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The Daily Quest: Mountain o' mounts
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. OutDPS teaches you how to hunt Deathbringer Saurfang, and also has an episode of the Hunting Party Podcast you may have missed over the holiday. NoStockUI features an addon that every mount collector may be interested in. Oh gosh, whatever is a rogue to do with this bountiful mountain of Frost Emblems? Who will tell us their purpose!? Affliction warlocks and death knights, Killing 'em Slowly has a great enchantment guide for your raid gear. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Brohnjam's Jam
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. MrVoletron is back with a brand new tune... and some tips on how to make your own remix! The retribution paladin priority 'rotation' is a lot more confusing than people let on. It's not feral druid, that's for sure, but it's not exactly simple. The latest shared topic from Blog Azeroth was especially interesting to us here at WoW.com. What do you think of the PTR and the news sites that follow it? If that last link didn't get you in a writing mood, maybe this one will. Last Friday's writing prompt from Too Many Annas: Letters from the Front. OutDPS has a few hunter tips for the early Icecrown Citadel bosses. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Catching up to patch 3.3
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. OutDPS continues their constant flow of excellent Hunter content with an updated guide to pre-raid hunter gear which now includes loot from patch 3.3. Having trouble tanking the Halls of Reflection? Righteous Defense has the solution. The Lion Guard has some ideas on how to make Holy Paladins more interactive, and wants to know what you think. Are you a mage using Scorchio? Having some problems with it in patch 3.3? You're not alone. Empowered Fire has some workarounds for you. Hunters aren't the only ones with a gear guide for patch 3.3. Penance Priest has one for assassination rogues, too! No, I'm kidding, it's for discipline priests. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: You face Jaraxxus
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. MrVoletron is at it again over on Youtube, coming to us with a Jaraxxus remix this time around. People have been requesting this one endlessly from the poor guy, and I must say, he did a good job with it. Utterly hilarious. This past week, Blog Azeroth's Shared Topic was RPG Nostalgia, with many World of Warcraft bloggers throwing in their two cents. What's yours? The new information released today on Icecrown access progression makes this post a little outdated, but it's a good read nonetheless: Matticus makes a case for the limited attempts approach in raiding. Slice and Dice teaches fledgling rogues the difference between Envenom and Eviscerate. OutDPS strikes again with their great hunter content, this time with a guide to timing your cooldowns. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Rawr, chalk, and more podcasts
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Episode 62 of the Twisted Nether Blogcast is available for download, with special guest Spooner of Spooncraft. Gray Matter discusses the ups and downs of Rawr for Moonkin. Not only has OutDPS released episode 10 of The Hunting Party Podcast, but they have a new author on board to tackle hardcore raiding. Today, Heroic Anub'Arak! World of Matticus asks, why play a healer? This World of Warcraft chalk art is pretty incredible! Really old, but also really cool. It's worth a second look. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Tier 10 and podcasts
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. All Things Azeroth #136 is available for download! Big Hit Box tackles the Enhancement Shaman T10 set bonuses, as well as the Rogue set bonuses. Episode 9 of The Hunting Party Podcast is also available for download. Gray Matter maths out the Tier 10 set bonuses for Boomkin. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Addons, haste, and tea
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. World of Raids highlights the Caith UI, a widescreen UI compilation. Runeforge Gossip gives a quick walkthrough of Rawr. WoW players that weren't around for Onyxia 1.0 might not know about this pretty sweet trick from OutDPS. Blessing of Kings asks... is Spell Haste bad for the game? We're coming up on Winter here in the States, so we might want to buddy up with this recipe soon. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Back in action
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Big Hit Box gets their hands on a Raging Deathbringer and Stormstrike crits you with math. This doesn't have a whole lot to do with WoW, but Of Teeth and Claws reviews the demo of a pretty slick indie game. AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! Episode 7 of The Hunting Party Podcast is available for download, featuring Munken, one of Ensidia's hunters. Hunters Rhok continues their series on pet control, this time highlighting the art of organizing your pet bar. Runeforge Gossip takes a look at World of Logs. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: Could use a bell pepper right now
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Ladies and gentlemen, behold. This is the most important addon you will ever find in your entire World of Warcraft career: Iron Chef. 4 Haelz has some tips for Resto Druids looking to tackle the Northrend Beasts in the new raid zone. And for you Hunters, OutDPS has a guide for you, too. Too Many Annas has posted the first place winner of the A Midsummer Night's RP writing contest. Into esports? Then check out the details for MLG's upcoming World of Warcraft tourney in Dallas. Click here to submit a link to TDQ
The Daily Quest: You had me at Sudowoodo
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. Big Hit Box gives a rundown of enchants for Enhancement Shaman. Gray Matter responds to the official Druid Q&A from the eyes of a Moonkin. 4 haelz responds to the Q&A from the eyes of a Resto Druid. Forever a Noob walks Rogues through Ulduar's Assembly of Iron. And OutDPS walks Hunters through General Vezax! Click here to submit a link to TDQ
SWAPS loot system offers another DKP option
I'm finding myself really fascinated with loot systems lately -- the old DKP is pretty good, but even that has drama, and it seems like there's a lot of interesting ideas going around about how to evenly and fairly distribute loot amongst a group of people. OutDPS has a writeup about a loot system called SWAPS. Instead of sending "points" off into the void, you actually "give" your spent points to everyone else in the raid. You start out with 1,000 free points (though those are distributed over time, to prevent new players from having tons of points early on) and then when an item comes up, everyone bids on it: the highest bid gets the item and the points they bid are spread around to the rest of the raiders. In other words, if someone in a 10-man raid bids 500 points and wins an item, those 500 points are distributed evenly amongst the other nine raiders. While the winner loses the 500 points they spent, everyone else gets a bonus 56 points. The person winning the item "pays" for the privilege of taking it by beefing up everyone else's point totals.It is probably not a perfect system (there's no way to reward points for anything other than loot dropping, for one thing, and while some people have modified the rules to create a separate bidding pool for class items, the basic system doesn't cover class or offspec items), but it does solve a lot of the questions of fairness, and it keeps everything pretty above-board: if you are low on points, the only reason would be that either you just started raiding, or that you've just spent a lot of points on an item. There's an addon, of course, and it will give you all sorts of reports and updates on where all of your raiders are at in the system. If you've been poking around for a DKP system that is based on being open and fair, it might be worth trying out in your guild.
The Daily Quest: It's always sunny in Dalaran
We here at WoW.com are on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere. European folks can win a trip to BlizzCon in Blizzard-EU's costume contest. OutDPS takes a look at the Freya encounter. While not strictly WoW related, many of you will like to know that D&D Online is going free to play. Lodur over at WoM looks and Friends and Raiders: Raider Accountability. Holyform writes the Complete Idiot's Guide to Discipline Priest Spells. Our friend Medros of All Things Azeroth has a new podcast out called Group Quest. Check it out! Click here to submit a link to TDQ
