 | Thursday, 21 May, 2009 - WoW Vault News |  |
| Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 | |
 | |  | | | World of Warcraft #19 Sneak Peek
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Comic Book
In the latest issue of the World of Warcraft comic, on sale May 20, King Varian Wrynn and his son Prince Anduin finally return to Stormwind and celebrate the defeat of Onyxia. Meanwhile, Garona is interrogated by Jaina and Aegwynn, but at what cost? Check out the preview pages now!
-- Sprawl @ 17:49 PST
Win A BlizzCon 2009 Ticket Giveaway
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - BlizzCon
Blizzplanet is proud to announce a giveaway of three BlizzCon 2009 badges courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment. In order to enter the giveaway roster, you must first complete accurately all six instructions on the site and submit them via email.
Be ready to do some reading! Blizzplanet is known to focus on the lore side of Blizzard news, and you are going to have to swim your way through it to enter.
-- Sprawl @ 17:45 PST
Another Round of Class Development Focus
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Wrath of the Lich King
Remember ages ago when Blizzard did class changes based on the communities wants and needs? Well, it is that time again! We are fast-forward to another expansion pack, and Blizzard is going to focus on each class individually starting with "sticky threads" on each of the official class forums to solicit opinions. It is important to keep in mind that we have a schedule of classes we will be addressing and will be getting to each class individually over this period of time. Please note, this list is subject to change.
Shaman
Mage
Warlock
Death Knight
Paladin
Warrior
Hunter
Druid
Rogue
Priest Generally the WoW population is easy-going, the "go-with-the-flow" type that doesn't mind or care about each little change made to the game, but right now Blizzard is asking YOU to put on those thinking caps and share some insight.
Just not yet...
-- Sprawl @ 17:40 PST
Warrior DPS to Increase by 25%!?!
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Wrath of the Lich King
This bot won't lie, I went for headlines! There is a dps boost planned for PvE dps warriors, but no real details are available. We do have buffs planned for Arms and Fury. We'll announce them when they are a little closer to going live. I don't want to oversell them because players sometimes get notions of seeing their dps go up by 25%.
It's also entirely possible dps buffs might come with PvP nerfs. Warrior representation in Arena went from very low to very high.
Arms PvE -- dps too low
Fury PvE -- dps too low
Arms PvP -- possibly too good (but we'll see how 3.1.2 goes)
Fury PvP -- not concerned about it being too good The above quote is parts of a larger discussion being held on the official forums.
-- Sprawl @ 17:32 PST
 | |  | |  | | Tuesday, 19 May, 2009 | |
| | | | | Improving Hunter DPS through Ranged Weapons
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Wrath of the Lich King - Patch News
Whoa, time to throw Hunters a bone. The following was posted: The developers believe hunter dps is too low, so today we are implementing a change to ranged weapon damage to improve dps across the board.
Bows, crossbows and guns of item level 226 or higher (which means weapons from Kel'Thuzad, Ulduar and the Furious Gladiator pieces) will do around 30 more dps. This should translate to a hunter damage increase of a few percent.
We don't think this will be quite sufficient in boosting hunter dps to where we think it needs to be and we have another buff that we plan to get in sometime over the next couple of weeks. We'll announce that change when it gets closer.
As hunters may recall, we had an ambitious plan to change the way ammo worked for 3.1 that ended up being overly ambitious, causing us to scale back. However as part of that change, we stopped itemizing bullets and arrows. Since hunters could not upgrade from the ammo available at the launch of Lich King, their damage had started and would continue to fall behind as other classes upgraded their gear. This change basically incorporates the ammo damage into the weapons -- as you get better ranged weapons, it's as if you got better ammo to go along with them. This is likely to be a design we continue for the next few tiers of content until we have the opportunity to overhaul ammo completely. Don't say Blizzard never did anything for you!
-- Sprawl @ 18:24 PST
Wintergrasp Temporarily Disabled
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Wrath of the Lich King - Patch News
Rut roh, we aren't out of the woods yet. We have shut off Wintergrasp on all realms while we investigate an issue which caused the games to reset prematurely. Thank you for your patience, and we will re-activate Wintergrasp once the issue has been resolved. The above was posted a little over an hour ago.
-- Sprawl @ 18:20 PST
Topic of the Week
Print News | Category: Site News
There's a very special day out there for all WoW gamers. One we set our calendars by and anticipate with dread, fear, tinlgy excitement or hope of something new to ease our boredom. That day, is Tuesday. Patch Day. Maintaince Day. Time To Redo All My Freaking Addons Day.
So how do you celebrate this momentous occasion of restarts, skewed addons, talent refunds, and down time? Do you throw a party when there's a "free" Tuesday with no maintenance? Or just cross your fingers and hope for the best?
-- PallyDog @ 10:14 PST
Patch 3.1.2 Notes
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Patch News
 Happy Patch Day!Patch 3.1.2 is being deployed to the servers today.
World of Warcraft PTR Patch 3.1.2
The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html
The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/
General
New art textures have been added for Argent Tournament mounts. Any mounts already purchased from the Argent Tournament vendors will be updated automatically. Argent Tournament mounts with the old textures will still be available for purchase from the Argent Tournament vendors for a small Champion's Seal and gold cost (standard faction requirements apply).
Copied Test Realm characters will no longer be copied with their achievement history in order to better facilitate the character copy process.
Equipment Manager
When enabled from the Interface Options menu, this feature will allow players to store sets of equipment, easily swap between saved sets using hotkeys, and pull items directly from backpacks or bank slots (must be at the bank to equip inventory from the bank).
Read More...
-- bobsoji @ 7:30 PST
| | | | | | Monday, 18 May, 2009 | |
| | | | | Select Realm Maintenance (5/18/09)
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
After a rather large crash, the following was posted. We are currently performing urgent maintenance on the realms listed below. We estimate these realms will be playable by approximately 8:00 PM PDT. Thank you for your patience.
Antonidas
Anub'arak
Blackwater Raiders
Bladefist
Borean Tundra
Cairne
Cenarion Circle
Cenarius
Darrowmere
Drak'Tharon
Drenden
Echo Isles
Farstriders
Fenris
Garrosh
Hydraxis
Hyjal
Korialstrasz
Lightbringer
Maiev
Misha
Mok'Nathal
Moon Guard
Nazgrel
Nesingwary
Nordrassil
Quel'dorei
Ravenholdt
Rivendare
Shandris
Shu'halo
Sisters of Elune
The Forgotten Coast
Tortheldrin
Uther
Vashj
Winterhoof
Wyrmrest Accord For the record, it wasn't me.
-- Sprawl @ 18:23 PST
World First! Algalon 10 man defeated!
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
 MMO Champion is reporting the 10 man version of the optional hard mode only Ulduar boss Algalon has been defeated by Ensidia. So, how is your guild fairing in Ulduar so far?
Algalon 10-Man World First Kill by Ensidia...
Ensidia just killed the 10-man version of Algalon, the hard-mode boss of Ulduar!
-- bobsoji @ 16:12 PST
| | | | | | Sunday, 17 May, 2009 | |
| Saturday, 16 May, 2009 | |
| | | | | Network Downtime
Print News
Global IGN Update: With E3 right around the corner, we're upgrading our servers so they'll be ready to handle the slew of people who will be visiting our sites during this year's videogame convention. We'll have to take the site down this weekend for a bit to complete the maintenance, but it should only take an hour or so to upgrade our servers, which will be back stronger and faster than ever. The following sites will be inaccessible between 10:30 and 11:30 PM (PST) on Sunday, May 17, 2009 for scheduled maintenance: - IGN, IGN Mobile, IGN Boards, IGN community sites
- GameSpy
- AskMen
- Rotten Tomatoes
- FilePlanet and D2D FLV videos
To help our international readers, here's a handy guide to the outage times around the world: United States outage time: 10:30 - 11:30pm (Pacific) Sunday, May 17th Aussie outage time: 3:30 - 4:30pm Monday, May 18th UK outage time: 6:30 - 7:30am Monday, May 18th
-- -1313-Evil_Homer @ 23:36 PST
Tweeters Unite!
Print News
If you're a Twitter user then let me tell you about Twitter Tuesday! Starting on Tuesday, May 18, at some point in the day on Tuesday, IGNcom will tweet out a trivia question. To answer this IGN and/or game related trivia question, simply email your answer along with name, mailing address and date of birth to igncommunity@ign.com. The 50th correct response will get their pick from a couple of items in the IGN swag bag. Read more on Staci-IGN's blog.
Twitter Accounts
-- Jube @ 15:19 PST
| | | | | | Friday, 15 May, 2009 | |
| Thursday, 14 May, 2009 | |
| | | | | Ayla's Anecdotes: School of Hard Knocks
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - Site News - Blogs
Ayla's Anecdotes is a new column here at the WoWVault. Ayla is here to regale us with amusing tales of her adventures in the World of Warcraft. This week, Ayla takes us on a journey into the School of Hard Knocks achievement!
"Children�s week was, how shall I put this, annoyingly fun. I was gone for the week-end which led to me having a late start to the festivities. I logged in and checked my mail; Sprawl had thoughtfully sent me mageroyal and ice cream so I had a bit of a head start on those items. Pulling up Rill�s For the Children walkthrough on my laptop I skimmed through its contents and headed out. The Fed-ex part was not bad at all, the walk through was extremely helpful in not having to back track on any of the destinations. I did run into a bit of snafu when in The Caverns of Time, I had wandered around that circle 4 times trying to get the dragon�s attention only to realize I had the wrong orphan out...."
Read the whole article!
-- Rill_of_WE @ 11:03 PST
Ding! MMO Podcast #2
Print News
Join some of the IGN Network staff as we attempt to fumble our way through MMO podcasting! We're still working through the kinks as far as quality and content goes, but feedback is always welcome!
-- Jube @ 8:23 PST
Build 9901 - More WG changes - nerfs to Honor
Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News
MMO Champion posted some news regarding build 9901 and another change to WG. So what do YOU think of this latest round of changes to WG?
Lake Wintergrasp
*Wintergrasp Victory now rewards 3000 Honor. (Down from 5000 Honor)
*Wintergrasp Defeat now rewards 1250 Honor. (Down from 3000 Honor)
*Tower Damaged now grants up to 750 Honor. (Down from 1250 Honor)
*Tower Destroyed now grants up to 750 Honor. (Down from 1250 Honor)
*Damaged Building Reward now grants up to 750 Honor. (Down from 1250 Honor)
*Intact Building Defender now grants up to 1500 Honor. (Down from 2500 Honor)
-- bobsoji @ 6:13 PST
| | | | | | Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 | |
|
|
Hey everyone! If you're planning on attending Blizzcon 09 then be sure to keep an eye on the 
RSS