Category Archives: World of Warcraft

[SWTOR] A Face you’d surely like to punch. But does Kotick have a point?

When Bobby ‘Actiblizzardzebub’ Kotick, the man presiding over WoW’s decline, questions the profitability of SWTOR, surely your first reaction is to scoff and chortle over this blatant piece of self-promoting trash talk. But has he inadvertently made a point? Lets … Continue reading

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Delicious Vendor Trash

World of Warcraft is one of those oddities in my life. The one thing that I both love and hate with a passion. I love the game for the people I’ve met, the things we’ve done together and the fun … Continue reading

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Postcards from Cataclysm

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Better leveling through Crafting

One thing I’ve noticed in the new Cataclysm (that is, patch 4.0.1) is that you now gain experience from gathering professions. I was only first really aware of it when I dinged level 32 after picking up some stranglekelp. I … Continue reading

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The World of Warcraft Experience: Part two

In part one I spent my time going over a few of the Alliance starting areas with an aim to seeing how well they hold up against the current game, and to refresh my memory of exactly how they played … Continue reading

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The Warcraft Experience. Part One

For the last 5 years, World of Warcraft has attracted over 8 million subscribers. A big part of keeping those subscribers is the starting experience, which, aside from some minor tweeks, hasn’t changed since release. For some reason however, Blizzard … Continue reading

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Cataclysm, Classes and Characters

Spinks is having a go at analysing various ways of choosing your next character, so I thought, for my first post in a long while, to write about the way I choose a class. First off, I’m quite happy tanking, … Continue reading

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WoW: Cataclysm Screenshots

So a bunch of details have been released about Cataclysm, including some preliminary talent trees, profession details, area maps and screenshots. The MMO-champion page will take some time to fully load, so let me run down the basics for you. … Continue reading

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It’s been a while

The problem with Closed Beta Testing is that the most newsworthy stuff happens and I can’t tell anyone about it. So other than daily Heroics in WoW and the occasional ICC Raid there really isn’t anything happening for me at … Continue reading

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Retconga liiine!

Thanks to MMO-Champion.com we have our first glimpse into the pre-Cataclysm patch (Number 3.9) and it’s everything that I thought it would be. The Gnomes finally take back Gnomeregen and the Trolls take back the Echo Isles. Now, I’m all … Continue reading

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