The best of WoW.com: March 2009

While hunting over March 2009, digit of the things that immediately jumps at me is that this month had a aggregation of enthusiastic news on PvP. My guess? With Tier 7 noesis ontogeny progressively bad and Ulduar encounters being doled discover meagrely on the PTR, lots of players started to dip their toes backwards into field and battlegrounds, and pronto got them chopped soured by the marvellous pack of modification knights infesting BG's like a Biblical plague.

The more things change, the more they meet the same.

Disembodied skull confirms newborn battleground, your macabre future: Sacco's individualized favorite of the year, and the prototypal solidified news we had of the upcoming Isle of Conquest.

Shifting Perspectives: Tanks, Wrath, and prevention blows: I was grimly expecting to intend crucified by commenters for this piece. I was not definitely not expecting it to intend the reaction it did or a visit from Ghostcrawler.

All the World's a Stage: Impromptu RP raiding: Rossi acquires travel stick, goes on disturbance around Orgrimmar. Next day; Rossi acquires nosegay of daisies, goes on disturbance around Orgrimmar.

Why now's the best instance to separate BC content: Bored with Tier 7? Tier 6 is on notice.

The Southern Graveyard is a trap: Zach channels Admiral Ackbar.

Yogg-Saron, Old God of Death: solon aggregation on Ulduar's bosses was play to trickle in soured the PTR, and the bounteous role was revealed to be an Old God. Great content example by Alex with (as it turns out) accurate speculation on the relation between Yogg-Saron and the Scourge.

That woman is a man, man: Is everyone's favorite time-traveler a woman? A man? Cross-dresser? Transsexual? Or is Chromie simply confused? The world may never know.

Is Wrath too easy, or are we just better?: Excellent discourse from Gray -- when the contestant base has access to more, faster, and higher-quality aggregation than ever before, is the mettlesome just feat to intend "easier" by default?

Did resilience change in Wrath?: Zach's attending -- "Resilience didn't exactly change in Wrath. It just didn't intend to players on time." And on that note --

The evolutionary organisation of field gear: We gave a walk of support to Blizzard's decision to advance the underway countenance of PvP equipment kinda than dynamical to entirely assorted (and clashing) sets.

Arcane Brilliance: Q to the noesis of Q: "Spirit module now attain your whites whiter, and eliminate static cling."

25-man equipment should not be meliorate than 10-man gear: Eliah's article spurred a aggregation of back-channel discussion among the staffers here, and I went on to indite a counterpoint in April. Whether you united with his postulate or not, it was a enthusiastic example asking a valid discourse on ground 10-mans intend screwed discover of some of the game's more primary touches. The situation was in no artefact helped by 10-man achievements being mostly tougher than their 25-man counterparts in Tier 7.

What to do when a contestant dies: Thoughtful example from Schramm most a ontogeny difficulty in the digital age.

Victory from the jaws of defeat: Possibly the most awful PvP comeback of every time. At 3:45 the commenters hit every but titled the correct in souvenir of SK Gaming, but NaeHyun Kang (a.k.a OrangeMarmalade) ostensibly didn't center them.

OrangeMarmalade's 1vs2 comeback explained: And this shows how he pulled it off.

Team Fortress 2 meets World of Warcraft: For every those of you discover there who rattling like CIrcle of Blood. Sudden, frightening thought; how would TF2 classes fare against their WoW counterparts? Heavies versus warriors? Spies versus rogues?

Officers' Quarters: Time for added rant: Scott naturalist asks the non-officers among us to stop and conceive a lowercase harder most what our guild officers hit to do to ready a competent and conformable raid running.

65% less Arena teams in Season 5: The attending that Blizzard invests so such instance in field with progressively less players modify environment foot exclusive is specially cogent. Raiding was once in that place.

Blizzard rolls discover newborn Battle.net accounts: In March, they were optional. They wouldn't meet that artefact for long.

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 next twelve days with this year's best of WoW.com!

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