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 Sunday Morning Funnies: 10-20 years and 50% off your teeth Another Sunday, another list of comics, and a friendly reminder that the annual holiday, Brewfest, is underway! If you haven’t headed over yet, or haven’t done any of the holiday dailies for today, then move along! If you plan ahead, you can even get the achievement and title! There are also mounts, trinkets and a host of prizes to be had. Humor ·                                 In Tow from Awkward Zombie. ·                                 From Extra Life comes Seemed Reasonable at the Time. ·                                 NoObz has a “source” for “information” on the next expansion. Humor on a plot-line ·                                 LFG has its own thieving and assassinations. ·                                

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Ask a Beta Tester: Mounts, threat meters, and tabards   We’ll jump right into things in today’s Ask a Beta Tester, because destiny waits for no man! andyjay220 asked… How have people liked the new threat meter? I have tried PTR but I don’t really understand it as I am used to Omen. As far as I can tell the only information it gives you is “YOU NOW HAVE 100% AGGRO” which isn’t very helpful. I want to see a meter showing how far away from pulling aggro I am so i can gauge my attacking accordingly. Any way someone could explain it to me? The threat meter’s UI is pretty simplistic. It displays yellow when you’re close to pulling aggro, and red when you’ve done it. It’s accurate, but hard to gauge how close you really are. It shows the percentage in your tooltip… but that’s a strange place for it. It won’t replace things like Omen (when it’s updated for 3.0.2) but its addition will allow Omen and

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Steamwheedle holds a Dance of the Dead next month   We always love to hear about cool roleplay events, and it looks like there’s a particularly cool one coming up over on Steamwheedle (Horde-side) on October 11th. Their Caer Darrow inspired Dance of the Dead looks like it’s got a lot going on — a costume contest, a dueling event, some fortune telling and a midnight toast. But they have a couple events that really raise the bar for organizing a roleplay extravaganza — a “Corrupt a Wish” contest and a Wild Hunt. The Corrupt a Wish seems cool. You make a wish in two sentences, and a winner is chosen to have the wish come true. (I imagine they want you to keep it reasonable, though.) The trick comes in that your wish gets twisted into a nightmare version. The even cooler event, though, is the Wild Hunt. They’ve captured some Alliance members (volunteer roleplayers), who’ve been stripped of their uber gear. Through the night, the Alliance

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 Shifting Perspectives: New Druid Leveling – 1 through 5 Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week John Patricelli, sometimes known as the Big Bear Butt Blogger, finally starts his series on leveling a new Druid, covering the strategies of your first 5 levels. In this week’s column, we’re going to begin to have some fun with our brand new level 1 Druid! Check out our Level 1 Tauren Druid off to the right… isn’t he a handsome devil? And modest, too! Your first five levels set the tone for how your Druid will feel. It’s all about casting spells for ranged combat. You’re going to want to spend as much time burning them down on the run as you can, and minimize the time you spend whacking them in the face with your stick. In many ways, the lessons you can learn here about casting strategies will form the foundation of your play style, at least until you finally get that

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 BigRedKitty: Core Hound Daniel Howell contributes BigRedKitty, a column with strategies, tips and tricks for and about the Hunter class, sprinkled with a healthy dose of completely improper, sometimes libelous, personal commentary.   Basically… hunters have just been dubbed the Most Loved Class in WoW. If the ultimate goal in this game is to have fun, then hunters own the place and the rest of you lesser-classes just live here.   What does a Core Hound bring to the table? He’s an exotic Ferocity pet, natch. His special spell? Lava Breath.   “Your pet breathes a double gout of molten lava at the target for 49 to 65 Fire damage and reduces the target’s casting speed by 50% for 10 sec.” And it only has a 10 second cooldown. We think the emote for this spell should be,   “Core Hound says, ‘Sit your happy caster-kiester down!’” We’ll have to hack our PetEmote addon appropriately.   But we had to look up what a

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The sights of Stormwind Harbor   As you may have noticed in the latest patch, workers in Stormwind are busy building Stormwind Harbor, a relatively large addition that will give us a convenient boat dock to get up to Northrend. As an aside, is Stormwind going to be the Alliance jumping-off point for all expansions? It’s already the most convenient capital to the Dark Portal, as well as (I think) the only city with trainers for all classes. Anyway, it’s my favorite city, so I don’t really mind, but still – when’s Ironforge or poor Darnassus going to get some love? What was I talking about? Oh right, I have here a beautiful gallery of screenshots of Stormwind Harbor, its boats, and a lighthouse that seems to be on the way out of the city. The Harbor will offer non-stop trips to the Borean Tundra in Northrend, as well as to Auberdine (the current boat in Menethil is being re-routed, and Menethil will now connect only to Theramore). This should make it much

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On damage rotations and disease stacking Despite the extensive changes coming in the next patch, Death Knights do still have a solid way to pay in PvE: Apply debuffs and diseases via Icy Touch, Plague Strike, a Ghoul’s Infect, or any other talented method you may have, use Blood Strike or Obliterate to do damage once the diseases are properly stacked, use your runic power dump (usually Death Coil, at least at lower levels), rinse, repeat. This isn’t to say, of course, that there aren’t multiple other ways to get your fight on, and depending on the fight and your spec, you may be adding some Corpse Explosion, Pestilence, and Death and Decay in there if you’re AEing, or perhaps a Howling Blast or Frost Strike if you’re Frost, or any number of other abilities depending on your talents and the situation at hand. However, once you get the rythm of the rune cooldowns down, playing a Death Knight is a lot simpler than it first appears. As Ghostcrawler has

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WarCry Interviews Runic Games’ Travis Baldree Please introduce yourselves and give us your game development histories. My name is Travis Baldree. I originally created the Diablo-style Action-RPG FATE, and then went on to build the Flagship Seattle team as Project Director, where we created Mythos, an Action-RPG MMO. Max Schaefer, my partner, was the Executive Producer for Mythos. He was one of the original Founders of Condor ( which became Blizzard North ), the creators of the Diablo franchise, which needs no introduction. Max went on to become one of the cofounders of Flagship Studios, and we’ve been working together on Mythos for the past few years. Our fantastic team is comprised of the original members of Flagship Seattle, who have a large number of released titles between them, and who have worked closely together on Mythos through thick and thin. What is the background for the name “Runic Games”? I think like most company names, it was a tortuous

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MMO Addiction: A Big Secret According to a recent study by a US-based psychiatrist, admitting to sex-addiction is preferable to revealing one’s addiction to MMOs. Dr. Jerald Block has even gone so far as to press the American Psychiatric Association to enter “Internet Addiction” as a new diagnostic term. BLOCK: As a society we understand that porn is something people do, and you can see a psychiatrist and get treated for it. But gaming is hard to describe to anyone else. So these people can’t explain their situation to friends. In fact, it’s hard to give you an example of what my clients talk about, because gaming is enormously complicated. IDEAS: Well, give it a try. BLOCK: OK, there was a man engaged in a game called Eve Online. He was one of the most powerful characters in the universe of this game. He had played for years and accumulated great wealth; he would have been worth about $17,000 if he sold his character and all his virtual assets on

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World of Warcraft not only dwarfs all other massively-multiplayer games, it dwarfs a good number of countries — not silly countries like Monaco and Greenland, either, but perfectly sensible ones. Like Sweden, say, or Israel. But how do the holdings of this legion of players compare to the corporate giants of the world? Determining what actually is the world’s largest company is far from an exact science. Do you measure it by annual revenue, in which case it’s ExxonMobil, which pulled in about $400 billion in 2007? Perhaps counting number of employees makes more sense, in which case it’s Wal-Mart, which has 1.7 million blue-vested souls on its books. Maybe market capitalization, a measure of the public opinion of the value of a company, is what matters most, in which case it’s probably ExxonMobil again. No matter how you slice it, most of the same names come up time and again — a cabal of the world’s most powerful private economic entities.

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