Shifting Perspectives: Why effective health needs to die, part 2

Every week, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, we examine the issue of effective health in more depth.
We’ve discussed in the previous column why effective health is important; here, we’re going to discuss why it’s not as important as you might think if you had nothing beyond [...]

Blood Sport: Scrubby McDouche and his army of excuses

Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Lcd Soundsystem is pretty unique. I [...]

Around Azeroth: Float on

Neophyte warrior Meryl of Aman’Thul has a story to tell. While waiting for a three-hour tour from Booty Bay to Ratchet, Meryl glitched out, force-quit the game, and ended up in a no man’s land underneath Arathi Highlands. “Arathi!? How bizarre!” she writes “But it doesn’t end there. So I resurrect just outside Hammerfall, fearful [...]

WoW Moviewatch: Trev and Eroth: Desperate Measures

Giordano posted about Trev and Eroth: Desperate Measures over at Myndflame. This is just the trailer for the movie, but it has the benefit of mostly being made up from actual footage. The reason that’s a big deal, if you don’t already know, is that many machinima trailers use slices and snippets from in-game footage [...]

One year of Wrath

Rufus on Livejournal reminds us that one year ago as of November 13th, Wrath of the Lich King first came into our lives. That means it’s been one full year since we had our launch events, since death knights first became free of the Lich King’s control, and since we first stepped foot in Dalaran. [...]

The importance of the Wrathgate story in Icecrown Citadel

Zubon of Kill Ten Rats has been playing through Northrend lately, and it sounds like he’s right around where my paladin is: working through the Wrathgate questline. The zombie invasion was the most important kickoff event for this expansion, but especially with what we’ve been seeing of Icecrown (spoilers there) lately, it looks like the [...]

Realm Championships and a 2010 preview for the TCG

The WoW TCG has just finished up their year with the World Championships, but apparently they’re not sitting back on their laurels — they’ve just sent word that their Realm Championships will be going down November 14-15, 2009, in cities around the world like “San Diego, Philadelphia, Helsinki, Manchester (England), Singapore and Melbourne.” These are [...]

The Queue: Spider Pig

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 be your host today.
Today’s listening music for the Queue is Spider Pig. Don’t ask why. It just is.
We answer a few good question today, so read on for the discussion. Also, don’t [...]