Articles about World of Warcraft
So, looking at the stats released by MMO Champion it looks like Mythic Raiding has been an abject failure in terms of participation numbers. A few days ago I guesstimated that Mythic was catering to between 2 to 5% of the player base. Looks like that estimation was absolutely right
The 2 tags that defined my weekend :P And Wow. The last few days have been a flurry of activity on the website, all over the no-flying announcement by Watcher. Not least there was a real spike in site traffic over the weekend and the first half of this
So it happened. Blizzard, via Ion Hazzikostas (AKA Watcher) finally admitted that flight won't be returning. Not just in WoD, oh no. That would be bad enough. But the big news here, and the one that has the players up in absolutely riotous arms at the moment is:
Wow. Not the game, just pure unadulterated astonishment. Wow. 3 Million subscribers in 3 months since the last subs call. Thats....amazing, and not in a good way. If you want the full details straight from the horse's mouth, you can get the press release here (pdf), (update:
And this should be a very nice 60fps for Chrome Users, more noticeable once you get into the D3 footage! Plus, new Intro to go with the tweaked branding!
It all looked so good, so full of promise, wonder and nostalgia. However, Warlords has sadly proven the old Heraclitus quote that you can "never step into the same river twice". The Big Whimper of a L-L-L-L-Launch The expansion started off with a whimper.
So the past 3 weeks has been pretty bloody stressful, with guild drama upon guild drama meaning I quit Thunder. The 2 weekends before last (one of which was even after I'd quit) were very difficult, and saw us bleed members for a short while. A lot of
So 6.1 launches today if you're in the US and tomorrow in the EU, and it's bringing a few changes worthy of note. Glyphs First up, one of our previous mainstay glyphs, Glyph of the Alabaster Shield, which had been previously nerfed by 70%, has
[blizzardquote author="Bashiok" source="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/16285109103?page=8#151"] Itemization and Stats Their original reason for removing Reforging was the fact that everyone was using it solely to maintain Hit and Expertise cap. with those two stats gone, I
Before I get talking about Mythic, I want to talk about our own progression in BRF. With Thunder doing our normal business of starting off nice and slow, and building up to a finish, we’ve begun in Blackrock Foundry in Normal Mode, and so far we’ve got up
A few weeks or so back, AOL made the decision to shutter Joystiq, which was a large website that had several popular websites under its umbrella, such as Massively the general MMO news website, and of course WoW Insider. WI was a website I visited several times a day, usually
You may well by now have noticed that I’m no longer using Wordpress as my site software. This is in the main due to the amount of hassle and grief I had with the previous installations of WP covering both this site and my guild’s main front page.