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WoWeekly: Cataclysm Beta Opt-In

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WoWeekly: Cataclysm Beta Opt-In

This is it guys. If you want to be eligible as a potential candidate for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm closed beta, make sure your opt-ins are all set-up and updated! How to Opt-In for Cataclysm closed beta: Have a World of Warcraft license attached to your Battle.net account. Meaning, you MUST have a World of Warcraft account. Upload your current system specifications to Battle.net. You will need to download and run the beta opt-in application to update your system specifications. Check “Warcraft Universe” in the Beta test I’m interested in portion. Click Update preferences. And that’s it! Let me remind you though, that just because you opted-in doesn’t automatically Read more »

WoWeekly: Cataclysm Screenshots and Children's Week

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WoWeekly: Cataclysm Screenshots and Children's Week

A new Cataclysm screenshot came out today, after the news of the start of the Cataclysm Alpha testing. Hopefully, new screenshot teasers will come out since more people will be play-testing the new expansion. I’m sooo envious of those alpha testers! Unfortunately though, it’s not open to the public and is only available to friends and family of Blizzard employees, hence the name “Cataclysm Friends & Family Alpha”. So if you get any email claiming to give you access to become an alpha, it is most probably a SCAM. Mmmkay? Any Blizzard employee want to adopt or marry me? Haha. Read more »

WoWeekly: Cataclysm Raid Progression Changes

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WoWeekly: Cataclysm Raid Progression Changes

News about the changes in the raiding system came out last Monday and a lot of my guild mates started shouting, “The sky is falling!” causing a bit of uncertainty in our guild come Cataclysm. In a nutshell, Blizzard is planning to implement the following changes to the raid system when the expansion comes along: Read more »

WoWeekly: Leveling as a Dranei Shaman – My Alliance Experience

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WoWeekly: Leveling as a Dranei Shaman – My Alliance Experience

Ever since I started playing WoW (which was around 4 years ago), I have always been playing for the Horde Faction. My first created toon, however, was a Night Elf Druid which I played until level 18. Then I found out a couple of friends of mine were playing Horde on the same server as I was and decide to switch to Horde. Four years later, I have two level 80 Priests (Undead and a Blood Elf, I re-rolled to a BE because I wanted a prettier toon and race change wasn’t available yet, hehe), a level 80 Blood Elf Paladin, a level 80 Tauren Druid, and a Blood Elf Read more »

WoWeekly: My Love And Hate Relationship With GearScore Add On

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WoWeekly: My Love And Hate Relationship With GearScore Add On

I’ve been having a love-hate relationship with this add on ever since it came and more and more people have been using it. First and foremost though, if you don’t know what GearScore is, it is an add on that allows you to gauge a player’s gear level. It removes the need to manually inspect a player’s gear by clicking on him and checking out his gear, or by alt-tabbing and checking out the WoW armory. All you have to do is mouseover a player in the game and it will scan and calculate the player’s gear level and show you the player’s gearscore via a tooltip At first, I Read more »

WoWeekly: My Initial Thoughts On Mastery System

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WoWeekly: My Initial Thoughts On Mastery System

Probably one of the biggest change that is going to happen when the Cataclysm expansion comes out is the implementation of the Mastery Stat System. For those who have been stuck in-game and have not even browsed the internet about the upcoming expansion, Blizzard is bringing in the Mastery System, a set of new game mechanics that will allow players to make their chosen talent trees more unique. Here’s how the system works: As you spend points in a given talent tree, you’ll receive three different passive bonuses specific to that tree. The first bonus will increase your damage, healing, or survivability, depending on the intended role of the tree. Read more »

WoWeekly: Patch 3.3.3 Ready for Download!

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WoWeekly: Patch 3.3.3 Ready for Download!

As of this writing, I am currently at 1.75MB of 77.3MB of Patch 3.3.3. Still a long way to go! If you’re on the same boat as I am and you’re noticing that your download is a bit slow, don’t panic, fellow WoW geeks. The patch download is only for preparation when WoW 3.3.3 actually goes live, which will probably happen in a couple of weeks. Like maybe next week, or next next week, or next next next week. I can’t really give a definite schedule since even Blizzard itself hasn’t given a specific date on when it’s going live. But at least we know Patch 3.3.3 really does exist! Read more »

WoWeekly: Trojan Hacks Authenticator Protected WoW Accounts

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WoWeekly: Trojan Hacks Authenticator Protected WoW Accounts

Just the other day, I heard people talking in trade chat about how the Blizzard Authenticator was only good for getting the Core Hound mount. I was intrigued, since in my opinion, I think the Blizzard Authenticator was a good way of keeping your account secure. I thought they were just the usual whiney Azerothians who had nothing else to do but whine about how Blizzard is messing up the game in one way or another. But apparently, someone created a trojan that could actually intercept the authenticator codes and enable the hacker to change your password, empty your account and sell your stuff! How interesting! The trojan works the Read more »

WoWeekly: Let's Celebrate the Lunar Festival!

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WoWeekly: Let's Celebrate the Lunar Festival!

Another World Event is up! The Lunar Festival is basically the WoW version of our Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is usually celebrated on the first day of the lunar calendar of the year. And for this year, February 14 was the start of the lunar calendar. Fascinating how Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year coincided, don’t you think so? Anyway, there’s really nothing new about this year’s Lunar Festival. Same old, same old. All you have to do is visit all the Elders in ALL of Azeroth! I kid you not! As a Horde player, I had to brave the major Alliance cities namely Ironforge, Stormwind and Read more »