Big News Of The Week
Wrath Of The Lich King Shatters Sales Record
Blizzard announced on Thursday that the 2nd expansion to World Of Warcraft sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. This eclipses the previous record of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in 24 hours, set by The Burning Crusade.
Rumors And Scuttlebutt
Tabula Rasa To Go Bye-Bye
Only a year after the Richard Garriot-designed MMORPG Tabula Rasa launched, NCSoft announced yesterday that it will be discontinued on February 28th. Interestingly, they’re making it free-to-play starting on January 10.
Improving The Warlock Ritual Of Summoning
Anyone who has been looking for a warlock in Dalaran the last nine days knows that, at least until level 74, they’ve got the worst gig in town. It’s the place everyone wants to be, but it’s way up in the sky and unless you are summoned, ported or battleground-queued to Dalaran, you can’t get there until level 74. Mages have it good. They can port you to Dalaran from wherever they are and charge you up front. But Warlocks don’t get that racket. They have to get two other people in Dalaran to help, they have to have a stack of soul shards, ect. Blizzard has finally decided to improve the warlock ritual of summoning. According to community manager Vaneck, the spell will be improved in the very next patch (pre 3.1), and will now create a meeting stone that can be re-used for up to five minutes to summon everyone in a raid.
Who Is The Real Prince Of Darkness?
Blizzard introduced two new television advertisements this week. The first starred Steven van Zandt, who played Silvio on The Sopranos, in an homage to Godfather 3. The second starred the real Prince Of Darkness, non other than Ozzy Osbourne!
Town Cryer
Dark Winter writes:
I play Wintess on the Outland EU realm and I’ve got a Lich King question for you both. I’ve recently bought the expansion here in the UK and also got a copy of the collectors edition box from the USA. So yes, I have 2 copies of the game. My question is thus: would the USA key be able to activate the expansion on an EU account?
The North American WoW Support site.
The European WoW Support site.
Savrockk on the Firetree server writes:
A Long time ago you guys talked or mention an addon that would take like 40% of the silver/copper/gold from mobs and save it away. What was that addon called? Since WOTLK is out i want to save some money.
Drop Of The Week
Check Your Mail For Baby Bears
We started getting reports this morning that Blizzard is sending out a unique companion pet to players in the game – a Baby Blizzard Bear! At least, we’ve heard from a few Oceanic players, for whom it is already Sunday, November 23rd. We don’t know much about the Baby Bear yet, including the most important question – what determines whether or not you receive one, but we’ve seen a couple of screenshots, and it’s adorable.
And this week, we’re giving away a Hippogryph Hatchling Card, provided by Tracielynn. Thanks, Tracielynn! Listen to win!!
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there is a definite way to obtain the Baby Blizzard Bear companion pet
it is available on http://www.warcraftpets.com but here is the main point.
“This pet is rewarded via the mail when you log in with a character during WoW’s 4th Anniversary event on November 23rd, 2008. In addition to receiving this pet, logging in also also earns your character the WoW’s 4th Anniversary achievement. It is likely that this pet will only be available during the event. The full duration of the event is unknown.”
this is the reason that Oceanic Players have been getting theirs first – as it is the 23rd right now in Australia etc
So everyone remember to log in on the 23rd and grab themselves a Baby Blizzard Bear. If you don’t LOG IN in those select 24HRS, you may NEVER EVER EVER be able to get yourself a Baby Blizzard Bear.
Regards
Finklestein
If you log in on 23th you will get an achievement “WoW’s 4th Anniversary” and you get mailed a Baby Blizzard Bear an account bound item. If you right click it learns the pet and the item is NOT destroyed
Tried downloading from iTunes but says error.
hmm…
not a great episode, 1st half an hour….? & duel wield isn’t a talent btw..
I would bet that anything included in a “Battlechest” type release would be in the list of 10 numbers one. And I would think Warcraft 2 would be included because it had an original release, a battlechest release and an updated release later that was compatible with current Windows OS’s.
I’d just like to say a huge thanks to the instance for reading my email out, you guys continue to be the best thing on my ipod!
About BM hunter last talent point (Beast Mastery). If you get that point you not only get access to exotic pets but you get 4 (four) extra talent points to use on any other pet you use. Even if you never tame an exotic pet, taking this talent is still worthwhile. Love your show, keep up the good work.
You forgot about Baldursgate, Never winters night and possible planescape and possibly BG and nwn sequals… those had to be top sellers.
oh crap… those are bioware arent they… could have sworn it was a blizzard logo I used to hit escape to… *feels shame*
@lmmo who wrote:
“not a great episode, 1st half an hour….? & duel wield isn’t a talent btw..”
The episode was 88 minutes long, not half an hour, and duel wield *specialization* is certainly a talent. It’s at the 16th-20th points of the fury tree.
Yep, I just meant the 1st half an hour wasn’t great, last weeks WAS brilliant tho… constructive criticism is better than brown nosing
I guessed the specialization is what you meant after I commented that, keep up the jiggernaught stuff
if anyone does ever make an addon/macro/kitchen sink that turns off AotV when your mana bar is full and AotP when you enter combat, i will rejoice. so keep us updated!
i love this show keep it going
true, anyone else know of an english wow podcast?
Thank for the show guys! You make my traffic commute seem soo much shorter,
BTW, just wanted to comment, in Lich King expansion being a fully prot Warrior with the new talents is not bad at all. Your HP rarely ever moves and you can solo lots of group quests. Killing trash is not bad either, nothing like the brutal BC days when Prot Warriors did 100dps
I believe this goes for almost all classes, which means you can probably be any spec and quest fine now so choose what is most fun for you.
Just a note on Death Runes:
There is an ability called blood tap that all DK’s learn that makes one of your Blood runes into a death rune for 10secs.
This is the only death rune that is available immediately when you receive it, all others become active when the rune that was converted finishing cooling down.
Love the show guys,
Chrysillus
Feathermoon
I’ve been recently introduced to this podcast, the sheer quality of production blows anything else out of the water.
I’m defiantly going to get hold of the older podcasts to help make my time at work each day just that little bit more bearable hehe.
This really is top notch guys, keep up the good work!
Grimhammer
grim@waranvil.com
http://www.waranvil.com