Around Azeroth: Azerothian gothic

More Warcraft decorating disasters? Well, actually, this particular painting is one I’d be proud to hang in my bedroom. This little number, found in an undead dwelling by Raelivh of Bleeding Hollow, is a zombie parody of Grant Wood’s American Gothic. It’s even got the proper clothing on the couple, and a Tarren Mill-like desecrated [...]

Exporting guild calendars from the Armory

Reader Bob sent us a neat little tool a while back that will help you get your guild’s calendar off of The Armory and on to another calendar program, like Google Calendar or iCal. This little script he built (which unfortunately will probably get beat up as soon as this post goes live, so give [...]

WoW Insider Show Episode 86: No love for Gnomes

Here’s this week’s episode of the WoW Insider Show, in which we recapped patch 3.1 and all of the class goodness and new content included in there, as well as the Ulduar cinematic and that fact that Gnomes have been historically dissed by Blizzard’s machinimists. We checked in on your emails as well — we [...]

Around Azeroth: The unbearable latency of being

The members of <Cult of Reason> on Tichondrius had a particularly difficult first kill of Razorscale — everyone in the raid was over 1k latency. So after the beast was down, they decided to use their kill shot to commemorate their victory over both the dragoness and the server itself. If only the real lag [...]

World of Warcraft Patch 3.1.1a

A good note from the EU side of things today. There will be a minor bug patch to the client side of the game in the next few days. This patch will bring the game up to version 3.1.1a.
The only change that we’re told about right now in 3.1.1a will be indicting on the Exorcism [...]

WoW Rookie: A character by any other name would be so weak

New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the resources they need to get acclimated. Send us a note to suggest a WoW Rookie topic.
Your character’s name is literally the essence of your World of Warcraft experience. Think about it: from the way you think of your character (a roleplaying personality, a tool [...]

WoW Insider’s Guide to Patch 3.1 Updated

WoW Insider has been on fire the past few months with patch 3.1 information. We’ve published nearly 400 articles on various aspects of the patch, more than any other patch we’ve covered.
To help organize things, we’ve made a nice guide for all you folks. WoW Insider’s Guide to Patch 3.1 bring you our entire library [...]

Arcane Brilliance: Okay, now I like spirit

Each week Arcane Brilliance glances around to make sure there are no Death Knights in the area, then daintily tiptoes out from cover long enough to throw together a column about Mages. Usually, this ends badly for Arcane Brilliance. Out of nowhere, a big purple rope-looking thingy wraps itself around Arcane Brilliance’s neck and drags [...]

Phat Loot Phriday: Black Ice

Today’s item comes to us from the wild and strange land of Twitter, where Jezriyah suggested this might be the prettiest item in the game. Maybe — but only if you don’t count characters, as my Night Elf Hunter is pretty hot. Also, if you’re not following WoW Insider on Twitter yet, now’s the chance [...]

Why we should expect an expansion announcement at Blizzcon

We’re almost six months into Wrath’s lifespan. Patch 3.1 is just around the corner, and before too long we’ll be talking about 3.2. I anticipate 3.2 will come out quicker than most content patches and that 3.3 will be on its way soon after. After that, I’m willing to put good money on an expansion [...]