We’ve Been Redesigned

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Yes! You heard right. If you are reading this on a feed reader, you need to come check it out! Nibuca and I spent a bunch of time working on the site and this is what we came up with.  I hope you like it. Let us know! Any ideas or suggestions that would make it better? Leave comments on this post!

Shared Topic: Deconstructing Your Favourite Quest

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This week’s Blog Azeroth Shared Topic was suggested by Spinks of Spinksville, and asks us to dig back to our school skills and deconstruct our favourite quest. 

"Go on, choose any quest from WoW and explain what it’s saying. You say you can see behind the curtain: show us. I want the art, not the craft."
So the topic is: talk about your favourite quest, questline, or zone and why you love it so much. Is it the theme? The way it eases characters from one hub to the next? The atmosphere? The cute? The story?”

Spinks wrote two posts addressing this (for extra credit!), and was originally inspired by this post from Massively.

And this week’s contributors are!

Belghast from Tales of the Aggronaut

Nigiri from Adventures of a Priest

Saresa from Destructive Reach

Have a Shared Topic you would like to suggest?  Got something to contribute to an existing one?  Make sure you visit the Blog Azeroth forums!

Next week’s Shared Topic is: Non Healer’s View of Healers (and vice versa!), suggested by Nigiri.

Episode 46 – Holy Bubble Spec

holydiscipline This week we talk turkey, well.. really healing and stuff, with Anea from HolyDiscipline. We also discuss the “Ferraro Fiasco” and the “Right Way to Blog”.

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TNB Live – Honorshammer of Honor’s Code

honor Thursday night join us in live chat as we talk with Honorshammer of Honor’s Code LIVE! Come have a blast with us in our Live Chat!

We are still looking for your questions for Honor. Please email info@twistednether.net or twitter @TwistedNether and get your questions asked in the show.

  • When is it?: The show is scheduled for Thursday, June 4th at 9:30 pm PST (12:30 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
  • Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
  • Some general ground rules:
    1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
    2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Wiki Tiki Utility: WoW.com Profiles

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Okay, so, I’ve got this idea. What if we combined Facebook’s recent activity feed, Twitter’s ability to tell anyone what you’re doing at any given time and list of followers, and your WoW characters? And then we made it all available in an addon that records all that stuff automatically?

Wait, what do you mean it’s already been done? Oh yeah, it has – it’s this week’s Wiki Tiki Utility, WoW.com Profiles!

Formerly known as WoW Insider, the new WoW.com brought with it an unexpected feature besides the usual rebranding and redesign – social networking! WoW.com Profiles are sort of like Twitter, Facebook, and a blog all wrapped up in one. You can sign up with your AIM or AOL username (WoW.com is owned by AOL, after all) and get started right away.

Taking full advantage of WoW.com Profiles also requires you to install their addon and associated application. These two work together – the addon collects data, keyed to a unique key in your profile settings, and the application parses them and turns them into activity posts. WoW.com has a pretty thorough guide to getting started!

Here’s a whirlwind tour of available features (and feel free to browse my profile while you’re at it):

  • Feed Notes and In-Game Blog Posts: Available both outside the game (from the “Post a Feed Note” box on your profile) and inside it (using the /note command or the WoW.com Addon minimap button), this is basically Twitter for WoW, without the character limit. If you’re about to head out for a raid, want to share ongoing activity with your loyal profile followers, or simply want to say “urgh Death Knights are so OP why are we losing this AB????” then the Feed Notes are there for you! Feed Notes can also be filtered to show posts from your friends or your guild – how cool would it be to have your whole guild on here, chattering away even when you’re not inside the game?
  • Blogging: That’s right, your WoW.com Profile can also double as your own blog! Granted, I haven’t done a whole ton of it (only a few posts here and there), but if you wanted a blog with basically zero setup, WoW.com Profiles has you covered. No RSS feeds for blogs yet, unfortunately, but keep in mind this is basically just an impressive first draft – that feature could always be coming down the road! The editor’s easy to use, and basically covers what you need – text formatting, pics, links, the foundations of an actual blog posting tool.
  • Photo Gallery: Yep, you can add photos too! It’s got an upload limit of four at a time, and is what feels like the least stable part of the site at the moment (I got lots of out-of-memory errors trying to upload all four screenshots at once, and one of my screenshots seems to have a perpetually broken thumbnail), but it’s there and it’s at least mostly functional. It does automatically create a nice slideshow-type feature for you in your galleries.
  • Followers: No social networking site would be complete without a list of people who think you’re actually interesting, and WoW.com Profiles are no different. Granted, I only managed to accrue 3 followers (one of whom was Alex Ziebart – hi Alex!), but if you wanted to, this could easily be your main “home” for WoW players!
  • Individual Character Pages: While your profile does contain info about all your characters, it turns out each of your characters gets their own pages too! As you can see, my warrior’s been pretty busy.

There’s probably even more that I missed, but that’s probably enough to get you started with your WoW.com Profile. Go on over and check it our for yourself – and follow me. I totally need friends!

Mondays are Wiki Tiki Utility days here at TNB! Stop from The Stoppable Force highlights a resource from the Twisted Nether Wiki’s Big List of WoW Utilities, hopefully giving you a nice boost to your Intellect – or at least your skill at World of Warcraft. If you’ve got a utility you’d like to see listed on the wiki, or one you’d like to nominate for the Wiki Tiki Utility post, please send an email to stop AT twistednether DOT net with the subject “Wiki Tiki Utility”!