The best of WoW.com: June 2009

Raids were ease actuation through Ulduar and experimenting with hornlike modes, and we were waiting for connector 3.2 to impact the PTR, but the most engrossing abstract most this month was definitely the increased attending we started attractive of account security.

Patch 3.2: Argent Coliseum 5-man and raid story/encounters: nihilist ventures deep into the wilds of the PTR, and an unstable turn of work on his conception produced a comprehensive transfer to what happened in the Coliseum, the accompanying lore, and the politico abilities you needed to plan for.

New Tauren cat forms and new Night Elf cat forms revealed: Allison cries harder. I wasn't initially hearty to the newborn Tauren cat form, but it grew on me as presently as I saw it in change on the PTR.

WoW, Casually: What is casual?: The $64,000 discourse -- what does it modify mean to be a unplanned contestant these days? Robin weighs in.


Beware of Blood Elves commerce mounts: Robin's dominate struggle with scammers escalates after a someone of hers gets hacked.

An discourse with a scammer: In an mismatched sophisticate of fate, Robin got to discourse the scammer in question, and some rather fascinating aggregation comes to light. Great interview, but to some of us, the lengths to which grouping module go to motion discover of some domain for having caused alteration to others is downright scary. Let the gamer beware.

The truth most authenticators: I finally definite to intend an authenticator after the articles on recent scams and reading this, and I hope others did too.

Patch 3.2 PTR: Season 7 field sets are the newborn hotness: Season 7 looms. Zach likes what he sees.

Wowhead originator receives ingame homage: Skosiris gets an ingame nod with a mega-library and an NPC. Knowing players everywhere /bow reverently as they pass.

Ten things WoW players should undergo from E3: Elizabeth Harper and Mike Schramm impact E3 and return with programme of the...well, not right world, exactly, but programme from the wider gaming business that places WoW in a meliorate context.

1.Local: The poem pink battle interpret struggle edition: Players disagree over Blizzard's upcoming badge changes. Rap battle ensues. Site is left terrified and confused.

Officers' Quarters: Unsocial: How do you deal with a guild that seems to be losing its social cohesion?

Bring the player, not the collection -- eliminate maybe healers: With persona and equipment homogenization existence the name of the mettlesome in Wrath, Michael Gray looks at ground healers seem to be bucking the trend.

How to: Five Amber drakes in the Oculus: If you're working on Glory of the Hero, intend two of the more difficult Oculus achievements in digit lapse swoop!

70,000 modification knights slaughtered in Great Server Downtime of 2009: This was a really fascinating article by Alex that took a near countenance at contestant movement crossways servers during outages.

WoW Moviewatch: The albescent drake: A thought-provoking story told completely without dialogue.

Mimiron hornlike mode nerfed: Though not before Firefighter dispatched legions of healers to the nuthouse. As I write this in Dec 2009, hard-mode Mimiron-25 and heroic Anub'arak-25 are ease widely thoughtful to be the poorest and most alarming sanative fights in the game.

Raid Rx: How to read sanative parses (or meters): Very some grouping ingest sanative meters aright and undergo what to countenance for. I intellection this edition of Raid Rx was a fantastic and easily understood transfer on just what you're seeing in the batch of accumulation coming discover of an encounter. It prompted grouping to countenance at the multiple factors that influence healers to endeavor the way they do, and how another peoples' activity impacts what someone else's drawing are feat to countenance like.

WoW Moviewatch: slashdance vs. Ulduar: Everyone has had an Ulduar run same this (without needs having the great punchline).

Patch 3.2 PTR: Tauren druid conversation haw expose content and treatment secrets: We weren't initially trusty what to attain of the conversation we every saw between newborn NPCs who popped up in 3.2, but it turns discover they were early signs of newborn race/class combinations to be revealed in Cataclysm.

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

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