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Icecrown Citadel: The Epic Battle We Hoped For

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Icecrown Citadel: The Epic Battle We Hoped For

[Aug 11, 2009 | View Comments] by: Jason Zimmerman

With the recent mention of 31 bosses on the World of Warcraft forums by Ghostcrawler, it seems that this may truly be an epic battle.

I have been very pleased with the way Blizzard has been handling raiding in recent expansions and patches. I absolutely love how they have made raiding more accessible to all players and I also love the new changes to heroics so that they drop Emblems of Conquest to help…

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The Northrend Beasts

[Aug 5, 2009 | View Comments] by: Honors Code

Everyone was excited as we put the raid together to go check out Trial of the Crusader. We had the normal ‘new instance’ logistics to figure out, like where the portals were, and which of the three portals was the right one for us to take.That sorted o…

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[Patch 3.2] Avoidance Nerf

[Jul 13, 2009 | View Comments] by: Honors Code

There’s a change on the PTR that I haven’t mentioned yet. I wasn’t sure I understood it, and I certainly didn’t understand what it would mean.Let’s get to the change:(image from http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/)Dodge Rating: The amo…

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Breaking: New Patch 3.2 Raids Open on the PTR 7:00pm EST Tonight

[Jul 9, 2009 | View Comments] by: Jason Zimmerman

I have been playing on the Public Test Realms today and all the buzz in every chat channel is about the new raids opening. That’s right folks, get your copied characters and premade toons on the PTR to experience those new raids tonight at 7:00pm EST. I am definitely looking forward to the new content. I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated on the new raids as I get in there and experience them. …

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/gquit

[Jun 19, 2009 | View Comments] by: Jason Zimmerman

I finally got to the point where I needed to step away from my current guild. I won’t go into the details here as it’s probably nothing more than a way to cause drama, and I have no interest in doing that. There wasn’t really a single thing that drove me away from [...]

Are most Ulduar raid guides lacking?

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Are most Ulduar raid guides lacking?

[Jun 9, 2009 | View Comments] by: Jason Zimmerman

My raid group has been doing Ulduar for a few weeks now and we are starting to progress into bosses we haven’t done before. We are review strategies from WoWWiki and Strat Fu, as well as watching the TankSpot videos. But even after all this preparation it seems like there are facets of the encounters that these guides are missing.