Tuesday Morning Post: Your cheating armory will tell on you edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
May 5th 2009 at 7:30AM
The biggest news was the epic tale of Karatechop. From Armory sleuthing, we discovered that he'd been one-shotting Ulduar thanks to a GM Item. Blizzard shut down his account and the accounts of most of his guild, and he talked to us about it. The debate on what he should have done rages on. Of course, if you've had your fill of Martin Fury, we have more for you to browse:Hot News and Features
- Oh yeah, that whole Children's Week thing is going on, too. You'll want this guide to the achievements. And since School of Hard Knocks is sort of annoying to everyone involved, you'll probably want this seperate guide to that achievement.
- Lowered Expectations has a pretty insightful interview with Ghostcrawler.
- Blizzard's once again given us a slight peek behind the theorycrafting curtain, this time with an explanation of Val'anyr's proc.
- As we mentioned, Patch 3.1.2 is on the PTR, and there are premades. There's also new Argent mounts and the Equipment Manager.
- Encrypted Text studies the logic and accuracy of Rogue Idioms.
- Rossi discusses drop luck for Warriors.
- Mages gets some welcome news for 3.1.2 as Mirror Images get smarter.
- Innervate got a little bit of a nerf.
- The Ulduar nerfs are rolling in, and will continue to roll in. In fact, you should expect another round soon.
- If you think Algalon is shiny, wait til you see some of his loot.
- Blizzard continues to tweak their raid instance notification system to prevent you from being saved to an instance when you don't want to be.
- WoW Rookie discusses doing business in the Trade channel.
- Time is Money discusses farming Sholozar Basin.
- This is picture proof:
GothGnome Girls rock. - Curse's add-on client now has a premium paid edition.
- It looks like Blizzard is starting to shut down independent WoW iPhone apps. Could this mean they want in the app business, or do they just want to protect their IP?
- It seems to us that Activision-Blizzard stock is looking like a good buy these days, but don't take our word for it. No, seriously, don't. We're not the Motley Fool here, people.
- With the right addon, you can twitter from Warcraft without alt-tabbing. You lazy bum.
Filed under: Patches, Realm Status, Odds and ends, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Reid May 5th 2009 8:03AM
How many times can WI talk about one thing....
Bruuce May 5th 2009 8:12AM
As many times as you'll read / comment on it :D
Josin May 5th 2009 8:33AM
Yes, it's quite uncommon for news reporting agencies to use the biggest story to lure folks in. Its a new type of journalism. Really.
Pexxle -=SilverHand (RP)=- May 5th 2009 9:03AM
What Bruuuce said ^
Jaiyesoon May 5th 2009 8:43AM
I think the Marvel family are heros for using that shirt. My lady and I decided we will name our second son Karatechop in their honor. Finally our daughter Grobulus will have a heroic brother to play with.
sprout_daddy May 5th 2009 11:41AM
I LOL'd
Stages May 5th 2009 12:00PM
I think I'm going to start referring to my 14 month old as Grobb.
Pexxle -=SilverHand (RP)=- May 5th 2009 9:08AM
Bleh, the whole story was crap. It started out as Rumors, and he was all innocent and blah blah. After reading his letter, i found too many loopholes in his wording.
Was i one of the Saints saying quick open a ticket? No
Do i think if someone has a full suit of Naxx gear and has been playing for 4 years, that they should know something is wrong with ONE-SHOTTING the latest & hardest patch content?
Yes
RaidingIsAJokeInWOTLK May 5th 2009 12:10PM
Haha, you said hardest patch content. There is nothing hard about raiding in WOTLK, Blizzards mentality thus far has shown me that. I mean, they keep nerfing it week after week after it even released? This game has all but lost its appeal, who wants to pay $15 a month to faceroll your way to epics? Probably the baddies that have always complained about the difficulty when it really boiled down to them being really bad. Seriously you casual scum are disgusting.
Crool May 5th 2009 9:59AM
I laugh a little bit more when I read this. Karatechop should be a new Title Achievement for one shotting like 1000 mobs.
Raszero. May 5th 2009 2:30PM
Yes. Just Yes. XD
Macbook May 5th 2009 11:30AM
You know what sucks? Is that if I received that item in the mail I probably would have used it as well...
I mean...the temptation would be too great to NOT use it.
Macbook, http://Moonkin.info
eblume May 5th 2009 11:40AM
Innervate is getting buffed, not nerfed. Well, unless you have very, very high spirit - which a lot of healers do.
Hmmm.
In any case, I wouldn't call it a nerf.
Hoggersbud May 5th 2009 11:36AM
ah, page hits. Now everybody click on an advertising link!
sprout_daddy May 5th 2009 11:45AM
"Happy Tuesday Morning, everyone. We're expecting a short downtime this morning, 5 AM - 11 AM Pacific. Patch 3.1.2 probably won't go live quite yet what with the new build on the PTR, so hopefully this will be a relatively smooth downtime."
You realize that (a) "smooth" never happens anymore on Tuesday maintenance and (b) even if it does, you have cursed us all by using that optimistic tone re: today's maintenance.
I know expect servers will come back online about 5pm pst next Wednesday.
Oh, and could we please stop talking about Karatechop? I think the first 567 stories WoW Insider posted about him might have summarized all the pertinent information. I have heard so much about him in the last week that I feel like we're dating.