When Realz's Trade Chat Allstars won ESL Philadelphia, I thought sponsors will all flock to them considering they get a guaranteed spot to the ESL global finals. ESL will be covering hotels and meals, and only having to pay airfare is a significant reduction in costs to send such a team to Germany. Unfortunately, the recent downturn in financial markets is hitting everyone. Several e-sport teams will probably go belly up over the next quarter or two when their current sponsorships expire, and no one is hiring aggressively.  …  More

It's no surprise in that damage at level 80 is still as overbearing as it was when 3.0 went live pre-WotLK, and aside from the fact that players have a little bit more HP (which is completely offset by the increase in damage from PVE gear) pretty much every class drops quickly if jumped or not prepared. If Blizzard stands by what they've been hinting at or saying for the past couple of months to even as far back as a year, Hunters will continue to receive buffs and go from borderline overpowered to completely out of control at level 80 from sheer damage output alone. When you take their utility into play, even your average clicking dimwit will be able to do relatively well in the Arena and everyone is going to be crying. Even those who cried for the buffs will cry when they can't handle the monstrous number of keybinds.…  More

This weekend I had a chance to quickly check up on rogue heroes worldwide. I was very concerned about our class's future as going from classic to WOTLK we lost significant talents. It is good to see the majority of well-known players leveled their characters to 80. The most glaring difference of all the profiles I saw had to be between the one and only Neilyo-kun, and Boozt-san the mutilate rogue hero who took Vengeful Gladiator in the best BG of Europe with mutilate rogue/shadowpriest.

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I was honestly expecting WoW to really take off again once WotLK hit. With new content, a new level cap, and relatively substantial revamp for pretty much every class, it would make sense that the addiction would be resparked for many, and the game would feel fresh and new somewhat like when TBC was released. Not only that, but I was hoping the game would actually be exciting again, and there would be plenty of discussions all over Gameriot relative to class theorycrafting etc. At the moment it's just not happening, although I'm quite sure that will change once the next arena season is actually active next month. However, it seems like the lack of things to do is pushing away some of our most beloved and reputable WoW personas. …  More

Time flies when you are living the good life and when I woke up on Thanksgiving Day, I can't believe Estel has been here in NYC for two months already.  So many changes have been made and they have all been very positive.  Standard-issued bachelor's black leather couch?  Some Tauren from Craigslist bought it and I now have a light grey set made of soft cloth, complete with colorful pads and cute stuffed animals.  Small office in the living room?  She tore down the closet and made it i…  More

Firstly I'd like to say Happy Thanksgiving to the Gameriot Community. Hopefully you're able to spend time with your family, or at the very least, time with your friends.

There has been a lot of discussion so far about Wintergrasp and Blizzards future plans in regards to gearing before the next arena season is released. At this point, I think it's quite dumb that they haven't released honor based gear and gone with the system that has worked for years now, but I remain somewhat optimistic about th…  More

In short, I've put my warrior on the back burner for now (I'll probably still arena with it eventually) as I was fairly disappointed to say the least over Blizzard's vision for warriors and their continual insistence of maintaining the class with such a low skill-cap (inc comments of how I wasn't close to that cap). At the end of the day, although you could definitely discern a great warrior from an average one, you could also win matches against top players as an average one because the class allows for sped retards to play them and still be successful due to the overall simplicity of the basic class functions. That said, I've moved on to Death Knight for the time being and have my first impressions to report on them.…  More

Hope you guys are enjoying the lovely new Gameriot 2.0 interface.  We brought in some heavy weight developers and the results are dramatic.  Expect to see explosive growth as the new interface will certainly allow us to attract other established communities to move over to Gameriot and we have quite a few big names down the pipeline.

Speaking of Heavy Weights

It is about time Jared "Noktyn" Fogle gets his own fan club, and Team Noktyn definitely brought their support for the Pandemic superstar a…  More

If it isn't the constant gold spamming and powerleveling services via private messages, it's advertisements for leveling and farming guides; if it isn't advertisements for leveling and farming guides, it's ads for level 70/80 characters or or random WoW paraphernalia. One way or another, there are a ton of nonsense ads for crap that no one usually has any desire for, save for the lazy leveler or someone that lacks free time to the point where leveling without assistance isn't exactly optimal. These types of ads have been around for so long now that any average WoW player doesn't even think twice when some flashy animation or picture attempts at grabbing their attention, and if it somehow does, I'd be surprised if it is any more effective than your average late night male enlargement ad. However, for probably the first time since I began playing WoW at release, I have found something that is actually worth spending my money on.…  More

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Got Games East(RMD) vs Trade Chat Allstars(RMP): 0-3, 2-3
Two of my favorite players (Venruki and Realz) in grand finals, it is hard to pick a team to root for but everyone love an underdog.  An unsponsored rookie team winning the big prize?  That will certainly be a great story for our sport and encourages tournament participations.  Coming out of loser bracket, TCA will need to win two series in a row to bring home the title.

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Nugsy said: OH SNAP WHAT HAPPENED HERE. GRATS MR LEBRON nervi said: Please stop commenting on this failure of an esport. WoW is awful absolutely completely and utterly the worst esport that will ever come about. I l... Shawn said: Reason for that is that the observer UI doesn't recognize the new arenas yet so we couldn't stream them at all. None of the teams would really have...

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