Scattered Shots: Pets for raiding

Filed under: Hunter, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Raiding, Guides, (Hunter) Scattered Shots

Scattered Shots is your weekly guide to improving your Hunter skill, brought to you by Jessica “Lassirra” Klein of The Hunter’s Mark, covering a variety of Huntery topics. Today, we’ll be discussing which Ferocity pets perform the best in a raid environment.
It’s no secret [...]

The OverAchiever: Guide to Children’s Week achievements

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Events, Instances, Features, Guides, Battlegrounds, Achievements, The Overachiever

All right, folks, we’ve got another sub-achievement needed for What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been (and thus the 310% speed Violet Proto-Drake) on our hands here. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that most [...]

Reminder: Enter WoW Insider’s Guild of the Month contest

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Insider Business, Guilds, Contests

Don’t forget: if you haven’t entered our Guild of the Month contest yet, do so now — we’ll be choosing April’s winner in just a few days. All you have to do is send about 200 words on how awesome your guild is to guildofthemonth@gmail.com, and [...]

Time is Money: Farming in Sholazar Basin, part one

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Economy, Quests, Features, Guides, Making money, Time Is Money

Kebina Trudough here, offering you the best gold making secrets they don’t want you to know about! I was like you once, poor and homely, before I discovered my patented system. Now you too can fill your pockets with the good [...]

The Martin Fury scandal: Karatechop reveals all

Filed under: Blizzard, News items, Interviews

Over the last week The Martin Fury scandal has rocked the world … of Warcraft. I got the chance to sit down with Karatechop, the player at the centre of the scandal, to hear his side of the story.
WoW Insider: Who are you?Karatechop: I’m Karatechop, the Guild Leader of The [...]

ATVI is a "conviction buy"

Filed under: Odds and ends, Blizzard, Economy
Well, The9 is going down in flames, but if you’re looking to make some money in the stock market lately, you could do like BRK and buy some stock in Activision-Blizzard. Goldman Sachs has upgraded ATVI to “buy,” and even marked them out as a “conviction buy” — [...]

Martin Fury cheat draws Blizzard ire

Filed under: Bugs, News items
WoW Insider had a chance to sit down today and talk with Karatechop, the man at the center of the cheating scandal that has been rocking World of Warcraft to its core.
We’ll have the full interview up for you soon (later today hopefully, or tomorrow at the latest), however one thing [...]

Two Bosses Enter: Herald Volazj vs. Novos the Summoner

Filed under: Features, Bosses, Two Bosses Enter

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider’s series of fantasy death matches. This season’s bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
While this week’s Two Bosses matchup was a fairly straightforward victory for Ahn’Kahet’s Prince Taldaram over the Maiden of [...]

Two Bosses Enter: Herald Volazj vs. Novos the Summoner

Filed under: Features, Bosses, Two Bosses Enter

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider’s series of fantasy death matches. This season’s bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.
While this week’s Two Bosses matchup was a fairly straightforward victory for Ahn’Kahet’s Prince Taldaram over the Maiden of [...]

Finally an answer on Gnomes in the cinematics

Filed under: Gnomes, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, NPCs
We’ve very closely covered the lack of Gnomes in any of Blizzard’s major cinematic pieces so far. We had hoped to see them in the Wrath cinematic, but of course Blizzard went a completely new direction with that one (retelling [...]