Archive for the ‘Warcraft Tips and Tricks’ Category

As a level 70, one day I decided to go and explore areas I had never visited before, and I started with Winterspring.

Figuring everything was going to be frost-resistant in that frosty area, I brought my Hunter instead of my Frost Mage, and I ventured south from Everlook as it was the only direction I hadn’t fully explored in that zone yet.

What’s In Darkwhisper Gorge?

Darkwhisper Gorge, just south of where the elite 60 big fel demons roam around, there’s a series of tunnels and a series of open areas all connected to one another and sparsely populated by demons of various types (succubi, fel hunters, etc), and with a few spawns of Rich Thorium.

Earthcaller Franzahi in Darkwhisper Gorge

But, other than that, there doesn’t seem to be a lot going on down there. I certainly didn’t see anyone on my journey once I left Everlook, which was itself very sparsely populated, being a 50-60 zone (a zone popular at being sparsely populated as everyone tries to get into Outland and leave Azeroth behind)…

There were TWO things that I found down there in my journey - other than the Rich Thorium veins which could in themselves be lucrative (but not really worth it for the length of the journey, except that those pop spots haven’t been touched for ages and thus should reset rather quickly afterwards for another harvesting).

I found a friendly NPC by the name of Earthcaller Franzahi who doesn’t offer much entertainment, and I found a portal door, blocked by a locked door that didn’t give me any clue as to what key it may need, if any, to open.

So, I ask for all those who might know - What’s in Darkwhisper Gorge?

What’s In Darkwhisper Gorge

16
Jul

Maximum guild size in World of Warcraft

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

Another common question asked on Blizzard’s Guild Relations forum is about how many people can be in a guild.

The simple answer is 500.

The slightly less simple answer is “over 500, but at the 501st member, the Guild Roster interface doesn’t show all members anymore”.

Once the interface is no longer completely accurate, guild members and officers will need to use the command line for things such as promotion (/gpromote), demotion (/gdemote) and removal (/gkick) of members they cannot access through the /groster interface itself.

14
Jul

World of Warcraft Patch 2.2 release notes

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

I found a post on the Official Forums that was referenced on Thottbot, about Patch 2.2 of World of Warcraft and how it is not only going to have voice chat built in and a new guild bank feature to better support guild needs, but it’s also going to introduce video recording capabilities for Macintosh users.

Here’s the full patch notes for patch 2.2 which has moved into the Player Test Realms very very recently.

If you’d like to participate in the player testing portion of the patch releases to help find bugs or odd behaviors before it hits the main realms and causes extended shut downs and maintenance periods (or outright crashes), check out the information Blizzard has provided here.


Why Video Recording Only On Mac?

Windows users are able to use a Freeware? Shareware? version of FRAPS to make game videos but Mac users have only paid options ($79 for software for example) and thus the WoW game designers are motivated not only by the Mac users of the game, but the internal software testers within Blizzard that use Macs and are submitting bug reports to the developers.

Why I Care

Cuz I’m playing on a Macintosh of course! And I’ve got aspirations for my WoW future that include taking video clips of my play time! And I’m super glad I might actually have an option that doesn’t require me paying for software I have no idea if I like or if I hate!

Go go Blizzard.