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Addon Spotlight: Equus Infinata

by WoW.com on Jul.29, 2010, under WoW Insider

Addon Spotlight focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond — your addons folder will never be the same. This week, Addon Spotlight reaches into the addon grab bag and pulls out some delicious randomness for you.

Salutations, friends. Welcome to another exciting week on Addon Spotlight, where addons reign supreme amongst the pitiful, smelly masses of other crap you could talk about related to World of Warcraft. Addons encompass it all! We are champion.

This week, Addon Spotlight is heading into mount and pet territory, discussing a wonderful little addon called Equus Infinata. Equus not only caught my eye because of how simple and pretty the addon looks, but how it integrates straight into your already existing mount and pet interface pane. As a special treat, I asked Robert, the addon’s author, a couple of questions about creating his first addon. Click for more!

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Addon Spotlight: Equus Infinata originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Spiritual Guidance: The top ten shadow priest glyphs

by WoW.com on Jul.28, 2010, under WoW Insider

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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Spiritual Guidance, hosted by Fox Van Allen, consort to the shadows. Don’t mind any distracting grunting you hear coming from under the floor boards. Dawn Moore isn’t buried alive underneath there, I promise. She just needed to take today off. You know. For … um … I dunno, I think she’s one of the Hollywood Squares this week. Who cares, whatever, she’s gone.

Oh, hello shadow priests. Please come in. Shut the door behind you.

Have a seat. We need to talk.

I’ve been hearing rumors on wowpopular.com about your top major glyph choices, and frankly, I’m concerned. It’s telling me that the Glyph of Shadow Word: Pain is the most popular for shadow priests. Madness! And my god, are you really casting Flash Heal that often that you want to glyph for it?

Look, look, it’s okay. It’s not your fault. You’re the victim here. You chose what you thought was a good glyph, and it’s been letting you down. I can help.

After the break, we’re going to run down the list of the top ten most popular shadow priest glyphs and pick them apart, one by one. Hopefully, in the process, we can get rid of your cookie cutter build and find you a great new set of glyphs that matches your play style.

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Spiritual Guidance: The top ten shadow priest glyphs originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Reader UI of the Week: Fizziks’ UI Mk. II

by WoW.com on Jul.27, 2010, under WoW Insider

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Each week, WoW.com brings you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs. Have a screenshot of your UI you want to submit? Send your screenshots, along with info on what mods you’re using, to readerui@wow.com.

Greetings, Reader UI of the Week fans, and welcome aboard the good ship Addons. Today, we travel back in time, way back, to March of 2010, when man still lived in a terrible age of despair and ignorance. We have come so far since that terrible time. A light, a blindingly bright light, shown through the heavens, illuminated one column. One column for you, dear readers, to submit your user interfaces to …

Fizziks was one of my first reader UI column subjects and has graciously sent in a redux of his awesome-then and awesome-now user interface. I am happy to say that this is the 25th Reader UI of the Week that I have written, and am happy to have an old friend come back for this special number.

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Reader UI of the Week: Fizziks’ UI Mk. II originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Choose My Adventure: Predictable

by WoW.com on Jul.26, 2010, under WoW Insider

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Choose the adventures of the WoW.com staff as we level our characters in <It came from the Blog> on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H).

Bieber for Sandwichdoc was so predictable. Gregg has informed me that since Queen placed such a close second, he will play that for his next level. Lisiel will be a druid and focus on fishing achievements, and Patent will be getting the It’s Happy Hour Somewhere achievement to celebrate Amy’s taking of the bar exam.

Here’s the schedule for this week:

Adam Holisky as Adammentat, the level 50 tauren druid, will be on Monday at 11 p.m. EDT
Anne Stickney as Annephora, the level 41 troll warrior, will be on Tuesday at 1 a.m. EDT (which is Monday at 11 p.m. Zangarmarsh time)
Robin Torres as Robinemia, the level 29 undead mage: Wednesday, 11 p.m. EDT tentatively
Amy Schley as Patent, the level 23 troll rogue: Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT
Lisa Poisso as Prupher the proofreading druid (Lisiel just didn’t fit a tauren): Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT
Fox Van Allen as Foxlight, the level 22 blood elf paladin: Friday, 8 p.m. EDT
Michael Sacco as Sahko, the orc warlock; Christian Belt, as Selfloathius, the level 16 blood elf warlock; Elizabeth Harper as Faience, the level 24 troll shaman; Matthew Rossi as Andrenorton, the level 17 troll mage; Michael Gray as Grayfields, the level 17 tauren hunter; and Gregg Reece as Sandwichdoc, the level 15 troll shaman, will be making appearances as they can.

I’m just tentative for Wednesday because I’m moving this weekend. If I do play, I will stream it, and there will be more slaughter of those nasty Syndicate types.

I see that many of you want more PvP adventures. I’m taking suggestions for PvP events, games and/or activities in the comments.

Gallery: Choose My Adventure

Please join us on Zangarmarsh (US-PvE-H) in <It came from the Blog>. Guild ranks of “Blog Lurker” or above can invite, so /whisper Robiness or any online member. You are all welcome as long as you play by our simple rules — basically, don’t be a funsucker! Visit the guild FAQ for more details.

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Choose My Adventure: Predictable originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Spiritual Guidance: So you wanna play a priest, part 4, levels 41-70

by WoW.com on Jul.25, 2010, under WoW Insider

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Two class specs, both alike in dignity,
in fair Azeroth, where we lay our scene,
from ancient expansion to ICC,
here circles, bubbles, mischief all convene.
Spiritual Guidance updates each Sunday with all the essentials on healing as a priest.

You would think that a priest could dispel bleeds. We can restore people from death and protect them from incoming attacks, yet we can’t plug up one gushing wound? Seems a bit strange, doesn’t it? Are we not masters of healing?

Anyway, today’s column actually has nothing to do with dispelling or bleed effects (other than the author writing today’s column while under the effects of a non-dispellable bleed debuff). It has to do with leveling a priest from levels 40 to 70. Hit the jump and we’ll get to it.

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Totem Talk: Back to basics

by WoW.com on Jul.24, 2010, under WoW Insider

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Welcome to another article by elemental shaman specialist Matt Sampson, otherwise known as Binkenstein. By day, he’s a geek; by night, he’s also a geek, but with spreadsheets. He’d also like to point out that Time Warp is just another excuse to bring ~~mages~~ vending machines to raids.

Since I’m still the new guy here, I figure that it’s best to start at the beginning, for it’s a very good place to start (and I’m not intentionally putting song lyrics into my posts, it just happens). Given that Cataclysm is still in beta testing, I’m not going to talk about talents, rotations or even the new spells here.

“But Binks,” you say, “how can you have an article about basics if you don’t include any of those topics?” You can, I say, if you talk about the essential basic you have to get right in your playstyle. This is the thing that turns an average-geared player into a fairly competitive one, makes the top-end raiders great, and without which the guy languishing at the bottom of the DPS table will never get to the top no matter how many best-in-slot items he has.

What I’m talking about is skill. This doesn’t just mean the ability to mash buttons faster or harder, or the bonus of having really low latency (trust me, a good ping for me is in the 300ms range), but rather being situationally aware, knowing when to move, how far to move and what to do while moving. It means thinking a few steps ahead so that when the next event occurs, you’re already in position and ready for it.

Some players will never master the basics. Others don’t even have to try because they’re naturals. For the rest of us (and yes, I mean myself as well), it requires a bit of experimentation, some trial and error and most important of all, guides!

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Totem Talk: Back to basics originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Shifting Perspectives: Recreating balance druids in Cataclysm

by WoW.com on Jul.23, 2010, under WoW Insider

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Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week, we are watching a moonkin dance with a mushroom once again, mostly because it amuses me, and talking about all the recent beta goodies. Mmmm, I like goodies.

I do believe I made a promise last week that I’d discuss some Cataclysm information this week, and I intend to make good on that promise. There’s certainly quite a lot of information to talk about, should you actually be a person who sleeps at a decent hour like most folks; luckily for all of you, I am not one of those people. As per usual, later into the night for most of us, Blizzard released another beta patch with a number of balance changes: a talent tree polish (a basic one, but a polish pass nonetheless) and yet another revision of Eclipse. There’s actually a good deal to be excited for this time around. Now, we aren’t paladins, so I wouldn’t be jumping out of your chain to go running naked down the street screaming in joy … But a little “whooo!” is appropriate.

Before we get started talking about all of the new changes, let me first mention a few things that are currently missing, bugged or simply not yet implemented. First and foremost, Eclipse in of itself does not currently work in beta. The bar works, you can shift the bar in every direction that you like, and the procs certainly work; however, the procs currently don’t actually do anything. There’s no bonus damage there at all, but this a bug from the mastery change when they switched over the talent trees. This actually brings up the next point: We still do not have any specialization effects as of yet, and frankly, I’m a bit at a loss as to what they might end up being. Previously, I assumed that they would merely be the old mastery effects, but looking at elemental shaman, I don’t think that will be the case.

It is safe to assume that one of our mastery effects is going to be Vengeance, to help difference ourselves from other druids. Another will likely be pushback resistances, and I’d venture to guess that the old Wrath of Cenarius benefit will also be baked in there. If there will be anything else, I cannot really say. Last but certainly not least, there are still a few things missing from the talent trees — the effects of Improved Moonkin Form still haven’t been found anywhere else that I’ve seen, anyway — so I still wouldn’t expect this to be the last pass on the druid talent trees. Things are still very likely to change from how they stand now, so don’t get too upset. With that out of the way, let’s get started.

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Shifting Perspectives: Recreating balance druids in Cataclysm originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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