Category Archives: Editorial/Opinion

Review: World of Warcraft Dark Riders

The Dark Riders of Deadwind Pass have been part of WoW from the very launch of the game, and their lack of resolution and answers have only built the myth of the Dark Riders up to the point of legend. … Continue reading

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Runes To Require Less Lesser Charms

Early in the afternoon the official Patch 5.3 PTR Notes were updated with a number of changes aimed at shortening the grind required in various aspects of the game. Just hours later, a post from Community Manager Bashiok indicated that … Continue reading

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How Expansions are Remembered

With Blizzcon recently announced as coming November 8th and 9th, and the hope and expectation of an announcement of the next expansion to WoW, I was thinking back to the past, and present expansions to WoW, and what they might … Continue reading

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What’s Their Story: Crafting Dialogue by Observation

I was taking a break from playing my Druid who just hit 90 not too long ago, and was sitting in the inn at Halfhill. The Lazy Turnip is a busy place, with player characters coming and going, as people … Continue reading

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Questionable Quests: Morals in Warcraft

In eight years of playing WoW, there have been many different quests.. Most comically legendary is the many flavors of poop quest, where we have to obtain items from a variety of sources, all of which seem to be poop, … Continue reading

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Choosing Your Poison: What to do at Level 90

If there is one thing that I think most of the World of Warcraft player community can agree 100% with is that we have never before seen an era of the game that had more options for things to do … Continue reading

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Alt History: What if Jaina Became the Lich Queen?

Alt History is a new series of posts on All Things Azeroth which are going to take on a bit of a change from the Tin Foil Hat articles from WoW Insider, instead looking at alternative history, at what might … Continue reading

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Caging Azeroth – A Question of Seasons

Living in Winnipeg, I am thoroughly used to being ill adjusted to the change in seasons. The picture above is taken out of my window on this, the first day of spring here. However, seasons in WoW have been fairly … Continue reading

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What if Blizzard was like Zynga?

Farmville. CityVille. Café World. What do these titles have in common? They are all primarily facebook based games made by Zynga. They also all use the same primary basis for how the company makes money off users, and how they … Continue reading

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Review: Dawn of the Aspects, Part 2

I want to thank Blizzard for sending me a review copy of the second part of Dawn of the Aspects by Richard A Knaak. We now have the second part of the Dawn of the Aspects ebook, which began in … Continue reading

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