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It’s time again for Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that used this boring screenshot of a damage meter graph for one reason and one reason only: Arcane Brilliance needs more of your pictures! There are still some languishing in Arcane Brilliance’s email folder, for use in future columns, but not nearly enough. The strong initial outpouring of excellent screenshots has now petered out, and Arcane Brilliance would like to humbly request more. Send your pics to arcanebrilliance@wow.com, and see this column for the rules. The comments section of last week’s column on mage mistakes was an absolute treasure trove. It was full of wisdom, good advice, relevant in-game experiences, and the occasional trolling warlock (always welcome… we love it when the fireball-fodder comes to us… speeds the whole process up). But one comment stood out to me, so much so that I felt compelled to write an entire column about its topic. It’s far too long to simply

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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today. Yes folks, today is the dawning of the age of aquarius, the time when humanity and Azerothians alike enter into an enlightened state of love, peace, and happiness. No more war, famine, and destruction. Just lots and lots of Hawaiian Pizza for everyone. Outlier asked… “We’ve seen a lot of goblin and gnome technology when it comes to vehicles, mounts what have you. But why none designed by draenei? They’ve mastered interstellar travel and even have a huge ship to farm for materials. Can it be that they didn’t escape Draenor with a single engineer?” The draenei are masters of crystals, not interseller travel. The ship they arrived on and the associated technology, which happens to integrate with the crystals, are all of Naaru origins (the Naaru are the big crystal like beings

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Hunters and warlocks were given something to look forward to during the Blizzard developer chat on twitter this evening. The question was asked: “You mentioned pet scaling being added for patch 3.3 but due to time constraints, was delayed. Will this be in the next patch?” This is something that has been mentioned throughout the course of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and hasn’t been implemented yet. The reason? It is a fairly complicated procedure. We’ll try to do what we can. Technically it’s just more challenging than you might think. For Cataclysm, we have on our list that 100% of stats scale. If they don’t then certain stats just won’t be as valuable for pet classes. At the very least, we can do stuff like convert your X into damage for the pet so every stat is valuable. Getting everyone to scale with every stat better is a major goal for the class team for Cataclysm. With hunters, warlocks, and unholy death knights, there are

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With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and helps with the puppet shows at the Argent Ren Faire up in Icecrown. Here we are again with the final section on the low level paladin tanking guide. You can go back and read parts one, two, and three if you need to catch up. This final part deals with consumables, macros, and addons. As a dungeon runner, you don’t have the high requirements usually associated with raids, but there are a couple things you’ll want to keep an eye on. You’ll want to keep reasonably buffed, have some useful macros to fall back on, and have some addons to help organize some of the more procedural steps. Let’s take a look after the break. Consumables: For leveling up, generally you’ll just want to keep a good stash of food and water. I recommend learning to cook so that your food will at least boost your stamina up a little

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Welcome to Lichborne, the Death Knight column. This week, Daniel Whitcomb is really regretting turning on his boombox in Acherus at the new year’s party. By now, I assume a good portion of you have managed to get on your daily heroics at least a couple times a week, maybe even have an ICC raid or three under your belt. If so, you’re starting to amass enough Emblems of Frost to maybe possibly think about buying a piece of gear. Of course, the problem with Emblem of Frost gear is that it’s a little bit more expensive than, say, Emblem of Triumph gear. You’re not going to get away with gearing up quite as fast, at least not until all of ICC is open and you have a good group for the place. No 25-emblem tier gear here. So that also makes it important, especially for the more casual player, to pick what you buy carefully. Let’s take a look at the various options. Tier Gear Basic tier gear is, once again, purchasable via badges. Not only that, but if you

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Cinch up your robes and brandish your wands, it’s time for another edition of Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that sincerely hopes that this picture was taken by a warlock, just before the mage on the other end got an honorable kill. Around Thanksgiving, Arcane Brilliance received an email from a reader named Todd. I liked it so much that I wrote him back and told him I’d devote a column to his topic at some point soon. Though it has been over a month, I’m finally getting around to writing that column. In my defense, though: I’m extremely lazy. In the interests of space, I won’t print the entire email, which was long, polite, and quite well-written. But here are some selections: “Hi There, My name is Todd. I LOVE your columns, and read them whenever I get the chance to. I am writing you trying to get help for my mother (who I sucked into playing WoW more than a year ago). She chose to be a gnome mage and embark upon the adventure of

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Blizzard helped an Indiana sheriff track an allegedly drug-dealing, definitely WoW-playing fugitive to Canada. Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Roberson, who used to play World of Warcraft, discovered that Alfred Hightower aka Rastlynn, was an avid player. So he contacted Blizzard with a request for help in locating his quarry. Three months later, Blizzard sent Roberson a package containing Rastlynn’s IP address, billing address and other info. After finding out the fugitive’s latitude and longitude from his IP, Roberson used Google Search to pinpoint Rastlynn’s exact location. With the cooperation of Canadian authorities, Hightower has been deported and now awaits his fate in the U.S. Usually it is Blizzard that is calling the police for help, as in the cases of: The teenager who threatened to blow up a plane using in-game chat. The kid who threatened to kill himself if his ban wasn’t removed. The teen who was arrested for making a suicide threat to a GM. But

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Another day, another round of in-game hotfixes. This time the most interesting one of the bunch is the increase in Battered Hilt drop rate (the Battered Hilt leads to the Quel’Delar). Of course it could mean that the hilt drop rate was increased from 0.001% to 0.01%, but hey, at least that’s one whole decimal place! Please note however that we don’t know what the actual drop rate was nor what it is now. All we know that it’s very low. In actuality, one could surmise that the drop rate was increased to combat some of the outrageous prices that we’re seeing on the AH. 20,000 gold or more for a weapon that will be outdated in less than a year is a bit much. Quel’Delar in now unique equip. Naxxramas can now be cleared in any order for the Immortal and Undying achievements. The drop rate for the Battered Hilt has been increased. The Skeletal Slave in the Pit of Saron has had the ability to drop the Battered Hilt and other random drop epics

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Welcome to another installment of Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that is incredibly proud of mages. We are, after all, the only class in the game that can conjure our own 5-man group, as evidenced by the picture above. And though our mirror images may not be too bright, I’d still take them over about 3/4ths of the folks I PuGed with last night. Holy crap. I’m not even kidding. It was like some kind of idiot convention, and I was the keynote speaker. I came in with some prepared remarks, like “Don’t stand in the green stuff that looks like poison, because it is poison,” “when he begins spinning his giant sword around like a whirlwind, it’s because he’s doing Whirlwind and you should get out of the way,” and “Warlocks drink their own pee,” but ended up just sighing and shaking my head a lot. This whole Dungeon Finder tool is incredible, right? My head has been spinning since the patch dropped, marveling at

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New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. For links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s, visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide. Now that you can spice up your leveling experience by adding a little PvP to the mix, you owe it to yourself to do it up right. Battlegrounds can be bufuddling for new players, and WoW Rookie would be sad to hear you’d given up on them based on a couple of false starts. Head straight over to Zach Yonzon’s A-to-Z coverage of Battleground basics in The Art of War(craft)’s Absolute beginner’s guide to the Battlegrounds. Join us after the break for a complete list of the Battlegrounds you can enjoy, starting at level 10. Absolute beginner’s guide to Battlegrounds An overview of the Battlegrounds experience. The absolute beginner’s guide to Warsong Gulch Warsong Gulch is a classic capture-the-flag game for 10 players per side. You can enter

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