Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, The Queue, Cataclysm

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. This week, Matthew Rossi’s rabbit Grimalkin is using her priestly powers of mind control to answer your questions about World of Warcraft.

Hello.

Do you have any greens, or perhaps a carrot or two? No? Some pellets, perhaps? Or a banana chip? I enjoy banana chips and would gladly eat one now if you happened to have one.

You don’t have any of that? I disapprove. But as I told Matt this morning while he was giving me some carrots, I’ll fulfill this duty of answering your World of Warcraft questions. You’re sure you don’t have any banana chips? Not even one?

Hmmph.

Salty asks:

When Cataclysm starts up, will us 80’s have a rested xp bonus?

Continue reading The Queue: A bunny!

The Queue: A bunny! originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 27 May 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: News items, Wrath of the Lich King

The Icecrown Citadel raid buffs, Hellscream’s Warsong and Strength of Wrynn, just went from 15% to 20% with today’s maintenance. As always, this means a bunch of raid groups will be able to progress a lot farther in Icecrown Citadel, and we’re two thirds of the way to the final 30%. Assuming the schedule remains constant, the last Tuesday in June, the 29th, is when we can expect to see the next 5%.

Adam Holisky: I’m doing 10k single target dps right now on my huntard in ICC. today I’ll magically do 10.5k. that just doesn’t seem right.

Basil Berntsen: It’s better than suddenly reducing the health of the bosses by 30% like they did in BC

While this might cheapen raiding rewards for many hard core players, I’ll take a slowly increasing, optional buff against a flat out 30% HP reduction any day. Also, I suspect we might see some new achievements or rewards for players choosing to not use the buff once it finishes hitting 30%.

Icecrown Citadel raid buff to 20% originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 25 May 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Economy, Wrath of the Lich King, Gold Capped

Gold doesn’t matter, right? It’s just gold, and you get more than enough for your needs through dailies and the occasional mining spree. Why even bother getting Gold Capped? It’s not like you’ll ever be able to spend it all! Wait a sec, how does that bank alt have a single Ulduar clear and have Mimiron’s head? Every week, check in with Basil “Euripides” Berntsen, also of outdps.com, the Hunting Party podcast and the Call to Auction podcast, as he attempts to mold all the random information jostling for cerebral space into a coherent, readable post about how to make gold in the World of Warcraft.

In real life, engineers are brilliant and dedicated individuals who work together with tradespeople to accomplish some of the technological marvels of the modern world. Historically, these are the people who built the pyramids, the boats that brought Europeans to the new world, and the spaceships that took mankind to the moon and back. In World of Warcraft, engineers are a bunch of goofy characters who speak in childishly high voices and have a tendency to blow themselves up by accident in humorous ways. Anyone else sense that whoever did the concept art at Blizzard for gnomish and goblin engineers flunked out of engineering?

Anyways, while engineering is an amazing profession for certain parts of the game, it’s dead last when it comes to making money. There are only really a few things engineers can do to make cash.

Wryxian

This quote was from the Cataclysm profession preview we posted about earlier. Engineering is currently barely ahead of farming in terms of income potential, and it’s nice to see that Blizzard acknowledges this and might fix it.

Not all hope is lost, though. A savvy player can eak out a living if they focus on the right markets. First off, the elephant in the room: selling epic ammo.

Continue reading Gold Capped: Engineering isn’t so useless after all

Gold Capped: Engineering isn’t so useless after all originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 12 May 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Hunter, News items, Wrath of the Lich King, Achievements

More evidence of the superiority of the hunter class has recently emerged: Caspi, hunter extraordinaire from the <Refuge> guild on the EU Taerar realm has officially beaten Wrath of the Lich King, having achieved 11,635 achievement points. This is no mean feat — even though we reported just over a month ago that Caspi was getting close, the next most recent time we posted about something like this was last summer, when Zoltan had achieved 908 of 931 possible (at the time) achievements.

Zoltan appears to be both in the same guild as Caspi, as well as very close to him in achievements points. I, for one, would like to take a moment and say on behalf of hunters everywhere to paladins everywhere: neener neener!

Achievement points and achievements in general are an interesting mini-game, in that while you can earn points, there’s nothing you can do to spend them. Still, it’s a very difficult accomplishment that requires mastery of many other parts of the game. Some of the achievements that go into this take ridiculous amounts of skill, resources, luck and patience.

Tip of the hat to Caspi!

Hunter beats Wrath of the Lich King originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 04 May 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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