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• Reading between the lines: are more PvE to PvP transfers possible?

  Filed under: Realm News , Analysis / Opinion , News items , PvP The announcement earlier in the week that Blizzard was allowing free transfers from a couple Oceanic PvE realms to the Oceanic PvP realm Thaurissan lead to a storm of speculation that Blizzard... Posted Jun 14 2008, 03:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, News items, PvP, Realm News, drysc, Leveling, pve, transfers, money, transfer, level, paid, changing, paid-transfer, changed, change, pvp-to-pvp

• Revisiting epic flyer costs

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Economy , Factions , Making money Drysc has written a book about epic flying mount costs on the forums -- there aren't many goldsinks left in the game, but that 5000g you've got to pay for an epic flying... Posted Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Making money, dailies, Factions, drysc, Blizzard, Mounts, Economy, Forums, epic, money, gold, flying-mounts, epic-flying-mount, price, 5000g, costs

• Season 4 and PvE progression

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Guilds , Instances , Raiding , NPCs , Arena Drysc gave a little insight into how the Arena seasons are scheduled over on the forums -- I had always thought that the Arenas were running on their own schedule (with the... Posted Jun 09 2008, 03:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Patches, Raiding, sunwell-plateau, sunwell, Arena, Instances, drysc, Blizzard, Guilds, NPCs, Forums, arena-season-4, kiljaeden, season-4, timing, schedule, sunwell-raid

• Season 4 does not begin June 17th

  Filed under: News items , PvP , Arena , Rumors There has been a rumor going around for a few days that arena season 4 will begin on June 17th. I actually heard this in Alterac Valley this weekend when I was plowing through the place with a few friends... Posted Jun 09 2008, 01:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: News items, PvP, Arena, drysc, Rumors, rumor, season-4, season-four, tweet-this, date, four, season-4-start, season, start, season-4-start-date, start-date

• Forum Post of the Day: Fordragon, Saurfang, and original armor

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , Blizzard , Humor , Lore , Wrath of the Lich King , Forums I don't know that we've ever credited a Forum Post of the Day award to an actual CM comment (though the GM scam comeback was pretty classic... Posted May 28 2008, 12:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, drysc, Blizzard, Odds and ends, Wrath of the Lich King, Shaman, Humor, Lore, Forums, armor, funny, forum-post-of-the-day, saurfang, bolvar, king-of-stormwind, burn, fordragon, epic-burn

• Drysc announces forum changes

  Filed under: Blizzard , News items , Forums Drysc has posted that on May 21st, the official forums will undergo a few changes. While most of them are minor, one is a little more meaty. To cut down traffic on the Guild Recruitment forum and give advertisements... Posted May 17 2008, 09:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Raiding, News items, drysc, Blizzard, Forums, wrath, official-forums, guild-recruitment

• Is it really OK for Arthas to be 10-mannable?

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Instances , Expansions , Raiding , Lore , Bosses So one of the most exciting announcements from the recent flurry of news about WoTLK , at least from my point of view, is the that there will be 10-man and 25... Posted May 10 2008, 03:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, loot, Raiding, Instances, karazhan, drysc, Blizzard, Expansions, Lore, Bosses, wotlk, welfare-epics, zul-aman, arthas, 25-man, naxxramas, naxx, challenge, tweet-this, 10-man, icecrown-glacier, lollore, item-level, wotlk-information

• Forum Post of the Day: Assassination nation

  Filed under: Rogue , Analysis / Opinion , Fan stuff , Blizzard , Humor , NPCs I love what Kre's doing on the forums: he's calling for NPC assassination targets . And he's not all talk -- when he gets asked to take a target out, whether it... Posted May 05 2008, 11:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, drysc, Blizzard, Fan stuff, Humor, Rogue, NPCs, fandral-staghelm, npc, assassin, war, killer, ironforge-bread-vendor, kre, katrina-prestor, assassination

• What WoW should learn from certain quests in and around The Barrens

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Quests , Expansions , Lore , Leveling , RP So I've been thinking a bit about questing lately as I traverse Outlands on my latest project, a level 61 Blood Elf Paladin , working on the Outlands quests. I think my favorite... Posted Apr 29 2008, 02:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Quests, drysc, Expansions, Lore, Leveling, wotlk, questing, RP, ashenvale, waaagh, barrens, bear, mulgore, cat, venom-bottle, skorn-whitecloud, the-venture-co, dynamic-questing, firewing, runed-scroll, washte-pawne, Aean-Swiftriver, harvester, escort-quests, lakotamani, venture-company, astranaar, ghost-howl, hippogryph, the-great-ashenvale-hunt, witherbark, syp, the-barrens, wolf, owatanka

• When queue times lie

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , PvP Yeah, I know what Blizzard said. They improved the wait times. They even ran a survey asking how it's all going. Well, for the most part it's been pretty good. There are some occasions, however, when queue... Posted Apr 22 2008, 12:00 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Arena, drysc, queue, matches, Queue-time

• Drysc reveals new arena season 4 rating requirements and rules

  Filed under: Items , Blizzard , News items , PvP , Battlegrounds , Arena var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/pc_games/New_Arena_ratings_and_rules_for_WoW_s_season_4'; Drysc has just posted what may soon be known as the death knell of " welfare... Posted Apr 22 2008, 08:40 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Items, News items, PvP, Battlegrounds, Arena, drysc, Blizzard, Honor, season-4, Personal-rating, Brutal-Gladiator, tom-chilton, Team-Rating, honor-gear, arena-gear, ratings, rating-requirements, arena-ratings, rating

• Blizzard asks: Have Arena wait times improved?

  Filed under: Blizzard , News items , PvP , Forums , Arena Back in February, Bornakk promised Arena queue improvements in Patch 2.4 . Now that 2.4 has been here for a few weeks, Drysc is asking for feedback on the wait times . According to Drysc, Blizzard... Posted Apr 22 2008, 06:00 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: patch-2.4, News items, PvP, Arena, drysc, Blizzard, Forums, wait-times, feedback

• Blizzard on griefing: deal with it.

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , PvP , Forums Drysc responded strongly to some QQ over at the forums when a poster from Kil'jaeden -- a PvP realm -- ranted about being griefed by high level characters while leveling up. Drysc's uncompromising... Posted Apr 17 2008, 09:20 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, griefing, gank, PvP, ganking, drysc, Blizzard, Forums, grief, character-transfer, PvP-realms, QQ

• Making Molten Core for consoles into a real game

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Instances , Humor Bornakk posted a poll on the forums the other day asking what everyone's favorite April Fool's joke from Blizzard was, and surprisingly (to me, anyway -- I thought Tauren Marines would... Posted Apr 03 2008, 11:30 AM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Instances, drysc, Blizzard, Humor, Bornakk, molten-core, april-fools, joke, tauren-marines, funny, atari, poll

• Buyer beware in the Auction House

  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Blizzard , Making money After a player complains that they mistakenly paid 75g for wool cloth in the Auction House, Drysc confirms that Blizzard is all about caveat emptor : the auction house market is all about open... Posted Apr 02 2008, 02:30 PM by WOW Insider Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Making money, drysc, Blizzard, Economy, laissez-faire, free-market, scam, auction-house