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Countdown to Burning Crusade: Day 6 winner
"You not LOOK twenty one..."The people have spoken, and the winner of the day 6 horde caption contest is commenter 4, spencewah: "You not LOOK twenty one..." For his trouble, spencewah will take home an I survived Barrens chat tee-shirt. Grats to spencewah, thanks to all who participated (and those who voted!), and check after the jump for the complete poll results.
I put a spell on you (that no one else has)
Casters have often complained that their itemization is worse than melee itemization, especially in new dungeons. It took casters a long time to get a legendary of their own, and for that they have to complete Naxxramas and be "chosen" to get forty pieces of the staff above every other caster in their guild, while warriors and rogues just have to get lucky in MC. To fight this perceived imbalance, Lower of Equilibrium (Mannoroth) suggests that legendary or epic spells should be available as drops in Burning Crusade. He notes that these don't have to be entirely new spells, but could be current spells with an added component -- perhaps an shadow bolt volley with a cooldown for warlocks, or a chance for all your frostbolt spells to frost nova around the area of the target. Other classes also argue for their own epic dropped abilities (my favorites being the rogue's "Epic Pickpocket," which would give you a random non-soulbound item from the opponent's inventory, as well as the self-explanatory "Facestab.") Priests and druids want AOE mindflays with fear and moonfire, respectively. A mage even suggests a legendary drop of the Meteor spell from AQ40 trash mobs. Meteor basically does a fixed amount of damage divided by the number of targets in a certain area, which brings to mind the hilarious mental picture of an entire AV piling on top of each other to avoid getting killed by the spell. Is Lower dreaming an impossible dream, or can you see a way for this to work out? (Image from Final Fantasy VI, copyright Squaresoft. Old school epic spell FTW!)
Dell to auction off custom World of Warcraft XPS M1710 laptops
Dell's in your laptop, airbrushing your WoW art -- in honor of the upcoming World of Warcraft Burning Crusade expansion release on January 16, they again commissioned artist Mike Lavalee to airbrush two limited edition XPS M1710 laptops with BC-inspired art; the lappies will be auctioned off to benefit World Harvest, an international humanitarian relief organization. For the non-addicted uninitiated, the artwork depicts the two new Blood Elf and Drainei races to be released in the expansion in the process of totally pwning each other. It'll be interesting to see how much these actually fetch on auction, as ironically the people who'd want them most may be unemployed and living in Mom's basement financially challenged.
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Adventures in Beta: Fun with Seed of Corruption
The final entrant in our series of easily abused Burning Crusade spells is the warlock's Seed of Corruption. According to Blizzard, this level 70 spell "imbeds a demon seed in the enemy target, causing 1044 Shadow damage over 18 sec. When the target takes 1044 total damage, the seed will inflict 1110 to 1290 Shadow damage to all enemies within 15 yards of the target." Beta testers have found that the "bomb" will also go off if the target dies with Seed of Corruption on them. Aside from killing Xzin and making jokes about "planting a demon seed," what can Seed of Corruption be used for? Its obvious use is for killing large groups of low-level mobs, but how can it work beyond that? Murderella (what a great name for a female gnome warlock!) and other warlocks have come up with a few on the beta forums:
