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World of Warcraft releases a new member of the sparklepony family

January 9th, 2013

From massively.com

I think it looks nice, but mileage may vary.  (Image from MMO-Champion.)

The Internet exploded with rage when World of Warcraft released a mount for $25 the first time around. But it sold well, and as a result we’ve seen several new mounts released for the game over the years. So the new Swift Windsteed likely won’t raise many eyebrows over its release or its now-familiar price point, which is the same $25 you have probably come to expect.

As with previous special mounts, the Swift Windsteed can operate as a flying mount and will scale to match your highest riding speed, making it a purely cosmetic option. The unlock is account-wide once purchased, giving all present and future characters a free mount for all-purpose use in perpetuity. So if you collect mounts or just feel like you could use a qilin to carry you across the skies of Azeroth, you’ve got reason to be excited.

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ArenaNet bans Guild Wars 2 exploiters in nefarious snowflake incident, discusses upcoming updates

January 3rd, 2013

From Massively. com

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Guild Wars 2‘s Wintersday is drawing to a close, but drama stays with us in every season. Late last night, ArenaNet started leaving presents on the accounts of certain players: permanent bans! These bans were in response to a certain exploit that cropped up early in the Wintersday event. Players were able to use a single high-level snowflake, a Black Lion salvage kit, and a bit of metal to generate effectively limitless globs of ectoplasm (which are kind of a cornerstone of the economy, as they’re used in the majority of high-end items). The exploit was closed, but not before an apparently large number of people took advantage of it.

Players might recall that not long after launch, there was a mass banning in response to a karma exploit. ArenaNet relented, with certain conditions, but warned players that the incident was kind of a community-wide final warning.

In happier news, Game Director Colin Johanson took to the forums a short while ago to talk about upcoming updates. He stated that the January release will be “relatively small” and set the scene for the February and March releases. Additionally, he mentioned that no new races, professions, or regions will be added with the larger releases but that “an expansion’s worth of content” was a reference to the number of new features in PvE, WvW, and PvP that will be appearing.

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WoW Gold Special Offer

October 25th, 2012

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Halloween Powerleveling Event

October 15th, 2012

From Halloween, SwagVault provides Halloween achievements powerleveling service and prestige items of MOP-9 maps, both of which can exchange new mounts.
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World of Warcraft Druid reaches 90 without a kill

October 14th, 2012

From Massively. com

World of Warcraft Druid reaches 90 without a killPacifist characters have a pretty colorful history in World of Warcraft, and the latest chapter in their non-violent march to max level has been written by a Tauren Druid named Irenic.

Irenic recently reached level 90 in Mists of Pandaria with a grand total of zero creatures killed, 92 total damage done, and one completed quest. “The one quest I got is a new unavoidable quest that is now auto-flagged as complete for all factions. It registered after I hit 86,” Irenic explains on WoW’s forums.

How did he manage it without a single kill? “Since the entrance to Pandaria isn’t designed to be entered without questing and killing, I spent all my time doing archaeology and gathering in Kalimdor,” Irenic wrote.

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Mists of Pandaria is now live in Europe, Blizz posts a new video

September 25th, 2012

Yes, you should probably expect Pandaren.  If you didn't know that part, there's no hope.Are you still on the fence about purchasing Mists of Pandaria? Really, the game comes out tomorrow; you should have made up your mind by now. But if you’re still conflicted about buying World of Warcraft‘s fourth expansion, you can take a look at the newest development video that shows off everything players can expect from the update. And it’s not just a quick list of updates.

If you have any lingering questions about what the expansion will contain or any features that you’ve missed hearing about, this video will put all of that to rest. Previews of the new zones, previews of new scenarios, previews of the new Monk class in action — you can get a full rundown of the expansion’s features in seven minutes. So click on past the break to see everything that’s in store for players tomorrow, whether or not you’ve decided to jump in.

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Free 85-90 MoP Leveling guide

September 13th, 2012

I have some MoP leveling guide advices to share with you, since I have played through the beta and got to Lv90. I didn’t get though all the chains because some of them are bugged. I got 4 of the 6 zone achievements by questing through the zones without bugs. If you are interested in questing through the zones, these advices may be helpful to you.

My advices are as follows:
1. Watch your zone mini-cheevos (i.e. in MoP you get zone credit for completing the major quest chains in the zone instead of completing some number of quests). You may not need all of the mini-cheevos but you will need a whole bunch of them to get to 90 only through questing.

2. Use the two addons Wholly and Grail. Wholly can give you a warning when you are about to take a quest that still has a bread crumb available for it because Grail can provide this information. Grail is the database of quests and efforts which aims to guarantee that it has all the breadcrumb quests, incompatibilities, etc. mapped out for release. Besides, Grail is very smart and knows things like you will only be able to get one version of “The Rider’s Journey” which is a level 90 quest in Jade Forest. Of course as you interact with the quest giver you will be able to change the dragon color as you want, and Wholly will update its UI live as you change the dragon color to show you the quest you now have available.
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World of Warcraft releases pre-expansion patch

August 28th, 2012

From www.massively.com

World of Warcraft releases preexpansion patch

If palling around with lettuce people and giant Vikings isn’t your thing today, may we interest you in the panda express lane? World of Warcraft is paving the way for next month’s Mists of Pandaria with today’s 5.0.4 patch, an update that includes several new features that are part of the expansion rollout.

While playable Pandaren and Monks aren’t available until September 25th, there’s plenty to chew on with patch 5.0.4. Players will experience the massive talent revamp that eliminates the old talent trees entirely, a spellbook overhaul, AoE looting, cross-realm zones, UI changes, significant currency conversions, and account-wide achievements, mounts, and pets.

The patch will be up following extended maintenance, and our sister site WoW Insider has been hard at work preparing a massive Mists of Pandaria guide for current and returning Azerothians.

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Mists of Pandaria: Wowhead previews Vale of Eternal Blossoms

July 2nd, 2012

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The Vale of Eternal Blossoms is the zone for max-level players to hang out and get their endgame faction work done. The Alliance and Horde each have their own settlements, which have every thing you would look for in a major city while also including many level 90 faction hubs.

The catch is that the only way to get into the vale is to complete a quest chain for the August Celestials, A Celestial Experience. At the Kun-Lai Summit, you must complete the trials of Xuen the White Tiger in order to gain access.

Other points of interest:
Mogu’shan Palace, a 5-man dungeon and home to the Lorewalkers
Golden Lotus, the faction that continues the quest chain begun with A Celestial experience, while helping to protect the pandaren from the mogu
Gate of the Setting Sun (located at The Great Wall), another 5-man dungeon
Wowhead News has screenshots and more details in their preview.

From www.ggrate.com

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Mists of Pandaria Beta: Grand Expedition Yak price doubles to 120,000g

July 2nd, 2012

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WoW Insider has received a tip that in the latest beta patch, the Grand Expedition Yak (the new MoP mount with a portable reforger) has had a substantial, above-inflation price hike. Its price has gone from “Blimey, that’s a bit steep” at 60,000 gold to “How much?! That’s insane!” at 120,000 gold. My 85 mage took the screenshot in the header, but I took my 85 shaman up to the Grummle Bazaar to re-check the price and found it to be 108,000 gold rather than 120,000. I’m assuming this is because of reputation discounts; my opinion reinforced by how Uncle Bigpocket referred to my shaman as a “friend of the Grummles.” A Battle.net forum thread indicates the same, saying that the price can come down to a far more reasonable (ahem) 96,000 gold.

I can only imagine that this price increase is in response to the decision to make all but PvP reward mounts account-wide, including the jewelcrafting mounts and the Grand Expedition Yak itself. I’m not sure whether this is good news or bad overall. The gold sink of the jewelcrafting mounts was certainly compromised by rendering them account-wide, so perhaps the Grand Expedition Yak was upgraded to gold sink status. However, what with this mount being so much more than a vanity choice, the punitive price seems prohibitive to its principal market: raiders.

Sure, the Basil Berntsens of this world will consider 120,000 gold small change, but for most of us common folk, that is more gold than we’re likely to have our greasy paws on at any one time. I can see a few people irritably scrubbing out “earn 60,000 gold to buy yak” from their Cataclysm bucket lists!

Does the price increase mean you are ruling out this mammoth as part of your mountable menagerie? Or is 120,000 gold well within your reach?

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Newest World of Warcraft novel gets a release date and cover preview

June 29th, 2012

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Jaina Proudmoore is one of the biggest lore figures in World of Warcraft despite the fact that her character history largely consists of trying to make reasonable compromises and being completely ignored. It’s no surprise that she’s the star of the newest novel based on World of Warcraft considering her prominence in the lore and her relationship to the war between the game’s factions. Tides of War is written by Christie Golden and will be released in late August, setting the stage for Mists of Pandaria later this year.

While Jaina has always tried to broker a peace between the Alliance and the Horde, the novel’s plot revolves around Warchief Garrosh Hellscream launching an attack against Jaina’s home in Theramore, demonstrating the same legendary thinking that’s alienated several of the Horde’s allies. Whether or not the erstwhile diplomat will be able to retain any hopes of a peaceful resolution remains to be seen, but with Mists of Pandaria promising to focus on the conflict between the two factions, it seems likely that players will be looking at silencing the last and loudest voice for peace.

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Mists of Pandaria: New customizations for pandaren females

June 14th, 2012

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It’s going to take me an hour to make my new female pandaren, because they now have additional earring choices and even more hair embellishments: 5 earring options and 8 neon highlight options. The highlights change position according to your chosen hairstyle.

The hair and earring customizations are live in the MoP beta right now. Unfortunately, the button for the hair streaks has not been implemented yet, so currently you’re given a random color when you create a character.

To see all of the new highlight and earring options, head over to Wowhead News.

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Bucket list preparation for Mists of Pandaria

June 11th, 2012

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We may not have a release date just yet, but Mists of Pandaria is progressing quite nicely on the beta servers. I have one level 90 character already, and I’m leveling another one through just to see the changes, note any bugs I happen to still see hanging around (of which there are very few so far!) and get another look at the story behind the expansion as it plays out. It’s fun, it’s keeping me very busy, and sometimes I tend to forget that there’s another Azeroth that I really ought to be addressing: the live one, where all my junk is at.

I hate organizing things in game, which is really kind of odd because my life out here in the real world is pretty organized. I keep the house very clean and tidy. My library is organized in tidy sections by author, and my kitchen is immaculate. In fact, I get kind of annoyed when things aren’t terribly organized or tidy at home. But in-game, I just can’t seem to bring myself to addressing what is becoming an ever-increasing issue, and I’m really dragging my feet on getting ready for Mists.

Getting ready? Yes, you heard me right — I’ve found that if I want a seamless experience when I pick up an expansion and start to play, preparing beforehand is key. Plus, it gives me something to do while I’m waiting for the expansion to come out.

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Pandaria makes its appearance on the world map

June 6th, 2012

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MMO-Champion has revealed that the latest beta build, 15739, will finally put Pandaria on the map. The fog of 10,000 years has lifted, and the elusive continent’s position has finally been established, at least to the satisfaction of Azeroth’s cartographers. (That really must have been quite some fog.) Beta testers on Pandaria will no longer appear to be somewhere in the swirling midsts of the maelstrom, which will likely be a relief.

While the zone map itself has been accessible to folks on Pandaria almost since the beta became active, its exact position relative to the other zones has not been established until now (although we’ve always known it’ll be in the southern area of Azeroth). It’s positioned opposite Northrend, occupying that conspicuously empty bit of the map. It looks, then, as if the continent might be accessible via ship rather than purely via portal, which would fit in well with Blizzard’s ideas on increasing the time players spend in the world it’s creating.

It does make me wonder whether any future expansions will create more continents in this area apart from those four or whether any future zones will be on an Outland-esque plane on a different map. Sure, there’s room for more land mass either side of Pandaria, but then where would the pictures of ships go? Or perhaps a new zone will emerge in the middle, to the horror of the navigators of Azeroth’s fleet.

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Become a master chef on the shores of Pandaria

May 28th, 2012

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The people of Pandaria take their food almost as seriously as their beer. Those of us who like to keep up on our cooking skill in World of Warcraft have our work cut out for us in the upcoming expansion. Rather than simply leveling to the skill cap and calling it a day, the process has become a little more involved: Pandaria offers six different cooking specializations, or Ways, which can eventually all be completed by one person.

The latest Mists beta patch has implemented a pair of awards for those who complete all six: the achievement Master of Pandaren Cooking and the title Master of the Ways to go with it. Move over, Savior of Azeroth. Being a master chef is where it’s at.

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