Illidan Loots - WoW

The drops from Illidan, if you thought drops from earlier raids were insane. You should check out the drops from the first Illidan deaths.

Recently as we posted Illidan was taken down by the guild: Nihilun - very famous and classed as possibly the best WoW - World of Warcraft guild in the world, the boys from nihilun took down Illidan and were first to see the great drops / loots from this boss.

There were two drops, they were: a staff and a shield. The previous raids shields best was 5000 armour approx. these new drops are around the 6336 armour which dwarfs the old rate. The Staff has stats such as: 70 stamina, 47 int, 259 spell damage and 55 spell haste and 36 spell crit rating. This is major power here guys.

It will be interesting to see if any other guilds are able to quickly take down Illidan.

We look forward to your world of warcraft discussion points, please reply and let us know your thoughts.

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Tier 6 Equipment Mt Hyjal

You want to be unstoppable in World of Warcraft? Then baby you need the Tier 6 Equipment from Mt Hyjal.

If you're good enough to snare the Tier 6 Equipment from Mt Hyjal - a lucky item drop or whatever, then it's a nice addition to your armour and overall build.

Very few hero's have been lucky enough to get the full set of Tier 6 kit and gear - so keep trying my fellow nerd and do what you can.

Have you ever bought WoW gold? We used the wowmine service and found it very helpful. WoWmine also have a special offer at the moment of $5 USD for 1000 gold. Limited spots and seasonally offered. Try them! (They sometimes support this site, keep your eye out)

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Illidan first kill - Nihilum Guild

Illidan world first kill by Guild: Nihilum

I've enjoyed reading this thread and I think there are a lot of valid points and views here.

(Disclaimer: I've also been following the threads on the WoW Forums that are similar and wanted to respond there but the forums are down!)

I think there is some nostalgia going on here though. Either that or we're watching a textbook case of the "grass is always greener" going on. In WoW 1.0, we faced many complaints about the lack of raiding options. We were often criticized with coming out with new raid content "at a snail's pace." In fact, I challenge anyone to find a thread from Winter 2005 where people are talking about how awesome the pacing of the raid content was.

Some other things to remember. You *could* skip some of AQ 40 in your progression if you wanted to. This was viewed as an interesting debate (having options is a good thing, yes?). Not a design flaw. We're always looking to give players options -- from PvP (multiple arenas, battlegrounds), to 5 mans to raiding. My biggest criticism of our 10 person raiding game right now (I have a few) is that there are no options beyond KZ. We're fixing that. But you get my point. Players need options.

I'll go ahead and make a controversial statement to illustrate a point. Let's pretend for a moment that Burning Crusade never came out and we were still in vanilla WoW land. The community, as a whole, would have eventually screamed bloody muder over the difficulty of the Four Hoursemen. The Four Hoursemen were considered one of our best tuned encounters in the game. But I'll argue that's because so few people actually progressed to the point of needing to beat them. And the ones who did beat them, were ok with going to extreme measures to do so (consumables, world buffs, server transfers for tanks in 4 peice dreadnaught). A fight that requires 8 tanks is *not* acceptable to the raiding community as a whole. A fight that requires 8 tanks was acceptable to the bleeding edge only (and their fans) and only because it seperated them from the rest -- not because that's what made a *fun* raiding experience. How fun was it for the hunter who got benched for Warrior #8? How fun was it for the guild who lost their main tank when he server transfered to be a part of one of the World Firsts?

For the place and time, Four Horsemen were great. They were beatable and mostly bug free.

While we're on the topic of Naxx, I want to remind everyone that during it's initial opening, almost ALL of the bosses died within the same period that the BT bosses are dying. People forget that because of the Four Horsemen wall. If raid content is tuned correctly, it will die relatively fast (UNLESS it requires some sort of progression check -- Onyxia Cloak, resist check). Even straight up gear checks are very dicey. More often than not that lead's to excessive raid stacking rather than a true gearing up.

Another thing to keep in mind is the PTR. In order to release the highest quality encounters, we put the content on the PTR. This happened with Naxx as well. It's not surprising that the three EU guilds who have progressed the furthest in Black Temple are also the guilds that spent the most time on the PTR. While it's "only taken them 2 weeks" to kill most of the content in BT, we've been watching them rep on the dungeon for 2 months now.

Properly tuned and accessible raid content will die. It's ok. We'll make more. That's what we do for a living. What's really important is for the content to be enjoyable to do for more than just one clearing. Because after all, your priest wants his shoulders off of Boss X or your tank wants that shield off of Boss Y. It should be epic to kill a boss like Illidan or Kael. But it shouldn't be epic because no one is doing it because they are overtuned or bugged out.

My opinions on Black Temple? Najentus is tuned perfectly -- we wanted a "reward" boss for getting in. Akama is a tad easier than we had hoped but he's a really cool, fun fight so it works out. Reliquary of Souls is just where we wanted it to be -- it's very hard. Teron is a hard fight until people know what they are doing at which point it becomes easy. The more guilds that kill Teron, the easier the fight becomes for everyone.

I think the raid game is in a very good place right now. Raiders of all skill levels and time commitments have a variety of options. There *are* some extremely challenging and rewarding fights in the game (Kael, Reliquary, Archimonde, Illidan). Raid tuning walks the razor blade. Things that make raids *seem* more challenging (trash, raid stacking, consumables, resist checks, attunements, limited access, limited tries) are usually perceived as tedious or "progression blockers" and the complaints fire away. But I'll reiterate, a well tuned raid boss -- even a very hard and complex one -- will die quickly if it's tuned properly and bug free.

I'll leave you guys with a question. How many people posting in this thread that the Black Temple is too easy have killed a boss in Black Temple?

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Blizzard Cease and Desist Order WoW

Makers of World of Warcraft, Blizzard - have now gotten tough with peons for hire. The companies that farm, advertise, market and sell gold for use within the WoW game are now being told to shape up or be sued.

A cease and desist order from Blizzard hits the peons for hire, right between the eyes. And WoW players while happy to get rid of in game message spam from peons - are worried that they can't shortcut and buy gold in the future for their WoW heros.

Here is the Blizzard Post on the World of Warcraft Official Forums:

As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending.

With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.

If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic.

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WoW Cheats and Exploits - MMOEDGE

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WoW Priest Build Strategy

The simple idea on World of Warcraft, is to use a hero that isn't as common as others. A healing character in WoW such as a priest can be spec'd as a damage dealing evil old bastard of a priest or a new school good guy who is born to heal.

As many don't play a priest hero (apart from ALT or alternate characters) on WoW accounts, then make sure you grab or setup a new hero Priest and play and level that old guy until he is huge. You will be in high demand from guilds and never be short of a fight or raid team.

Priests are key to winning and dominating all nerds on WoW - so don't be silly and create one now. Let us know any special or commanding builds for your WoW priest.

Good luck and happy WoW'ing.

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WoW - World of Warcraft Love Video!

A very funny World of Warcraft Link of Love we stumbled on today, as we reported earlier this week, WoW players coming into our internet cafe to play - (www.internetandlan.com) mentioned a chick offering herself inexchange for 5000 wow gold. Very very funny.

Anyway, check this video out - how two wow players (male and female) interact in real life as opposed to the game of World of Warcraft.

http://media.putfile.com/PurePwnage-WoWisafeeling

Very funny WoW stuff indeed. Let us know your comments!

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