Fantasy Flight Games has just released World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game, a fast-paced board game of danger,
conflict, and heroes. Two to

four players engage in a struggle for glory and valor as they travel the Eastern
Kingdoms of Azeroth completing quests and battling monsters — and each other — in a bid for supremacy.

For more information, including photos and a detailed gameplay description, head to
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Filed under: Herbalism, Enchanting, Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, News items, Expansions, Guides, Wrath of the Lich King, Inscription

By now you’ve heard of inscription, the new trade skill coming with Wrath of the Lich King. We’ve already given you a few sneak peeks, looking at glyphs, enchantment scrolls, and other beta insights. This time, though we had a chance to fiddle with Inscription directly, on the Beta servers themselves. The trade skill is most obviously only in the very first stages of implementation, but there’s still enough to play around with to get an idea of how it will all work once things go live.

To start off with, we needed to do a little running. There’s no inscription trainers to be found in Dalaran or any of the capitals. We found one in Vengeance Landing, so it seems likely that Alliance could find one in Valgarde as well. However, there are no Inscription suppliers nearby, so you’ll still have to run to Dalaran to get the Scribe Tools and parchment you need for most recipes.

It’s probably a given that that’ll change for the better as we get closer to live, but for now it’s a pain. You’ll probably want to go buy the Scribe Tools and stock up on parchment before you go to train if you’re doing it in Beta. Luckily, Light Parchments stack up to 20, so you can carry a lot — be warned though, most of the scrolls you make out of them only stack to 5.

Anyhow, to the meat.

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Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Expansions, Talents, Wrath of the Lich King, Inscription

Mookou asks for a “51-point talent preview” before the expansion, and while we probably won’t actually get that, what we’ll get is likely the same we got with the Burning Crusade release — about a month before the expansion, there’ll be a huge downloadable content patch for everyone (we’ve heard before that it will be patch 3.0) that will contain all of the updates everyone is getting: all of the talent updates, game mechanic changes, model updates, and so on that we’re going to see in the expansion. Blizzard will make all the changes and fixes around that patch, and then when Wrath is actually released, you’ll just be installing Northrend content, and the game itself will be (supposedly) ready for all of it to work together. And Neth confirms that this is probably the plan — it should work much like last time around, though the patch will probably be closer to release day.

Now, Blizzard is much better at this than they used to be, so we’d imagine that (hopefully) things will go a little smoother this time around, and we won’t have nearly as many problems or hotfixes as we saw last expansion. But then again, we do know they are planning things a little differently this time around — they’ve divided the entry and exit zones up, so we won’t see a big mess like we saw in Burning Steppes or Hellfire Peninsula. And there are rumors that we’ll see a World Event go down before we actually go to Northrend, and as of right now, we don’t know if there is going to be a testing phase for that or how long it might take. Last time around, too, you’ll note, everyone got a free respec (and some even got two), and we haven’t heard anything about that this time yet.

Of course, as always with Blizzard, time will tell. Given that we’re expecting a November release, that would put a big 3.0 patch in October, and we already know Brewfest is going to have some changes then, so 3.0 could come in conjunction with those changes or around them. We’ll have to wait and see.

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Filed under: Machinima, WoW Moviewatch

We all know that I’ve been more than a little harsh on certain genres of WoW videos. Unless it’s a storyline machinima or music video, you’re not likely to see it on Moviewatch. However, I’m open to a little experimentation, so I bring you Moviewatch Smackdown. Today, I’m going to pit multiple genres against each other in a battle to the death.

Our first movie, Trollbane, is an action flick, but not in the hardcore sense. We previously wrote about DTB’s beginning effort, Assassine, which some felt followed too typical of a storyline. This time, he’s back with a story that’s not too heavy on the dialogue, instead focusing on the battle. While the editing was good, the voice acting left something to be desired and the sound levels were a bit off. He seems to improve his skills with each new attempt, though!

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If you have any suggestions for WoW Moviewatch, you can mail them to us at machinima AT wowinsider DOT com.

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The folks over at World of Warcraft have updated their armor sets page, adding the new Brutal Gladiator sets for arena season four.