Saturday, May 22, 2010

Blood Tap for the Death Knight

Skeleton Jack describes the Blood Tap buff in great detail in these two articles, one older and one brand new.  Each article has macros to use with Blood Tap and rotation examples to explain how it works.
http://www.skeletonjack.com/2009/07/27/blood-tap/

http://www.skeletonjack.com/2010/05/21/blood-tap-additional-uses-and-macros/

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Cataclysm and the Battlegrounds Guild

Speculation on how PvP guilds might work in Cataclysm.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/21/the-art-of-war-craft-looking-ahead-to-battleground-guilds/

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Leveling a New Warrior in Patch 3.3.3

There is so little information about low level characters I have to include this series.  In part one, the author gives you some tips and a combo arms/prot spec so you can either solo or tank as needed
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/21/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-behold-the-orc-1-20/

Level 21-40
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-to-40-and-beyond/

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Theorycrafting: What's It All About?

Theorycrafting and how it works from Frostheim.
http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/05/theorycrafting-101-gathering-data-part-1/

http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/05/theorycrafting-101-gathering-data-part-2/

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Wrath of the Lich King Progression Stats

This statistical analysis is full of graphs that show how much help the cheat buffs are in getting guilds through Icecrown Citidal.  It also shows how many guilds have gotten through earlier content which leads the author to speculate how Cataclysm might be structured.
http://www.rawrcast.com/2010/05/wotlk-progression-statistics-looking-forward-to-cataclysm/

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Everquest 2 Adds a $25 Mount

See what happens when you give Blizzard millions of dollars for a Celestial Mount?  Other game developers jump on the bandwagon.
http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2010/05/20/everquet-2-introduces-its-own-greed-steed/

It's either the end of civilization as we know it or the first steps into widespread micro-transactions in MMOs.

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Starcraft II Censored for South Korea

Blizzard has made changes to the game like making blood black, removing references to smoking, and deleting vulgar language so that it will be rated 12+ in South Korea.
http://kotaku.com/5543906/south-korean-starcraft-ii-censored-to-shake-adults-only-stigma

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IceHUD, the Heads Up Display UI UPDATED

If you prefer a HUD instead of unit frames, you want want to check this out.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/20/addon-spotlight-icehud/

UPDATE:  An explanation of IceHud by Kae, including tips, screenshots and even the Lua code he uses to customize this to his own uses.  (Kae plays a druid.)
http://dreambound-druid.blogspot.com/2010/06/kaes-icehud.html

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List of Rune Addons

A summary list of all addons that track runes, with a screenshot and a brief description of how they work.
http://pwnwear.com/forum/rune-addons-t331.html

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New WOWHead Map Features

Warning:  An ad at the top of the page plays music that you can't turn off. Annoying.
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=156843

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