My only confession this week is that I’m not writing! I’m transmogrifying, void-storaging, “new heroic, woot!”- running, and raiding. Yes, patch 4.3, “Hour of Twilight”, is here, and I’m neck-deep in it. My initial impressions are that void storage is more expensive than I expected, but still freaking awesome. Transmogrification is so exciting –... 

Up to this point, our stroll through Heroic Firelands has been fairly smooth, for the most part.  Well, get ready for some surprise speed bumps, as the last three bosses are easily the hardest of the bunch, as we start drifting away from a simple new mechanic or two and begin seeing radical changes to the encounters as a whole.  Large sections of old strategies may very well be invalidated going... 

Ever wonder what life is like for a guild leader? I kept track of it last week. Since I have nothing else particularly motivating or, ahem, motivational (except for Bill Murray’s awesomeness), to write about this week, I thought I’d share. This is more or less an average week for me, barring the SW:TOR test which kept most of the guild occupied elsewhere for all of Friday and Saturday. Monday 5:40am:... 

For anyone who’s been watching the PTR, you know that the next patch (and subsequently, the next tier of raiding) is fast approaching, leaving precious little time to power through the rest of Heroic Firelands before it becomes obsolete in the face of entirely new challenges.  Fortunately, we already have a solid progression foothold on that front.  With two bosses down and only five to go, it’s... 

I read the WoW officer forums frequently, and one issue that comes up periodically is how to deal with someone who isn’t carrying their weight in your raids, particularly when it’s not an enormously glaring problem but instead a bunch of little things that add up to a bigger pain in the rear. If the person is otherwise liked and the issues don’t seem so dramatic taken individually, it can be... 

Can’t get enough of Firelands?  Well, there might be something wrong with you, but I’m not here to judge.  I can, however, help you get your fix.  Once more into the orange and red breach this week, with the intention of grinding a second heroic boss into a pile of dust and a few loot-shaped wedges.  This one might seem a bit out of order at first, but Majordomo Staghelm is an excellent choice... 

A healthy guild bank is a wonderful guild resource, and reading about how other guilds manage their banks is always fascinating to me. From rank permissions to repair allowances to contents, there are as many different ways to maintain a guild’s resources as there are Wildhammers in the Highlands. (One has nothing to do with the other, of course, I was just having a Wildhammer moment.) Raiding... 

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... 

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...