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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Humor, Forums Blizzard has made a nice cinematic tweak to the forums...

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Warrior, Fan stuff, Raiding, The Daily Quest We here at WoW Insider are on a Daily Quest to bring you...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Galleries Earlier this week, the World of Warcraft community sites (multi-regional) updated with a...

Filed under: Alchemy, WoW Insider Business, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Instances, Raiding, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King, WoW Insider Show ...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Economy, Features, Making money, Time Is Money Kebina Trudough here, offering you the best gold making...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Cheats, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Guilds, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Instances, Guildwatch, Bosses This isn't...

Filed under: Warrior, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Talents Well, the changes, they keep being incremental, but they are happening....

Filed under: Undead, Trolls, Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior, Skinning, Lore, Guides, RP, Classes, Death...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, Economy, AddOns There is a new UI add-on development policy that has been recently released by...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Queue Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to bring you the single greatest news WoW Insider has ever covered in the...

Filed under: Realm Status, News items There will be realm maintenance for tomorrow, Tuesday March 17th, from 3:00 a.m. PDT / 6:00 a.m. EDT...

Filed under: Priest, Analysis / Opinion, News items, Classes, (Priest) Spiritual Guidance Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will...

Filed under: Patches, Breakfast topics Okay, maybe Patch 3.1 isn't out yet and probably won't be for a little bit longer. But with the...

Filed under: Shaman, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, (Shaman) Totem Talk Well, I had a long rant about the Mana Spring change and some more about...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, News items Business Insider (no relation) is reporting that Worlds.com CEO Thom Kidrin is...

Filed under: Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items, Making money Our buddies over at Figureprints, the company that...

Welcome to Lichborne, where Daniel Whitcomb is ready to help you roll with the punches (and Death Knight changes) coming from the PTR. We had a...

Filed under: Warrior, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, PvP, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Battlegrounds, Arena Zach...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, WoW Moviewatch MÑ?xans! presented R.A.M - Episode 1 over on Machinima.com. He listed it as a...

Coming back to my post as official 3.1 PTR raid reporter after an offensive usurping by my dubiously sentient coworker Alex Ziebart, it's time for a...

Filed under: Cooking, Tailoring, Patches, Inscription A small patch was pushed to the 3.1 PTR earlier this afternoon, incrementing the build...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King World of Warcraft: Wrath...

Filed under: Patches, PvP, Battlegrounds Here's a bit of news that some players might enjoy -- tipster Falrinn noted that Wintergrasp now has...

Filed under: Patches, News items The official patch notes have been updated for the Patch 3.1 PTR. You can see a complete list of changes after...

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Raiding, Guides, Wrath of the Lich King, (Raid Healing) Raid Rx Raid Rx has returned from...

Filed under: Patches, News items A new Patch 3.1 PTR build is out tonight, build #9626. This build adds some mage changes and brings a few...

Filed under: Hunter, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Leveling You may have noticed in the past day or so, as a few of our tipsters...

Filed under: Patches, Screenshots, Galleries, Battlegrounds Arawn from Crusader Aura sent in some excellent screenshots straight from the 3.1...

Filed under: Warlock, Patches, Analysis / Opinion Blizzard said that they'd be introducing a lot of changes for the Warlock class in Patch...

Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers' Quarters Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of...

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, AddOns, (Raid Healing) Raid Rx Raid Rx has returned from retirement! Every...

Filed under: Rogue, Shaman, Bugs, News items, Jewelcrafting, Classes, Death Knight I caught this a bit late, but Bornakk wrote into the Service...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Humor, Wrath of the Lich King, Fan art Remember those World of Warcraft...

Filed under: Blizzard, News items, Wrath of the Lich King As excited as the Chinese community may be with the imminence of Wrath of the Lich King...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Talents, Death Knight, The Queue Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Virtual selves, Breakfast topics, RP So as Love is in the Air winds down, hopefully those of us who care...

Filed under: Events, Blizzard, Forums, Achievements Some people are crying foul over the apparently horrendous drop rate of the Bag of...

Filed under: Realm News, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items In a discussion of new realm transfers opening up, we get this tidbit: from...

Filed under: Engineering, Leatherworking, Death Knight, The Queue Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the WoW...

Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Realm Status, News items So here we are. It looks like we're getting a patch 3.0.9 today with no PTR...

Filed under: Blizzard, PvP, Arena As an addendum to the recent Arena system FAQ posted on the forums, Kalgan addresses several concerns about...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries Some walruses are more angry than mellow. Some walruses are tired of lame internet memes...

Filed under: Patches, Breakfast topics How about that. Blizzard dropped bombs of announcements yesterday with the proposed changes to Patch 3.1....

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Cheats, Odds and ends, Blizzard Blizzard (via Nethaera) has released a nice long statement on the Glider outcome...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard Well, as you may have heard, Blizzard has all but finished off Glider --...

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, Raiding An interesting question came up in the WoW LiveJournal community early...

Filed under: Blizzard, News items Activision-Blizzard (or is it Blizzard-Activision?) will be attending E3 this year from June 2nd to June 4th. E3...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries ... you probably think this screenshot's about you. And if you're Keltari of on Aggramar,...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard Is that... Vork? Quite a few tipsters have spotted this...

Filed under: Features, Two Bosses Enter, Wrath of the Lich King Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider's series of...

Filed under: WoW Social Conventions, Features, Interviews, 15 Minutes of Fame 15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of...

Filed under: Hunter, Items, Humor Want to know how to make Hunters the most hated class? Ghostcrawler: "Frostmourne is a hunter weapon....

Filed under: Alliance, Druid, Analysis / Opinion, Realm Status, Expansions, The Queue Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column...

Filed under: Bugs, News items, Forums The official forums have been quite fickly over the past few days. Sometimes you'll be lucky and you'll...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Guilds, Humor, Classes I'm back and forth on Jimmy Fallon -- when NBC first announced...

Enjoy soloing Onyxia for a quick 180 gold every five days? With patch 3.0.8, those good old days are no more, as boss gold drops (at least back in...

Filed under: Hunter, Bugs, News items We covered a couple of known bugs in 3.0.8 yesterday, namely some animation errors (which we're anxiously...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, Odds and ends, Blizzard, WoW Moviewatch, Wrath of the Lich King, Fan art One of the things I think is...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Lore Our friend Medivaldragon over at...

Filed under: Druid, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Guides, Buffs, (Druid) Shifting Perspectives, Wrath of the Lich King Every Tuesday, or sometimes...

Filed under: How-tos, Features, WoW Rookie New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW's newest players to the resources they need to get...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Economy, Making money Activision-Blizzard exec Mike Griffith also made a showing at last...

Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, News items, PvP, Talents, Buffs, Battlegrounds, Arena Here's a mechanics change that's been sort of...

Filed under: Odds and ends Or, perhaps, we'd love to slaughter the Food Network. In World of Warcraft, of course. This week when I asked what...

Filed under: Realm News, Bugs Although I haven't experienced it so much myself recently (fingers crossed), many players have been complaining...

Filed under: Rogue, Tricks, Raiding, Talents, (Rogue) Encrypted Text, Wrath of the Lich King Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text...

Filed under: Items, AddOns Gear is one of the main ways characters in WoW get more powerful, and pretty much the only way once we reach the...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast topics, Humor It's probably not a good sign, but I started the year off with fail. I had wanted to...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries Take out a pencil and a sheet of paper, folks, because it's pop quiz time! Well, you need...

Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Priest, Shaman, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Instances, Classes Bonkers of Vek'nilash, creator of the...

Filed under: Breakfast topics, Leveling, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King It's over a month after the release of Wrath of the Lich King...

Filed under: PvP, Wrath of the Lich King I've never been a fan of PvP. I have neither the twitch skills nor the patience to put up with being...

Filed under: How-tos, Walkthroughs, PvP, Quests, Expansions, Factions, Guides, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King It's the day after...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries Who will deliver presents to the denizens of Azeroth when Greatfather Winter gets dazed...

Filed under: WoW Insider Business, Odds and ends, News items WoW Insider has been on Facebook for a while -- but with a new year right around the...

Filed under: Mage, Tailoring, Analysis / Opinion, Jewelcrafting, Features, Classes, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance, Wrath of the Lich King Each...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Instances Do you ever stop to think about the other players in WoW? The...

Filed under: Guilds, News items, Humor In this day and age, you have to applaud geeks who take their ideas and make good on them. Take, for...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Wrath of the Lich King, Arena, The Queue Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column where the...

Filed under: Hunter, Mage, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Podcasts, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Instances, Humor, Wrath of the Lich King, WoW...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Humor, Comics, Sunday Morning Funnies It is another Sunday, and there are only 11 sleeps until...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, WoW Moviewatch The Spiritwolf created Apparently not capable of love a while ago for a Machinima.com...

Filed under: Hunter, Analysis / Opinion, Tricks, Bugs Hunters have had a little secret for a while now, and my friend made a mad rush to 80...

Filed under: Enchanting, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Ask WoW Insider, Making money, Wrath of the Lich King We're a bit late this week,...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Podcasts, Virtual selves, Guilds, Instances, Quests, Expansions, Leveling, NPCs, Wrath of the Lich King, WoW Insider...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Leveling, Wrath of the Lich King The New York Times has covered WoW before, and a couple days ago, they did...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Making money, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King Blizzard COO Paul Sams sat down with...

Filed under: Quests, Factions, Guides, Making money Quick! Utaik needs your help! Gather eight of the Kaskala Supplies for him or the families of...

Filed under: Realm Status, News items Bornakk just posted that the downtime has been extended until 1:00 p.m. PST / 4:00 p.m. EST. This is never a...

Filed under: Cooking, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King Leveling through Northrend, you're probably coming across oodles of...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries When King Mrgl-Mrgl asked Faelthas of Bael'Gun to don a murloc suit and kill the...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Breakfast topics, Leveling, Classes, Buffs, Enchants, Battlegrounds So I was thinking about grabbing...

Filed under: Features, Raiding, Interviews, 15 Minutes of Fame 15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, Fan stuff, Guilds, Odds and ends, Humor This is interesting -- we at WoW Insider are big fans of...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Contests Blizzcore is a relatively new blog about Blizzard and World of...

Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Guides, Classes, Talents, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King Honor's...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch Things You Need is Stone Falcon Productions' submission to the machinima...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, News items, Expansions If you're a Linux user worried whether you can play Wrath on your preferred...

Filed under: Expansions, Features, Humor, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, Comics, Sunday Morning Funnies This is the first Sunday since...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Quests, Expansions, Lore, NPCs We posted about this quest months and months ago, but of course now it's...

Filed under: Contests We hope that you've enjoyed the week of WoW Insider giveaways leading up to the launch of Wrath of the Lich King. And...

Filed under: Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King Wrath of the Lich King is nearly upon us and WoW Insider is waiting in line with the rest of...

Filed under: Odds and ends, Humor, Wrath of the Lich King It's not that you've done anything wrong, but if you want to really hit the ground...

Filed under: Night Elves, Tauren, Druid, Analysis / Opinion, Features, (Druid) Shifting Perspectives, Wrath of the Lich King Every...

Filed under: Contests The Countdown to Wrath Giveaways continue with a 60-day pre-paid game card. To enter, leave a comment on this post before...

Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Economy, Making money The folks over at WoW Economist have started up a blog on one of the...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries Siewan, you fool! Did you fall asleep during your blue magic classes? Polymorph only...

Filed under: Hunter, Patches If you play a hunter at all, you've probably noticed a change to pets' Defensive behavior since patch 3.0.2. Ever...

Filed under: Hunter, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Expansions, Leveling, Talents, Wrath of the Lich King, (Hunter) Scattered Shots Welcome to...

Filed under: Contests In honor of the impending Wrath launch WoW Insider is giving away a World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector's...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King As of 3PM PST (6 PM by WoW Insider's clock) the Scourge are retreating...

Filed under: Priest, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Talents, Buffs, Wrath of the Lich King Patch 3.0.3 is going up on live realms today, and with...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Quests, Expansions, Features, Leveling, Wrath of the Lich King Here at WoW Insider sometimes we go a little...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Raiding, Wrath of the Lich King Good news! No corny jokes today! Just pure, delicious Ask a Beta...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries All good things must come to an end, and so it is with WoW's Hallow's End festival, which...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard Yeah, I know, more Ghostcrawler love. We all look like a bunch of fanboys, don't we? Well, what can I...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Machinima, WoW Moviewatch Gnomechewer remains one of my favorite machinimators by far, and his most recent work...

Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard Sanya Thomas continues a look into the...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Raiding, Bosses, Guides, (Raiding) Ready Check Kil'jaeden, the Sunwell Plateau end boss, has had a tough...

Filed under: Machinima, WoW Moviewatch More Hallow's End spirit to end your week, in the form of a little horror flick called The Little...

Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth, Galleries After finally acquiring his helm and pet from the Headless Horseman, Terry's guildmate...

Filed under: Warrior, Wrath of the Lich King Titan's Grip, in case there are any of you in the audience who are not familiar with it, is the Fury...

Filed under: PvP, Breakfast topics, Wrath of the Lich King, Battlegrounds, Arena While we know that Honor is not going to be reset as we once...

Filed under: Fan stuff, News items Mila Kunis, who got her breakthrough role playing air-headed Jackie on That 70's Show, was always one of the...

Filed under: Warrior, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Instances, Raiding, Phat Loot Phriday, Bosses Haven't done a Mace in a while, and there are...

Filed under: Items, Tips, Events, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard Apparently that 200 tokens I spent on the Brew of the Month...

Filed under: Hunter, Wrath of the Lich King Aspect of the Viper is an ability that the developers have been toying with like an indecisive puppy...

Filed under: Features, Raiding, Interviews, 15 Minutes of Fame 15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and...

Filed under: Hunter, (Hunter) Big Red Kitty, Wrath of the Lich King Daniel Howell contributes BigRedKitty, a column with strategies, tips...

Filed under: Patches It's going to be important for everyone who wants to play tomorrow to download all the available parts of the 3.0.2 patch....