I cleaned up my guild roster this past week – “housekeeping”, I call it. We have a guild policy regarding inactivity which states that all toons (including alts) may be kicked if they’re inactive for more than 30 days. This is as much to ensure that we keep an active roster as it is to ease the headache of knowing who is who.  With more than 100 alts running around the guild, many of whom... 

At long last the group has finally caught up to Deathwing.  With the assistance of Thrall, the Dragon Aspects, and the Dragon Soul itself, at last there’s a real good chance of taking out the Destroyer.  Well, at least there would be, if Thrall could get in another good shot with the Dragon Soul.  Fortunately he has a pretty impressive group of heroes standing by, just ready to take on such an... 

After an extended break, we’re finally back!  Although come on now, don’t say you didn’t enjoy the holiday vacation.  And if you skipped out on visiting family because you had a raid scheduled, shame on you!  That is, unless your whole family is in the raiding business…?  In which case, well, sure hope you got that shiny new epic you wanted.  Holidays aside, we have work to do if we’re... 

I haven’t left WoW. A number of my friends have, sadly, but I am still here and still looking for ways to keep it fresh and interesting. Although that includes some creative use of time outside of WoW (which has, in turn, made my in-game time far more precious, since I have a ton to do in a lot less time), I have also ventured to other realms to see what the communities are like there. A fun (or... 

Don’t be too surprised if this week’s encounter starts out as a bit of a brick wall.  There is a very clear step up in difficulty going into the last wing of Dragon Soul, when compared to the first half of the raid.  While not every boss will be tossing curve-ball mechanics, all of them will press the raid’s raw numbers – success will depend on players’ abilities with their own class as... 

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted here, primarily because I’ve been angsting over the current content and how to express what I really feel about it. Though at last report I was exceedingly delighted with patch 4.3, “Hour of Twilight”, let me assure you that the bloom is most depressingly off the bush. Now I am instead both wary of and worried about what the next few months... 

The goal this week is to finish the Siege of Wyrmrest portion of the Dragon Soul raid.  Three of the four bosses in this opening segment have been cleared — only one to go.  Next up, Hagara the Stormbinder.  A friendly reminder that the encounter discussion here is based upon the 10-man normal difficulty version of this raid.  If you want to talk Raid Finder, I’d say try it out for yourself. ... 

It hasn’t taken any time at all for guilds and pick-up groups alike to tear through the Dragon Soul raid, and since progress is being made so quickly, we’re covering the next two bosses this week.  Things get a little more complicated this time around, but still nothing to stress over.  Some of the mechanics are even rather amusing!  So let’s quit wasting time and get started before we’re... 

We’re back from a short break, and just in time for the launch of patch 4.3, “Hour of Twilight.”  New dungeons, new raids, new loot… All the usual goodies.  Of course the biggest attraction by far is the raid instance itself, Dragon Soul.  Thanks to the addition of the new Raid Finder tool, it should be even easier for non-raiding individuals to step into this tier of content, at a reduced... 

If you don’t see articles from our World of Warcraft writers this week, don’t be surprised. Deathwing has made his final appearance as the “Hour of Twilight” patch (World of Warcraft 4.3) moves to live servers. The patch which gives players the ability to face off against the big-bad of Cataclysm also brings with it three new instances (dungeons), and a slew of new mechanics like transmogrification,...