Category: World Of Warcraft

World Of Warcraft Private Servers Are Being Attacked

Posted on by Jessica Douglas

For quite a while, World of Warcraft has been a pretty easy game to find private servers for, and the private servers have been quite secure and successful. Lately, however, it appears as if Blizzard is trying to crack down on the owners of these private World of Warcraft servers.

In case you’re not completely familiar with what private World of Warcraft servers are, these are servers that aren’t owned by the actual creator of the game, but are instead owned by anyone who wishes to purchase a server from another source and put the game on it for others to play. The original creator does not profit from the server, however, they do still get the game sale, because players will still need the disc to play the game.

Blizzard obviously is going to try and absorb every penny they can get out of the creation of the World of Warcraft, and therefore is going to do everything in their power to eliminate the threat of the private realms out there. If you didn’t already know, there are easily over 200 private World of Warcraft realms active to date, and they are constantly increasing.

What is Blizzard going to do about this? They clearly don’t want to lose money, even though they already have millions of subscribers all paying 15 dollars per month of playing time. So what do they do? They go and attack the only way players will be able to play without having to give their heart-earned money to Blizzard every month.

Most recently, Blizzard has attempted to attack the biggest private servers out there, with several thousand players on them. Blizzard has been sending a DMCA lawfirm, or “Digital millennium copyright act”, and these lawfirms basically enforced that the private realms are immediately shut down. The servers which have already been affected by the DMCA notice are chaoscrusade, toxic-wow, Ani-wow, wowfusion, wowgasm, burningwow, and wowscape. All of these servers were amongst the biggest, and now players are either completely unable to play, or are constantly searching for the next best private realm.

It’s very possible that some of these players decided to go and purchase the retail version, as well as start paying the monthly fee for the game. However, these players might not even be as satisfied as if they were to be playing the private World of Warcraft servers that they were already playing.

Is it wrong for Blizzard to do this? Well, I think it is, however, under copyright law, this is to be expected. What Blizzard has over all of these gamers is practically a monopoly. Once you play World of Warcraft, you’ll do almost anything to play, even if it requires paying the high sums of money Blizzard now asks for the games, and monthly gaming fees.

I hate the fact that Blizzard can’t just allow people that purchase the retail version of the game to have fun and play on private servers, but whatever they need to do to get more money is what will happen. I suggest playing on a very down-low server, or paying for retail, if you must.

Guide to Racial Skills in World of Warcraft

Posted on by Jessica Douglas

Some races in World of warcraft have their own unique buffs and benefits. Knowing what perks come with what race can help you figure out how to make a well rounded character.

Draenei

Draenei’s have the racial mount of a Elekk, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. The Draenei also come with a series of good racial attributes such as +5 to Jewelcrafting, +10 to Shadow resistance, and “Gift of the Naaru”. The Gift of the Naaru is a healing attribute with a 3 minute cooldown. For mages, priests, or shamans there is the passive ability of “Inspiring Presence” which is the increase of spell’s chance to hit by 1%. For hunters, paladins, and warriors there is the passive ability of “Heroic Presence” which is the increase of chance to hit by 1%.

Blood Elves

Blood Elves have the racial mount of a Hawkstrider, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. The Blood Elf also comes with a series of good attributes such as +10 to enchanting skill, +5 to all resistances, and Mana tap which will reduce the enemy’s mana and give you more energy. For rogues there is “Arcane Torrent” which silences targets and gives you energy when a mana tap charge affecting you. For hunters, paladins, mages, priests, and warlocks, there is “Arcane Torrent” which sileneces targets but will give you mana for every mana tap charge affecting you.

Dwarves

Dwarves have the racial mount of a Ram, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. The Dwarf also comes with a series of good attributes such as +1% to critically hit with a gun, +10 frost resistance, and the Find Treasure ability that will show you where treasure chests are. There is also the Stoneform ability that will give you immunity when its active to bleeding, diseases, and poison. It will increase your armor too by 10%.

Orcs

Orcs have the racial mount of a Wolf, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. The Orc also comes with a series of good attributes such as a 15% stun/knockout resistance, +5% pet melee damage, and +1% to axe critical strike. They also have “Blood Fury” which will increase attack power by 4 for every level. It will reduce your healing affect by 50% though.

Gnomes

Gnomes have the racial mount of a Mechanostrider, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. The Gnome also comes with a series of good attributes such as +5% intelligence, +10 to arcane resistance, and +15 to Engineering skill. There is also the “Escape Artist” skill which will allow you to break free of a root or a snaring affect upon you.

Tauren

Tauren have the racial mount of a Kodo which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. The Tauren also comes with a series of good attributes such as +5% health, +15 to herbalism, and +10 to Nature resistance. They have “War Stomp” which gives the ability to stun up to 5 different targets.

Human

Humans have the racial mount of a horse, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. Humans also come with a series of good attributes such as +10% spirit, +10 to faction reputation, and +1% critical strike chance with swords and maces. They also have “Perception”, the ability to detect stealth.

Trolls

Trolls have the racial mount of a raptor, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. Trolls also come with a series of good attributes such as +10% health regeneration, +5% damage to beasts, and +1% critical hit in bows and throwing weapons. They have “Berserking” which will increase your attack speed.

Night Elves

Night Elves have the racial mount of a Nightsaber, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. Night Elves come with a series of good attributes such as +1% to dodge, 50% faster movement when Dead, and +10 to Nature resistance. They also have shadowmeld to become stealthed.

Undead

Undead have the racial mount of a skeletal horse, which is accessible as soon as the ability to ride a mount is available. Undead come with a series of good attributes such as +300% underwater breathing ability, +10 to Shadow resistance, and Cannibalizing ability to regenerate 7% of your total health by eating your corpses. Will of the Forsaken is another ability, that will give you the perk of being immune to fear, sleep and charm.