Phat Loot Phriday: Gus’ First Aid Kit

When we last left our heroes, they were riding frantically toward Gilneas to stymie Abercrombie’s nefarious plan … whatever that might be. They’re joined by the druid whose name is not Spot and the mysterious girl called Miranda. Lolegolas hasn’t been able to wash his hair for six months, and he’s getting crabby.

The four stormed through Dun Morogh with all the speed of a tank blurring through a dungeon. When they finally pulled up to camp in the Wetlands, Throgg jumped from his mount and virtually charged to help Lolegolas down from his own steed.

“You’re hurt,” the orc said brusquely. “Undead? How long have you been hiding this wound?”

The blood elf grunted as he peeled his shirt sleeve up from his arm. “Caught a fang or something toward the end. I was rushed on account of you going missing. I’m not sure how bad it is.”

The druid pulled a fallen log near a barren patch of dirt. “Time for the nurse.”

Lolegolas cocked his head to the side. “The nurse?”

Without another word, the Gilnean pulled a small contraption out of his pocket. It looked like a bandage rolled up tightly inside a wire box. “Pssst,” the druid whispered at the box. “Time is money, and wounds take time!”

A puff of smoke appeared on the ground. When it cleared away, a goblin dressed in a nurse’s uniform stood nonchalantly. “Who?” he said without prompting.

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Record-breaking Star Wars epic is first to beat World Of Warcraft at its own game – Daily Mail


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Record-breaking Star Wars epic is first to beat World Of Warcraft at its own game
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By Rob Waugh World of Warcraft is the most popular 'online world' ever created – host to 10 million gamers who explore its Tolkien-esque world to battle huge monsters, or just fight and trade with each other. But new rival Star Wars: the Old Republic
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Record-breaking Star Wars epic is first to beat World of Warcraft at its own game – Daily Mail


Daily Mail
Record-breaking Star Wars epic is first to beat World of Warcraft at its own game
Daily Mail
By Rob Waugh World of Warcraft is the most popular 'online world' ever created – host to 10 million gamers who explore its Tolkien-esque world to battle huge monsters, or just fight and trade with each other. But new rival Star Wars: the Old Republic
EA Star Wars Game Off to Forceful Start in Quest to Catch World of WarcraftAll Things Digital
Star Wars: TOR Points To 'Healthy' MMO Market – AnalystGamasutra
News From The Front : EA's Sights Set Firmly On Blizzard's MMO Market Share's HeadFleshEatingZipper
Gamebandits (blog) -Huffington Post UK -Mashable
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Your first Battlegrounds as a PvP healer

WoW Insider covers the world of player vs. player action in Blood Sport for fans of Battleground, world PvP and Arena play. Steering you to victory is Olivia Grace, who spends most of her time in Azeroth as a restoration shaman turning people into frogs.

You’ve probably heard it approximately a hundred times in Battlegrounds, particularly if you play as either Horde or Alliance. Yep, they both have their moments — the faction you’re not in is no better than the grass is really greener on the other side of the walls of Orgrimmar. But that aside, you’ve probably heard people bemoaning the lack of PvP healers. “Hey,” you think to yourself (like a good, contributing member of the team), “I’ve got that healer I leveled … Maybe I should bring that character along to the next Battleground I do!”

That would be your first experience of the sheer, unadulterated joy of healing Battlegrounds. You may note a small quantity of sarcasm there; you’ll be cursing your kind heart as you’re repeatedly ROFLstomped by two DKs.

So how do you avoid your repeated untimely demise and start topping the healing chart in your local Battleground? And how do you transfer your skills into the Arena?

First and foremost, PvP is not PvE. Well, duh — revolutionary stuff. But seriously, the skills you learned in PvE won’t really apply here. The damage is not predictable. You can’t prepare for it. There aren’t phases. Standing in the same place in each encounter won’t work. You don’t have a tank whose job it is to protect you. And in one similarity to PvE, once people figure out you’re the reason why they can’t kill that warrior, they’re going to be after you. Sadly, people can’t be taunted, even with yo mama jokes. Also, none of this is true — but I’ll get to that much later.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is first real challenger to World of Warcraft – Financial Post


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Star Wars: The Old Republic is first real challenger to World of Warcraft
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The trailer embedded at the bottom of this post opens the new massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMOPRG) by Electronic Arts Inc., which set to challenge the current top dog, the hugely profitably World of Warcraft from Activision-Blizzard
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The Light and How to Swing It: Tanking the first 3 bosses of Dragon Soul

Dragon Soul entrance

Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the benefit of 24 other people, obsessing over his hair (a blood elf racial!), and maintaining the tankadin-focused blog Righteous Defense.

In the previous weeks, we’ve talked about getting prepped for patch 4.3, how to hit the ground running, and what pieces of gear should be on your hit list. Now we’ve come to the main event: the Dragon Soul raid. Deathwing’s forces are assaulting Wyrmrest Temple, and it’s up to you and your allies to knock them over and finally put a stop to his perfidy. The fights ahead will test your skills and the limits of your survivability. You’ll also be taunt swapping like you’ve never taunt swapped before (which is its own kind of exciting).

Morchok

Morchok is a fairly simple encounter (and “fairly” is being generous). Consider it the Lootreaver of Dragon Soul.

When you pull Morchok, turn him away from the raid. His Stomp attack will split damage among all targets within 25 yards, but the two closest (that is, you and your co-tank) get a double share of the damage. So unless you’re trying to play Kill the DPS, face the boss away.

You and your co-tank will be swapping at around two or three stacks of the Crush Armor debuff. Each stack reduces your armor by 20 seconds, so don’t allow it to stack too high. Usually I’ll take the boss first, co-tank taunts at two stacks, and then taunt when my stacks fall off, and we continue to taunt when stacks drop off there on out.

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The tainted race to world first

Pop law abounds in The Lawbringer, your weekly dose of WoW, the law, video games and the MMO genre. Mathew McCurley takes you through the world running parallel to the games we love and enjoy, full of rules, regulations, pitfalls and traps.

Possibly the hottest story over the last few days has been the suspensions and bans Blizzard handed down after the rampant cheating through the Raid Finder, introduced with patch 4.3. Using a loot exploit, guilds were heading in to the Raid Finder in a premade group, killing bosses 20 to 30 times, and distributing the loot amongst raiders well in excess of what the game had hoped to allow for in both mechanics and spirit of the system.

Cheating and MMOs go together as well as peanut butter and chocolate. The top MMO players have been cheating, exploiting, and creatively using game mechanics since the dawn of the modern massively multiplayer, always butting heads up against developers. When, most notably, DREAM Paragon was caught using this Raid Finder loot exploit and apologized publicly, I didn’t understand the shock and awe. Back in the EverQuest days, guilds exploited like crazy to get bosses down and gear up for encounters that had so many gates you’d think you were attending a Microsoft cosplay event.

I know, I totally promised a Lawbringer about licensing and Star Wars: The Old Republic and the WoW Law Enforcement Guide this week. Wait another week. I’ve banned you all from these topics for seven days.

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World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm First Impressions! – MMORPG News (blog)

World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm First Impressions!
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This time though since I havnt done one yet I decided to hop into World Of Warcraft to do a quick First Impressions before its Video Review! Now I know what you are saying, "Zach, didnt you just do a Written Review?" Well random person, yes I did,

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Breakfast Topic: How did you create your first character?

Choosing a name

This Breakfast Topic has been brought to you by Seed, the AOL guest writer program that brings your words to WoW Insider’s pages.

When a buddy asked me to consider coming back to Warcraft after a failed attempt shortly after the original release, I reluctantly decided to create a new account. When he asked me what faction and class I wanted to play, I settled on an Alliance paladin after researching classes online. I wasn’t entirely sure what exactly a tank, healer and DPS meant in practice, but the paladin could do all three, so that’s what I’d be. Plus, they sounded like defenders of all that was right and true.

It turns out, that was the easy part of creating my character. Next, I spent time agonizing over the name. I’d look for ones I liked from the randomly generated suggestions. Then I’d try combining elements of one name with another. I tried using simple words from foreign languages. Finally, I found the perfect name that would define my character for life, a Greek word representing one of the core values of a paladin: Truth.

Having picked a class and name, it was finally time to tinker with the races that could be paladins and see which ones fit the new name. After probably about 100 permutations across classes, from random appearances to manually matching features, I settled on a human, and my journey began.

How did you create your first character? Did someone recommend a class for you? Did the flavor text on the creation screen influence you? Or have you always known what you’d be?


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