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Cryptozoic Takes Over World of Warcraft TCG
A month and a half ago Blizzard
announced
they were parting ways with Upper Deck, and they would in the near future announce some exciting changes coming to the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.
That announcement has arrived! Blizzard, in partnership with
Cryptozoic Entertainment
will begin its (hopefully) long and fruitful relationship this May, with the release of the Wrathgate expansion set for the TCG.
“Having been fully involved with the development of the World of Warcraft TCG from day one, I've always been passionate about taking it into the future,” said Cory Jones, Cryptozoic’s President and Chief Creative Officer, and formerly Blizzard Entertainment's lead business and development liaison for the TCG. “I'm pleased to say that the players have a lot to look forward to as we continue developing and evolving the game to match the action and spirit of World of Warcraft.”
You can find out more about Cryptozoic on their
official website
. The original post is here:
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New Map for the Ruby Sanctum!
Something a little surprising was discovered in the patch files for 3.3.3, a new version of map for
Das Rubinsanktum
was tucked away neatly inside. On the right you can see the actual map, in the center we are pretty sure is
Halion the Twilight Destroyer
with his 3 lieutenants Baltharus the Warborn, General Zarithrian and Saviana Ragefire surrounding him.
More info:
http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=4987
Das Obsidiansanktum
reminds me a lot of this new map, and as I love all kinds of dragon related lore this new raid is really exciting me. So, what are your thoughts on this upcoming raid dungeon and all of precursor events that are leading up to
Cataclysm
?
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Let Me Wowhead That For You
There was a
thread
that went around a little while ago where someone mentioned a website called
LMGTFY.com
, that internet users can take advantage of to passive-aggressively help their friends find the answers to their questions.
Keeano
asked the following central question:
Can we as a community, instead of flaming others, try better to teach them to use the database, and instruct on how to use filters instead of doing it for them?
This is a critically important part of the Wowhead forum community, and a question I encourage each of you to ask yourself. But somewhere in that thread, a user named
tbeseda
got a funny idea—and a funny domain name.
In turn, I wish to present to you:
Let Me Wowhead That For You.
http://lmwhtfy.com
Enjoy passive-aggressively helping your friends. :)
Tip: Any
search
performed on Wowhead will contain a button that lets you get a LMWHTFY link easily.
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Official "Patch 3.3.3 Anticipation and Downtime Thread"
That's right, it's patch time!
Patch 3.3.3 is upon us, so we're here to make sure you have all the info you need.
Check out the links to all our patch coverage—and if you're posting about downtime or server status, let's keep it all to this one thread, shall we? :)
Important Links
Patch notes
PTR site
Icons and 3D models:
post 1
and
post 2
Changes to the Battleground and Honor systems
Wintergrasp balance changes
New Frozen Orb vendor info
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Gaming Can Make a Better World
Seeing that you have found this blog post, you have probably seen our last one as well -
Wowhead Interview on the Rawrcast
. I would like to bring to your attention a video that was posted on the
episode's page
. It's a video published by
TED
, which is a non-profit dedicated to spreading ideas that can change the world. Here is the direct link to the video on TED:
Jane McGonigal: Gaming Can Make a Better World
Catchy title, isn't it? Feel free to watch it there on the TED site, or you can view it here after the break.
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Wowhead Interview on the Rawrcast!
TheOnyx
and myself were cordially invited by
Stompalina
to give an interview in this week's episode of the
Rawrcast
!
The Rawrcast itself is pretty epic (a good 2 hours long!), but worth it—especially if you've been following them up until now! You can listen to the whole episode here:
Complete episode:
http://www.rawrcast.com/2010/03/episode-63-extended-release-episode/
We're about 40 minutes in. If you have a short attention span, though, you can also listen to just the interview here:
Wowhead interview only:
http://www.rawrcast.com/Rawrcast_Interview_w-WOWHEAD.mp3
Also, incidentally, there is a mention of an upcoming movie project in this interview called "The Raid". If you're interested in the post we wrote about it, you can find that one
here
.
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Using the Power of Wowhead: Wish Lists
Hey all! Neutronimity here, your friendly neighborhood German translator! Some of you may remember that I am
also
a blogger, from back in the
WWR
days. Seeing as how I'm STILL a blogger, I figured it was time I earned the title!
I know some people are still a bit unfamiliar with using the database, so I decided to write a series of posts to illustrate a few examples of how you can utilize Wowhead to its fullest potential. I hope to be be covering most of the site's tools and taking advantage of their detailed guides. What you'll be reading is a collection of example tasks, using Wowhead, which should inspire you to come up with a similar methods of fulfilling your goals—whatever they may be.
Curious? Read on after the break!
PS: I would like to thank
blademeld
for feedback and ideas, and
MasterOfDisguise
for generously editing and correcting my rather ragged English.
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Loremaster Skosiris!
So a little while back, right around the release of
Ulduar
, some of you may remember a little tribute that Blizzard implemented to our
founder
and fearless leader: one
Meister der Lehren Skosiris
in Shattrath City.
You may remember him for his amusingly relevant quote,
"Here I have amassed what may well be the greatest depository of lore in all of Outland. Even the grand libraries of Silvermoon City pale in comparison. Please... look, read, browse to your heart's content. You'll find everything organized and clearly labeled."
Well as we all know, Skosiris
hates
when things are inconsistent...so he embarked on the quest to get a matching title of his very own. We're proud to announce that, thanks to the help of our new
Completion Tracker
, Skosiris has finally completed his
Loremaster title
!
We thought you'd join us in a small celebration. Tacos for everyone, eh?
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Wowhead Pride Contest Winners
And the results for the winners of the
Wowhead Pride Contest
are in!
Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a ton of wonderful submissions for this contest, and I'm really excited to present them to you now. The winners will be contacted to confirm their addresses.
You can see a gallery of all the winning submissions after the break!
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Echo Isles and Gnomeregan Official News!
For those of you who haven't been following the spoilers, The pre-Cataclysm world event is coming up soon—and from the looks of it, it will be revolving primarily around the efforts of the Alliance to retake Gnomeregan, and the Horde to retake the Echo Isles!
Blizzard has just released a sneak preview of both events on the official site, with some awesome screenshots and a little background for those who don't know the history:
High Tinker Mekkatorque, betrayed by Mekgineer Thermaplugg and forced to flee the irradiated city of Gnomeregan with the few of his fellow gnomes who managed to survive, is preparing to reclaim his once glorious city. Meanwhile, in distant Durotar, Vol'jin of the Darkspear trolls is determined to exact revenge upon the witch doctor Zalazane for dividing the Darkspears and seizing the land bestowed to them by Thrall: the Echo Isles. Read more about the ongoing struggles of the
gnomes
and the
trolls
... and their
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Wowhead Pride Contest: 1 Day Extension
An apology is in order for those of you who tried to submit your contest entry over the weekend! We had a site bug which prevented the contest page from displaying properly for a few hours during the day.
Since we lost a few hours of accepting entries, we have decided to apply a
one day extension
to the contest! You now have until the end of
Thursday, March 18th
to submit your entries! That's two days from now, so you shutterbugs best get moving!
http://www.wowhead.com/?contest=wowhead-pride
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Anniversary Player Interview: Luek
In the spirit of Blizzard's Anniversary celebration, they have released another player interview.
Luek
is from the US realm The Underbog and sports titles such as
Sturmreiter
and
the Kingslayer
.
In this interview, they talk about how he was brought into World of Warcraft and some of his most memorable events in the game. They also talk about his early PvP experiences and many other subjects. You can read the whole interview on the official
Anniversary Mini Site
.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wowanniversary/interview/luek.xml
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GDC: Rob Pardo Speaks About Blizzard Game Design
At tenth annual Games Developer Conference
Rob Pardo
, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard, hosted a panel where he spoke about design philosophy at Blizzard. The fine folks over at
WoW.com
were able to get some nice info on some of their key successes and failures.
He spoke about how they succeeded in creating a good economy in World of Warcraft through the "taxing" for deaths, the auction house, and making money-sinks (such as mounts, titles and pets). This made the concept of gold
matter
, while on the flip side in Diablo II death, took away half your gold - but people just ended up keeping it in town unless they needed to buy something, therefore making gold pretty useless.
He also spoke about key design concepts like making everything overpowered, the default UI being a failure and several other subjects that are well worth the read.
If you weren't able to get into GDC, see it for yourself below!
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/12/rob-pardo-speaks-about-blizzard-game-design/
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More Patch 3.3.3 Models & Icons: Lil' XT, Halion's Servants and More!
We've dug up some new 3D animated models and icons out of the latest batch of PTR data - no amazing celestial horses this time, but instead a strange and quirky little addition to the cute pet armada -
XT der Kleine
! This pint-sized version of everyone's favorite
Ulduar
mic-spammer
XT-002 Dekonstruktor
could possibly be a new
Blizzard Store
pet, following in the footsteps of
K.T. der Kleine
, the miniaturized version of
Kel'Thuzad
, of
Naxxramas
fame.
Tip: Last week's patch update blog can be found
here
.
Check out the new models and icons after the break, along with some of my own lore-tinged speculation. You can see previous models and icons we've posted
here
!
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Cataclysm Mastery System Preview
Last week
Blizzard went into detail about the changes into the stats system for Cataclysm and now they have finally revealed their plans for the
Mastery
system.
In a nut shell the mastery system will basically give you bonuses that increase damage, healing or survivability according to the amount of points spent in the tree. Along with it you will get a secondary bonus to a stat that is most desirable to you, like haste or crit. There is even a third bonus which will be completely unique to the tree and will benefit from the mastery rating on high-level gear.
Eyonix then goes into detail about how talents such as
will stay and
will go away in favor of more fun and interesting talents while being merged into the new mastery system.
After the break you can find the entire post along with examples for the mastery bonuses for Holy and Discipline Priests and Frost Death Knights!
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Which Direction Is Our Game Heading?
As many of you know, the original pitch for World of Warcraft was an epic adventure where you would band together with your peers and defeat a common enemy, be it a huge dragon, or an opposing faction's army. This is the reason that a lot of players initially bought the game, but it's also one of the aspects of the game that seems to be disappearing.
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Patch 3.3.3 Models & Icons: Halion, Celestial Steed and More!
Hey there Wowhead readers! We just wanted to take the opportunity to share with you some cool 3D (animated!) models and icons that we have discovered so far in the Patch 3.3.3 data! Sadly there's not too many icons yet for all our forum-goers' avatars, but the ones we've found are
incredible
!
We've got models for some amazing new mounts, including a beautiful spectral steed, a strange two-seating rocket mount, a blazing hippogryph and a big ol' wooly rhino! We've also found a new model for Anduin Wrynn (the only character ever to "age" in WoW?), a cute celestial wyrmling pet and the violet dragon
Halion the Twilight Destroyer
- a new boss in the upcoming
Ruby Sanctum
!
Check out the models and icons after the break!
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Gear Check: Peregrine Gaming Glove
So I'm going to be taking over and doing my own tech review this time, because I was excited about this product and I didn't want
Miyari
to get the only one, like she did with that
Razer Naga
!
This time I've got ahold of a
Peregrine Gaming Glove
. These things are new, you can't buy them yet—although you can pre-order them from the
Peregrine website
. Join me after the break while we put this thing through it's paces!
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Battlecry Mosaic Complete, New Interviews, Noxy Artwork
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Battlecry Mosaic is complete
!
A total of 20,000 submissions have come in since the
Warcraft Anniversary
site opened, and the full mosaic is now available for viewing! You can look at it through the Mosaic Viewer on the Battlecry page, or by downloading the truly epic
14400 x 6150 pixel raw file
(also available in various
wallpaper
formats).
They've also unlocked two brand new
interviews
: one with
Tom Chilton
, who we all know and love, talking about the design and creation process for the game—and the other with forum MVP
Palehoof
, talking about his gaming history and the experience from the player's perspective.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wowanniversary/
Bonus:
If you're looking closely at Palehoof's interview, you'll find some artw
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Pawn, Now with Added Wowhead Awesome
Some of you may know about this little addon from the last time we
mentioned
it, but for those who don't here's a little explanation:
Pawn
is an addon that takes the stats from an item you are looking at and gives it a score based on a weight scale, very similar to our own stat weighting system. The higher the score the "better" the item is according to the weight scales you design.
And now, Pawn users will be happy to know that the team over there has added a little extra awesome into the addon by using our
stat-weights
by default!
To get Pawn you can find it on our sister site
WoWInterface
.
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7296-Pawn.html
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