You might have heard the term item level “iLvl” and not really known what it meant. Its sort of an extension of the tier system (or vice versa), and its easy enough to understand at face value: a higher iLevel means more overall stats and superior item. Item levels are not something that...
It’s pretty routine to run across complaints in World of Warcraft communities about poor DPS showing up to PuGs. When I say poor DPS, I don’t mean the unfortunate soul who just dinged 80 and is running around in greens far below their class’ hit cap. You would reasonably expect someone’s...
Tree Bark Jacket, a resto-druid-themed blog that was new to me, has an interesting post up about whether there is such a thing as an entirely bad talent. The author’s argument is that no, there is not, the reason being that even talents that are regularly dismissed are still useful sometimes;...
Some of you may remember my article about the 5 Archetypes of Healers back when I was still a guest poster here. I was watching a conversation on twitter between a few of my friends and it got me thinking. Like every social clique a Guild has certain roles or social archetypes that people can be categorized...
One of the mainstays at BlizzCon is the machinima contest – talented artists submit their movie ahead of the convention in hopes of winning fame and prizes. This year’s BlizzCon is no different, and we’re sure to see some great videos during the largest gathering of WoW players outside...
We got quite a few good photoshopped victory pictures in the email after our suggestion that you send us some a few weeks ago, so you’ll probably see a few of them here in the column over the next few weeks (assuming, that is, we don’t get any hilarious chat logs that we need to show you)....
While questing in Coldarra, mage Sichas of Dentarg has forgotten the first rule of video games: ice monsters require fire magic to destroy them, and vice versa. And for some reason, water enemies are weak to lightning, which bears no resemblance to real life. I have yet to see flood waters be harmed...
It took quite a bit longer than we’d expected, but it’s here: WoW.com Profiles now have EU support. The app, add-on, and site itself have been updated to be able to keep track of European characters once they’ve been added to your account on the site, and you do that just as you see...
