Tag Archives: beta
Totem Talk: Enhancement beta update
Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury and wolves. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance, and leads the guild Big Crits (Week 13 now live!)as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby.
It’s been a [...]
Cataclysm Beta: The new glyph UI
The latest patch to the Cataclysm beta has finally added in the revamped glyph UI, sporting the newly implemented Prime Glyphs, a selection window and awesome new convenience features. The new interface has a search box for quickly finding glyphs, expanding categories of prime, major and minor glyphs, and it even shows you what glyphs [...]
Cataclysm beta: New glyphs for rogues and shaman
Blizzard’s been hard at work adjusting a lot of WoW’s game systems for Cataclysm, and one of the biggest changes in the pipeline is the overhaul of the inscription profession. You may remember the Path of the Titans alternate advancement system was axed in favor of making inscription, well, better. On top of other changes [...]
Around Azeroth Beta Edition: What big teeth you have
Despite two straight days of killing orcs, Marston of Moonrunner was not able to raise enough money to pay for a face transplant. So Marston had to settle for a discount Halloween mask of Venom from Spider-Man. It’s probably for the best — do you really want a face transplant performed in a barber shop?
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Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Oh, the humanity!
The goblin engineers run a pretty competent zeppelin service, with only the occasional incident of dropping everyone through the floor of the ship to their watery graves. And I’ve never seen a gnomish mechanostrider waiting for a tow truck on the side of the road. But something about this new engineering mount has me worried. [...]
Around Azeroth Beta Edition: Certainly not a trap
Hey, it’s the Giant Mexican Nerdcatching Clam of southern Kalimdor! This wily carnivore lures its lonely prey to the bottom of the ocean through text messages and late-night phone calls. Then, when the intended victim reaches for the present left by his “secret admirer,” the clam slams shut, trapping the unfortunate singleton inside for a [...]
Cataclysm Beta: Guild achievements
The latest beta build, which somehow worked its way into the hands of MMO-Champion before appearing on the beta servers (let’s be really clear: these changes are not on the beta servers yet), includes a host of new achievements, including the much-anticipated set of guild achievements.
Also included, although not highlighted here, are the regular realm-first [...]
Cataclysm Beta: New character introductions for all races
Awesome new Cataclysm lore information has landed! Transcripts of the new player character introductions are now revealed, advancing the storyline of the old races and bringing new races up to speed. Remember, these new introductions contain some general WoW and Cataclysm spoilers. Check out the new introductions after the jump.
UPDATE: The Forsaken now have [...]
Cataclysm Beta: Updates to archaeology and inscription
It’s not on the beta servers yet — which means the facts are still sketchy — but there’s information from a new beta (build 12857) up on MMO-Champion that includes a number of new items for archaeology and inscription. Archaeology item descriptions offer intriguing hints of things that may be, without any solid details on [...]