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I was inspired by the time travel talk from last Friday’s The Queue. If you were able to kill Arthas while doing the Culling of Stratholme; you would prevent him from becoming The Lich King, but would cause a much faster spread of the plague. It reminded me of this great piece of short fiction, where going back in time to kill Hitler prevents time travel from becoming possible and is therefore strictly forbidden. I’d like to go back in time and help Mankrik’s Wife escape her violent and lonely death. Do we really need another reason to slaughter those nasty boar humanoids? Besides, I bet she had some really great quests that we missed out on. If you could go back in WoW time and change something, what would it be? What do you think the ramifications of your change would be?

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In a follow up to the thread we discussed recently, Ghostcrawler discusses where the buff to protection warrior DPS will come from (sorry, guys, but it sounds like a buff to Devastate to me, yay for spamming) and a whole lot more. The discussion indicates that while they’re interested in single target DPS increases over AoE increases that they don’t think tank DPS is that big a factor in boss fights (and to be fair, he’s right, it isn’t a major factor although the fact that players will overreact to minor factors and stress out their tanks over their DPS, that is) and moves on from there. The discussion about Devastate (that it’s an easy ability to adjust) is fair enough but ignores the even easier solution of simply reducing the defensive stance penalty. To be honest I’d like to hear why there’s still a penalty there when abilities like Righteous Fury and Frost Presence suffer none. I find the idea that buffing defensive stance would cause big problems for PvP balance kind of absurd. Battle stance grants 15% ArP and Zerker grants 3% crit, at most people would pop into d stance when

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Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week Frostheim uses logic and science mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven Stout to look deep into the Hunter class. ICC Lower Spire offers four separate opportunities for hunters to shine like the radiant beacons of death we are. In addition to the normal assortment of target switching and void zone dancing in boss fights, we even have an encounter that has many raid leaders on their knees and begging for more hunters! So step with me beyond the cut and through the doors of Icecrown Citadel for a look at how to optimize your hunter performance on the first four speed bumps in the path to the Lich King. We’re going to focus on hunter-specific information here. We are assuming that you’ve familiarized yourself with the fight and, as always, if your raid leader tells you to do something specific that contradicts anything here you always do what the raid leader says. Even if he’s wrong. Lord Marrowgar The first boss in ICC is a relatively easy one, both in 10-man and 25-man, and requires good awareness of

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In the recent Blizzard developer chat there were several questions pertaining to player storage. They spoke about the issue with storing tabards from all of your various factions, the default backpack falling behind other bags, and being able to access the bank slots of your alts without the need to use the mail. All three of these are long standing issues that have usually been avoided when direct questions came up, usually invoking the safe and often used “we’ll see” remark. I would love to be able to replace my backpack with a Glacial Bag and gain six storage slots or clear out the bank space I’m using to store specialty tabards. Let’s take a look at their responses after the break. Tabard Storage Q. For those of us who collect tabards and armor sets, do you see a way for us to store and not use our very limited inventory? A. Yes. We’d like to store them the same way you do titles. In general, we don’t want to punish the pack-rats out there who just like to collect stuff. We will have to wait and see what we can do about it though. This would probably be the best way to address

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Kebina Trudough here, offering you the best gold making secrets they don’t want you to know about! I was like you once, poor and homely, before I discovered my patented system. Now you too can fill your pockets with the good stuff without ever breaking a sweat! Why spend all your time toiling when you could be vacationing in the Hot Springs? I’m not offering these tips for 100 gold, or 90 gold, or even 50 gold! No, not even 20 gold! My system is yours for FREE! Satisfaction guaranteed or I’ll give you a full refund (handling charges may apply). After all, Time Is Money. If you’re like me, you have a lot of excess emblems sitting around. Maybe you never got around to spending them before the next tier came out, or maybe the badge gear just never quite compared to your raid drops. Whatever the case, there is no sense letting them go to waste when you could put them to work and earn some gold! First, here is a quick breakdown of the current badge system, from most recent and difficult to acquire on down: Emblem of Frost: These can be acquired primarily by raiding Icecrown, completing the Raid Boss Per Week

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On Tuesday night, my guild hit the new Icecrown Citadel bosses in the Plagueworks wing — Festergut, Rotface, and Professor Putricide. While Festergut and Rotface are both pretty straightforward encounters, Putricide is a different matter. Due to Icecrown’s gating system, you will have only 10 attempts on Putricide this week (on both 10- and 25-man, so 20 total if you see both versions of the fight), and mistakes are costly. Moreover, our raid found some pretty good strategies for both Festergut and Rotface, but there’s a lot of conflicting information about Putricide. Our hunter’s guess was that the encounter on the PTR might have been buggy, and that’s why the different strategies we read seemed at odds with each other, so our raid leader looked it over and took what turned out to be a pretty good shot at what we needed to do. After wiping on Putricide-25 3 times and walking away from it convinced that the encounter was still bugged, we split the raid into multiple 10-man teams and took a crack at it there. The footage you’ll see above is our 10-man’s 4th attempt and a clean kill (i.e.

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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. Adam Holisky be your host today. So this weekend I started watching Dr. Who, the 2000’s version of the series, thanks to two years of hearing about it from our Editor-in-Chief Liz Harper. There are parts of it that are really corney, and parts that are just amazingly good — but that’s the nature of most SciFi shows these days, and I can’t stop watching it. Plus, I now get the reference to The Ultrasonic Screwdriver. Let’s start off the first of this week’s Queue with some pondering over Cataclysm itemization. Fantastic! Evaline asked… “With Cataclysm adding only five new levels, will the rating required for crit/haste/hit/etc reach epic proportions? As I understand it, the expansion should be a gear reset, and with gear so powerful right now as a result of an extra tier they didn’t really plan for, they would have to really crank up the rating needed for 1% haste/crit/hit so that people don’t still have 40% crit and 20% haste (or

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Cinch up your robes and brandish your wands, it’s time for another edition of Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that sincerely hopes that this picture was taken by a warlock, just before the mage on the other end got an honorable kill. Around Thanksgiving, Arcane Brilliance received an email from a reader named Todd. I liked it so much that I wrote him back and told him I’d devote a column to his topic at some point soon. Though it has been over a month, I’m finally getting around to writing that column. In my defense, though: I’m extremely lazy. In the interests of space, I won’t print the entire email, which was long, polite, and quite well-written. But here are some selections: “Hi There, My name is Todd. I LOVE your columns, and read them whenever I get the chance to. I am writing you trying to get help for my mother (who I sucked into playing WoW more than a year ago). She chose to be a gnome mage and embark upon the adventure of being an arcane spell caster. We fight side by side almost every day in heroics and raids (and rip the occasional warlock to shreds whenever the

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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. Allison Robert will be your host today. Alex is popping out for a RL issue, so I’m afraid, dear readers, that you’re going to get stuck with the writer who will spend the entirety of a question today wandering off the Icecrown map. HC SVNT DRACONES. Frostwyrms, anyway. As a warning, the answer to said question contains what some players will consider a spoiler, so don’t read past the cut if you don’t want to know anything about an upcoming Icecrown encounter. TAD asks… Will experience acceleration go away once Cataclysm drops? We don’t think so, because the 1-85 grind for a new character will still be pretty lengthy even with experience acceleration, but truthfully we don’t know. I’d argue that Blizzard doesn’t have much of a reason to change current leveling speed, because it’s only efficient if the character in question is outfitted in heirloom items (particularly the chest and shoulders with the +experience boost). This obviously

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2009 has been a year of almost continuous changes for shamans. It seems that not a patch has gone by without some changes to the class, some major, some not so severe. The class has seen mysterious DPS shortfalls, a minor controversy about health in PvP that then carried over into PvE content with the high levels of AoE damage in Ulduar with patch 3.1. Flametongue Weapon saw changes to prevent enhancement shamans from using caster weapons. Resto got a fairly substantial review and some significant tweaks. Elemental also saw some talents redesigned. While all of this was going on, shamans also saw some controversy about itemization, gear scaling and having to share caster mail between two specs that value different stats, as well as the constant battle with holy paladins to keep their grubby, grasping mitts off of our mail. Yeah, we know you don’t want that MP5 plate, but since you’re the only ones who can possibly get anything out of it, go away and leave our precious alone. (Cue the pages of discussion on why it’s perfectly acceptable for holy paladins to take caster mail and explanations in detail of why

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