Ready Check: 10-mans and keeping your raid flexible

Ready Check helps you prepare yourself and your raid for the bosses that simply require killing. Check back with Ready Check each week for the latest pointers on killing adds, not standing in fire, and hoping for loot that won’t drop.

If your guild is focused on 10-man content, there are a couple of numbers games that [...]

Big Crits web series season 3 is live

Friend of WoW Insider and longtime enhancement shaman guru Rich Maloy runs the raiding guild <Big Crits>, and he documents their comings and goings in video format as a web series. Coming strong off of its sophomore season, Big Crits shows no signs of stopping — season 3 has just started, offering longer episodes than last [...]

Cataclysm hotfixes for Feb. 14

Blizzard has released the newest hotfixes, already on servers now. Hope you all took advantage of Whiptail-a-palooza while you had the chance. Here are your hotfixes for February 14, 2011:

General

Players who are exalted with 40 factions are again awarded The Exalted title. Note that the associated achievement does not state that this title will be awarded [...]

Arcane Brilliance: The mage survival guide, part 2

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week, we continue our discussion of ways to avoid dying horribly. This week’s tip: roll a death knight.

Yes, the sad reality of being a mage is the ever-present threat of a swift and ignominious demise. We’re like every character in The [...]

Predicting Battle.net’s social future

If you think we’ve scratched the surface of Battle.net cross-game implementation with Real ID, you are going to be amazed at what is coming next. Do I know any of this for sure? No, of course not. I base my predictions on three simple facts:

Blizzard has created an account-based loyalty program that has encapsulated each [...]

Shifting Perspectives: Gearing a bear druid at 85

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This week, we prepare to get hit in the face. A lot.

All right, folks — time to gear your tanks! As with our previous series on gearing a restoration druid at level 85, we’ll be going slot by slot to show [...]

Shifting Perspectives: Gearing your feral cat for raiding

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Welcome to our weekly feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron of The Fluid Druid blog. Let the face clawing begin!

So you’ve read my previous column covering the basics of feral DPS in Cataclysm, [...]

WRUP: My evil mountain fortress

Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW Insider staff and ask them, “What are you playing this week?” — otherwise known as: WRUP. Join us to see what we’re up to in and out of game — and catch us in the comments to let us know what [...]

Shifting Perspectives: Feral DPS changes in patch 4.0.6

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat , bear , restoration and balance druids. Today marks the beginning of our new weekly feral cat edition, brought to you by Chase Hasbrouck, aka Alaron of The Fluid Druid blog. Let the face clawing begin!

The rate of PTR changes has slowed to the point that [...]

Cataclysm Dungeon Screenshot Contest announced

Blizzard is all about the contests these days, and that’s pretty awesome. The newest contest is the Cataclysm Dungeon Screenshot Contest, where players can enter screenshots of their most amazing or favorite dungeon moments and win Cataclysm prize packages worth over $ 450, with prizes from Steelseries and Jinx!

For this contest, you’re going to need to [...]