The mysteries of an old alt's vault
Filed under: Rogue, Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade When I haven't played a character for a long time, the contents of their bank become something akin to the one piece of Tupperware that...
View Article15-man raiding is the option of last resort
Filed under: News items, Raiding, The Burning Crusade Blizzard has made numerous comments over the past year that 15-man raiding seems like a good size compromise between 10-man and 25-man. The...
View ArticleA game frozen in amber
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria This isn't the game I started playing! This is a paraphrasing, of course, but the mentality is...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: What's your favorite game changer?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, The Burning Crusade When I returned to World of Warcraft after an extended break -- about two years -- I was astounded by how little I knew about the...
View ArticleLeveling warriors in Mists of Pandaria, 61 to 90
Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria Every week, WoW Insider brings you The...
View ArticleHow I write short stories for Blizzard
Filed under: The Burning Crusade, Lore, Mists of Pandaria My first day at WoW Insider, I was brainstorming ideas for articles when Adam Holisky piped up in chat, "Hey, why not write about writing for...
View ArticleThe fine art of PvE twinking from level 1-35
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Cataclysm I'm sure most of you are familiar with the concept of "twinking" in WoW for PvP. It generally entails decking a low-level character out...
View ArticleThe Queue: I work harder at DPS than I ever did as a tank
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, The Queue, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore, Tinfoil Hat Edition: Carved by similar hands
Filed under: The Burning Crusade, Lore, Know your Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, Mists of Pandaria The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses,...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore: Titan facilities of Azeroth
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Lore, Know your Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game,...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore: The Horde vs. the Horde
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Lore, Know your Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game,...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore: Karazhan and why we went there
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Lore, Know your Lore The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but...
View ArticleWorld of Warcraft loses 1.3M subscribers since February, down to 8.3M
Filed under: Blizzard, The Burning Crusade, BlizzCon, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria Today's Activision-Blizzard financial reports states World of Warcraft took a subscriber hit this quarter, losing 1.3...
View ArticleThe best fight from Burning Crusade
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade Last week I wrote about what I considered to be the best fight from classic WoW, so this week we're moving into The Burning Crusade. Though I stated...
View ArticleThe false memory of WoW's difficult past
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria Vanilla raiding was not mechanically more difficult than current raiding. In fact, in...
View ArticleThings that were harder before
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria I did a post this week about raiding in previous expansions and in vanilla WoW, and...
View ArticleBreakfast Topic: Oh right, I forgot about you guys
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria So confession time: I just now reached exalted with the Netherwing. To be honest, I completely...
View ArticleWorlds Yet to Conquer: Ideas for new content in old places
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, The Burning Crusade, Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria There is a ton of lore in the Warcraft setting, from the first RTS game to the...
View ArticleLil' Bad Wolf packs a big punch against Critters
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Achievements, Mists of Pandaria Real talk time: I've been feeling a bit agitated at the battle pet situation in patch 5.3. Naturally, I want to...
View ArticleKnow Your Lore: A discussion of Med'an
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Lore, Know your Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting...
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