World-of-warcraft | Dragon*Con MMO

There’s not much news to report either in the MMO space or in the realm of Dragon*Con news. I will, however, try to give you guys a general sense of where things are.

Our schedule for next year is pretty much done. There are a few variables left to figure out, and we still need to lock down our guests for next year. We have a pretty good idea of who they will be, but there might be a last minute surprise addition, you never know.

We also have a pretty good idea of who is interested in sponsoring our track for next year. (More to come on that once it is official.)

So basically, the only things left to do is figure out how many staff we’ll need and bring them up to speed. We also need to get our signage designed for next year as well as come up with our trivia and other contests. Since this is November, and we usually don’t start that stuff until July or August, I’m thinking it’s going to be a fairly quiet year for the DC*MMO staff.

That means we’ll have more time to actually PLAY MMOs!!!

Got my 25-man Icecrown Citadel drake this week.

Downed Heroic Sindragosa and Heroic Professor Putricide last week. Next stop, Heroic Lich King!

By the way, my guild is still recruiting. =) Drop me a line if you’re interested.

/snark off

I know this is a shock to most of you, but I went ahead and pre-ordered Cataclysm today. For those of you who are considering doing the same, I’d suggest getting the digital download from Blizzard. You can download the Cataclysm data files now, and be ready to go live the second the switch is flipped on December 7. (You know… after 24 hours of patching and emergency bug fixes.)

The good news is. If you’re looking for me between December 7 and December 12, I will be very easy to find. The bad news is, if you send an email, I probably won’t see it. If you call, you will only hear grunting… and maybe the occasional “MORE HOT POCKETS!“

Well, not literally…

With the recent 4.0.1 patch to World of Warcraft yesterday, a lot of the new functionality for spells and talents has been implemented. You can throw a rock and hit a website with commentary on the changes, but suffice to say that if you haven’t updated your addons in a while, you’re going to be in for a rude awakening when you next log in.

Be prepared for:

Your talents are all reset
None of your addons will work correctly
Your spells don’t do what they did before.
Stat changes are in place (no more spell hit or defense, etc)
Your gems are all different (and will almost certainly need to be replaced)

Between Reforging and Re-Gemming my items, I spent around 4k gold last night. (In fairness, I did a bit of theorycrafting) You’ve been warned.

It is coming.

December 7th, 2010. A day which will live in infamy as geeks all over the world come down with the same mysterious illness. World of Warcraft junkies of the world, get your Christmas shopping done early. Rumor has it that the game will be available for digital download as well as in the more traditional box format. Regular edition will cost 39.99, and the Collector’s Edition will run 79.99.

So this time we actually remembered to publish the Snarkcast…

Grim and Krystalle discuss the schedule of events on the DC*MMO track for this year and give some exclusive information about the track that won’t appear in the program guide or pocket schedule. If you want the real inside scoop on what we’ll be up to this year, we’ve got the podcast for you. (or you can wait until con and read about it in the Daily Dragon…)

Snarkcast #15: Snark-pocalypse Now! [ 1:03:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1535)

We know things are slow…

This just in: Cataclysm is coming.

Cataclysm Comes Early

Cataclysm Launch Date Announced

Snarkcast #15: Snark-pocalypse Now!