WoW Insider Show live today at 3:30 PM Eastern

The WoW Insider Show returns to the airwaves today at 3:30 PM Eastern time, bringing with it your host Michael Sacco, cohost Matthew Rossi, and special guest and WoW.com staffer Chase Christian. We’ll be answering reader emails, shootin’ the breeze, and, of course, discussing the week’s top stories on WoW.com and around the web.

And, lest we forget,

Developer Twitter chat transcript for January 15th, organized by category

After the break is the complete transcript of the developer Twitter chat with Lead Systems Designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street and J. Allen Brack. They talked a lot about Cataclysm and upcoming class changes, and reflect on some of the inner workings of patch 3.3. Unlike the last twitter developer chat, this chat was much more substantial and actually provided useful

Ready Check: Gunship Battle

Easily one of the most creative and distinctive fights in Icecrown Citadel, the Gunship Battle is something many raiders have been looking forward to since BlizzCon 2009. As a little bonus, this fight is also the source of a certain cloak that’s white and longer than your average cloak.

Here’s the basic story. As

What’s taking the Battlecry mosaic so long?

When the World of Warcraft Anniversary mini-site was unveiled last November, one of its features was a photo-mosaic dubbed the Battlecry which would unlock little art goodies each time a certain milestone was reached. The Battlecry mosaic called for player submissions to submit their pictures with a logo of their favored

Ready Check: Lady Deathwhisper

My guild is made up of long-time gamers, including folks who’ve been roleplaying for dang near two decades. And even though we like to style ourselves “hardcore raiders,” we all have to admit that we have those characterization inclinations from time to

Best of WoW.com: December 2009


And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie’s a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
For auld lang syne
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December brought us patch 3.3, Icecrown Citadel’s

Know Your Lore: Saronite


Welcome to Know Your Lore, where each week WoW.com brings you a tasty little morsel of lore to wrap your mind around. Sweet, sweet lore. Mmmm. Have suggestions for future KYL topics? Leave a comment below!

It’s nigh-ubiquitous in

Breakfast Topic: Lessons from Single Player RPGs

I’m sure by now it’s pretty much no secret whatsoever that half the team, myself included, spent a good part of the waning days of Patch 3.2 enamored with Dragon Age Origins. Maybe it’s the innocent charm of the leading man, Alistair, the deep and involved game world, or the

Lichborne: Patch 3.3 Roundup for Death Knights

Welcome to Lichborne, WoW.com’s weekly Death Knight column, where your host, Daniel Whitcomb, continues to be caught in a bad romance with Unholy DPS.

So we’re back on the scene after a lazy and luxurious extended Thanksgiving holiday, and just in time for patch 3.3.

All the World’s a Stage: Anonymosity

All the World’s a Stage, and all the orcs and humans merely players. They have their stories and their characters; and one player in his time plays many roles.

Roleplaying is a journey of trust you take with strangers. You may now and then