The best of WoW.com: March 2009

While hunting over March 2009, digit of the things that immediately jumps at me is that this period had a aggregation of enthusiastic programme on PvP. My guess? With Tier 7 content ontogeny progressively stale and Ulduar encounters being doled discover meagrely on the PTR, lots of players started to dip their toes back into arena and battlegrounds, and pronto got them chopped off by the marvellous pack of death knights infesting BG's same a Biblical plague.

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

Disembodied skull confirms newborn battleground, your grim future: Sacco's personal selection of the year, and the prototypal solidified programme 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 meet from Ghostcrawler.

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

Why now's the prizewinning instance to run 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 off the PTR, and the bounteous role was revealed to be an Old God. Great content example by Alex with (as it turns out) accurate reflection on the relationship between Yogg-Saron and the Scourge.

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

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

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

The evolutionary organisation of arena gear: We gave a stamp of support to Blizzard's selection to front the underway countenance of PvP equipment rather than changing to entirely assorted (and clashing) sets.

Arcane Brilliance: Q to the power of Q: "Spirit will today make your whites whiter, and eliminate noise cling."

25-man equipment should not be meliorate than 10-man gear: Eliah's article spurred a aggregation of back-channel communicating among the staffers here, and I went on to write a differ 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 whatever of the game's more primary touches. The situation was in no artefact helped by 10-man achievements being generally tougher than their 25-man counterparts in Tier 7.

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

Victory from the jaws of defeat: Possibly the most amazing PvP comeback of every time. At 3:45 the commenters hit every but called the correct in souvenir of SK Gaming, but NaeHyun Kang (a.k.a OrangeMarmalade) apparently 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 same 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 another rant: Scott naturalist asks the non-officers among us to kibosh and conceive a lowercase harder most what our guild officers hit to do to ready a effective and consistent raid running.

65% less Arena teams in Season 5: The attending that Blizzard invests so such instance in arena with progressively less players modify environment foot exclusive is specially cogent. Raiding was erst 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 art to a close, and we're patch up the most engrossing articles we've publicised every year, digit period at a time. Join us every period for the incoming dozen days with this year's prizewinning of WoW.com!

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