Breakfast Topic: Do you treat Azeroth as a virtual extension of the real world?
May 19, 2009
Filed under: Breakfast topics

It never ceases to amaze me how huge Azeroth is. As I’ve leveled and explored, installed expansions and patches, that wonder has never left me. But of course, one of the reasons I like WoW so much is it’s not all about fighting and killing things twenty times more massive than me. This week I’ve… Continue reading
All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be a Jewelcrafter
May 18, 2009
Filed under: Jewelcrafting, Draenei, Lore, Guides, RP, (Roleplaying) All the World’s a Stage
This installment of All the World’s a Stage is the thirty-third in a series of roleplaying guides in… Continue reading
DreamHack to feature its own WoW realm
May 17, 2009
Filed under: Events, News items
DreamHack, the world’s biggest LAN party (according to Guinness), takes place in Sweden twice a year. They’ve just made an announcement of interest to us WoW players: at this year’s summer event (June 13-16, assuming “Juni” means what I think it means), they’ll have… Continue reading
…is now recruiting
May 16, 2009
Filed under: Fan stuff, Guilds, PvP, Instances, Raiding
I’ve been reading the comments from some of our current posts and realized that there’s quite a bit of mismatch between players and guilds. There are casual players in hardcore guilds that find… Continue reading
WoW Insider’s BlizzCon coverage this Saturday
May 15, 2009
Filed under: Events, Fan stuff, WoW Insider Business, BlizzCon

BlizzCon tickets will be going on sale tomorrow, Saturday May 16th. While no specific time has been announced when they go on sale, there has been some conjecture. But it should be taken with a… Continue reading
Ulduar-10 hard mode weapons buffed
May 14, 2009
Filed under: Items, News items, Raiding
Well, this is a good piece of news for 10-man raiding. Weapons that drop in hard-mode Ulduar-10 fights are being buffed from ilvl 226 to ilvl 232, a jump of half a tier. Players who have these weapons already… Continue reading
Enter to win one of six loot card codes from WoW Insider and WoWTCGLoot
May 13, 2009
Filed under: Items, Events, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Contests, WoW TCG
We’ve been giving a lot of loot card codes away on our Twitter account lately, but the nice…… Continue reading
Blood Pact: Onward, to 80!
May 12, 2009

Welcome Warlocks! This week, Nick is taking a break from your regularly scheduled Blood Pact to bring you a 71-80 leveling guide! About time, eh?Wrath of the Lich King brought us Northrend, Naxxramas, and of course, ten more levels of DoTing, Rain of Firing
[1.Local]: To agree, to disagree, or to agree to disagree
May 11, 2009
Filed under: Rogue, Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, Features, [1.Local]

Reader comments - ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.Flamers… Continue reading
Star Trek references in the World of Warcraft
May 10, 2009
Filed under: Fan stuff, Odds and ends, NPCs
Wait, what? Star Trek is now cool you state? What’s my nerdy self going to cling to? What’s going to make a geek above other geeks as I recite the Klingon alphabet backwards in the Qo’noS dialect? Oh wait, there’s… Continue reading






