15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com's look at World of Warcraft
personalities of all shapes and sizes -- from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, from the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you'd like to hear more about.
Who's the oldest player you know?
WoW's player base is so immense today that most of us know someone over age 50 who plays. These older folks most often turn out to be friends-and-family style players, tucked away among other family members -- grown sons and daughters, grandchildren, nieces and nephews -- using
World of Warcraft to connect with family members across the generations and the miles. Finding an older player who's come to the game on his own terms can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
When we finally got wind of septuagenarian player Loyal Leitgen, we knew we'd found a player who could give us a fresh perspective on the older player's point of view. He hadn't been introduced to the game by the younger generation -- in fact, he'd been the one to usher his grown sons into the game. The problem was, we couldn't interview him until we could catch up with him. When we fired off our first e-mail, he'd just left the United States and was bound for Switzerland. We finally tracked down the energetic retiree in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he was visiting one of his sons who was working on an international business venture. We chatted with him on Skype to learn why the 76-year-old gamer thinks
WoW offers something for everyone.
Continue reading 15 Minutes of Fame: 76-year-old player relies on strategy
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15 Minutes of Fame: 76-year-old player relies on strategy originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 2010 under contest, gallery, gryphon-hatchling, lurky, murky, murloc, photos, plushies, poll, show-us-your-plushies, squee, vote, voting, windrider-cub |
16
Mar
We asked you to
show us your plushies and many of you sent in entries to both the Plushie in Captivity and Plushie in the Wild contests. We have narrowed down the finalists for you to vote on in each category. Once the votes have been tallied and the winners announced, we'll put all of the entries in the galleries for you to enjoy.
You have until Friday, March 19th to vote for your favorite in each category. Galleries and polls are after the break.
Continue reading Vote for the Plushie Photo Contest winners
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Vote for the Plushie Photo Contest winners originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Due to the pre-expansion economic downturn, there's simply no more room at the Dalaran Home for Unwanted and/or Annoying Non-Combat Pets. So
Valafar of <Deadlight> on Exodar had to find a less palatable solution for getting rid of his pug when it became overly aggressive. Sure, he could have probably found a better home if he put up a Craigslist ad or something, but hey, he's a death knight. Death knights are evil. They do evil things. It would be a waste of time if they just did charity work.
Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting
World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? We'd love to see them on
Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing
aroundazeroth@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!
Remember to include your player name, server and/or guild if you want it mentioned. Please include the word "Azeroth" in your post so it does not get swept into the spam bin. We strongly prefer full screen shots without the UI showing -- use alt-Z to remove it. Please, no more battleground scoreboards, Val'kyr on mounts, or pictures of the Ninja Turtles in Dalaran. Older screenshots can be found
here.
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Around Azeroth: I hate pugs originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 2010 under Rogue, babes, byron, byron-the-tauren-rogue, darkspear-trolls, featured, orc, tauren, troll, world-of-warcraft-comic, world-of-warcraft-comics, world-of-warcraft-funnies, wow-comic, wow-comics, wow-funnies, wow-rogue-comic, wow-tauren, wow-tauren-comic, wow-weekly-comic |
16
Mar
Welcome to another edition of the
WoW.com Weekly Comic -- Byron the Tauren Rogue!
A quick break in the story to see what a few other people are up to. Wait, what's this? Is Gruuka...worried?
Naaaaahhhh.
Check out the
full version right here, and tune in next Tuesday morning for a new page! You can also check out
all the previous pages in the gallery below.
Filed under: WoW.com's Weekly Comic
WoW.com's Weekly Comic: Byron, the Tauren Rogue! originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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16
Mar
Welcome to another edition of the
WoW.com Weekly Comic -- Byron the Tauren Rogue!
A quick break in the story to see what a few other people are up to. Wait, what's this? Is Gruuka...worried?
Naaaaahhhh.
Check out the
full version right here, and tune in next Tuesday morning for a new page! You can also check out
all the previous pages in the gallery below.
Filed under: WoW.com's Weekly Comic
WoW.com's Weekly Comic: Byron, the Tauren Rogue! originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Let me be frank: I've run heroic
Halls of Reflection a lot. By a lot, I mean hundreds of times now. As a tank, I find it tedious because there's only so much I can do about people refusing to understand certain simple key facts
- If you are ranged DPS, do not be hitting the ranged mobs before they run around the corner.
- If you are a healer, please stand out of line of site of the ranged mobs so that they don't start nuking you instead of running around the corner.
- Everyone just stay out of line of site until the mobs get here. Seriously. Do not run out to begin nuking until the mobs get here what the heck are you doing arrrrrrgh and then of course I need a new keyboard.
As a result, I cringe when I get HHoR now. On my DK, on my shaman, on my warrior, doesn't matter. Tank, DPS or heal, I loathe the sight of the place. Now, I generally stay in the run anyway, because I'm a pampered baby used to his instaqueue and I hate having to wait around until my debuff falls off. But dozens of runs where people refuse to understand these simple rules (stay out of LoS until all the mobs are in one spot and for the love of all good things let me
get them into one spot) and a general inability of every single PuG I've yet done to CC the marksman when he doesn't come in means that I'm generally just about ready to blow the place up.
That's why I found this thread (especially the
comments by Bornakk) so interesting. Are people just
afraid of HHoR?
Continue reading Breakfast Topic: Fear is the mind-killer
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Breakfast Topic: Fear is the mind-killer originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 2010 under Tuesday-Maintenance, downtime, maintenance, realm-downtime, realm-maintenance, realm-status, roundup, scheduled-downtime, scheduled-maintenance, server-downtime, server-maintenance, server-status, tuesday, tuesday-downtime, tuesday-morning, tuesday-morning-post |
16
Mar
Happy Tuesday Morning, everyone. This morning, we're coming to you earlier than we would have been last week. Or is later? Honestly,
this whole time change thing is just making me confused. And sleepy. There's a reason I was never a math major. Luckily, there's nothing like an invigorating round of
WoW news to get the blood pumping in the morning. Okay, so technically a cup of coffee would also work, but the machine isn't done percolating yet. Regardless, there's plenty of news to catch up on. There's been some interesting news trickling out of
the Game Developer's Conference over in San Francisco, as well as
the usual round of Patch 3.3.3 PTR news. Luckily, you'll have time to read it all while the servers are down.
With realm maintenance
clocking in at only 6 hours today (from 5 AM to 11 AM Pacific), though, I wouldn't expect to see Patch 3.3.3 actually dropping this week, so you'll have to console yourself with the news and wait at least one more week to cash in all those Frozen Orbs. Check out our usual roundup after the break.
Continue reading Tuesday Morning Post: Time change edition
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Tuesday Morning Post: Time change edition originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 2010 under Tiny, contest, giveaway, loot, party-grenade, slashdance, sweepstakes, tcg, tcg-loot, wow-tcg, wowtcgloot |
16
Mar
Maintenance days are so
boring, so let's try and spice it up. Today WoW.com is giving away six loot cards, each and every one of them come courtesy of
WoWTCGLoot.com. Today you have a chance to get your hands on one of three
Slashdance codes, or one of three
Tiny codes.
All you need to do is leave a comment on this post. Make sure you comment using an email address you check frequently, as that's how we'll be contacting our winners. You may only enter
once or you will be disqualified. The deadline is tonight (March 16th) at
11:59 PM. Comments will be disabled at that time, and winners will be chosen randomly (and so will the prizes).
Good luck!
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Maintenance day loot from WoW.com originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Each day WoW.com will take you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From Ghostcrawler's latest posts to the lowdown on StarCraft II and Diablo III, we'll keep you informed.
Welcome to the "Ghostcrawler talks about dodge, parry, and block" edition of The Daily Blues.
Table of Contents
Continue reading The Daily Blues
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The Daily Blues originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 2010 under featured, podcast, podcasts, wow-com-podcast, wow-dot-com-podcast, wow-insider-podcast, wow-podcast, wow-podcasting, wow-podcasts, wow-radio-show, wow-show, wowcom-podcast, wowinsider-show |
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Every Monday evening WoW.com brings you a long list of WoW podcasts that were published the week (and weekend) before. If you don't see your favorite podcast listed, just let us know in the comments. Be sure to leave a link to it and we'll pick it up next week.
All podcasts and content belong to their owners. WoW.com is not responsible for what you hear, and some of the content may not be safe for work.
More after the break!
Continue reading Weekly Podcast Roundup: March 9th, 2010 through March 15th, 2010
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