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Breakfast Topic: How do you handle real-life interruptions?
Joystiq Captain Obvious says that WoW is not a single-player game. When we are playing Mass Effect, we don't affect anyone else if we get up to take a bio break or comfort a child. But in World of Warcraft, if we are in a group of any size, we affect others … |
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Breakfast Topic: Thank everything for transmogrification
Joystiq World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has destroyed Azeroth as we know it; nothing is the same! In WoW Insider's Guide to Cataclysm, you can find out everything you need to know about WoW's third expansion, from leveling up a new goblin or worgen to breaking … |
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Breakfast Topic: Why do you love your spec?
Joystiq I've played plenty of other characters over my lengthy World of Warcraft career. My first character was a fury warrior. I've leveled a balance druid and shammy to 80 and then to 85. I've even started rogue and mage alts. But for all of that, … |
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Breakfast Topic: Would you mind moving for second?
Joystiq Do you feel irritated and inconvenienced when mechanics force you to move? Does the threat of death make movement seem OK to you? Moving forward in Mists of Pandaria, how should World of Warcraft treat movement in the game? |
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Breakfast Topic: Do you mind being the unsung hero?
Joystiq by Fox Van Allen Jan 5th 2012 at 8:00AM Without a doubt, the characters we play in World of Warcraft are great heroes. We were there when the gates of Ahn'Qiraj were opened. We were there to fight off the Burning Legion at the Sunwell. … |
When I talk to people about my gaming (which is 99% WoW and 1% other), if they play too and we get chatting about it — or even if they simply have an understanding of how an MMORPG works — the question they will inevitably ask is, “What do you play as?” Or if they play WoW too, they might ask, “What is your main?” My knee-jerk reaction to this is to say “paladin tank.” My tankadin was my second-ever character on WoW, the first one that was on the right server where all my friends were, and my first to hit max level.
When Cata hit, she was my first 85, and for a short while she was my only 85. I’ve PvPed on her as retribution (and as protection for a while, but the less said about that the better!). But since then, as I’ve become ever more PvP-focused, the amount of time I spend tanking has dwindled considerably. I still do it, and I still enjoy it, especially when it’s really challenging, which it seems to me is sadly less and less the case for tanks right now. But the thing is, PvE is just not as exciting to me as PvP. So the character that’s getting the most play is my shaman, by a pretty long way. My priest and my warlock are next in line — and heck, even my hunter gets more playtime than my paladin these days!
And yet when someone asks me what my main is, I’ll still say “paladin tank.” Maybe it’s because I spent such a long time getting to know her. I was too nervous to level by tanking when I first started, so the leveling process took forever. Maybe it’s because I like to surprise people by saying I play a tank (see a previous Breakfast Topic for why I think they might be surprised). Maybe it’s just because she was my first.
But I think the idea of a main could be something quite significant in WoW. It’s how you identify yourself. It’s your positioning and your role in the big machine, and it’s who you feel you are online. Possibly.
So how about you? What is your main? How do you decide? Do you simply tell people that it’s the character you play the most right now? Has your main changed, and if so, why? What’s your WoW identity?
My name’s Olivia, and I’m a paladin tank. Honest.
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Breakfast Topic: How do you decide which is your main? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The gifts have been unwrapped. The cheese logs have been consumed, the Greench’s plans foiled, the eyes shot out. The Winter Veil holiday is drawing to a close today — you have only a few short hours to get everything you wanted to accomplish done. (If you don’t want to miss anything, you should probably check out The Overachiever’s Guide to Winter Veil 2011.)
That said, those of us here at WoW Insider want to know: Were you able to achieve all your in-game goals for the Winter Veil holiday? Did you get all the achievements you hoped for? Was Greatfather Winter kind to you? Did you make a fortune selling Small Eggs? Or did you just say “bah, humbug” to the entire holiday?
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Breakfast Topic: Did you accomplish your Winter Veil goals? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Happy New Year, WoW Insider!
The new year is a great time to set some personal goals. In real life, last year I wanted to eat healthier and get engaged to my long-time girlfriend. Did both of those, so yay! This year, I think it’ll probably be not to spend so much damn money all the time or at least have a tighter budget. (We’ll revisit this next year and see how unsuccessful I am.)
In WoW, my New Year’s resolution last year was to raid more. I had taken a break of regular raiding because of the demands of the site here, so I (in my mind, at least) had a good excuse. I didn’t immediately return to raiding last year, but I eventually did find a group in October, landing in a great guild on a low-pop server. We’re not a top 100 guild or anything, but we know how to raid heroic modes, and I’m pretty happy.
This year, I think my New Year’s resolution will be to get all the tier sets on my warlock, if for no other reason than to say that I have them for myself and my obsessive transmogging. I bet that’ll take me just about a year.
What’s your WoW New Year’s resolution?
Early morning edit:
Ghostcrawler posted this in the forums early this morning. What better way to ring in the new year than with WoW’s resident crustacean making his first non-standard forum appearance in well over a year:
GhostcrawlerI am not going to discuss the positives and negatives of the MoP expansion. I dont think that given the current leadership of the WoW dev team, any expansion can save WoW. I think the only thing that will save wow is new leadership on the WoW dev team. A fresh perspective, vision and direction is needed for the WoW dev team.
Troll. – GC
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Breakfast Topic: What’s your WoW New Year’s resolution? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Breakfast Topic: What was your favorite WoW moment of 2011?
Joystiq There's been a lot of really awesome stuff going down, and at WoW Insider, we've been in a reminiscing mood. But don't let us have all the fun. We want to know what your favorite World of Warcraft moment was this past year. Was it the time your guild … |
Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! It’s almost time to throw your old 2011 Justin Bieber calendar in the trash and hang your new 2012 Justin Bieber calendar.
No doubt, 2011 has been a heck of a year so far — we were introduced to Mists of Pandaria, we killed Deathwing with 24 complete and total strangers, we BlizzConned, and we visited parallel universes. There’s been a lot of really awesome stuff going down, and at WoW Insider, we’ve been in a reminiscing mood.
But don’t let us have all the fun. We want to know what your favorite World of Warcraft moment was this past year. Was it the time your guild finally downed heroic Ragnaros? Was it the time you scored that Cho’gall kill with only one person left standing? The moment you hit the 999,999 gold cap? Or was it something more personal — say, that moment your boyfriend shared news of your wedding proposal via a popular World of Warcraft website?
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Breakfast Topic: What was your favorite WoW moment of 2011? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.