The damage dealt and health of all mobs/bosses inside Dragon Soul will be reduced once again, affecting normal as well as heroic difficulties.

This doesn't affect Raid Finder difficulty in any way.

The changes will come into effect during the upcoming maintenance, that's next Tuesday for Americas & Europe following on Wednesday.

List of Dragon Soul difficulty changes

March 26 - 15%

April 27 - 20%

June 5 - 25%

July 17 - 30%

Late August - 35%

In the uncategorized spells on WoWHead I've found a buff that reveals that there will be a last increase up to 35%.

We can see that the period between the difficulty changes is roughly a month, so we can safely assume that Mists of Pandaria will be out in two or three months from now.

Among smaller guilds it is really not that uncommon for a guild leader to simply disappear one day and never return. You will probably never know the reason. Maybe his house burnt down, maybe he went bankrupt, maybe he got a girlfriend, or maybe he just decided he was done with the game. Either way, it is always a nasty event when this occurs, especially in large and immensely rich guilds.

Not only is the guild left leaderless, but because all the main authoritative controls were in his hands, it becomes hard for the people still in the guild to maintain control and upkeep. Slowly, the guild will die off as people leave. This is even more of a problem ever since Cataclysm launched and guilds can now gain levels as well as perks. Walking away from a fully leveled guild with a ton of achievem

Fellow gamers in China have something to be excited about, as they will finally be able to get caught up with everyone else in World of Warcraft with the Chinese release of Cataclysm. The release date is set at July 12.

This actually sets a new timeframe record for overseas releases with the franchise. The western version hit stores over seven months ago, edging out the eight month gap for Burning Crusade. Wrath of the Lich King was the toughest one to get through, as Blizzard has had to contend with a truckload of various procedures and issues to sort through. This includes archaic and bizarre practices from the Chinese government such as extreme censorship, and even their calling the collection of subscription fees "illegal behavior."

Cataclysm at least seems to be getting

Yesterday Game Politics wrote up a short little piece about the announcement made at the Activision Blizzard post-earnings conference call, where we learned that World of Warcraft subscriptions are down 5%.  While many might start to say this means the death of WoW, I take it as positive news for the MMO giant.  Why?

Well, consider that during the call Mike Morhaime said that because players are chewing through content so quickly, Blizzard will need to respond with creating content faster.  The way I see it, they gave end game players five levels and just as many zones, and now they have already eaten through all their new Cataclysm content and are getting bored of the game.  Nevermind that most of the new content was actually for lower level players: For the selec

Note: While some things are the same or similar between the two, this article focuses on the Level 85 Heroic version of Shadowfang Keep.

As we have all been playing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm for a couple of months now, one would think that most of us have experienced most of the end-game content.  This is not the case, however, as many people (particularly those in the casual category) have not even reached 85, or experienced dungeons at heroic mode.  Their schedules, real life commitments, altaholism or various other afflictions have stood in the way of their advancement, and while that is all well and good to be going outside every once in a while, it means they have missed out on a lot of the revamped content that comprises the core of this expansion.  Because of this I

Immersion (EU - Auchindoun) was the first guild in the world to complete Glory of the Cataclysm Raider!

Congratulations to them, they also released a video of their strategy for Keeping it in the Family in Blackwing Descent.

 Source from MMO-Champion

Above and beyond the cute character design, the clever combat mechanics and the shiny graphics, it’s the quests that immerse you into an MMO.  Quest design has been taken to a whole new level with World of Warcraft Cataclysm, and for that reason I will focus on that for the next part of our review.  If you are looking for the other parts of our Cataclysm review, you can find them by navigating through the links below.

The Worgen Race The Goblin RaceArchaeologyQuesting Instances PvP

A new Philosophy in Quest Design

Blizzard has turned over a new leaf in relation to quest design with Cataclysm.  With previous WoW content, quests were a small part of the gameplay.  In other MMOs, quests are barely visible.  You’re lucky if you can level to 20 q

OMG !!!! CATAAAAA@@@@ ALMOST THERE!!!   Can't wait till cata   Cant wait to hit lvl 85    I am coming!!!!

I was just listening to Deathwing Cataclysm Dialog with Alexstraza(Video below), and i noticed something.... at about 00:48 in the video, Deathwing says,

 then witness my new gifts, bestowed by this world's true masters!

this makes me wonder, what is 'masters' Deathwing talks about? who Deathwing is working for, and is probably the real final raid boss? I think Deathwing isn't the final Cataclysm boss(similiar to Sunwell/RS)!! Who do you think is real final raid boss?

As many of you probably do, I have a local Gamestop.  I don't actually buy much in the way of games there, but it's a great place to pick up used titles I never got the chance to grab, and to get information about upcoming titles and releases.  You can think of it as a gamers watering hole of sorts, the place we gather to get information and to sample the latest wares.

Yesterday I frequented my local gamer's watering hole, and did the same thing I do every time I go, asked about the street date for Cataclysm.  Up until this point, whenever I ask the customer service associate behind the counter would invariably smile sheepishly and tell me: I wish I knew.  Not this time, friends.  Nope, my new favorite Gamestop was able to let me know that according to his comput