Wowhead Weekly Review (May 3 - May 9)

Live Publié 10/05/2009 à 14:54 par Queggy

hereDisclaimer: Opinions presented in the Wowhead Weekly Review are not necessarily those of Wowhead.com or its staff members.News

Blog - Creative Writing Contest Update! by MasterOfDisguise. He tells us that the Blizzard Creative Writing Contest entries have been recieved and are being reviewed by the judges. He gives us more information on the date of the final result announcement and adds a few informative links, including the source.

Blog - Wowhead Comic #19 by Noxychu <Grand Master Artist>. The new Childrens' Week -themed comic now has appeared.

Blog - BlizzCon '09 Ticket Sales Announced! by Noxychu <Grand Master Artist>. She hops on the blog to tell us that the tickets for the convention in California will be sold shortly!

Blog - Introducing MMOUI Minion! by Malgayne <Voice of the Wowhead>. He announces that Wowhead's sister site WoWInterface has released an addon client similar to Curse's and WoWMatrix' to make addon downloading and updating easier. You can find a very detailed FAQ on the client inside the blog post.

Blog - Starcraft Fans Rejoice! by Starkie. Wowhead's latest recruited blogger has some big news for those anticipatedly awaiting Starcraft II news. He tells us that the opt-in phase for the Starcraft II beta has begun.

Blog - Arena Changes by MasterOfDisguise. He's back, with the latest news of the changes made to the 3 versus 3 and 5 versus 5 brackets in the arena season.

In-Game

Blog - In-Game Casinos--Legal? by MasterOfDisguise. He wants to further discuss whether Blizzards stance on casino policies are reasonable or not. (Remember this thread?) What do you think?

Thread - Ghost quests by Aldun. He's found a quite interesting discussion on quests only acceptable/doable in ghost form. According to the source, many quests are yet to be discovered!

Theorycrafting

Thread - Tanking theory by Wowgeek. He has posted a theory focused on the tanking in the Hodir encounter in Ulduar. Wowgeek looks for the best method to do the encounter on hard mode.

Classes

Thread - Druid - Haste and Mathematics! by Gorefiend. He theorizes on the haste rating for the Druid.

Thread - Rogue - 3.1 Rogue PvP power: How a Rogue can beat all classes by nullfox. This is a compilation of tactics on how to beat different classes as a Rogue.

Lore and Fan-Fiction

Blog - Blessing of Light by SBMrClean. He points out that the character classes in the World of Warcraft use the powers from different sources and these do not mind what they are used for. However the Paladins and Death Knights, who derive these powers from the Light and the Lich King respectively, confuse him. Do these instances really allow their users to do anything, for example a Death Knight fighting Kel'Thuzad, one of the major servants of the Lich King? Do they not care? Can you help him?

Thread - The Discovery: Chapter 2 by geniusfork. He continues the story with Greires contacting an unknown, apparently very powerful being. Be wary, very wary!

Thread - The Awakening by Kamon. Kamon's first roleplaying thread, The Awakening, stars individuals of the rivaling factions, the Alliance and the Horde, who are recognizing that the war between both of the factions is pointless.

Thread - The Pandaria Series - 6th Tome: Guess Who Is The Mayor? by Sagramor. Although having planned to stop the series, he followed the example of the other storywriters and wrote a sixth edition of The Pandaria series. Support him!

Threads - Darkness (Page I, Chapter I), Page II and Page III aswell as Darkness (Page IV, Chapter I) by Finbarr. A new story along the starting quest lines of the Death Knights. Enjoy!

Threads - Blood and Shadow (The First Night), Blood and Shadow (The Second Night) and Blood and Shadow (The Third Night) by Queggy. His story is about an old Orc shaman narrating to little Orc children a history of their people. The setting in this story is the time right before the First War.

Miscellaneous

Blog- 'Warcraft' Helps Swine Flu Researchers by ArgentSun <The Ambitious>. He brings us the astonishing news that scientists consider the game World of Warcraft a very realistic simulation of a pandemic due to the Corrupted Blood outbreak triggered by Hakkar.

Blog - Gamers Are Normal? by Arideni. In his blog, Arideni asks us what we think of as "normal." Are gamers normal? Do you hide the fact that you're a gamer?

Blog - Late Post! (Interview with Malgayne) by Malgayne <Voice of the Wowhead>. So he has done an interview with a World of Warcraft-themed podcast. Now he jumps over here and tells us this is late! Bad Malgayne! Bad!

Thread - The Order of Randomness by MyTie. Randomness attempts to create its own form of government, including electing leaders. But before the voters can decide what to do Malgayne intervenes and explains his plans for the Randomness forums. You can view Malgayne's reply here.

As this is our 9th Weekly Review, we would like to know from you what things could be improved. What do you like about it and what should be removed? Should we add something else to it?

The 10th WWR will be posted the following week! See you there!

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