Monthly Archives: April 2009

This is probably my own ignorae, but ever sie the 3.0.1 pah, I am unstealthing for no reason for standing behind a mage for longer then 3 sonds. Thisan be positioning myself behind them for a moment, while I rover energy from sap, oroming at them while they’re firing aane missles. Nonetheless, I don’t understand why this is happening. It doesn’t put me inombat, so it’s not like i’m taking damage. Has anyone else been experieing this?And you’re not getting any sort of debuff on you, like from e barrier, e?Stop standing behind mages.

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As far as PvP goes…I reallyan’t tell the differee. I was still getting 5k+ mutilates on plate, and still doing 15k damage inside of aS. PvE-wise, it’s a noteable buff for mutilate. A fellow rogue was talking to me right before raid about reading a on EJ about dual + Evis(with the glyph ofourse) possibly outdamage -Deadly-Env. So I tried both on a few different eounters. Dual + Evis: Funnily enough, afterhking rount, Instant poison did more damage than mutilate did…no, I’m not joking. was around 25% of my overall damage. Tested on 3 fights, average dps – 3700. Deadly + Envenom: Also tested on 3 fights, average dps – 4100. Now, I didn’thange my sp up from prepah muti, so I might mess around with that next tuesday. Other rogue wentombat last night, using KT’s rehWebbed Death, and averaged about 100 dps higher than me on most fights.I want to make a mro that will go Shadowmeld -> Stealth, but Iant get it to work.an someone more experieed help me with that? I get the message annot use inombat’, although SM should remove me from it.

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Q: Why can’t players from all countries participate in your contests? A: Unfortunately there are restrictions outside our control that apply to contests of this kind, and we as well as our sponsors have to abide by the laws and regulations of the different countries in Europe. Some restrictions apply due to the value of the prizes, some due to the nature of the contest – wherein the definition of “game of chance” is a tricky one. We do our best to work with (or around) this and adapt our contests to the different regulations, but we will not gamble with the law and must therefore exclude some countries from our contests. We will continue to adapt our contests, gather additional information and look into the fine details of national lottery and contest laws to try include as many countries as possible in the future. Q: Why can people who don’t play the game participate? A: Requiring that participants own the game is in some countries defined as a promotional contest, i.e. a contest encouraging you to buy the product to be able to win. The rules for such contests are very strict. Between excluding more countries from our contests and allowing people not playing the game to participate, we usually choose the latter.

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For a lot of new guilds the first step is the hardest. Most servers have plenty of established guilds that can offer better rewards to new members then a new guild, and anyone who isn’t in a guild are generally a loner or so terrible no-one wants to touch them. This obviously limits your options for recruits, and standing in your factions capital spamming for new members for your raiding guild will not attract the best possible members you could find. The best solution to this problem is to start making friends with people before thinking about forming a guild. As a guild leader you need to be able to impress people with your skill and dedication, and the best way to do this and to scope out possible new members is to quest or run instances with strangers. Try to find unguilded people and make an effort to impress them, get them friended, and start getting a group of people you spend a lot of quality time with. Ideally you’ll soon find yourself with a group of friends who all get along with each other and all would like to start raiding at some point. You’d also hopefully have enough friends to make up at least one 5 man group fairly regularly. At this point you should be ready to form your guild. You should now have enough members to run 5 man instances most nights, and if you are lucky you might even have enough to start running Karazhan. Before you move forwards though you need to be prepared for various aspects of the game.

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We invite the most dedicated and skilled Arena combatants around the world to enter the new World of Warcraft Global Arena Tournament! Your glorious victories in the Tournament will not only grant renown and recognition for your prowess, but will also grant your team a chance to earn cash prizes as well. Within a structured format comprised of one online qualifier, players will battle on special Tournament realms purely dedicated to the competitive format of 3v3 Arena matches. The characters used in these realms are new level 80s that you create, bristling with PvP armor and weapons. The top teams from the online qualifier will battle in an invitational ladder for a chance to participate in the regional finals, culminating in the live global finals

Readers Geamo, Dice, and Leethax have written to let us know that Dave “Fargo ” Kosak, co-founder of Gamespy and creator of the wildly popular “Flintlocke’s Guide to Azeroth ” and its Horde follow-up “Flintlocke vs. The Horde ” is leaving for…Blizzard!

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After players got a taste of Hodir yesterday, Blizzard earlier opened up another Ulduar boss encounter on the Patch 3.1 PTR. The Iron Council were ready and waiting for raiders eager to have a shot at them — and as you can see from the screenshot above, they don’t look like pushovers. However, numerous crashes and related problems prevented full testing of the encounter, and Blizzard shut down Ulduar testing for the meantime. We had some of our team from WoW Insider who tried to take a crack at the Iron Council but were repelled by various iterations of server fail.

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Don’t be that guy

You are not prepared C but do you really need to be? Readers are of varying minds when it comes to how much preparation to expect (and even to demand) from fellow players in heroics and pickup raids.

“Whether you like the idea of being ‘carried’ or not, I don’t see a problem with people diving right in on heroics, ” notes Steve. “As many posters in this thread have demonstrated, if you know how to play your class, you can make up for being undergeared. … I recognize that most of the folks out there in your PuGs will not be min/maxed or have ever heard of the Elitist Jerks site or have an optimal rotation. No worries — I don’t bother to look people up on the Armory, since Armory doesn’t tell me anything about their skill level. And now that I’m outfitted head to toe in Naxx epics, I can do the carrying for low party DPS or a tank that isn’t def capped.

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As promised, YouPlayorWePay has returned, and they’ve got a whole new plan in place. Originally, as we reported earlier, they wanted to create a site where players would pay a fee for the opportunity to get reimbursed for lost playtime in World of Warcraft, but after outcries from the community, they have outlined a whole slew of changes on the site.

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As excited as the Chinese community may be with the imminence of Wrath of the Lich King — it was on the covers of most gaming magazines in the past months — WoW players in China are going to have to wait just a bit longer for the latest expansion. According to a report, World of Warcraft China distributor The9 plan to delay the release of the expansion until March or April after initial plans to launch on February 19.

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