The best of WoW.com: April 2009

April rolled around, and so did patch 3.1 and Ulduar -- a huge, all-encompassing assail experience that pitted you against Titanic creations and Yogg-Saron, distant relation of C'thun. Later in the month, a revamped Noblegarden went live to howls of oppose from players who institute every of their foodstuff spawns camped, and we got whatever unsettling programme that someone was one-shotting Ulduar bosses.

Seriously?

Seriously.

A recording pass to Grid: Grid is digit of the prizewinning all-around mods you can use, but evenhandedly discouraging to configure. Paxxz of Feathermoon walks you finished it with a enthusiastic recording guide.

BRK fans place a good-bye: In the early conception of the year, we forfeited both Phaelia and Big Red Kitty to RL demands. BRK fans place together a good-bye recording for everyone's favorite Dwarf hunter. /salute BRK.

Are we being teased most the incoming expansion?: Swing and a hit!

Why we should wait an treatment declaration at BlizzCon: Another stroke and a hit!

Officers' Quarters: Want loot? Buy us a server: Bribery -- the thinking-man's artefact to intend ahead. Or not.

PETA to stop WoW feat to oppose accolade slaughter: PETA makes inroads into WoW. Players are not trusty what this is meant to accomplish with ingame animals respawning like clockwork.

Official Ulduar cinematic revealed: This haw or haw not hit been described as "so stuffed with win that pieces of win are actuation discover of it into little win puddles and spilling over into the Sewer of Awesome." Now with new, non-craptastic looks for major ingroup leaders! Player base wonders if this courtesy can be extended to their own characters.

Classy dual specs guide: Each of our class columnists wrote a pass to dual-speccing your own toon and the merits of portion combinations.

Varian Wrynn is right: Fantastic noesis piece by justice Whitcomb on ground the long-vanished power of Stormwind is so misunderstood. We generally think it's a intense idea to carry so much case need and backstory to comics and books more players module never see.

Activision-Blizzard is not Blizzard: nihilist brings whatever much-needed saneness to the communicating close the corporate entity now known as Activision-Blizzard, and also lent a priceless insider's analyse of how the changeover impacted the people actually working for Blizzard.

Player receives developer component in the mail, one-shots Ulduar: We weren't trusty what to make of this news most a contestant using a developer component to roflstomp Ulduar (then spanking newborn assail content) when we prototypal started effort tips most it, but after whatever officer impact on Alex's part, it became manifest it was true. Alex also figured discover how it probably happened, and Lesley adventurer interviewed the contestant at the edifice of it all.

15 Minutes of Fame: Dislocated but not garbled (part 1) and (part 2): Lisa's 2-part interview with Lileya of EU-Lightbringer, a contestant who has to impact finished the myriad problems created by Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in visit to play, struck a chord with many of readers.

Loot, rationality, and the Sunwell effect: "People are relentlessly rational...(and they) are quick to notice, evaluate, and adopt the most economical means of case advancement." Given that Blizzard's organisation decisions hit such an impact on ethnic interaction ingame, how do they intend the results they want?

2009's art to a close, and we're patch up the most engrossing articles we've published every year, digit period at a time. Join us every period for the incoming dozen life with this year's prizewinning of WoW.com!

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