The Colosseum: Ogc the Warlock

The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters in the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Netherdrakes.
And now for something completely [...]

Spiritual Guidance: Healing Mimiron

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a new UI and addons blog for WoW. Having some difficulty with Mimiron? Let me help!
Mimiron. He is the bane [...]

All the World’s a Stage: The surface layer

This installment of All the World’s a Stage diverges from the series of roleplaying guides about how to roleplay your race, class, and professions, in order to have a closer look at different layers of social interaction in roleplaying, and see in which ways you can tailor your character for each one.
So there you are [...]

Addon Spotlight: Ackis Recipe List

Addon Spotlight takes a look at the little bits of Lua and XML that make our interfaces special. From bar mods to unit frames and beyond, if it goes in your Addons folder, we’ll cover it here.
Just a short one today, but an addon that I know will please a small number of very passionate [...]

The curious case of Ferarro

We, along with many of you, have been monitoring the curious case surrounding one of the most prominent Paladin bloggers, Ferarro. We originally did a 15 Minutes of Fame with Ferarro on May 26th. The article was about his/her life as a blogger, a paladin, and a game tester for Blizzard.
After the article was written, [...]

Pets to scale from resilience and other stats

I don’t PvP, so I’m going off the reports of others here, but apparently Warlock and Hunter pets are often proving ineffective and short-lived in PvP. Until recently, this was often the case in PvE as well, but pets have much more avoidance now in a PvE environment.
It looks like an improvement will be coming [...]

[1.Local]: The Failoc-alypse edition

Reader comments - ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week.
I titled this week’s [1.Local] on Saturday, in a fit of frustration. At the time, it seemed more than appropriate: “BlizzCon ticket [...]

Around Azeroth: Crystal blue persuasion

Resurgmal of Dread Pirates on Blackrock writes, “I was indulging in the old-time sport of climbing, along with some of the rest of the raid, in some down time previous to another Yogg attempt. (We finally downed him. YAY!) A Death Knight left this dramatic backdrop of pure evil, so naturally I had to grab [...]

Sunday Morning Funnies: 98% agree

Another Sunday arrives, and now it is almost June! This means less than a month until servers flood with children, Barrens chat takes on new life, and we’re all being asked for “golds” and dungeon runs. Savor the next couple of weeks.

Check out the latest from Cru and the one before that! After all, I [...]

Breakfast Topic: Which role is the hardest?

This is a pretty old post, and it’s a question that’s been asked before, but it’s still an interesting one: what’s the hardest role in a raid? Ghostcrawler says he doesn’t find one of the three roles (tanking, healing, and DPS) to be “hands down harder” than the others, although he does call tanking and [...]