Friday, February 19, 2010

BATTLEGROUNDS: GUIDE TO DEFEATING VARIOUS CLASSES

Are you having trouble fighting a certain class?  WOW Insider is doing a series on strategies to counter the various classes which tell you what you are going to be up against.  It's general but may provide hints to help you kill a group of players you always have trouble with.  And if you play this class, you may find hints to improve your game.

I'll update the list as Zach writes more of his introductory guides.

Fighting Death Knights
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/23/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-death-knig/

Fighting Druids
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/18/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-druids/

Fighting Hunters (part one)
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/01/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-hunters/

Fighting Hunters (part two)
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/04/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-hunters-p/

Fighting Mages
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/11/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-mages/

Fighting Paladins
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/18/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-paladins/

Fighting Priests (part one)
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/25/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-priests/

Fighting Priests (part two)
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/26/introductory-guide-to-fighting-priests-part-2/

Fighting Rogues (part one)
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/05/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-rogues/

Fighting Rogues (part two)
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/05/introductory-guide-to-fighting-rogues-part-2/

Fighting Rogues (part three)
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/07/introductory-guide-to-fighting-rogues-part-3/

Fighting Rogues (part four)
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/11/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-rogues-pa/

Fighting Warlocks
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/26/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-warlocks/

http://www.wow.com/2010/04/22/the-art-of-war-craft-three-kinds-of-warlocks-and-how-to-kill-t/

Fighting Warriors (part one)
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/29/the-art-of-war-craft-introductory-guide-to-fighting-warriors/

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Zero Punctuation Does WOW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkp-J1pk0y4

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Major Battleground and Honor System Changes Incoming

http://www.wowhead.com/?blog=145354

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A Few Mobile Apps for the WOW Addict

A few mobile apps are listed here with links to the site selling each to help you cut through the clutter and find something that is WOW-related.
http://www.killtenrats.com/2010/02/18/mmo-on-the-go/

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What Sort of Tank Are You?

Too Many Annas lists all the different tank types she's encountered during raids.  Read the list and laugh.
http://toomanyannas.com/feature/differing-species-of-tanks/

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Game Drop Rates

The Big Love Rocket mount is dropping during this year's Love Is In The Air holiday at a very very low rate, as in there are 17 big pink rocket mounts in the U.S to date courtesy of this WOW Insider article.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/17/drop-rate-of-big-love-rocket-not-a-bug/

The author mentions a previous article about drop rate probabilities.  It's quite interesting so I am linking to it here.
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/13/drop-chance-probability/

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100 Great WOW Videos (and More) UPDATED

Coldbear's list of great WOW video moments, suitable for browsing the next time WOW's down all day for maintenance (which will almost certainly be next Tuesday).  These seem to be in date order with the most recent at the bottom of the list. Some of the earlier links are dead.
http://coldbear.wordpress.com/best-of-wow/

UPDATE:  Coldbear has been working hard and has come up with another list of great WOW items.  Most are videos, but not all.  There's an easy to use gear simulator called AskMrRobot listed, too.  Note that it only works for some classes.
http://coldbear.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/best-of-wow-25-playing-catch-up/

http://coldbear.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/best-of-wow-26-this-aint-rocket-surgery-folks/

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Feral Druid Bear Guide (Patch 3.3)

WOW Insider continues its series on current class information with a profile of the feral druid bears.  This covers the advantages and disadvantages of playing a feral bear, has information on talents and stats, heirlooms, gear, enchants, and glyphs you need as a high level bear, and covers spell rotations/casting sequences.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/17/shifting-perspectives-bear-101/#continued

There's a link to a video that shows the feral druid bear casting sequence in action.  I've included this below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HciHmfncLc0

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Heroic 5-Man Guides for Icecrown Citadel

Eviscerated.net has been posting guides to the five-man Heroics of Icecrown Citadel.  Currently they are on this page, last on top.
http://eviscerated.net/?cat=9

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The Unholy Death Knights Spec

All about playing an unholy DK, from stats and talents and gems to spell rotations.  I've added this long, thorough article to the Death Knight tab just under the header above.
http://www.wow.com/2010/02/16/lichborne-unholy-dps-101/

Skeleton Jack's take on the unholy death knight spec, with an update.
http://www.skeletonjack.com/2010/04/20/skeleton-jacks-3-3-3-unholy-spec/

http://www.skeletonjack.com/2010/04/21/sjs-3-3-3-unholy-spec-discussion/

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