EU forums announce amazing transmogrification race
If you live in the EU and love to dress up your toons, you might be interested in this new game announced by community manager Meldheron: the transmogrification race! According to Meldheron it will be a monthly mini-contest in which players are prompted with a transmog theme on the WoW forum. Reply to the thread with a list of the pieces for use in your outfit, and upvote your favorites. The five most popular will be featured on the World of Warcraft facebook page. I know we’ve got lots of transmog fiends around, so if you’re in the EU this might be a fun way to share your ideas with fellow WoW players and even get a little bit of attention for your sartorial efforts. Have fun, and I look forward to seeing the top contestants! Filed under: News items , Transmogrification EU forums announce amazing transmogrification race originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
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The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Diving into Patch 5.4′s PTR
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors , the column dedicated to arms , fury and protection warriors . Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host. Okay, so let’s look at what we’re getting as of the most recent Patch 5.4 PTR build. What stands out? Patch 5.4 PTR Patch notes Warrior General Enrage now also triggers on critical hits from Devastate and Shield Slam. Shattering Throw no longer costs rage. Talents Enraged Regeneration now instantly heals the warrior for 10% of their total health (up from 5%), and an additional 10% over 5 seconds (up from 5%). Vigilance no longer transfers damage to the Warrior. The talent now reduces amount of damage the target takes by 30% for 12 seconds. Arms Slam now does an additional 10% damage to targets affected by the warrior’s Colossus Smash. Fury Titan’s Grip now works with polearms. source There are actually some other changes if you log onto the PTR itself that aren’t in the notes: Bladestorm is down to a 1 minute cooldown on the PTR, for instance. I like to call this the Christmas in Pandaria. In fact, if you look at these spell changes on Wowhead , you’ll see that a lot of spells got buffed – Storm Bolt’s damage got increased, Impending Victory’s heal got doubled to 30%. So now that we’ve looked at the changes, what do they mean? Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Diving into Patch 5.4′s PTR Filed under: Warrior , Analysis / Opinion , (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors , Mists of Pandaria The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Diving into Patch 5.4′s PTR originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Community Blog Topic: What is your favorite class and spec?
For most of my WoW career, my main character and first love was a druid. I particularly liked the balance spec even when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. I still like my druid, but she is not even close to my favorite character. I’ve leveled paladins and mages, priests and shamans. I’ve toyed with hunters and warlocks. But the class that I love the best now is most definitely the monk. I haven’t felt this way towards a class in a game since my bard in Everquest . Well, that’s true for fantasy characters. I also adore my operative in Star Wars: The Old Republic . But for World of Warcraft , my true love is the monk. I played with the brewmaster a bit, but while I like the spec, I’m not overly fond of tanking, so it’s not quite for me. It’s easier to do solo questing and dailies on my windwalker so that is the spec I play the most, but my favorite is the mistweaver. I enjoy the different healing mechanics of the monk and I feel I do a good job with them. Continue reading Community Blog Topic: What is your favorite class and spec? Filed under: Analysis / Opinion Community Blog Topic: What is your favorite class and spec? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
The Queue: Robin Hood
Welcome back to The Queue , the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Matthew Rossi will be your host today. Don’t worry, this will be the last Queue he does for a while. It’s just occurred to me that I’ve never seen a Robin Hood MMO, or even really a Robin Hood CRPG of any kind. I mean, I don’t have a universal knowledge of gaming, it’s certainly more than possible that such a thing exists, but I don’t know about it. There’s been a fair number of Camelot/King Arthur games, but a surprising dearth of games about Robin Hood. It could be because the character has a fairly convoluted origin with a lot of interpolations, or maybe the idea of a heroic outlaw is too far outside of vogue nowadays. WoW has the Defias Brotherhood, but it’s less the Merry Men and more guys who build a giant ironclad warship to blow up Stormwind. I may be bringing this up because both Kevin Costner and Russel Crowe have played Robin Hood, and they were both one of Superman’s dads in Man of Steel . I’m not saying I am , but it wouldn’t surprise me. Anyway, on with the Queue! Some of these questions will undoubtedly contain spoilers for Patch 5.4. Electresserin asks: Question for the queue- I’m not sure if this has already been answered elsewhere: does Vol’jin want to be warchief? I understand that he wants revenge for the attempt on his life, and of course he wants the trolls to get out from under Garrosh’s rule. But does he really want to take on the responsibilities of being the warchief? If he defeats Garrosh, does he automatically become warchief or could he refuse the title? Well, one of the problems here is, there is no mechanism for determining who is the Warchief. Thrall appointed Garrosh, and Thrall himself was simultaneously appointed by a dying Doomhammer and acclaimed by the orcs at Hammerfall (which wasn’t named that yet, of course). Doomhammer got the job by killing Blackhand and anyone else who might stand in his way, and Blackhand got it because Gul’dan manipulated the orcs into accepting him. So basically, in the history of being Warchief, murdering the dude before you has been the method of succession once out of the four times the job got passed down. So if Vol’jin is seen as having defeated Garrosh in battle, then yes, he may well become Warchief. Now, I don’t see any reason he couldn’t refuse the title if it was offered to him. As to whether or not he wants the job, so far in game he hasn’t said. I suspect we’ll find out once Shadows of the Horde comes out. My suspicion is no, he’s not really keen on it, but he’ll do it if he thinks he has to. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him and Baine try and create some kind of Horde Council to replace the position. Continue reading The Queue: Robin Hood Filed under: The Queue , Mists of Pandaria The Queue: Robin Hood originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Sunday Morning Funnies: The Daily Blink
Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW -related web comics. Each week, in addition to bringing you the latest in comic-goodness, SMF is featuring a regularly updating WoW -related web comic. Check out The Daily Blink : The Daily Blink is a WoW -related web comic by Chris Hanel. It consists of funny, one-off jokes about Blizzard, the in-game experience, the developers, classes, characters, and the like. It experiments with a variety of styles; for example, there are mock magazine covers, meme parodies, and staged in-game situations. The subject matter is often topical, riffing off of the latest news or the popular complaints du jour. Hanel uses WoW Model Viewer, Machinima Studio and Photoshop to create the comic. The Daily Blink updates on Wednesdays. Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: The Daily Blink Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Humor , Comics , Sunday Morning Funnies Sunday Morning Funnies: The Daily Blink originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
Breakfast Topic: What type of character would your father play in WoW?
Happy Father’s Day! In honor of the day I have a question for you: what would your father play in WoW ? A rogue? A hunter? What race would he choose, and which spec would he favor? Some of you may recall I asked a similar question last month on Mother’s Day , so now it’s time for us to give our dads the same treatment. I myself have always thought my father would roll as a blood elf frost mage. The mage because he was a bit of a trickster and I imagine he’d get a kick out of spells like Blink and Polymorph . An elf because he always enjoyed the wise and collected demeanor of the elves in Lord of the Rings . And frost because he’d prefer PvP over PvE, and frost offers so much control and utility for that. As for my step father … I’ve never so much as seen him touch a video game beyond Solitaire , so maybe he’d just play Hearthstone . Who knows? What about your fathers? Filed under: Breakfast Topics Breakfast Topic: What type of character would your father play in WoW? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Patch 5.4 PTR: Jard and his amazing engineering journal
For those of us who have picked the best profession (that would be engineering), we’ve finally got some new schematics in patch 5.4 to mess around with! Fortunately, there are no reputations to grind, no insane amount of gold or obscure items we have to pay to obtain these new schematics. In fact, in a departure from the usual, all engineers have to obtain is one item to learn all new schematics for patch 5.4: Chief Engineer Jard’s Journal . At the present time, the journal drops from any mob in the Vale — I got mine from the first sha I killed. Reading the journal will teach you Jard’s secrets. Apparently, he really wasn’t into explosives at all. You’ll get the schematics for Pierre , the Rascal Bot , the Advanced Refrigeration Unit , and the Sky Claw when you learn the journal, as well as the item you’ll need to make all of them — Jard’s Peculiar Energy Source . And this is where it gets a little frustrating, to say the least. Creating the energy source is easy, you only need 10 Ghost Iron Bars. What’s frustrating is the cooldown — you can only make one energy source per day. It’s very much like the cooldown for Imperial Silk, except that there isn’t an option to use Spirits of Harmony to bypass the cooldown at the present time. Continue reading Patch 5.4 PTR: Jard and his amazing engineering journal Filed under: News items , Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4 PTR: Jard and his amazing engineering journal originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
WRUP: BRB, raid flexing
It’s been a little over a week since we discovered flex raids . Since then, Blizzard has supplied more information, talking heads have hypothesized, and we’ve all had time to search our feelings and know it to be true. So while we were polling your inimitable WoW Insider staff about what they’re playing this weekend, we decided to take a dipstick of the team opinion on flex raids. So jump in and join us for the conversation, and tell us what you think of this new feature. Continue reading WRUP: BRB, raid flexing Filed under: Analysis / Opinion WRUP: BRB, raid flexing originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
