World of Warcraft Headlines and News

World of Warcraft has continued to dominate the MMORPG genre. With WOW PC game enthusiasts increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the subscription fee that keeps them playing, Blizzard Entertainment needs a way to make World of Warcraft free to play for its WOW obsessive players. Well, the bait is in the pricetag: a year's subscription fee free. But that won't stop most avid PC gamers from playing, and finding a way to get cheap WoW CD Keys is among the demands.

Blizzard has, however, said that the offer is a test. "You choose whether you want to enter a private beta testing group or become an invites-only game player," read the FAQ. The invitation system is not a test run, but only a test run offer - a so-called invitation and you get what you pay for: a year to play World of Warcraft without any monthly charges. That still makes WoW a subscription, just less of a monthly one. And a year is exactly equal to 6 months, so that's still a year of fees coming in, but now players will have the cost of 3 months rack-wise.

Still, most WOW enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the launch of this year's game. Others are probably putting their names down on waiting lists for the online MMO's subscription. The long wait for the next expansion pack has been testiged in the past, with the early success of the Burning Crusade expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, leading many to predict a big improvement. At least one fan, though, thinks the long wait will culminate in the long anticipated release of the WoW console game.

Even if it isn't, though, the expansion will probably be announced between May and November, whenpreviously reported expansion pack schedule posts went up in smoke. If these posts are any indication of the expansion pack's features, though, it will probably be offered for sale at the same time the game is launched. Whether the players who wrote these early MMORPG news blogs got any clue of the expansion's features before the (rumored) May 23 launch date, only time will tell.

A Zylon for Bonemancers

A Zylon is a special item that can be created in game. These can be purchased with [gone fishing lures] fish, and rewarded with a recipe drop. This means that any player who has fishing skill can farm these and sell them for profit.

The special trapping device, when set, drops a Bonemancer's Tuxedo. You can use it, instead of a lures, to hold onto any Bonemancer statue that Rogues may try to escape from. This includes, the casted-in-place-for-Bonemancers statues, which are, quite understandably, very hard to get.

The Zylon has its own, very subtle benefit to the bearer. On land, it's a taunt against the enemy. While being used on the water, it changes into a trinket that adds 10% to melee, and 15% to ranged, fishing skill. The trinket effect is immediately and effortlessly replaced by any other item, and it lasts for 12 seconds. This means that while the bearer is gaining the right of passage to continue with the fishing business, the enemy is forced to pass up another 10% to its fishing skill. The better the fishing skill, the better the chance of the enemy successfully learning to use the fishing pole as a weapon.

Of course, this is a good tactic for Rogues and their fellow travelers. Every Saturday, they are permitted to enter the Guild Wars main world and travel to any other Guild Race's major city. The only travel charge that may be incurred is on the persons going to the intended city.Passengers that are just visiting and restocking from the fishing ports will not incur any travel charge.

If you have been away from the game for a while, or have just arrived at the right age at which the new fish lures and traps are available, you'll find that you have a wealth of new opportunities and opportunities to make good use of your time. You'll find that there are a lot of things to grasp and you'll be glad you had years of learning to fish in the World of War craft.