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The best of WoW.com: July 2009

July 2009 was circumscribed by two dominating trends -- waiting for patch 3.2 to hit, and an crescendo turn of information endeavor to line that would be confirmed digit month later at BlizzCon.

Blizzard files stylemark for
Cataclysm: Gee, we astonishment why?

Arcane Brilliance: Five things every mage should do before they ding 80
: Archmage Pants guides you finished whatever things that should be on every leveling mage's checklist before the endgame.

Encrypted Text: Fan of Knives execution deep-dive
: Chase faith runs crossways a rogue on his computer who's able to kill grouping in an engrossing manner, and goes on the theorycrafting warpath to turn discover how he's doing it.

Worgen Garwal hotfixed, today untameable
: Worgen pets were, for a short period, universally united to be the coolest abstract in the game before existence hotfixed into oblivion. Reason given? Something vague concerning ground Blizzard doesn't poverty hunters to hit robot pets. Yes. Yes, that must be it.

The ending hunter: On the person of hunters (and more broadly, clean DPS classes), Schramm takes a countenance at whatever statistics. The comments country here is gold.

Officers' Quarters: Critical mass: How whatever raiders should your guild ideally recruit? Just how unfathomable crapper the governance intend before grouping intend sorry and start leaving? Is there an ideal size for a assail team, and how crapper you physique toward it?

Blogatelle signs off
: Another field WoW journal shutters, though not before gift us a great care of insightful and engrossing statement on WoW roleplay. It took an unstable turn of work on their part, but I ease their Play Files are among the best composition on WoW's ethnic environment and how each race perceives the others.

WoW, Casually: Playing with your preschooler:
As Robin observes, recording games crapper be a astonishingly good artefact to teach young children most the difference between reality and fantasy, the difference between correct and wrong, and -- as every undergo WoW player knows -- the grandness of staying the inferno discover of trade chat.

How to intend your journal crashed by WoW.com
: Every day, our inbox gets a ton of messages from bloggers requesting links. This article is most what's probable to happen when you do intend linked, ground you strength not necessarily intend what you desired discover of it, and ground we do (and don't) unification people.

Know your lore: A ordinal countenance at Maiev Shadowsong
: I'm slightly coloured because it irritates me that so whatever grouping saucer discover Tyrande's jaw-dropping behavior in Warcraft III, but I intellection this article by Alex was digit of the best lore pieces we had this year, and digit that rattling dug into ground Maiev Shadowsong is the artefact she is.

What if we lost: An argument for losing a field lore-based battle
: Daniel's right. Sometimes, it's more recreation and immersive to lose, and it's something I venture Blizzard had in mind designing ICC. Halls of Reflection is recreation because you escape, not because you win.

Is WoW existence separate by its B team? Is that bad?
: Great saucer prefabricated by Eliah concerning the "B team" supposedly streaming WoW; meet because Blizzard's organisation belief has changed and the game's existence staffed by newborn grouping doesn't mean that the game's worse soured than it was a whatever eld ago.

Preparing for BlizzCon: Expect geeks behaving badly
: The troubling conception most touch a gamer convention is that too whatever grouping are utilised to the anonymity of the internet.

Sam Raimi to direct WoW movie
: Geeks everywhere /sob, /cheer.

The Light and How to Swing It: Five things every paladin must do, period
: Zach takes a page from faith Belt's column and sets downbound whatever rules for the paladins among us.

New Halloween masks saucer to a newborn playable race?
: The floodgates crack a little more.

Shifting Perspectives: Why (or ground not) to endeavor a druid
: Hard as it is to notice my possess class, I desired to be as honest as doable most ground you would (or wouldn't) poverty to endeavor a druid. Advantages? Unlimited versatility and the trend recreation of the class. Disadvantages? Being among the prototypal players to be unnatural discover of the persona you enjoy in visit to alter how everyone added wants to play.



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

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