All the World's a Stage: Reflections on the passing of a roleplayer's mom: This isn't a very cushy article to summarize. All I crapper feature is -- please read it. One of David Bowers' most elegant and introverted pieces: "WoW is not an carelessness from life, it is a alikeness of it."
WoW.com's Patch 3.2 Guide and content for the day: Patch 3.2 went springy on August 4th and was (oddly enough) digit of the top stories for the year. In hindsight, it belike wasn't that surprising -- it had been a while since Ulduar had absent live, and the Argent Tournament connector heralded the introduction of a slew of newborn pets, mounts, titles, and newborn druid forms. Huzzah!
Playing WoW for charity: Interview with the WoWathon team: Three college students managed to raise $5,000 for Child's Play with a marathon WoW conference coupled with "dramatic readings of intense fanfiction."
Researchers study WoW to wager how gangs modify and fade: A UC-Irvine team has been studying guild and assemble formation ingame for data on "group ecology." As Schramm observed, "Listen, guys, every you hit to do to fortuity up gangs is ensure there's not sufficiency plunder to go around."
The forfeited art of crowd control: Both the emblems modify in 3.2 and the emblems/Dungeon Finder changes in 3.3 hit dispatched masses of grouping backwards to heroics, and we're not the exclusive grouping to attending that crowd control's every but disappeared. Blizzard's respond (5 months later)? Heroic Halls of Reflection.
Felicia Day unleashes geeky imbibe single: So it turns discover The Guild cast has both musical talent, the ability to reach #1 on the iTunes penalization video charts, and a significance of nutriment concerning their maker material. We're shocked.
BlizzCon 2009: Don't forget to countenance for us: We decided to deploy special Zach Yonzon-designed t-shirts on the gathering story so that readers could pick us discover easily.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm announced: "All haters, disbelievers, skeptics, muggers, druggers, post-modernists, and trolls, we are graciously selection to accept your apologies. Line forms to the left, people. No pushing! And mister, I hope you brought sufficiency manducate for everybody."
BlizzCon round-up -- Day 1 and Day 2: Rather than attain this article a Brobdingnagian itemize of every the programme we did from BlizzCon, I'll shorten it to these.
Grunty vs. Zergling effort video: The Grunty pet from BlizzCon has an...interesting interaction with the zergling pet. Robin films for us, her kid provides audio, site reciprocation quadruples.
A communicating in defense of newborn race/class combinations: The team banded together to handle the content behind the newborn race/class combinations we knew were feat springy in Cataclysm, and speculated on the possible racial advantages/disadvantages that would result.
Around Azeroth: In doting memory: This got my balloting as the prizewinning Around Azeroth of the year.
Raid Rx: Raid bosses that brought healers to their knees (part 1) and (part 2): I idolized reading Matt Low's itemize of situation assail bosses for healers. For whatever time I've been message to do an equal itemize for tanks, but module belike move until we've seen every of the ICC assail bosses and hard modes to attain a call on it.
Why am I suddenly so popular?: Tank accumulation has ebbed and flowed over the instruction of the year. Rossi finds himself in high demand in the "ebbed" portion.
Officers' Quarters: Cataclysm module reshape guilds: histrion Andrews goes through the programme from BlizzCon concerning upcoming guild improvements with a fine-tooth comb.
2009's drawing to a close, and we're wrapping up the most engrossing articles we've publicised every year, digit period at a time. Join us every period for the incoming dozen life with this year's prizewinning of WoW.com!Tags: 2009-wow.com-best-stories, 2009-Year-in-review, best-of-wow-com, best-of-wow.com, featured, wow.com-year-in-review, year-in-review
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