Big News Of The Week
He’s Huge, He Can Fly, He’s Fiery, And He’s Pissed!
As if you weren’t fully aware of the obvious, we are one week away from World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm, the third expansion to WoW, and all its pleasant delights! We are also now one week past The Shattering, that night last week when Deathwing flew all over Azeroth and destroyed the very landscape, in addition to most of some of the cities we love. Don’t worry, they got partially-rebuilt really quickly. Like, immediately. But there is still some scaffolding up. Sorry about the mess.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Do We Get Results, Or What?
One week ago, on the eve of The Shattering, we discussed the cost to the player who decides to take up World of Warcraft for the first time now, or in the near future. Something then happened that seems to happen a lot with The Instance: On the very next day, literally withing a couple of hours of posting the show, Blizzard slashed the prices of the original game and the first two expansions.
Town Cryer
Kevin I. writes: I just returned home from serving with the Air Force in the middle east and I was looking to pre-order Cataclysm Collectors Edition and do an in-store pickup so I can play the day of launch. Seems like all the stores in northern Utah are not selling them or are sold out and won’t hold on to one for me. I was wondering if you know where i can pick one up the night of. Waiting 3-5 days on shipping and paying twice the MSRP is not something I’m willing to do if i can avoid it. I don’t really want to buy it twice, one regular copy for launch day and one collectors edition 3-5 days later.
Cataclysmic Drop Of The Week
We’re doing this one last time, folks!
The Cataclysm is upon you, and you need some websites. While this is by no means a comprehensive list, we want you to benefit from all the web has to offer by way of helping you find hat you need in-game over the next few days and weeks. This list will be updated as we come across more best-in-class sites to bookmark:
Fishing – El’s Anglin
Pet finding – Warcraft Pets
Jewelcrafting and gem fitting – WoW-Gem
Mounts mounts mounts – Warcraft Mounts
Archaeology – WoWpedia’s Archaeology page
Additional show content provided by Darrell the Tipgiver, Steve “Buxley” Pietrowicz, James “Acuzod” Jefferies and the outstanding Instance Community.
Special thanks to DogHouse Systems, GoDaddy, and TypeFrag for sponsoring this episode.
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Hiya, just wanted to comment on the timeskip thing. Blizzard stated some time age that it’s actually been two years now in WoW since we beat the Lich King. The Shattering (the book that is) took place somewhere between that two year time skip, quite soon after killing the Lich King I think because Anduin’s age is stated to be 13 in the book and 15 in Cataclysm.
For hunters http://www.wow-petopia.com/ is the must go site. All the new pet styles and locations are listed.
Swedish fish. OM NOM NOM!
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For leveling up during these troubled times, and doing it in the fastest way possible: Questing! wow-pro.com This is THE site to learn about questing and progression throughout the World of Warcraft. ( :
In regards to the caller having issues with the launcher and IE. I use FireFox as well. I never use IE. So the first thing I did was uninstall IE. Never had to deal with it again and the launcher goes right to FireFox.
Start > Control Panel > (Programs > Programs and Features or Programs and Features) > Left Menu “Turn windows features on or off” > uncheck “Internet Explorer 8(what ever version you have)” and click okay. You will have to restart. After that is all said and done you launcher should go right to Firefox along with every other link.
Yeah, diss the russian language, real classy. I don’t understand why so surprised though. Asia (and blizzard counts Russia as Asia) creates 50% subscribers of World of Warcraft, while North America is only 22% (Europe even less, around 17%). And yet we never get a launch party, or even just a party of some blizzard-oriented sort. About time I say. ;D
This is the go to site for info, leveling, etc on all WOW professions –
http://www.wow-professions.com/
professions? shadow priest is my profession! lol. http://shadowpriest.com/ is one of my favorite sites. all the good profession sites have been mentioned.
I love this sight for all tradeskills:
http://www.thenoobschool.com/worldofwarcraft/
It has great maps and the authors have even drawn in a path for gathering nodes. It has been updated to reflect the lvl 525 skills. GL and happy hunting.
What are your thoughts on the “1-85″ leveling tools and guides?
Are there any you recommend for our readers?
Good job, guys! Bliz didn’t realize they were selling the games for $5/$5/$10, and you went and told them and the NEXT DAY they took the deal away!!! D=
Just wanted to say – LOVED this week’s Ask Buxley. Had to go home and play it for my husband.
I wish I could recommend WarcraftPets, but unfortunately when I posted a Youtube video on the comments system there recently, I had the comment removed. Okay, that’s fine, I get it, that’s cool – they don’t want you linking to competing guides (despite them not actually offering ‘guides’), but Breanni also deleted my account altogether, AND using my account put a cookie in my browser to stop me from being able to access the website at all (I still have the cookie saved). Those last two steps are over the top and malicious. Even she will have received links when she started out and all I did was link to a guide on youtube.
So i really see no reason whatsoever to recommend her website or why she should get any help from the community. If you have any trouble believing this, I wouldn’t blame you, try doing it yourself. Make an account on WarcraftPets and post a comment with a video to a youtube guide that helped you get a pet.
Just wanted to point out that people like myself that have Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) have a hard to getting to sleep without something like a tv to drown it out otherwise the ringing gets very deafening.
Thanks, ElleyKat!
Swedish fish? What the… I don’t even… What is this?? What does Sweden have to do with fish???
Hey, what was the song at the end of the show? It was a Warcraft track but I can’t find thd name of it, anyone know?
Guys – Love the show! Keep up the hard work – it’s much appreciated! Regarding the Lore Comment – if you’ve ever been through Scarlet Monestary – Library, there’s a half dozen books in Doan’s chamber that goes through much of the lore. A level 80 can solo that place easy in 2 minutes and read all the books in the whole instance. As a guide, there’s an achievement, “Well Read” that has dozens of books in-game that have content regarding the lore of WoW.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
http://www.wowpopular.com/
Contains information on the most popular talent builds and glyph combinations for the different classes and specs. Very useful to getting an idea of what the popular talents and glyphs are to give you a starting point for designing the build for your character.
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Those last two steps are over the top and malicious. Even she will have received links when she started out and all I did was link to a guide on youtube. Thomas Sabo
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Lot of smtars in that posting!