www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/sports/othersports/28vide.html
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=330830&p=1&tmp=1#post330830

Q. Tell me about your general approach to top-level content and how you can appeal to such a diverse user base.
A. What we constantly do is look at the whole picture. We need to address an audience like my mom, who plays once in a while but still manages to get to Level 60 and doesn’t raid, all the way to people who play 14 hours a day who need less sleep than the rest of us. People talk about the game fundamentally changing at Level 60, and they are right. There are people who are seeking that hard-core endgame experience, but to people who casually follow the quests and just ended up at Level 60, it can be very jarring to them. We’re trying to put in more content for them, like the Field Duty quests in Ahn’Qiraj, but the resolution we’re all hoping for is the expansion, which will give those players more WOW as they know it.

Translation as I see it? We aren’t gonna change how we develop the end game. Casual noobs will just have to wait until the expansion to get more quests, and once they are 70 they will be stuck with the same problems. GG noobs and now let me pimp the 18-boss 40-man thing we are working on now.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=328904&p=1&tmp=1#post328904

Didn’t research it much or try it but it seems to be getting some positive feedback even with its current limitations.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=328749&p=1&tmp=1#post328749

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=330680&p=1&tmp=1#post330680

“How: I personally thought cascading was abolished with uniform weekly raid ID resets, but I guess I was wrong. Apparently, cascading is achieved in Blackwing Lair by having an entire raid fight Razorgore, but when he gets to a low % (around 2%), have the entire raid minus a couple healers, tank, and a dps hearthstone out of the instance. When Razorgore dies, only the people remaining in the instance is saved with the raid ID. The rest of the people may then re-enter the instance without being locked to an ID for whatever reason. Every boss after Razorgore also does not lock your raid with an ID. Thus giving only those 3-5 people who stayed in the lock. You may then clear BWL to Nefarian and return another day of the week (or even same day) and re-clear again provided a person who did not receive a raid ID leads the raid.”

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-druid&T=703926&P=1

And some other related tanking threads:
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-druid&T=699813&P=2
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-druid&T=690131&P=4

apustolacis.net/CN/index.html

Last night the list was much longer, now it only reads:

Archimonde
Mannoroth
Warsong
Bleeding Hollow
Skullcrusher
Azgalor
Burning Blade
Burning Legion

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-medivh&t=104064&p=1&tmp=1#post104064

Too bad the guy posted like 200 pics all from some POS 2MB imageshack account so they were immediately down. Blizzard also linked this thread on the main page.

1. Item was useful, even for level 60s, in various situations.
2. Some people whined on the forum.
3. Blizzard was feeling like they needed to do something to feel smart/powerful.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-general&T=6666919&P=21
“Upon the release of patch version 1.10, players will notice that the Green Whelp Armor no longer affects targets above level 50. In addition, the the sleep duration will be reduced from 30 seconds to 10 seconds.”

4. Item nerfed from every angle and made much worse/useless.
5. Crafting system and fishing still blow.
6. GG Blizz.

I would also like to add, this type of nerfing goes hand in hand with what has been mentioned before about Blizzard setting up a little rat maze and getting violently angry when people don’t run it how they intended. How dare they use this armor for something we didn’t think of! Let’s PUNISH them and rub a huge nerf in their face muhahaha.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=6719951&p=1&tmp=1#post6719951

“In order to prevent an exploit, we’ve disabled the Super Egg-O-Matic quest given by Curgle Cranklehop in Gadgetzan. We apologize greatly for this inconvenience, and plan to reactivate this NPC quest-giver in a future patch.”

GG farmers teleporting around under the world to nab the eggs and back to the NPC to speed level. They use the same teleport hack to mine thorium and are seen smelting it in Darkshore constantly. Perhaps they use a similar hack to teleport around DM?

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=314897&p=1&tmp=1#post314897

“Blizzard not doing anything about this hunter exploiting the tree boss from DM West

Hunter Pet aggro Tree boss, run up the ramp into a safe spot just beside the right spirits entrance. Tree boss cant reach pet and will revert back and marches back into its original position and repeat in an endless loop. Hunter stand in the middle and shoots tree boss, when tree boss aggro, hunter FD and tree boss goes back to the pet

Blizzard wont fix this? DM Books all over AH

Just /who hunter dire maul, blizzard will not fix it until everyone takes advantage of it.

thanks”

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=735732&s=new&tmp=1#new

This time it’s over some new bizarre idea he posted where Spirit will reduce the amount of crits that land on you. He posted it in the Mage forum oddly enough.

“What if…spirit was given an attribute that worked as a counter to crit%? This would operate in a way that amassed spirit would serve to reduce the crit% of attacking foes, thereby reducing potential damage dealt and inversely affecting survivability. It might be something that takes effect solely in PvP.

Discuss.”

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-mage&T=639665&P=1
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=735628&p=1&tmp=1#post735628
forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=735378&p=1&tmp=1#post735378

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=6661420&p=1&tmp=1#post6661420

“Since Blizzard are thinking of left field ways of making spirity actually useful (see Tserics post forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warlock&t=804325&p=1) i thought of my own way to twist the Spirit ability.

Make spirit work like spirit bond in WC3, i think that was the name maybe i got it wrong. Anyway give spirit the ability to mitigate damage taken to your party members. The more spirit you have the more damage that can be shared.

Before you flame make sure you read the linked post from Tseric.

Please Discuss or think of your own ways to make Spirit Useful.”

thottbot.com/?i=52529

Not even green. Poor wand.

www.blizzplanet.com/coppermine/albums/wow-burning-crusade/exclusive/tower-of-medivh-exclusive.jpg

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=6643454&p=1&tmp=1#post6643454

“We are working on content that is basically a “Dungeon 2″ set. It’s current concept is additional quest content and a resulting armor set. Unfortunately, there are no specifics on the armor or stats as of yet. The acquisition of the pieces varies, with the largest group participation being no larger than a UBRS run.”

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=730654&p=1&tmp=1#post730654

“Ok, here is something I need help with. I have Sulfuras, talent spec arms/fury cookie cutter MS build.

I also have Vis’kag, and I just got my second binding for Thunderfury (yes, I know about the nerf…)

My guild is killing Razorgore and is close to killing Vael (got him to 10%), after which we expect comparatively smooth sailing through the next few BWL bosses.

So, for dps, what build would be better:

- Current - 2h Arms/Fury MS with Sulfuras
- dual wield TF + Vis’Kag, talent spec fury/arms flurry build
- dual wield Spineshatter + vis’kag, fury/arms flurry build. Spineshatter would also be used when tanking, in sword & board setup.

- something else? Post your ideas.

Also, what 2 weapons, in which talent spec, could be dual wielded and give dps on level with Sulfuras + MS build (what I am using now)?”

Has Sulfuras, Vis’Kag, soon to have TF, guild is barely on Vael and he’s on the forums asking what to use. Oh my.

forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-warrior&t=725397&p=1&tmp=1#post725397

“If you’ve used shield block in 1.9, you would know that it is in fact bugged. You will have 75% block for the full 5 second duration no matter how many times you block.”

GG Blizz.

Elixir of Poison Resistance now removes up to 4 poison effects up to level 60. The immunity effect has been removed.

We were first introduced on Stormreaver, a chance meeting while I was levelling. I kept the mysterious blossoms safe ever so delicately in my backpack until such a time I deemed worthy to spend them, my first BRD run on Urien. This initial relationship was short-lived, for the land of Felwood was indeed a dangerous place to farm back then.

Our bond rekindled on Aggramar, where I was free to run like the wind and gather as many as I could. Over time we found new and better ways to gather more and more, and the sweet flowers always fought to stay alive for our pending harvests. Double and team gathering was truly the pinnacle of the Felwood consumable experience, and the dawn of patch 1.9 killed it forever.

I shall never stop plucking the bounty of this mystical forest, but it will never quite be the same and I must say a part of me is now dead inside.

It’s good they waited cause lots of stuff is messed up.