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Here we are for my 36th “month in review” post.  Let that be a warning that at some point next month there will be a “Hey, it’s been three years” post.

As for the site itself, I haven’t made much in the way of changes, so I’ll just gripe about the number 13.

I’m number 13 according to that little Blogflux Topsites tab thing down near the bottom of the right side-bar.

You know, this one.

I’ve been number 13 for over six ..read the full article

As a blogger and a raider, I regularly get the question: Is Your Guild Recruiting? It's an easy question to answer in some ways, but there may be more detail to the "yes" than you're used to. Find out more about how to get into the top 10 guilds of your faction on your realm!

A funny letter from an experienced World of Warcraft player, to generic Lazy Players who participate in Pick Up Groups via the LFG tool.

Those of you doing 25 man raids and wondering, should I pick up Trophy of the Crusade? Sorry, this post isn’t for you. Just like the Conquest pick order, we’ll be approaching this list from the perspective of someone who is fairly new to 80. Basically, if you’re doing the Heroic Daily every day for your Triumph emblems. This post is for you. (It should also be useful to you 10 man folk too though)

Clutch of Fortification (35) Headplate of the ..read the full article

Finally the odyssey is over! A couple of hours ago my Orc Death Knight alt reached level 80, making him the third 80 I got (the other two are my Druid main and a Paladin), but he is the first 80 horde char I ever got. It took me roughly 4 hours to level him from 79-80 (almost the same it took me 77-78).

Other characters that are in the leveling pool (but I’m not really sure what I’ll ..read the full article

I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.

Eric “Otter” Stratton, Animal House

It has been pointed out that the company which makes Evony has been behaving… badly I guess would be the right term… with their game and ads and spam comments. They have even been declared an aspirant to the title “Most Hated Game on the Net” by The Guardian,

Evony LLC is, I gather, somewhat unhappy about these responses to ..read the full article

We didn’t really have a plan for Saturday night.  Bung was out again and none of us seemed to have anything on our “to do” list except try to pick up a little more gold for various reasons.

Our team for the night was:

Ula – 79 Mage Skronk – 80 Priest Earlthecat – 80 Warrior Vikund – 80 Paladin

Skronk had picked up 80 earlier and Ula was closing in, so we decided to run around a do some daily quests and whatever happened to ..read the full article

The Open Beta for Issue 16: Power Spectrum is now available!

To check out the Open Beta, all you need to do is log into the North American Training Room Test Server! If you are not familiar with the process to access the test server, please read this post: How to get on the test server (and char copy tool).

Also please keep in mind that this is a beta version, which means you might encounter ..read the full article

You remember this guy from CTA Digital.  I mentioned it back in June.

I'm a disaster to be, just a disaster to be...

It is back in the news.

Sort of.

It hasn’t become the wrecking ball of terror yet.

And you have to consider Yahoo blogs news.

You see, somebody over at Yahoo blogs wrote a post about this darling a little while after I did which came to about the same conclusions.  After all, given the flying Wii Remotes of destruction, what other ..read the full article

Blizzard never seizes to surprise. They just keep supplying us with new exciting content the this wonderful game of WoW. Here’s some more news about the upcoming expansion Cataclysm as well as some patch 3.3 stuff:

* Next WoW Expansion Officially Announced – As we all know by now, Blizzard announced that the next expansion pack for WoW, to be named Cataclysm and it’s scheduled to be released sometime in 2010! Not only did they officially confirm it’s arrival but ..read the full article

You’ve probably noticed by now that Emblems of Conquest are dropping everywhere. The question is where does one spend them?

Breastplate of the Wayward Protector (58) [If you’re cheap] Shieldwarder Girdle (28) Gauntlets of the Royal Watch (28) [If you’re unlucky] Shard of the Crystal Forest (19) [If you’ve got 3] Crown of the Wayward Protector (58)

Skip: Wyrmguard Legplates (39)

Boom! done.

Why?

Oh, you want to know that too, eh? Alright, here goes…

Pre-text and such

There’s a lot of ways one could approach an article like this one. ..read the full article

I hope you haven’t missed The Warcraft Formula August Blueprint as it’s packed with great stuff as usual.

Checkout Warcraft Forumla now!

Here’s an overview of what you get in the monthly Warcraft Formula package:

First:   You’re getting a blueprint every month, with brand new cool WoW content.     We’re talking about a completely step by step blueprint  delivered to your inbox every month so that you can make a KILLING among your friends. Patch Announcements New Dungeons Class Nerfs and Buffs, and Events Monthy PvP ..read the full article

Yes, the rumors we all were talking about are true!! Blizzard now officially announced Cataclysm, the next expansion for World of Warcraft.

At BlizzCon 09 Blizzard reviealed a new fancy trailer detailing the new playable races; Goblin for the horde and Worgen for Alliance. The levelcap will only raise by 5 this time making place for new L85 endgame content taking place in a revamped Azeroth As the data miners discovered some time ago it will certainly we’ll be able to ..read the full article

Convention season just keeps rolling along...and we're rollin' with it!

City of Heroes® is thrilled to be representing at the Penny Arcade Expo again this year in Seattle, Washington. PAX 2009, a three-day game festival featuring tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers will be taking place September 4-6th at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. CoH will be there in style, so if you're going to the event, we want to see you!

Come ..read the full article

While waiting on more exciting information to be released about the next World of Warcraft Expansion: Cataclysm, here’s some info about the next cool patch 3.2.2 as well as some other stuff._

_• Onyxia Returns in 3.2.2! – Yes, you read that right! In honor of WoW’s 5 year anniversary Onyxia will make her triumphant return to the world of Azeroth in patch 3.2.2! This will be a permanent game update to Onyxia which will convert the dungeon into both 10 ..read the full article

When 3.2 launched, I knew that I was going to have to change both of my specs. I had been running an Unrelenting Assault build prior to, but with the Devastate buff, I’m no longer certain if the UA build offers enough of if any damage increase over a Deep Wounds build. I also wanted to re-work my Survival build to include 3 points in Focused Rage, I’ll talk about this more later though. First, let’s see the specs I’ve ..read the full article