Note: This post contains spoilers for Wrath of the Lich King.
Take a look around two new areas of the game with this video! We show you a tour of the new Stormwind Harbor, and the boat ride to Valiance Keep, the Alliance stronghold in the Northrend starting zone of Borean Tundra.

I’ve just hit 70 with another alt, my night elf priest Siha. She’s currently a Holy DPS spec, running a Surge of Light/Imp Divine Spirit build (32/29/0) which allows her to do reasonable DPS and still contribute good healing if we’re short on healers.
Of course, gearing up an alt at maximum speed is always [...]

Note: This post contains spoilers for Wrath of the Lich King.
This post could also be titled “I’m never going to run out of things to do”.
Upon loading into WotLK for the first time - and oh, I was bouncing in my chair! - I set about checking out some of the banner items for Wrath [...]

…very, very lucky!
Thanks to a kind and generous friend, I have a Wrath of the Lich King beta key in my hot little hands.
This isn’t going to become an All WotLK, All The Time blog, but you can definitely expect some beta content around these parts. ;-)

Firstly, apologies for the week-long silence - I’ve had family staying with me, and computer time has been rather limited.
Note: This post contains spoilers for Wrath of the Lich King.
So, the WotLK beta is open, and there are a lot of changes coming to light. I need to spend some time thinking before I post [...]

I’ve been meaning to make one of these posts for ages, so here goes:
A Guide To My UI
First up, here’s a shot of my UI, full-size, for comparison’s sake. Note that I’ve resized it down to 1200×750, so you can actually see it onscreen; I play at 1920×1200.
Now, let’s take a look at it [...]

Now that the “media blackout” has been lifted, I’m happy to announce a new project I’m involved with:

Plus Heal is a new community for healers of all stripes. Founded by Matticus of World of Matticus, the admins are Matt, Auzara (of Chick GM) and yours truly. We’re joined by a great mod team with some [...]

Okay, it’s been brought to my attention that the feed from Banana Shoulders often comes out as badly-parsed gibberish when viewed via LiveJournal’s internal aggregator. No-one else has reported a problem, but if you’re having issues with reading the Banana Shoulders feed, please let me know via the comments. In the meantime, I’ll try and [...]

As linked by Leafshine: James Wallis, a very smart and entertaining fellow (for whom I once had the privilege, briefly, of working) recently gave a presentation on the geophysics of Azeroth.
The video is visible at Leafy’s blog; the results are quite surprising. Did you know, for instance, that Azeroth is about twelve kilometres in diameter [...]

I’ve been levelling an alt lately, mostly keeping a friend company while he tries out a new class. We haven’t been following any levelling guides, but we’ve still managed to belt through the levels very fast - I did nearly sixty levels in less than three weeks of real time, which is pretty good for [...]