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Shifting Perspectives: Why (or why not) to play a tauren druid

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This week, welcome to Thunder Bluff.

This week, we’re continuing our series on why (or why not) to play a particular druidic race in Cataclysm, and today we’ll continue with the tauren. Fair warning: We tread on some expansion spoilers in this article.

If you’re looking for the first article in the series, you’ll find it here: Shifting Perspectives: Why (or why not) to play a night elf druid. I may expand that article a bit with the benefit of more experience with the revamped night elven questing areas in Cataclysm, and I’ll drop a note in a future column if and when that occurs.

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WoW Moviewatch: Family Tauren

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Work Warning: This is a parody of Family Guy. While it’s hardly the funkiest stuff out there, the audio could still be a little rough for work. The video has some potty humor and a tiny bit of cursing.

Bullworth has created another TV parody with this creation called Family Tauren. This is a parody of Family Guy, obviously; I can say so because I’m pretty good at detecting these things. The video’s about six or seven minutes long, and you probably want to give it your full attention while it playes.

Bullworth did a pretty good job of following the comedy style of Family Guy while still maintaining his generally good-natured humor. The video has a lot of shout-outs to Family Guy, pop culture and WoW community. It definitely helps if you’re steeped in the culture to get all the humor, but I think there’s enough variety here for everyone to have fun. The general plot of the story is Martin Fury, so check this story out if you’re not familiar with the scandal.

Interested in the wide world of machinima? We have new movies every weekday here on WoW Moviewatch! Have suggestions for machinima we ought to feature? Toss us an email at machinima@wow.com.

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Choose My Adventure: Trolls, a tauren and an undead

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

Note: The video above and Robinemia’s story at the bottom of the next page are chock full of Cataclysm spoilers. You have been warned.

Starting this week, the Choose My Adventure show will be streaming live at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesdays. So far, Peenk the gnome priestess is leading the polls, so I will most likely be continuing her journey through the gnome starting zone. Above is the video of the last stream and after the break, we have stories from a few of our adventurers.

Schedule

  • Adam Holisky as Adammentat, the level 64 tauren druid, will play on Monday at 10 p.m. EDT.
  • Anne Stickney as Annephora, the level 42 troll warrior, will play on Tuesday at 1 a.m. EDT (which is Monday at 11 p.m. Zangarmarsh time).
  • Robin Torres will play whomever wins the polls: Wednesday, 1 p.m. EDT. Note: This will be streamed.

Adventurers who play when they can

  • Fox Van Allen as Foxlight, the level 26 blood elf paladin
  • Lisa Poisso as Prupher, the level 11 tauren druid
  • Michael Sacco as Shockbroker, the goblin shaman
  • Christian Belt, as Selfloathius, the level 16 blood elf warlock
  • Robin Torres, as Robinemia, the level 29 Forsaken mage
  • Matthew Rossi as Andrenorton, the level 17 troll mage
  • Michael Gray as Grayfields, the level 17 tauren hunter
  • Gregg Reece as Sandwichdoc, the level 17 troll shaman

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Choose My Adventure: Trolls, a tauren and an undead originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Byron the Tauren Rogue: And here’s your lovely parting gift

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Before Byron snuck off into the shadows, he told me to give you all a little something to remember him by. “Now,” you ask. “what could you possibly give anyone that wasn’t obtained illegally?”

That’s easy: IM icons!

You are all more then welcome to use these swanky icons for things like forums, Twitter, or your absolute favorite site to talk about WoW!

Also, if you somehow missed the ending of Byron, the review, or you don’t even know what I’m talking about, why not try catching up a little bit?

Gallery: Byron the Tauren Rogue IM Icons

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Byron the Tauren Rogue: The cow, the legend, the gnome

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When I approached the editors of WoW.com to ask them if they’d be interested in letting me do some work, I was thrilled when they agreed and took me on. The creative freedom I got was incredible: “Write us an idea, and if it’s all right, you can do it.”

Thus, Byron the Tauren Rogue was born.

Now, the legend of the tauren rogue is just one of many jokes within the WoW universe, like the cow level, or skilled ret paladins. Even though I was told that this idea was “done to death,” I really wanted to try out the lovable oaf sort of character. What I didn’t expect is what it would turn into.

The general synopsis of Byron is as such:

Byron is a young, male tauren who dreams of becoming the first rogue of his kind. His friends — skilled rogues themselves — dare Byron to sneak into Stormwind and steal the Shield of Fordragon. If he can acquire it and safely escape the city, then he has more than proven himself.

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WoW.com’s Weekly Comic: Byron, the Tauren Rogue

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Welcome to another edition of the WoW.com Weekly Comic, Byron the Tauren Rogue!

Well, here we are: the end of Byron. Our story ends with Byron, the bovine hero, watching a raid take place upon the ever-assaulted Crossroads. He has chosen his path but swears to use it to protect those who need to be protected. He is now one with the shadows, always watching over his beloved Horde.

I wanted to thank all of you for sticking with this story from the beginning. While I’ll be the first to admit it got off to quite a rocky start, I feel that this comic has evolved a lot, and I’m ultimately happy with where it led. Next week, I’ll be featuring an article which, among other things, will be an overview of the entire series. I’ll talk about the characters, the story, the writing and many other points. I hope to see you all back again!

For those who are worried — don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere. I’m taking a small, two-week break to write the next story and pen out a couple of fun little Byron-related goodies. Byron may come back one day, as this next story will be completely unrelated, but who knows?

From the Byron crew, we all thank you for reading. Take care!

Check out the full version right here, and tune in next Tuesday morning for a new page. You can also see all the previous pages in the gallery below.

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WoW.com’s Weekly Comic: Byron, the Tauren Rogue

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Welcome to another edition of the WoW.com Weekly Comic, Byron the Tauren Rogue!

Part one of the epilogue, told by a reliable source.

So … just what happened back there with Evi? Is Gruuka alive? Why is the shield — the object he sought to steal — with the gnome?

Why not click ahead and find out, dear readers?

Check out the full version right here, and tune in next Tuesday morning for a new page. You can also see all the previous pages in the gallery below.

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WoW.com’s Weekly Comic: Byron, the Tauren Rogue

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Welcome to another edition of the WoW.com Weekly Comic, Byron the Tauren Rogue!

I apologize for the lateness, everyone! It won’t happen again.

This is the beginning of the end of Byron. I won’t spoil anything, but the story of our brave tauren rogue will be wrapping up in the next few weeks. There’s lots more in store, though, so don’t go far!

Also, I know that Ironforge guards are all male in game, but hey — I’m progressive like that.

Check out the full version right here, and tune in next Tuesday morning for a new page. You can also see all the previous pages in the gallery below.

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Choose My Adventure: Live stream of Robidin the tauren paladin

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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) the Cataclsym beta on Lost Isles (US-PvE).

It’s me again, because I live to stream. And right now, I’m streaming Robidin the tauren paladin — checking out any changes that are in Mulgore. I’ll be channeling the power of the sun in a noble, cow-like fashion. Or is it the light? We don’t have another Naaru tied up in a cave somewhere, do we? I guess I’ll find out tonight.

Join us at WoW.com’s Justin.tv channel and choose my adventures live!

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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Breakfast Topic: I can’t quit you, tauren

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As you may or may not be aware, a disturbingly high percentage of my max-level characters are warriors. At present, a draenei, night elf and tauren are at 80. I transferred all three to the beta servers and figured I’d use the tauren to test out fury both in Titan’s Grip and Single-Minded Fury variants. But I was determined not to enjoy it, because so far, I find the storyline of Cataclysm extremely polarizing. After leveling a worgen to 64 before mount bugs sidelined him, I was really angry with what seemed like the Horde’s going to ridiculous extremes, and so I vowed to only use the tauren for some benchmark tests in the new quest drops.

This lasted long enough for me to log in and for some reason go to The Barrens. That was a serious mistake.

Seeing Camp Taurajo in ruins, finding Mankrik rampaging his way through quillboars, one-shotting Alliance sappers across the battlefield that was once the Field of Giants … I don’t know what it is about my tauren, but the second I play him, I forget I’ve got a much more highly geared, achievements-out-the-wazoo, heroic-ICC-killing draenei out there. I don’t really feel this way about any other Horde race. But when I log on a tauren, I immediately feel at home, and so now I’m happily leveling through Hyjal and Vashj’ir and thinking it’s time I gave his live-server self some attention.

What I’m saying is that tauren are awesome, and I suggest you roll one. You can be paladins soon! And priests! Man, tauren priests are just the epitome of awesome.

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