Hopefully you’ve all enjoyed the break from Firelands.  It’s been a while, certainly, but it’s also hopefully provided some opportunity for quick and easy acquisition of gear, which is a rather crucial component of going forward from here.  Each Firelands boss has, of course, a souped-up Heroic version that pulls out all the stops in an effort to offer raiders some true cutting-edge challenges. ... 

As Rafe mentioned in his coverage of the forthcoming WoW expansion, I am utterly dismayed and disappointed that Mists of Pandaria will be the new future of Azeroth. And I am most certainly not alone. To have Chris Metzen, VP of Creative Development for Blizzard Entertainment, make an announcement during BlizzCon that their big reveal was “definitely not a joke” is testimony to the fact that the... 

Blizzard Entertainment’s annual “all things Blizzard” convention, Blizzcon was this weekend. If you didn’t know it by now, you’ve missed a lot and if you did know it, what I’m about to talk about is already old news, announced Friday. As expected, Blizzard announced the next World of Warcraft expansion, titled “Mists of Pandaria“. The upcoming expansion... 

We’re just a little over halfway to the goal of the heroic dungeon meta achievement, which may or may not be a bit overdue considering how late into this expansion we are! And yet, it isn’t an achievement everyone has managed to get their hands on yet. Whether that’s due to a declining interest in heroic dungeons, or just plain old difficulty involved with some of the individual achievements... 

Guild events are a good way for social guilds to build community, encourage members to be more active, and generally increase excitement within a guild, and an add-on that helps facilitate that in a new way is pretty cool. So I’m going to do something a little different this week. I’m going to talk about an add-on that I’ve fallen in love with: Total Roleplay2 (TRP2). I’m sure that most... 

Cheers to anyone out there testing new dungeons on the PTR. The new content is looking great. Unfortunately it’ll be a while before we get around to covering that here. Yet we still have plenty to examine, so let’s just pick up where we left off last week: right in the middle of our raiding vacation, cruising through heroic dungeons for fun and profit. And achievements. Mostly achievements. Two... 

I have been having a problem for the past month with an attitude in one of my raid groups. It has not been drama, mind you, but it has been somewhat challenging and fairly persistent. It’s also been subtle and not particularly easy to put a finger on, at least through the traditional methods: I’ve vented about it a little bit in private, tried to deal with it obliquely during the raids, and finally... 

Well, here we are. By most standards this tier’s raid content has been cleared. Sure, there are still heroic modes, but it’s still simply a variation on existing content. On top of that, the string of “nerfs” to the Firelands content in the past couple weeks has drastically reduced the difficulty all around. For any of you raiders who had been stuck on a particular boss, this is your prime... 

I was ecstatic when they added guild levels, achievements, achievement rewards, and perks in the Cataclysm expansion. It gave guilds something to work towards together, sometimes doing something they’re already busy at (like leveling/questing or dungeons or pvp) and sometimes requiring a more concerted, collaborative effort (such as crafting or fishing). In return they offered tangible, significant... 

It occurred to me that the new boss of Baradin Hold, Occu’thar, managed to fly completely under my radar. Granted this probably has something to do with the fact that I very rarely managed to attend a Baradin Hold raid (hey, I’m busy, what can I say), but that’s no excuse! Now, the fact that this raid boss just received an associated achievement a couple weeks ago… that’s an excuse. Let’s...