World of Warcraft : guild

2.3 Portal: Guild UI Updates

Kody — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:50:27 GMT

We've updated our Guild UI Feature on the Patch 2.3 Portal here on Curse, to include Forte's interface information along with the current UIs listed. Our Guild UI feature spotlights the AddOns used by some of the top guilds in the world and even includes commentary by members of the guild on why they feel certain AddOns are an asset to raiding.

You can check out all of them by visiting the Guild UI page, or visit specific guilds by clicking the links below!

Elitist Jerks - Mal'Ganis-US
Last Resort - Kazzak-EU
Conquest - Kilrogg-US
Forte - Kazzak-EU

If you'd like to participate in this new feature on Curse, send us an email at community@curse.com to find out how!

E3 2007: The Dungeon of Zul'Aman & Other Content

amoa — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:54:36 GMT

All the sunshine and sandy beaches in the world couldn't keep us from visiting with Blizzard Entertainment at the E3 2007 media summit in Southern California. The developer was on hand to show off new content updates for its insanely popular massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, including some new gameplay features and a brand-new dungeon area.

The big news is the new Zul'Aman area, an outdoor dungeon in the mid-level Ghostlands area near the blood elves' homeland. The dungeon is inhabited by the forest trolls who first made their debut in Blizzard's real-time strategy game Warcraft II. ("Trolls love the outdoors," explains vice president of game design Rob Pardo.) The vast outdoor zone consists of ruined stone temples that reflect the trolls' shamanic beliefs growing through thick forests of trees. According to the story that Blizzard has penned for the area, Zul'Aman is the home of the troll warriors led by Zul'jin (a character from Warcraft II) and has become a stronghold from which the trolls have begun attacking the blood elves, thanks to a newfound power that a troll witch doctor has discovered. Apparently, this powerful troll spiritualist has somehow managed to steal away the essences of four troll animal gods and confer them to four mighty troll warriors. These avatars act as the early "boss" encounters for the dungeon.

Zul'Aman is a smaller raid dungeon that's better suited for 10-character parties than the full-on 25-character raids that some of the game's larger dungeons demand. Because the dungeon will not require any keys or attunements to enter, the dungeon seems intended to be more accessible to players on tight schedules. Much of the layout will call for methodical clearing of troll enemies who may call for help by beating on nearby war drums, which summon additional troll warriors to fight. Each of the four avatars, which have respectively been infused with the spirits of a bear god, a dragonhawk god, a lynx god, and finally, a god of evil, may also summon help, as well as assume different forms over the course of battle. Once players have defeated each avatar, they'll eventually take on the witch doctor that started the whole mess and finally do battle with Zul'Jin himself. The final troll boss will not only be a powerful foe; he'll also be able to draw upon the ghostly spirits of each of the four liberated animal gods and change his own shape to assume their powers.

In addition to offering challenging encounters against these mighty foes, Zul'Aman is apparently intended to encourage players to tackle it repeatedly to master its content. There will be several characters hanging around just outside the dungeon to give out quests that take place within the dungeon, including hunting for treasure and liberating four different hostages who have been taken captive by the armies of each of the four avatars. The rescue missions will apparently be timed and will yield better rewards if completed early.

Blizzard also plans to release additional, smaller patch updates before then that will add two new features: integrated voice chat and guild banks. Voice chat will be added to the game free of charge, will mute the game slightly whenever someone talks (so that you won't need to talk over any onscreen battles), and will use onscreen icons to indicate who's saying what, so that you'll be able to quickly determine which team member in your party is asking for help. The guild banks, on the other hand, will let guild officers create vaults to store the guild's entire possessions, as well as set permissions to limit access to certain items if they care to do so.

World of Warcraft is still running strong with millions of subscribers worldwide. Unfortunately, there's no set release date planned for the Zul'Aman update, beyond "when it's ready," though we're told that the voice chat and guild bank updates should be coming sooner to the game.

EDIT: Tigole gave some more clarification about Zul'Aman Here

Free WoW Telephone Raid Conference Room & Guildie Alert

ardorlan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:21:27 GMT

Sign up for the wow talker beta, at browsetalk.com, They are offering a free conference room for your guild as well as the ability to alert your guild members of a raid via SMS.

Guild Banks and Voice Chat - Coming to a WoW Near You

Kody — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:01:16 GMT

We've all been waiting for Guild Banks, but the news of a Ventrilo-like voice chat system for World of Warcraft is kind of surprising. Let's hope it's a bit better than some other games' in-game voice chats, as Ventrilo has proven to be the premier chat program to-date for most gamers, even taking into consideration any services provided by each specific game.

That said, Games for Windows magazine is reportedly doing a story in their June 2007 issue in which they interview Shane Dabiri - Lead Producer of World of Warcraft - and he gives them some tidbits on things coming after 2.1.

Shane confirms that Guild Banks are indeed on the way, as one of the next major features for the game, and so is in-game voice chat.

Guild Banks
Some of the key features of guild banks will be the ability to allow some of your members to use the money put in the bank for repairs (from NPC's and bots, which will have a new option) and reportedly will have hundreds of slots for items and such. The potential is ripe for abuse but Blizzard will have it set up so that transactions are documented on their website and abusers can be reported and Customer Service would then get involved.

In-game VoIP
Good-bye Ventrilo and Teamspeak! Blizzard is gearing up to add VoIP straight into the game for players that will help the problem of players not knowing or recognizing someone's voice and missing a critical heal or other critical game play needs. A players name will be highlighted when they are talking and you are able to click on their name then to select them and give them their buff/heal/etc.

There will also be the option to separate the voice chat from the game music sound to different sound channels. So you could (in theory) have the music and sound effects going through your regular speakers and the voice chat going through just your headset. To begin with, the VoIP will only be available to Parties and Raids but there may be room for expanding on that with custom channels (presumably for guilds).

Frostwolf Server Recruiting - Hostility

darkru — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:25:25 GMT

Hostility is now recruiting members for our Karazhan line-up. Currently. we are raiding mostly late nights, but would like to form an early group. We are accepting applications for dedicated level 70 raiders, but will accept some casual players level 68+ for back-up raiding positions. Raid specs and etiquette will be enforced and some mods are required. I.E. Ventrilo, CTRaid, KTM If you are looking for a raiding guild please apply at HostileHorde.com or /who Hostility and ask to speak to an officer. Hope to hear from you soon!

Frostwolf Server Recruiting - Hostility

darkru — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:25:06 GMT

Team ZZ Sponsored

VEXMARQUISE — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:13:39 GMT

The Warcraft 3 team from Lordaeron has switched platforms and has attracted themselves a sponsor, FlyingFoo, to boot which has already provided them with equipment and ventrilo servers. Rumors have it that undead wc3 player Canuck is planning on joining this team as well.

Ner'zhul Team ZZ is looking forward to high competition in the next arena season. Currently the team has organized a team of almost all new characters in order to create what they believe the perfect arena team, and aim to have their team fully functional in one month.

There line-up is currently, Mage Priest Paladin Warrior Alternate(Rogue/Hunter/Warrior)

Many people believe these players can rise quickly to the top at the start of the next season, as they have over 8 years combined in WoW PvP experience backing them up. The leader, Vex_Marquise said"I have high hopes for his new team but I still feel they have quite a while to go before they will be playing as tightly as the other teams."

The Quest for TBC

Havok — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:25:04 GMT

It has started, the last sprint to get TBC at midnight. You can read about everything that happens today as I wait in line for one of the most anticipated games this year, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

The site will be updated throughout the day with information on what we are doing, what's happening, all the way up to the point where I am inside the store and I've got the Collectors Edition in my hands.

You can read all about it here.