Wowhead wants to send you to BlizzCon

The second and final round of BlizzCon tickets go on sale this Saturday, May 30, and I’m pretty sure they’ll go fast – the first round sold out in half an hour. However, if you miss out on a ticket (or if you think they’re just too expensive), you may have a chance to go [...]

Lichborne: PvP pointers for Death Knights

Welcome to Lichborne, Your weekly peek into the world of the Death Knight.
Death Knights have it pretty good in PvP. Thanks to big wow goldwhomping two-handers and magic damage strikes and spells, we can do massive burst damage and tear through armor defenses pretty easily. On the control front, we have Strangulate, Mind Freeze, Chains [...]

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994.[5] World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, two years [...]

The Queue: It’s always sunny in Azeroth

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.

Today has been a busy day around WoW Insider HQ (we actually have a virtual HQ where we sit around and work with each other; often [...]

Arena players say they can’t compete with Death Knights

A Korean Arena team named Kill e A has dropped out of the upcoming Extreme Masters tournament and claimed that they just can’t compete with Death Knights in the Arenas. “Due to recent balance changes resulting from the 3.0.9 patch, we believe that it is no longer possible for the Mage and Rogue character classes [...]

Around Azeroth: Peace in the valley

While chilling at the Horde flag site, Petahatesme of <Northland Crusaders> on Whisperwind took a shot of a rare moment of silence in Warsong Gulch. It’s hard to believe that a place of such beauty could be the habitat of so many sub-literate morons screaming out incredibly obvious pieces of strategy. Oh, you’ve got a [...]

Authentication? Who needs that?

Apparently if you want to authenticate your game tonight, you’ll be out of luck. At least for the time being.
Authentication? Logging in? Who needs that?
There has been some conflicting information out there. According to Bornakk, all the issues have been resolved. However, according to Billtesdes the authentication issues are being investigated.
Judging by the number of [...]

Maintenance for Tuesday May 19th

Last week’s maintenance saw a larger number of servers go down for an extended time in order to receive some hardware upgrades. This week it’s the same game with a new batch of servers.
For those realms who are not getting a hardware upgrade, maintenance will run from 3:00 a.m. PDT until 11:00 a.m. PDT. Just [...]

WoW Moviewatch special: 7 movies you should know

Machinima’s a pretty big topic. Depending on who you talk to, “machinima” could include story-based movies, PvP footage, boss kills, music videos, and even videography of altered in-game landscapes. There are uncounted thousands of videos about World of Warcraft roaming the internet, so it can be very difficult to know where to start.
In honor of [...]

Forum post of the day: Why did you /gquit

There are many different reasons for why we join guilds: to raid; to meet girls (well, not usually to meet girls). We also have numerous reasons why we quit guilds. I was kind of amazed by Oreooze of Dalaran’s list of reasons for why he /gquit.
1. He wasn’t congratulated on his achievements.
2. He doesn’t trust [...]