Almost Gaming WoW News

World of Warcraft - Leveled 1-60 in under 20 minutes played.

ultimateq — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:20:55 -0500

Well it seems World of Warcraft just got a bit easier. This guy used the Recruit-A-Friend offer from blizzard to get himself a free paladin. Using the level grants to get from 1-60 in under 20 minutes played.

Barack Obama WTFPWNS McCain...As a gamer do you vote?

PoppaSmurph — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:31:28 -0500

If you are somewhat political you've been following the Democratic National Convention this year and watching speakers like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama pwn the Republican Party.

Some of you may actually work, some of you may not.
Some of you may have health insurance, some of you may not.
Some of you might have lost your jobs to outsourcing, some of you might be the outsourcers that gained jobs.

But just from a gamers perspective, who should you vote for? And does it really matter?

Patch 3.0: The Wrath before Wrath

Jizmo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:49:16 -0500

Blizzard Poster, Eyonix, promised that a patch containing some Wrath features (including talents) will be released prior to the release of Wrath of the Lich King (source). Similar to the 2.0 release made before The Burning Crusade. Here is a list of some of the things to be included in the patch:

Wrath of the Lich King Mounts

Jizmo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:55:36 -0500

Mounts and non-combat pets have a new storage system in Wrath of the Lich King, allowing you to carry more and keeping them out of your inventory. There are serveral new exciting mounts upcoming in Wrath, let's take a look at each one and see how we can get them. You will need your Cold Weather Flying attunement (obtainable through a level 77 quest) before the flying mounts in Northrend.

When Oil prices rise so does gas, when oil prices fall so doesn't gas...why?

PoppaSmurph — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:48:48 -0500

So you may be out driving around lately oblivious to everything that's going on in the World like most Americans. Gas may still cost over $4 a gallon where you live, and you may pay it because you don't know any better. But if you haven't been paying attention, the price for a barrel of oil has plummetted from $145 to $115 in just over a month. Historically, and generically speaking you can expect to pay between 2.8-2.9% of the price of a barrel of oil for a gallon of gasoline.

Poll: Why are Battle Grounds Uneven?

Jizmo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:37:21 -0500

Battle Grounds do not have hisotry of being very even, in the Whirlwind Battle Group Alliance loses Eye of the Storm a lot more often than it wins. When I played on Stormreaver Horde was in a similar position. Several people have been kind enough to share their opinions publicly. Some people believe there are trends about who play Horde opposed to play Alliance:

Shamans are for...

PoppaSmurph — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:28:53 -0500

Arguably one of the easiest classes to gear out for Raiding due to the +hit totems and talents, Shamans have also been known for melee dps and healing, but what are they really for? Is it PvP? Maybe! Is it Arena? Who knows, so far in the series people have voted and we are left with the following results.

Hunters:

Causing a high amount of damage in groups/raids: 26%
Grinding to 70 as fast as possible and then not being able to get a group: 22%
Killing your group in instances by pulling aggro and then Feigning Death: 22%

Mages:

What's the easiest class to play?

PoppaSmurph — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:10:49 -0500

Due to the lack of any in-game permanent progression, lots of players who reach level 70 find themselves making alternative characters to play because there's nothing to do on their main except PvP or Raid. If there were some form of permanent progression in game, like having an alternate experience system where you can continue to receive experience at max level and apply it toward improving your character, players may find themselves only having time to play 1, maybe 2, classes.

Hunters are for....

PoppaSmurph — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:30:40 -0500

Commonly referred to as "Huntards" the class Hunter is commonly used for PvP and Crowd Control in instances, but what are they really for?

So far we've done 4 classes and the results and the primary results seem to be as expected, but some of the 2nd results are quite humorous.

Here are the results so far:

Rogues:
Causing a High Amount of DPS: 38%
Killing noobs or griefing other players: 21%
Crowd control with Sap and other things: 12%

Priests:
Healing other players in raid or group: 51%
Doing DPS in Shadowform: 18%
Mindcontrolling people and throwing them off a cliff: 12%

What is: Power Leveling?

Jizmo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:17:15 -0500

I've heard a lot of people say things like 'I'm powerleveling my friend” or “I'm going to powerlevel my character,” but what do they mean? This website even has several power leveling guides. To give a better idea of what people might be talking about, I've organized different types of power leveling into several categories: