Main hands and one-hands after 2.4.2

I only slightly mentioned this back on the podcast, I think, but there was a fairly interesting change that snuck in the patch notes on 2.4.2: lots of formerly main hand weapons have become one-hand weapons. There are a couple…

Totem Talk: Two Fists of Fury! (or axes or maces)



Totem Talk this week is about beating your enemies to death, or hacking them up. It’s time for our Shamans to call the wind down upon their weapons and deliver death up close and personal, with the help of some…

Scattered Shots: Hunter problems and predictions

Scattered Shots is for hunters. ‘Nuff said on that topic. The Freezing Trap David was stuck in last week also wore off a little bit, thanks to Daniel, permitting him to write once more without his fingers snapping off from…

Encrypted Text: Roleplaying as a rogue

Much like the rogue class itself, Elizabeth Wachowski’s Encrypted Text usually pops up just when you’re not expecting it, is prone to disappearing without notice for large periods of time, and steals your lewtz.

Hey, fellow rogues! It’s been a while!…

Know Your Lore: Fandral Staghelm

I’ve talked to Alliance players, read WoW comics, surfed the forums, and seen raids on Darnassus, and one thing is clear: Pretty much everyone hates Fandral Staghelm. He’s rude, snotty, argumentative and dismissive. In other words, perfect for a Know…

G4TV previews Wrath of the Lich King


Blizzplanet has a new Wrath of the Lich King related video from G4TV. It has interviews with Jeffrey “Tigole” Kaplan and J. Allen “No nickname I’m aware of” Brack and very short previews of the new zones, the Death Knight hero…

How to convince tanks to PuG


I’m getting back to DeathknightWoW after a month’s real-life-related absence and have been spending some time playing catch-up on the site. One of the articles that caught my attention was Matt Rossi’s popular “One reason tanks won’t PuG,” in no…

xfire breaks 10 million users, 16,000 years online

Gamedaily has the report that Xfire, the online service for gamers (that we have coordinated a few events with in the past), has broken a whopping ten million users. That, you’ll probably realize, is just as many as WoW, and in…

WoW Insider and Xfire at Blizzcon


You may not have realized this yet (I didn’t until just now), but we are only a week and a half away from Blizzcon. On August 3 and 4 in Anaheim, CA, Blizzard will host its second huge convention, and…

WoW Xfire hours played drops 18 percent in September

Gamesindustry.biz is reporting a huge drop in /played time over the past month for WoW players. From August to September, Xfire users played WoW 18 percent less than the previous month.

But it’s likely not necessarily because of the oft-delayed 2.2.2– the drop…

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