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“Wow,” Lolegolas said. “Another sword, huh?”

Throgg looked up from where he’d been busily grooming his monobrow with his tongue. “What you mean, little belfling?”

“You have a different sword again,” Lolegolas said. He tossed his flowing locks over his shoulder, revealing the glittering perfection of his chest. “You just had Kliklak’s and now … this.”

“Ah, yes,” Throgg grunted. “It is sword with Mastery on it, as stat. Since it no longer part of talents, I thought it must be very important to have on sword. The Poisonfire Greatsword has much Mastery! Make Throgg strong!”

“Hm, of course,” Lolegolas said. “I will say that this sword seems rather magnificent. It appeals to my more savage aesthetic. It’s all rough and course and manly.”

“Right,” Throgg said. “I got it for infiltrating a camp in the beta. Throgg is very clever, and was given the Poisonfire Greatsword as a reward.”

“Do you remember anything about the lore of the quest?” Lolegolas asked. The roleplayer in him was coming out, and the blood elf was getting very excited.

Throgg’s unibrow furrowed in confusion. “Lore? What? “

“You know,” the blonde replied. “The lore. The story.”

“Story is,” Throgg answered with finality, “I got this awesome sword.”

Name Poisonfire Greatsword
Type Two-hand sword
Damage 738 – 1108; Speed 3.30; ; DPS 279.6
Attributes

• 152 Strength
• 228 Stamina
• Increase your Mastery rating by 152

How to get it It’s a quest item in Cataclysm. You must handle the Flames from Above.
How to get rid of it It sells for 7 gold, 80 silver. Not sure on the disenchants yet.

Filed under: Phat Loot Phriday

Phat Loot Phriday: Poisonfire Greatsword originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This twitter developer chat was focused on the recent beta talent tree overhaul announced for Cataclysm. Lots of information came out including drastic changes to the paladin class. A lot of the answers had to do with the fact that a couple classes aren’t very done in the current beta build that everyone has been poring over.

Some highlights:

• paladins will be using a new Holy Power resource system in addition to mana
• all death knights will gain Runic Empowerment via trainers for all specs
• no planned hard cap for the new Mastery stat
• still no guild housing

The full categorized round-up is after the break.

Continue reading Twitter developer chat for July 16, 2010, organized by category

Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior, Blizzard, Interviews, Death Knight, Cataclysm, Worgen, Goblin

Twitter developer chat for July 16, 2010, organized by category originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW.com staff and ask them, “What are you playing this week?” (Otherwise known as: WRUP!) Join us to see what we’re up to in and out of game — and catch us in the comments to let us know what you’re playing, too!

This week in addition to the eternal question of what everyone is playing this weekend, we’ve asked the staff the almost-as-eternal question of cake or pie or death? It’s been a battle royale in The Queue this week with Anne declaring her love for pie and Adam followed up with a cake versus pie poll in which cake maintains a solid lead. So today, we ask our writers. Their thoughts on the best bakery confections along with what they’re playing for the weekend after the break.

Continue reading WRUP: Cake or pie edition

Filed under: WoW.com Business

WRUP: Cake or pie edition originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Cataclysm beta first impressions

Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Cataclysm

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Cataclysm beta first impressions originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Drama Mamas Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are experienced gamers and real-life mamas — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your realm.

When is your privacy not your privacy? When it’s connected to everyone else’s privacy. This week, the Drama Mamas help a reader whose desire to reserve sharing her email address and online status for her real-life friends is heating up her WoW friends list — and they’re boiling over at not being included.

Hi Drama Mamas, I’ve decided to only add people as Real ID friends who are RL friends that play on another server. I’m one of those people who sometimes like to hop on a character unknown to the folks I usually play with and spend some hours ingame on my own or with my boyfriend. However, I do have a lot of ingame friends I’m pretty close with and talk about a lot of things apart from the game.

After installing the patch and logging on my main, it took only half an hour before I got the first whisper, containing an email adress and asking me to add them via Real ID. I told the person no, I’m only going to add very few RL friends to that list. I recieved a very sulky reply. Today the scenario repeated itself, meaning two days of playing very little have passed and two people are already angry at me for not adding them. Is there anything I can do to prevent other ingame friends to react the same? Why can’t some people accept that sometimes I do want to play, but don’t want to chat? Taz’Dingo, Anonyma

Continue reading Drama Mamas: When connecting online seems like a Real bad IDea

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Drama Mamas

Drama Mamas: When connecting online seems like a Real bad IDea originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here at WoW.com, we’re on a Daily Quest (which we try to do every day, honest) to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

Vol’jin is obviously thinking about something very important. Maybe he’s just analyzing plans for the upcoming liberation of the Echo Isles. Or maybe he’s thinking about the sheer joy of punching Garrosh in the snoot. Or maybe he’s just pondering which is better, cake or pie. Deep thoughts there, Vol’jin — let’s take a look around and see what everyone else is thinking about:

• Bible of Dreams is thinking about civility, and how it applies to World of Warcraft.
• The Pink Pigtail Inn has a lot of good thoughts about jumping in game and why people do it.
• World of Warcraft Philosophized shares some thoughts on group quests and Kantian ethics.

Filed under: The Daily Quest

The Daily Quest: Idle thoughts originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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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 Syndicate-stomping on Wednesday was a blast, as usual. Expect more shenanigans along the same lines next week. But that’s not why you’re here. It’s Friday, so you’re here for polls. But first, here’s the schedule:

• Fox Van Allen as Foxlight, the level 21 blood elf paladin: Friday, 8 p.m. EDT
• Michael Sacco as Sahko, the orc warlock; Christian Belt, as Selfloathius, the level 15 blood elf warlock; Elizabeth Harper as Faience, the level 24 troll shaman; Matthew Rossi as Andrenorton, the level 17 troll mage; Michael Gray as Grayfields, the level 17 tauren hunter; and Gregg Reece as Sandwichdoc, the level 11 troll shaman, will be making appearances as they can.

We have polls for Croxy’s jumping and Sandwichdoc’s pet after the break.

Continue reading Choose My Adventure: Pets and jumps

Filed under: It Came from the Blog, Choose My Adventure

Choose My Adventure: Pets and jumps originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Every Friday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting balance druids and those who group with them. This week we are sipping some iced tea, sittin’ on our porch swings, enjoying a nice sundae cone and talking about that time we slew the giant, rampaging, pink dragon.

I want to take a spot of a breather from Cataclysm information just for this week. Mostly because I’m slightly frothy at the mouth, which I’ve been told isn’t a good health sign, but more so due to the fact that so much is in the process of being changed right now that going into an in-depth discussion on a topic that’s likely to have every scrap completely altered tomorrow is silly. Perhaps silly is the wrong word, after all that’s never been something to stop me before, so let’s just consider this to be an isolated case — promises that next week will be a real Cataclysm discussion. In light of that, if there’s anything specific that you’d like to see covered, shoot me an email and I’ll see what I can do for you.

Focusing on the here and now, which is actually what this article is about, I’d like to quickly go over the more recent raiding addition Ruby Sanctum. Although I’ve seen mixed reviews of the instance from others, I at least think the instance is a nice little dash of refreshing. It doesn’t hold the same sense of urgency, the same notion that you’re going to be stuck in here for hours upon hours, days upon days (even though many guilds, particularly those working on hard mode, will be) that I get from going into ICC. RS is a nice little cooldown raid; it’s light, fun and refreshing like a cool glass of lemonade. To start us off, we’ll take a quick look at the shiny loots, since that’s what everyone really wants, and then we’ll look into a brief little guide on how to slay the giant purple/pink dragon at the end.

Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: Balance Ruby Sanctum guide

Filed under: Druid, (Druid) Shifting Perspectives

Shifting Perspectives: Balance Ruby Sanctum guide originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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• no current plans for an online handle to be used in game with Real ID instead of your name
• feature to disable your name’s appearance in Friends of Friends list coming around the time of StarCraft II
• plans for some sort of unique ID on the WoW forums

The full announcement is after the break.

Continue reading Blizzard responds to common Real ID concerns

Filed under: Blizzard, News items, Account Security

Blizzard responds to common Real ID concerns originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What was the best world PvP event you’ve ever enjoyed? Was it a cross-faction event? Did players from other realms join in? Was there an element of surprise for the other faction? Was it, perhaps, a more peaceful type of party? And now, what if you were in charge of designing and organizing a world PvP event … what would it be like?

WoW.com is accepting article submissions describing three fresh ideas for organized world PvP events. Submissions should be between 750 and 1,000 words. We will not accept articles submitted under player names or pen names; please use your real name and email. Artwork is not mandatory, but any you choose to include must be your own work or from creative commons.

Continue reading Call for Submissions: 3 fresh ideas for world PvP events

Filed under: WoW.com Business, PvP, Guest Posts

Call for Submissions: 3 fresh ideas for world PvP events originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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