs. Level 82 mob: 2.0%, 65.58 HR vs. Level 83 mob: 5.0%, 163.95 HR Sources: WoWWiki Tags: ...

Gearing Your Fresh Level 80 Holy Priest: Matt’s Recommendations
World of Matticus — ... Bracing Earthsiege Diamond (25 Spellpower, 2% Reduced threat) Ember Skyflare Diamond (25 Spellpower, 2% Intellect) Insightful Earthsiege Diamond (21 Int, chance to restore mana) Revitalizing Skyflare Diamond (8 MP5, 3% increased crit healing) I’ll pick Insightful Earthsiege. Reports say that the proc gives 600 mana. No doubt it has an internal cooldown. Sources: WoWHead and WoWWiki Last updated November 27 ***SECURITY FOOTER*** :: Thanks for ...

Spell Hit for Raiding Mages
Spicytuna — ... on having a Draenei in your group or a Moonkin/Shadow Priest in your raid to make up for your lack of hit rating. Spell Hit > Spell Damage > Spell Critical Strike/Spell Haste Your 2k spell dmg and 40% crit won’t matter if it is resisted Use WWS to help raise your DPS. If you are low and the DPS charts, and your resist rate is at 28%, you now know what you can do to make it better. [Sources: WoWWiki, WoWForums, ElitistJerks]

Creating a Table of Contents
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! — ... and Wowwiki . However, the Mediawiki available on WoW-Pro is a little more limited than on many wiki sites, since WoW-Pro is not a full wiki. In addition, you cannot use HTML if you chose Mediawiki as your input format. Essentially: Sacrifices custamizability for easy to read and easy to write code. ...

An open letter to a Death Knoob
Big Bear Butt Blogger — ... When you line up facing the mobs, you may have no idea what they will do, you may have never seen them before. Fine. Either look it up on www.wowwiki.com, or GUESS. Maybe decide to take down any mob that looks or has a name that sounds like they might be casters FIRST. Whatever you like to use as a plan. But mark things. ...

WoW class stratageys
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! — ... of presenting them as a series of links from the following table, which contains the first rank of all abilities possible for the Hunter to learn. The Hunter can purchase abilities, obtain new abilities by gaining them as a natural course of the game mechanics, or learn them from their class trainer. Pet abilities are either purchased from Pet Trainers or learned from pets that the Hunter has tamed. Pet skills can be taught to other pets the Hunter might tame in the future. (go to http://www.wowwiki.com/Hunter_abilities for more info about the abilities) ...

WotLK Raid Listing
Azeroth Now — ... Azjol-Nerub, also known as the Spider Kingdom (pronounced “ah-ZHOL nuh-ROOB”), is the vast underground empire of the arachnid Nerubians located on the icy continent of ...

[H]Lethon - Unhuman - Quebec (French)
TankSpot — ... responsable d'étudier les boss par lui-meme. aucunes explications ne seront fourni avant les boss sauf de mentionner la stratégie que nous allons utiliser. La rapidité est tous ce qui importe et connaitre les boss d'avance est prémordial pour tous. Tu meurt a cause que tu connaisais pas la fight? Prépare toi a des commentaires et conséquences très négatives de notre part. Bosskillers World of Warcraft Bosses, Guides, Movie Reviews and Guild Kills et WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft 3.2. Un Joueur sera ...

Tuskarr Mage!?
Spicytuna — ... Tuskarr are humanoids with solid builds, thick torsos, and broad shoulders. They wear warm furs under oilskin jackets. Their heads are blunt and almost hairless, with a pair of great tusks pointing down from their upper jaw. Their brown faces are friendly and expressive.” - wowwiki.com ...

Calling all World of Warcraft Related Product Makers!!
Kree's Blog — ... ). I am especially interested in add-ons, both in-game and external (like Wow Wiki ) I will be doing reviews at least once a week, more if I get a lot of responses, therefore it will be a first come, first served sort of deal. I look forward to seeing what you have to offer. Vote for this article on Massive Blips! ...

Cat Herding in Naxx25: Spidery Things
Too Many Annas — ... Yes, Naxx25 has been done with only two healers, but I’d venture to guess that those raids are experienced and not just starting out, and those new ones are the raids that this guide is primarily written for (’cause if you’ve got the place on farm, you don’t need my piddly advice on how to set up your healers!). This is not, in fact, a raid-wide, boss killing strategy - if you want one of those, I recommend looking at www.wowhead.com, www.wowwiki.com, and www.bosskillers.com! Spider Wing Boss the First: ...

Cat Herding in Naxx25: Constructy Things
Too Many Annas — ... safely substitute classes. Yes, Naxx25 has been done with only two healers, but I’d venture to guess that those raids are experienced and not just starting out, and those new ones are the raids that this guide is primarily written for (’cause if you’ve got the place on farm, you don’t need my piddly advice on how to set up your healers!). This is not, in fact, a raid-wide, boss killing strategy - if you want one of those, I recommend looking at www.wowhead.com, www.wowwiki.com, and www.bosskillers.com! Construct Wing Boss the First: ...

Two Bosses Enter: The Commanders vs. Erekem
WoW.com — ... Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider's series of fantasy death matches. This season's duelists hail from the five-man instances of Northrend. Have you met Commander Kolurg or Commander Stoutbeard, or Erekem? If you haven't, don't feel bad - I've run The Nexus and Violet Hold heroics until my eyes bleed, and I haven't made their acquaintance either. (Bad luck? Late-night runs turned lazy? Another case of birds avoiding my sweet lil' Cookie?) This week's Two Bosses Enter pits ...

RP Fears and First Steps
Too Many Annas — ... However, if you *want* to RP - trying is the first step. Take your character (you don’t even have to worry about whether he or she has a great backstory - you don’t really need one to start out - just a personality!) and approach the game from their eyes as opposed to your own. Spend a little time at www.wowwiki.com and look up your race and class to get a feel for how Warcraft Lore works. There’s no giant RP rulebook that says “thou shalt never make mistakes” and “thou shalt not (whatever)”.  We all start somewhere, and trying and ...

33 WoW Resources You Can’t Play Without
The Hunter's Mark — ... 23. WoW Wiki — This site runs the gamut of available WoW information. If there’s just one WoW site you visit, this should be it. It’s a one-stop shop for all game-related information. ...

Cat Herding in Naxx25: Plaguey Things
Too Many Annas — ... safely substitute classes. Yes, Naxx25 has been done with only two healers, but I’d venture to guess that those raids are experienced and not just starting out, and those new ones are the raids that this guide is primarily written for (’cause if you’ve got the place on farm, you don’t need my piddly advice on how to set up your healers!). This is not, in fact, a raid-wide, boss killing strategy - if you want one of those, I recommend looking at www.wowhead.com, www.wowwiki.com, and www.bosskillers.com! Plague Wing Boss the First - Noth ...

Cat Herding in Naxx25: Deathknight Things
Too Many Annas — ... safely substitute classes. Yes, Naxx25 has been done with only two healers, but I’d venture to guess that those raids are experienced and not just starting out, and those new ones are the raids that this guide is primarily written for (’cause if you’ve got the place on farm, you don’t need my piddly advice on how to set up your healers!). This is not, in fact, a raid-wide, boss killing strategy - if you want one of those, I recommend looking at www.wowhead.com, www.wowwiki.com, and www.bosskillers.com! Deathknight Wing Boss the First: ...

Guild Recruitment: Submitting a Killer Hunter Application
The Hunter's Mark — ... arise. Raiding has become much less complex than it has been in the past, so it’s becoming increasingly difficult to identify areas or skills that will set you apart from the crowd. One DPS class is frankly just as good as another these days, and as long as you can stay out of “poop” on the ground and maintain 3500–4000 DPS, you’re pretty much set. Yes, you need to be familiar with the content you’re doing. Checking online resources like WoWHead, WoWWiki and Bosskillers can tell you what you need to know. Yes, you need to be prepared ...

Cat Herding in Naxx 25: Frostwyrm Things
Too Many Annas — ... little more complex as well. Yes, Naxx25 has been done with only two healers, but I’d venture to guess that those raids are experienced and not just starting out, and those new ones are the raids that this guide is primarily written for (’cause if you’ve got the place on farm, you don’t need my piddly advice on how to set up your healers!). This is not, in fact, a raid-wide, boss killing strategy - if you want one of those, I recommend looking at www.wowhead.com, www.wowwiki.com, and www.bosskillers.com! Sapphiron - Giant Undead ...

Roleplay Q&A: Life, Death, Dual Specs, and NPCs
Too Many Annas — ... You absolutely do NOT need a story to justify your name.  Most people don’t have real life stories for their names, beyond “My mom and dad thought it was cool” - or maybe “I’m named after my great grandfather”.  If you have to write a long, developed story as to why your character has a specific name, it’s more likely to be a nickname, and not your characters actual first name.  Www.wowwiki.com is a great resource for character name conventions, as is ...

Casual Raiding
Life in Azeroth — I did a search of the term "Casual Raiding". I was suprised to find WoW Wiki had an entry on it with a note "Casual Raiding is relatively new to the MMORPG game genre." The entry was short giving the obvious pros and cons of casual raiding while describing it as "a raiding organization that places focus on exploring raid content without a driving focus on raid progression". I'm not sure how old this entry on WoW Wiki is, but from my own experience another description could be added. First off the usual disclaimer: casual and hardcore and what ...

Looking Back at Raiding 1.0
World of Matticus — ... were worthy in the form of attunements. This meant embarking on some long winded quest to get some key or item. My sympathies go out to Horde players. Getting attuned for Onyxia must have really sucked. Had to penetrate the depths of Blackrock Depths to get a core fragment. The entire world had to cooperate to open the gates of Ahn’Qiraj. Naxxramas required gold and other things in order to get in courtesy of the Argent Dawn. Biggest pain in the ass: Getting Ony attuned for Horde. Now lets talk about the actual instances ...

The Seven Lighthouses of Warcraft
I'm Still Here! And What I've Been Up To... — ... | This is a post I've been messing about with for a while, because once I realized that there were seven lighthouses in the game I knew that I had to make a full tour of them. I'll admit that the idea came from spending too much time wandering around WowWiki and discovering ...

Turning the Tide: A Resto Shaman Beginners’ Guide
/hug — ... Intellect is the base stat which determines how big your mana pool is.  It also gives you a small amount of crit per point of intellect (it takes around 166 points of Int to gain 1% spell crit for a Shaman). With the talent ...

Reviewing Arthas
Too Many Annas — ... It gives us a lot more insight about some lore characters that we didn’t have before - Jaina, Kael’thas, Uther, Muradin, Terenas Menethil.  Those sections of the book were my favorites - not the sections dealing with Arthas.  The vast majority of the story that deals with Arthas isn’t new.  In fact, it reads like a transcription of Warcraft III/Frozen Throne.  If you’ve not played those games, and are unfamiliar with Arthas lore (90% of which you can get on WoWWiki), then this will be new stuff for you.  Otherwise, it’s mostly old hat. ...

Midsummer Festival Guide and Bonfire Locations
WoWGrrl's World — ... who will get this title on multiple toons, but I think I’ll just chase it down on my Mage, where teleporting from continent to continent and back to flight points is a lot easier and time-saving. Making The Midsummer Festival Quest Grind EASY You know what? I love WoWWiki for these types of events, and so I recommend them to any player interested in quickly finding out where to go and what to do for this Seasonal Event: Midsummer Festival Guide - Quests, Dailies and more! Horde bonfire ...

How to choose Gear without a lot of Math
TyphoonAndrew's - Eye of the Storm — ... 1) Hit Rating – 262.32 for Two Handers. This is because the base miss chance is 8%, and to reduce this miss chance downward you need 32.79 rating per 1%. This does not include abilities from your Race (such as Draenei 1% hit) or any abilities from your Spec (such as ...

The Queue: You are slightly more prepared than you were
WoW.com — ... King's cinematic, it's that they didn't give us an incredibly corny catchphrase to spout for nearly two years. Discolando asked... "Is there any substance to the rumor I've recently read that patch 3.3 will contain another yet unknown raid instance, and patch 3.4 will contain Icecrown Citadel? It does seem more logical to 'finish' the expansion with the advertised antagonist instead of a deux ex machina like patch 2.4 gave us." Patch 2.4 was the result of a few things going not-quite-right with The ...

Item Color Means Very Little
The Hunter's Mark — ... Item Quality, or Rarity, determines it’s “color”: Gray (poor quality), White (common quality), Green (uncommon quality), Blue (rare quality), Purple (epic quality) or Orange (legendary quality). Here’s what WoWWiki has to say about Item Quality: ...

15 Minutes of Fame: Pre-Raid Trivia pumps up enthusiasm, strats
WoW.com — ... trivia sessions cover the gamut of WoW knowledge, but every session is capped off by strategy questions pertinent to the encounters the raid will be tackling that evening. She calls the learning process "strat by osmosis." "All rounds are 20 questions worth one point a piece, and the five bonus-round questions are worth five points each," Relyimah explains. "I have a lot of fun writing the questions, as it makes me learn the strategy as well. I usually grab my info from WoWWiki or ...

Wikia turns a profit, thanks in part to WoWWiki
WoW.com — ... So why are we reporting all of this here? You may have already guessed: one of their largest sites, if not the largest, is the World of Warcraft-related wiki, WoWWiki (which we definitely read and use here at WoW.com all the time). WoWWiki is ...

Questions about Defense and Survival of the Fittest
Big Bear Butt Blogger — ... I flat out refuse to go over the combat table in detail again, I did it years ago in a Shifting Perspectives article for WoW Insider/WoW.com, but in effect what kind of attack event that can occur has a place in a combat table. If you get high enough in some categories, such as Parry, it can push other attack possibilities right off the table. If you want to melt your brain like I have, you can find out more on your own at the www.wowwiki.com website. ...

The Daily Grind: National Boss Day edition
Massively — ... Perhaps they were a truly challenging fight the first time you faced them, maybe they just looked impressive and they stuck in your mind, or it could even be something as simple as getting exactly wanted from them the first time you went through the encounter. In honor of National Boss Day, we're asking you what boss holds the nearest and dearest spot in your memories. If you were sending a missive to one of your personal favorite bosses, who would it be? What would you say? Would you thank them for being generous in their drops when you fought them, or would ...

The Daily Grind: National Boss Day edition
Massively — ... Perhaps they were a truly challenging fight the first time you faced them, maybe they just looked impressive and they stuck in your mind, or it could even be something as simple as getting exactly wanted from them the first time you went through the encounter. In honor of National Boss Day, we're asking you what boss holds the nearest and dearest spot in your memories. If you were sending a missive to one of your personal favorite bosses, who would it be? What would you say? Would you thank them for being generous in their drops when you fought them, or would ...

It’s My Party and I’ll Spec How I Want To!
World of Matticus — You’re the one who sits in front of your computer.  You’re the one who has to look at the back of your toon’s head all night (or day).  You’re the one who has to put the gold into gems, enchants, and glyphs.  You’re the one doing the necessary rep grinds.  Most importantly, you’re the one paying $15 each month to play the game you enjoy. Hence, you’re entitled to play how you want to play, right?  Keep in mind that it doesn’t mean people are always going to want to play alongside you.  If you’re a chain-pulling DPS Death Knight, it might be ...

Dedicated WoW search engine now in beta
WoW.com — ... , wikis such as WoWwiki, and blue forum trackers, but if it manages to draw from more sources in a more organized and relevant fashion, the idea just might work. Perhaps the next time you'll need to search for something related to the game, you can just 'Mrgl it'. ...

Scattered Shots: Picking the right hunter loot, part 2
WoW.com — ... - We reviewed what item stats make up hunter gear. Also, we explained why every hunter needs to stack hit and strive for the hit cap. We also explained how ...