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That’s right, everyone! The era of Freya is almost upon us! On July 29, 2010, the Freya PTS client will be live and players can begin exploring this most exciting of game updates. On the same day, the interactive Freya Preview Site and the Patch Notes will be also be available. Prepare yourselves for an exciting PTS experience with GM activities by reading the Freya PTS Fun schedule! Discuss these upcoming PTS events with your friends on the forums.
Lineage II : The Chaotic Throne
The NCsoft.com website will be down for extended maintenance Thursday, July 22nd at 4am PDT / 6am CDT / 7am EDT / 12pm UTC/GMT. Estimated downtime is approximately 12 hours.
Access to your NCsoft Master Account will be unavailable during this time. We do not expect there to be any issues for players logging into the forums.
Lineage II : The Chaotic Throne
Before the official press release, Massively has eagerly sought out some details about the upcoming Freya update for Lineage II.
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Today’s submissions come from a player who prefers to remain anonymous. (No, it’s not Joe Klein.) Anonymous managed to snag a number of Uldum screenshots from the beta somehow, and wishes to share them with us. Beware! Behind the cut lie pictures that the truly spoiler-free may not want to see. But then again, if you’re truly spoiler-free, you probably skipped this post due to the “beta” in the title. So read on!
 Want to see your own screenshot here? Send it to aroundazeroth@wow.com. We strongly prefer full-sized pictures with no UI or names showing. Please include “Azeroth” in the subject line so your email doesn’t get marked as spam, and include your name, guild and server if you want to be credited.
Continue reading Around Azeroth Beta Edition: The castle in the clouds in the sky
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Around Azeroth Beta Edition: The castle in the clouds in the sky originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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I have been playing World of Warcraft on the road for the last three years now, and what an adventure it has been. I started out on an old HP Pavilion zv6000 weighing in at about 8 pounds, with a 800 x 600 resolution and 800 MB of RAM. Not only was the beast of a laptop fun to haul through security lines at the airport, but it was heavy and slow. 25-man raids were next to impossible (I’m talking to you, Heigan), with frame rates under 5 FPS most of the time. I was eventually convinced to buy a new machine, and I decided to go with a MacBook Pro. I’m currently running version 4, which is the 17″ widescreen with the Intel Core 2 Duo with 2.6 Mzh processors and 4 GB of RAM. It’s a pretty decent machine, with frame rates in the 30s in Dalaran and 25-man frame rates around 5-25 FPS, depending on the fight (less if I’m trying to FRAPS a fight or Marrowgar’s fire is involved).
The biggest changes I have made between playing on my desktop (Dell XPS 720 series) at home and my MacBook on the road have been in regard to addons and special effect details in the video settings. I have optimized every addon I use to keep the lowest memory usage possible (for example, Skada instead of Recount), making use of all 4 GB I have on that machine and ensuring my machine is doing the best it can. I use Addon Control Panel to turn off every non-essential addon come raid time, including Auctioneer, Jamba (for when I am dual-boxing), SexyMap, etc. I love Addon Control Panel, as it lets me save addon sets in different states depending on what I am doing. I have a raiding 10-man version, a raiding 25-man version, and questing-, leveling- and auction-based sets that I can flip between at the click of my mouse.
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Guest Post: Raiding on the road originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Some of the more tech savvy of you may have noticed that you can force anti-aliasing in StarCraft 2 but this can only be done in you have an Nvidia GPU. As the guys at Crunchgear point out, this also comes with a performance hit. If you have not got an Nvidia GPU and have opted for an ATI then your are currently stuffed.
However, ATI are aware of the issue and Crunchgear posted this statement from ATI regarding AA.
After evaluating our options, our engineering team opted not to provide AA support for StarCraft II within the Catalyst Control Center, even though the competition has included AA support in their driver at launch.
We are committed to making AA perform at an acceptable level before we release it to our customers. We will continue to work with Blizzard on this matter and hope to offer our customers an acceptable AA solution at a later date.
ATI has since followed up to say via Twitter that AA will be available via a hotfix soon.
Just got an email saying that Starcraft 2 AA is almost ready. Just getting tested now. Hotfix soon. So good news there for ATI owners, you are being looked after.
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 Axes, maces, lightning, Windfury, and wolves. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance and leads the guild Big Crits (Week 8 now out!) as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby.
Two weeks ago a fellow enhancement shaman contacted me on Twitter asking how to improve his damage output. He was kind enough to let me use his email as the topic for the weekly enhancement shaman column here on WoW.com. Because he was brave (crazy?) enough to face the public scrutiny that comes from being in the spotlight here, show him the high level of respect our fellow enhancement brother deserves. Here’s his email:
I just switched to enhance for raiding a couple of weeks ago and I still feel like my DPS is lower than what it could be. I’m using Shock and Awe and still depending more or less on the priority frame, which I hope to ween off of soon. I’m still not 100% sure if I have the priorities set up correctly at this point. They are set at:
- SR
- MT
- LS
- MW5 LB
- SS
- ES if SS
- FS
- LL
- FN
I also use Wolves every time they are up and also Fire Elemental when off CD. With just my buffs at the heroic dummy I seem to be maxing out around 6-6.5k. Again, seems a little low to me. If you would like to look at my armory, the name is Alyssian on Durotan. We use WoL, too, and my guild is Chi Cerca Trova.
PS – Any tips for helping me get off of the SAA priority window? I’m mainly concerned with keeping the shock rotation going, I think I can handle the rest.
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Totem Talk: Enhance me originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.
There’s been plenty of chatter regarding the upcoming expansion, and both Rossi and myself have been doing our best to fill in the background on lore figures and races that will play some kind of part in it. One of the questions I find myself asked a lot in regards to Cataclysm is how the new race/class combinations will fall into play lore-wise once the expansion launches.
The answer to that question is easier than you’d think — most lore for these new race and class combinations already exists in one form or another in game. Over the next few weeks I’ll be giving you some background and history into each class and race, and how these combinations make sense in the face of existing lore, as well as speculation on possible conflicts we might see in the future with regards to these choices. Please note, the following post may contain spoilers for the Cataclysm expansion — if you’d rather avoid all discussion or speculation regarding Cataclysm, it’d be advised to steer away now.
Today we’ll be discussing one of the most baffling of the new announcements — night elf mages. Although the original announcement left some (including myself) horribly confused, later revelations made the choice perfectly logical. While they’ve been addressed briefly in the post regarding elven evolution, we’re going to take a closer look at the Shen’dralar — the Highborne that make their home in Dire Maul.
Continue reading Know Your Lore: History of the Shen’dralar
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Know Your Lore: History of the Shen’dralar originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looking for some SC2 tips to help your game? Taylor “Painuser” Parsons has offered up a few free tips in an interview on PCGamer which may help players. Taylor also has tutorials on stratbunker.com and here’s some video of the man in action.
Of course all of the StarCraft IncGamers readers are already pros I’m sure so not sure how much help the tips will be Don’t forget you can add your tips for other players in our recently opened strategy forum.
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It’s Saturday, and that of course means it’s time again for Arcane Brilliance, weekly mage column, hero to the downtrodden, vanquisher of evil, dispenser of justice. That’s right. By day, Arcane Brilliance is a mild-mannered mage-related wall of text. But by night … Arcane Brilliance is Deathspank.
Another beta build hit a couple nights ago — as they tend to do — and it brought a number of class changes. A quick glance at the new talent trees revealed the expected (some talent position swaps, a few talents vanishing, some tooltip alterations, the occasional loss of a rank here and there) and the … unexpected. Three changes in the fire tree, particularly, caught my eye:
Yes, the tooltip for Molten Shields really is “Redesign!” With an exclamation point. For emphasis.
So clearly the fire tree is in a certain amount of flux? I became instantly excited. The fire tree, perhaps more than either of the other two trees, really has been due for some focused attention. Then I saw this, from none other than Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton:
Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: Fire mage 4.0
Filed under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance, Cataclysm
Arcane Brilliance: Fire mage 4.0 originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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 The taultunleashed Aion homepage section has been updated. As we previously said we are working on giving the sit a much easier layout for members to use. This is our step to helping us continue to dominate the mmorpg cheating world. We need to edit a ton of game sections so we can then implement our other updates.
 We are currently undergoing a giant site change. For starters we are working on redoing all the main pages for the move to our new forum system. This might take a week or 2 in order to convert everything but once its done the site should be MUCH more user friendly. As you can see the main pages have of course the latest cheats, bots, guides, and submissions, but they also have news for you members that want to know whats going on with your favorite game. Well we have updated both starcraft 2 and world of warcraft as well as the home page so far. The next 2 sections to undergo a new look will be aion and star trek online. We are aiming for one or 2 a day. Also the forums for each game will be cleaned up as well.
Blizzard Entertainment has paid tribute again to one of their artists who passed away on March 18, 2004. After completing the mission titled "Belly of the Beast" a cinematic shows Jim Raynor returning to the surface of Char where he finds General Waterfield's team decimated by the Zerg.
Jim Raynor approaches a dead Marine, and kneels before him to grab his dog tag. Those with sharp eyes may have caught the name: M. Koiter on the dog tag. It stands for Michel Koiter (Twincruiser) a former Son of the Storm.
Back in 2004, when World of Warcraft was launched, Blizzard Entertainment paid tribute to Michel Koiter by adding the Shrine of the Fallen Warrior located in a hill to the west of Crossroads (The Barrens). The runes form the letters MK (Michel Koiter). The Spirit Guide before the fallen warrior is named Koiter.
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Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW.com 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 you’re playing, too!
I have to admit it: I’m just not into all of the StarCraft 2 hype. It’s a bit awkward since practically everyone I know — and a lot of the WoW.com staff — seems to be excited about SC2 above all else. So I’m attempting to turn things around, at least for the duration of this post, with this week’s WRUP. In addition to asking what everyone’s playing this weekend, I’ve asked for everyone’s thoughts on the ongoing Cataclysm beta test. Well, it might have taken their minds off SC2 for a minute, at least …
Everyone’s answers — and your chance to add your own — after the break.
Continue reading WRUP: StarCraft 2 edition
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WRUP: StarCraft 2 edition originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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