World Of Warcraft

The top five things you need to know about patch 5.3

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Patch 5.3 has arrived, and there are a truly staggering number of changes to the game, many of them with significant effects to gameplay. You can check out Blizzard’s complete patch notes on their blog, but for the sake of brevity, WoW Insider has compiled a list of the top five changes that are most likely to be of the biggest interest to the average player. If you haven’t been paying much attention, this is the stuff you probably really want to know!

1. The experience required to go form level 85 to 90 has been reduced by 33%

Mists of Pandaria has been called very alt-unfriendly, and while this particular change won’t entirely fix that, it does help. Along with the changes to reputation factions — the Shado Pan and August Celestials dailies are no longer hidden behind the gate of “Revered” with the Golden Lotus — this will make it easier to get your army of alts up to speed to hop into max-level content.

WoW Insider’s patch 5.3 news roundup

by Elizabeth Harper May 20th 2013 at 8:00PM

Know Your Lore, Tinfoil Hat Edition: Celestials, Ancients and Aspects

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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You’re playing the game, you’re fighting the bosses, you know the how — but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

Last week, we took a tinfoil-hat look at the Curse of Flesh and why, exactly, that strange curse came to be. We also took a look at theories behind why the Titans didn’t simply wipe the Old Gods out of existence — and in what order Azeroth’s creation took place. If you haven’t read last week’s offering, I’d suggest doing so now, because the theories I’m going to present today tie into that material. While the Old Gods have been pointed out time and again as being on Azeroth since the dawn of time, there are other creatures with just as lengthy a history.