I’ve been leveling some fresh characters, in preparation for Wrath. The last character I leveled from scratch before this batch was my shaman, a year and some months ago. I did this through the draenei starting zones of Azuremyst and Bloodmyst. These two zones are dense in quests and provide a fluid and effortless progression […]

I’ve been spewing profanities the past couple days. The source of my foul-mouthed escapades: the zombie portion of the pre-Wrath event. Or, rather, the extent to which people can use it to grief players and the lack of safeguards against it.
To give the situation some context, I should explain how the event works:

People become infected […]

This past week was rather interesting, to say the least. Last Tuesday, 3.0.2 was introduced. It is the precursor patch to Wrath that introduces most of the expansion’s talents and mechanics in preparation for its release.
My guild and I spent Tuesday downloading the patch and fixing our mods. We also endured lag, server crashes and […]

Patch 3.0.2 and What We Do (or Don’t)
Obviously with Blizzcon, I didn’t get much of a chance to talk about the patch arriving today. Hopefully the servers will be up within a couple hours, but I’m ever doubtful. At this point, I think it’s rather pointless to say too much about it. With the new […]

Blizzcon 2008 was my first Blizzcon. I was too poor to attend the convention in either 2005 or 2007. The only other gaming convention I have to compare my experience with is the 2001 e3, back when GameCube and Xbox were highlighted. The one thing I hated about e3 was that it had too many […]