All the World’s a Stage: Trolling for roleplay

Okay, so by starting off with “trolling” in the title, you’re probably expecting some kind of subtle guide to how to troll the official forums, or maybe how to avoid some of the worst drama. But when I use the term trolling, I’m speaking to the base root meaning: how to inspire a reaction. In [...]

Spiritual Guidance: Everything I know about magic I learned from Rydia

When I was growing up, I was a total Final Fantasy geek. I can still remember the thrill I got when I first started playing Final Fantasy II (Final Fantasy IV to you purists).
I never paid much attention to stats aside from the basics back then — there was no reason to. When I did [...]

Reminder: Battleground Bonanza II today

It came from the Blog is holding its second Battleground Bonanza today:

When: Saturday, January 16th, 4:30pm EST (1:30pm PST, 2:30pm Server time)
Where: The Hall of the Brave (where the Battlemasters are), Orgrimmar, Zangarmarsh U.S.
Who: Any level 10 or above Horde character.
How: Ask any It came from the Blog Lurker or Robinator for a guild invite.
What: [...]

Officers’ Quarters: Courtesy counts

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
The community of WoW is not best known for its courtesy. The bar for what constitutes civil behavior has been set pretty low. We as officers don’t expect much from random people, but we’d like to think our members [...]

Shifting Perspectives: The druid of 2009

Every week, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, Allison Robert has been at the cough syrup again, without the editors realizing in enough time to shut down her access to the blogging software. No good can come of this.

Lines composed more than 3,000 miles from Tintern Abbey, [...]

Realm maintenance for January 5th [Updated]

This morning we were given a pleasantly early notice regarding tomorrow’s maintenance downtime for North American and Oceanic realms. Realms will be going down at 3:00 AM PST, and are expected to be down until 11:00 AM PST at the earliest.
Though we haven’t seen official word on the topic yet, it’s expected that the next [...]

The Twelve Days of Winter Veil: Day one loot code giveaway

WoW.com’s final day of Twelve Days of Winter Veil contests keeps on rolling. For the last loot code contest, we’re giving away 1 Foam Sword Rack code courtesy of WoWTCGLoot.com. A rack of foam swords can be summoned. From there, any player can click on the rack to temporarily gain a foam sword that can [...]