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Filed under: Patches, Blizzard, Expansions, Raiding, Achievements

Bornakk drops some serious knowledge about the difference between Achievements and Feats of Strength (both of which, apparently, are showing up as of patch 3.0). Achievements grant points, and are apparently things that you can accomplish in the game while they’re given out — if there is an achievement on the list, you can earn it. But Feats of Strength are different; not only do they not give points, but “some of them may no longer be possible to do.” So Feats of Strength may include things like opening the AQ gates, and so on. The good news is that if there’s an Achievement for something in the game, Blizzard will make sure that it’s possible to jump through the hoops you need to do it.

But the bad news is that there’s really no way to know whether you’ll get credit for either Achievements or Feats of Strength until the system shows up on the live realms. As we’ve heard, Blizzard is going to try to be as retroactive as possible — they’ll be looking at quests and maybe even equipment to determine who’s killed which boss in the past. But nothing, as Bornakk says, is guaranteed — you may get one achievement for an old boss, but you may need to redo another old boss again.

There’s one more great thing coming out of all of this as well — hopefully, Achievements and Feats of Strength both will drive traffic back to the old content, and people who’ve never run Naxx or AQ, for example, will be able to find regular groups for “Achievement runs.” Even people who’ve already downed the content will want to do back if their Feats of Strength don’t register, so lots of people who didn’t should have new chances to see it.

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Filed under: Cooking, Features, Well Fed Buff

Well Fed Buff serves up tasty dishes to boost your HP, stats and appetite - with that special WoW twist, of course.

I would hate to be accused of waxing melodramatic about a snack food (or a computer game, for that matter) - but have you ever noticed how positively persistent fans of pretzels can be about their gnosh of choice? There seem to be two camps among homemade pretzel lovers: those who crave the satisfying simplicity of recipes that send pretzels straight into the oven for a quick and easy bake, versus others who want dyed-in-the-wool traditional pretzels made the old-fashioned way.

While the ‘net-addicted crew at WoW Insider is easily mesmerized by clicking around the intertubes in search of authentic pretzel history and methodology, we recognize that our intrepid readers may want to get on with the show, make the pretzels already and log in to play. Well Fed Buff brings you what we think is the best of the quickie pretzel recipes. Keep reading for a link to the whole fermented truth about pretzels.

Continue reading Well Fed Buff: Rock-Salted Pretzels

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Filed under: Horde, Tauren, Hunter, Shaman, Comics, Barrens Chat

This week’s comic I have decided to do by hand while waiting around for various people and events to catch up to my time line. In other words, the only thing I used my computer for this week was some minor touch ups, framing, straightening, and of course sticking it up here for all of you to razz.

I don’t know how common a problem this is for other people, but when I’m actually playing World of Warcraft in the same room as my significant other, he tends to use me as his hotkeys. I’m the “M” key when he wants to know where we are on the map, for instance. I don’t know if this is something that happens with everyone who plays in the same room as another person, or if it is just a singular case. Do any of you have instances like this one where you end up being the macro, hotkey, or info guide for someone else?

For the record, I’ll go back to doing things with photoshop next week. Small drawings are evil.

See you next week!

Gallery: Barrens Chat

Barrens Chat is a weekly comic strip that has gone back in time to the good old days of markers and pencils. Although the emo oozes were shiny, and the water elemental looked like a fun time, nothing beats some retro action. Don’t worry, everything should be back to normal next week!

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