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Personally, I prefer
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
over both
Advance Wars 2
and
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
(Never really played the first
Advance Wars
), and I'll tell you why.
In Advance Wars: Dual Strike (AWDS), as you play, you unlock skills (+8% attack, faster movement through woods and grass, etc.) that you can equip on your commanding officers before a match. If you get all the highest level skills, and equip them on your two commanding officers, much of the normal campaign becomes incredibly easy. I'm capable of playing through it without paying too much attention, and using it to unwind when I don't want to have to think about anything too hard.
On the flip side, it also has the hard campaign, which assumes you have the best possible COs and the best possible skills, and is still designed to give you a challenge. None of the other Advance Wars games had this ability t
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Class-Themed Twitter BlizzChat on Friday, Apr 16
Just in time for the storm of changes announced in the
Class Change
posts this week, Blizzard will be holding another
Developer Chat on Twitter
this Friday!
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23BlizzChat
Just like before, to submit a question you will need to tweet using the
#BlizzChat
hashtag between
5:00 PM
and
6:00 PM
(Pacific time) on Friday, April 16, 2010. During the chat all questions will be posted on the forums due to the character limitations of Twitter.
Read on after the break for the original post! The full BlizzChat history is available
here
, and remember—if you want a specific question asked, feel free to let us know and we'll ask the best ones.
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Paladin Class Changes in Cataclysm
Edit:
The inevitable clarifications have been added!
And, fellow paladins, our preview has finally arrived! We are getting 3 new very juicy abilities, one of which (Guardian of Ancient Kings) varies in effect depending on your spec! New healing spell, with a possibility for another one, AoE Blind, Blessing of Might and Blessing of Wisdom becoming a single Blessing (as I suggested some time ago, I dare point out)... but other than those big things, Blizzard doesn't feel ready to provide us with more information.
There is a lot of "we'd like to...", but I'll leave those to you :)
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Magazine Update: Issue #2 Coming Soon
For those of you that have subscribed to
World of Warcraft: The Magazine
and haven't checked your email recently, good news! The
next issue
should be out soon!
Our gnomes, trolls, and elves are hard at work wrapping up Issue 2, which features a behind-the scenes interview with the team that creates the quests in World of Warcraft, exclusive screenshots of the world after Cataclysm, and an exhaustive guide to Icecrown Citadel. In the meantime, here's a sneak preview of the cover for you to download as a subscriber-exclusive desktop wallpaper. Just click the link below.
Obviously, I'm not going to post the wallpaper for you or else it wouldn't be exclusive.
;)
However, Blizzard did the same thing in the last email, and later (a month or so after the magazine was mailed) released the wallpaper to the general public. So if you're wanting it for your background, just sit tight! I will tell you this, it appears to be Deathwing and Alexstraza duking it out. Or if you just can't wait for the wallpaper and you want to learn all the secret stuff in the magazine, head on over and [url=
https://www.worldofwarcraftthemagazine
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Say Hello To Our Little Friend
Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to introduce
Koper
, the latest addition to our development team!
Koper is our new development intern. He's from Milan, Italy, he's the former developer of
WoWPanda
, and when he isn't trying to figure out the mysteries of Wowhead code, you can usually find him playing
QuakeLive
.
Everyone please give him a very warm welcome. :)
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Cataclysm: Mount Hyjal Preview
Blizzard has finally updated the Cataclysm preview website, with a preview of one of the new zones for levels 80-85:
Mount Hyjal
, where the wounded World Tree, Nordrassil, makes its home. Within this zone you will find the mighty druids Malfurion Stormrage and Hamuul Runetotem, along with Ysera, the Green Dragon Aspect, fighting back the forces of the mighty Firelord Ragnaros.
You can find out more about Mount Hyjal on the official
Cataclysm preview website
!
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/features/hyjal.html
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n00bz Now on Sale in Blizzard Store
As some of you may remember from BlizzCon 2009, these awesome little figures were given out as part of the goodie bag. While the Raynor n00bz is a limited edition and isn't available in the Blizzard Store, there are several of them available. They come in a few models like
Ragnaros
, a
ghoul
,
murloc
and even a
blank
one so you can paint them yourself.
You can order any of the models in Blizzard's
official store
!
http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000637
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The World of Warcraft Battle Plan
Blizzard has posted their
Battle Plan
on the official forums, and in it they talk about what we've already seen such as
Naxxramas
, to the Dungeon Finder tool and even dual specs. Then further on down they speak about the whole new
The Ruby Sanctum
raid encounter which is slated for sometime in the hopefully near future.
After that they look even further into the future and touch on subjects for the upcoming expansion
Cataclysm
like the two new races, the world changing, Operation Gnomeregan & Zalazane’s Fall, and all new hardware upgrades that are planned before the expansion.
Read the
original post
after the break!
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Mage Class Changes in Cataclysm!
It's midnight, which means it's time for the
mage changes
!
Hold onto your hats, because they've dropped some (living?) bombs on us this time. It looks like mages are getting...Bloodlust?
Come read the full rundown after the break!
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Druid Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: More posts at the bottom!
Right on time, Bashiok has posted the Druid changes on the official forums!
In it there are a lot of really interesting changes, such as
being moved out of the talent tree into a new and interesting UI mechanic,
Incarnation: Tree of Life
being turned into a cooldown ability similiar to
and feral druids getting an interrupt!
You can read all the changes after the break.
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Hunter Class Updates in Cataclysm!
Edit: Additional posts, as well as some corrections in the original post.
And bright and early, here comes Nethaera with the hunter post!
What do you think, hunters? This is a big one, considering the resource mechanic change, and Blizzard and Wowhead both want to hear from you!
The complete rundown is after the break!
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Rogue Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: More updates! See below!
As expected, the
Rogue post
has just gone up!
The Rogue changes especially have had a lot of people salivating, so what do you think? Do they live up to your expectations, or are you disappointed?
The complete rundown, as usual, is after the break!
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Death Knight Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: Updates and clarifications at the end of the blog!
Zarhym just posted the 5th in the series of Cataclysm Class Previews, and which one does it happen to be? Our ever lovable (or hate-able) Death Knights!
Lots of changes in this one just like the rest, like a change to the current Rune System and the already discussed about change coming to Blood Tanking! What do all the Death Knights out there think of these changes?
You can read the changes soon in our
Cataclysm Guide
or you can view them after the break.
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Operation: Gnomeregan Imminent
High Tinker Mekkatorque has made an Azeroth Bulletin stating that
Operation: Gnomeregan
is imminent. He goes on to state in this announcement, "After all, Thermaplugg has eluded death for years to keep his reign over Gnomeregan; and with the fall of the Lich King, the last great threat to the citizens of Azeroth, the chance of any cataclysmic event taking place in the foreseeable future is less than 12.7%."
What does this mean for us? I personally think we will be seeing the retaking of Echo Isles and Gnomeregan in the very near future and hopefully with it will come the release of the new
The Ruby Sanctum
raid dungeon.
You can read the entire Azeroth Bulletin on the official
World of Warcraft
website.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/3p9/gnomeregan2.xml
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StarCraft II Collector's Edition Includes a WoW Mini-Pet
The StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector's Edition has been
officially announced
!
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?100408
The box will cost $99.99, and will include a number of awesome bonus items, but the most interesting is a
WoW Mini-Pet
of the Terran "Thor" unit! For those of you who haven't seen them, that's one of these:
A few people have wondered—will this unit interact with the Grunty pet from the
Heavy Murloc Egg
, and the zergling from the
Zergling Leash
? Only time will tell!
The full rundown of all the items included is after the break.
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Warrior Class Changes in Cataclysm!
Edit: More updates to the thread below!
This morning brought us Bornakk's
Warrior post
!
Lots of changes in here, including talents to let you DW 1-handed weapons in the Fury tree, and the return of the
Heroic Leap
ability. The general pattern and the goals of the developers in their changes is starting to emerge. What do you think?
The rundown is after the break!
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BFF Report Episode 23: StarCraft 2!
In all the excitement about
Cataclysm
, we nearly forgot about
StarCraft 2!
Fortunately,
Mike B aka Fony
hasn't—he's been busily crunching away at the SC2 Beta, and he has the 1 - 14 win/loss record to show for it!
Interested in seeing it for yourself? Check out this week's BFF Report!
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Priest Class Updates in Cataclysm!
After many long hours of waiting, Zarhym has posted the Priest changes on the official forums!
Lots of really interesting changes are included in this update, including several new spells—such as
Leap of Faith
which sounds really interesting. What's the Priest community reaction to these changes?
The full update
will be
is now available
soon
in our
Cataclysm Guide
, or you can read the original post after the break.
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Warlock Class Updates in Cataclysm!
Edit: Zarhym has posted some updates and clarifications to the initial post. Check after the break to see!
Zarhym has just posted the Warlock changes on the official forums.
There are once again a lot of interesting changes in this one just like the Shaman ones posted this morning. So what do all of the Warlocks out there think of the proposed changes? Yay or nay?
The full updates will soon be in our
Cataclysm Guide
or you can read the full post after the break.
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European Contests Extended!
We've had a few technical difficulties with this contest, resulting in the contests being closed to new entries all morning!
The reasons behind the problems are all very complicated, technical, and difficult to explain (I entered the dates wrong), but in order to make sure that everyone has a chance to enter, we are
extending the contest!
You now have until
Midnight, April 8th
to enter to win for the last drawing! See the links below to enter!
All times are in PDT (GMT-7).
Wir hatten einige technische Probleme während des Wettbewerbes, die dazu führten, dass man sich den ganzen Morgen über nicht für die Verlosungen anmelden konnte!
Die Ursachen waren komplizierter technischer Natur und schwer zu erklären (einfach gesagt, ich habe die Zeiten falsch angegeben). Um allen Interessierten eine C
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