WoW

If you were so inclined, you could argue that totems were counting down the hours until they got removed from the game as soon as Enhancement was made a viable spec in The Burning Crusade. I wouldn't make that argument myself, but it sure does sound convincing when you look at it the right way. Sort of sideways, maybe squint a little.

A new short story has been released on the official website. The Code of Rule, by Ryan Quinn, gives us one of those chunks of lore we were missing from the development of Warlords of Draenor's story -- how exactly the ogres of Highmaul allied with the Iron Horde in the first place.

RNG is short for random number generator, and its the randomness when you do something like roll for loot, or even the randomness that determines whether a certain piece of loot even drops - whether loot is set to personal, or you're using master looter, there's always some randomness because a boss doesn't drop everything it could drop when you kill it.

Submitter Darius recently discovered that one thousand feet above Stormwind is not the ideal place to pose for a photograph.

Person A versus Person B is a conflict. Throw Person B's significant other into the mix and you have a quagmire. This week on Officers' Quarters, we've got gquits, drama, and a dash of cybercrime.

Some hotfixes last longer than other - the recent hotfix to PvP damage that reduced it across the board by 10% has already been reverted. Why? Well, apparently players really, really hated the way it changed PvP.

Blackrock Foundry loot is being increased in ilevel, Bashiok reveals on the forums

In the comments for my introductory column the other week, I had a few folks ask me to write a 101 guide for those new to the spec and tanking in general. Considering this is only the second protection-flavored Lightsworn post, that sounds like an excellent idea!

This winter is quickly coming to a close in North America, so your time to tame yourself a Snowy Owl is running out! This battle pet, caught in Winterspring, stops spawning on March 21st.

As a final indignity, it turned out the Iron Horde hadn't even bothered to install cow catchers.