Funny Money is a weekly column published at the end of the week with the intent to have a little fun with the world of finance. Every weekend we’ll bring you a financial quote, a song relating to money, something interesting from the real world of business and a quick WoW gold making tip. Read on and have some fun…

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The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters in the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Netherdrakes.

A new season is on us, and new breeds of compositions are rising to the top. The first Colosseum interview of Season 6 is with Butteslol, the Discipline Priest in the team "idk im just so furious." Along with Retribution Paladin Carboncopy, Butteslol has blazed a trail to high ratings very early in the season.

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This week, David returns (again) to All the World's a Stage as a newly married man, feeling particularly happy and joyful, and overflowing with enthusiasm for just about everything he loves in life.

The relationship between rolelplaying and real life is a multifaceted one. If you have read this column before, you've probably seen some mention of roleplaying as a creative art form, but for some readers, it might be a bit difficult to imagine roleplaying as an art. After all, some might say, it's just a bunch of people sitting around, pretending their characters are real people, having real problems and real stories, all in spite of a game environment in which one's character can't actually affect the world in any way that matters. Problems of continuity, such as instanced dungeons in which many people can slay the same monster at the same time over and over again, make some people feel as though there's no story value to the game at all, and that anything roleplayers do is a waste of their time.

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Karthis at Of Teeth and Claws raises an interesting question concerning "helper" mods for DPS rotations -- should they be considered cheating? He observes that, whie they may be a godsend for classes and specs with more difficult rotations, many of them remove the need to think about anything other than following the mod's instructions on what skill to use and when. He writes, "If a chimpanzee was trained to press the key that corresponded to the skill that Face Mauler popped up, then it would put out insane DPS without understanding even the very basics of what it means to be a feral cat."**

The issue leaves me somewhat torn. There's no way around the fact that Karthis is right; mods like these -- and they exist for several classes -- make it possible for players to do great, or at least acceptable, DPS without understanding the class and spec they play. They also have the side effect of encouraging tunnel vision on the mob/s rather than what's happening in the raid (and, as someone who plays a tank, I must admit I hate dealing with an utterly oblivious DPS). Nobody wants to see a lazy player rewarded with excellent DPS for no other reason than their ability to install a mod and then do what the mod tells them to do.

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I've been looking at the Noblegarden items for awhile now, since they first showed up on the PTR. For some reason, it never hit me until I saw it on live realms how cool one item in particular actually is. For five chocolates you can buy your own Noblegarden Egg, which allows you to lay a Brightly Colored Egg. Yes, that's five eggs for one egg of your own, which is a pretty horrible exchange rate.

What's so cool about it? They're the exact same eggs you've been picking up that whole time, except that you can set them out. You can loot them right away for an added chance of whatever loot may be in them, but I'm not sure why you'd do that, except for possibly completing Dressed for the Occasion/Sunday's Finest. What makes it better is that other people can loot them.

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Ulduar - Hard Mode Gear List
Today we've got one of the most important update to the Ulduar loot list, pretty much all the items from the hard mode encounters are now available. Yes, we also have the hard mode rewards from Yogg-Saron, Mimiron or others unbeaten encounters. Please note that Items do not display socket bonuses, this is a known bug

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Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, Vault of Archavon or Ulduar, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we do some homework.

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Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a new UI blog for all classes. Today, Matt teams up with Arcane Mages to deliver some serious pain!

It's not very often I write posts about DPS. It becomes even more rare when I write about Mages. My only wish out of Mages is for them to learn another rank of Conjurable food and water.It's at the point now where I need to consume two of them to get a full mana bar back nearly.

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The Loot Council is regular column highlighting interesting and informative posts from around the WoW finance blogosphere.

There’s been a lot of negativity this week in the world of WoW finance. Many of our peers are talking about how the market after 3.1 did not perform as expected and are now revising their predictions and talking about losses on stockpiled materials.

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Once upon a time, when the World of Warcraft was all shiny and new, things were simple: the Horde hated the Alliance and they, in turn, despised the Horde. It was a simpler time, but this wasn't just some game mechanic to facilitate PvP and hours of ganking, oh no, it was integral to the lore of Azeroth.

Now, it's also worth remembering that there's no black and white in Azeroth either. The Horde aren't evil for just being the Horde, neither are the Alliance all pure as newly fallen snow. Each faction has done its fair share of pure and evil acts depending on the actions of individual heroes and the motivations of their leaders.

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Reader comments – ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past.

Dislocated but not disconnected Lileya of Lightbringer-EU, the subject of this week's 15 Minutes of Fame, has a rare, lifelong condition that can make even the simplest tasks impossible (let alone healing an endgame raid). From her ankles to her knees, from her fingers to her shoulders, Lileya's joints dislocate at the drop of a pin. [Expand 7 Paragraphs] Instant Vote: [+] [-] (No votes yet) Sunday Morning Funnies: Kiss some frogs [Read All] 1 posts (Updated 2 years 287 days 21 hours ago) [Source] Amanda Miller wrote on 26th April 10am Today is the official start of the week-long festival of Noblegarden, and is the last Sunday in April. I can't believe that it is almost May! We have some great comics this week, as always, along with one newbie. Check out a new comic, It's a 2v2 Life. Check out the latest from Cru the Dwarf. Dark Legacy Comics shows us how to Make your own DLC! Experience Points has something to say about the new Argent Tournament, and is offering up an advertisement. The latest from Flintlocke vs the Horde has set up next week's comic to be quite thing to see. Earlier this week, WoW Insider announced the new Peggle addon for WoW, and GU comics has done up a comic about it. Check out the latest from LFG. NoObz: Powerlevelage. NPC: Questionable Judgement. I love those little cats! Check out the latest from Teh Gladiators. From The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf: Frenching Kermit. [View Remaining 1 Lists] Instant Vote: [+] [-] (No votes yet) Around Azeroth: Ex machina [Read All] 1 posts (Updated 2 years 287 days 21 hours ago) [Source] Elizabeth Wachowski wrote on 26th April 11am Tankadin Teraunus of <Celestial Vanguard> on Elune sent in this screenshot of the Spark of Imagination area in Ulduar, complete with resident boss Mimiron's Leviathan MKII vehicle front and center. Shouldn't a mechanognome vehicle boss be riding a giant, flame-breathing mechanostrider at some point, instead of those relatively bland giant-gnome-part models? I'm pretty sure I killed that Aerial Command Unit sixteen years ago. [View Remaining 1 Paragraphs] Instant Vote: [+] [-] (No votes yet) Breakfast Topic: Which part of Noblegarden are you most excited ... [Read All] 1 posts (Updated 2 years 287 days 23 hours ago) [Source] Lesley Smith wrote on 26th April 9am Noblegarden is finally here and, boy, is it addictive! Knowing how everyone would be swarming all over Kharanos and Goldshire, I headed for the most isolated, least visited starter town I could think of: Azure Watch. On my low-population server, there were only about another five people after eggs and once you start spotting them hunting becomes insanely addictive. There are already people with their Spring Rabbit's Foot and the rest have just been turned into purple bunnies. I'm not sure if the latter is cute or just weird. [View Remaining 2 Paragraphs] Instant Vote: [+] [-] (No votes yet) Noblegarden has begun! [Read All] 1 posts (Updated 2 years 288 days 3 hours ago) [Source] Alex Ziebart wrote on 26th April 1am It's 12:01 AM Pacific, which means that Noblegarden should now be live on all North American realms. Despite the fact that it's the middle of the night, people are absolutely packed into the starting zones on my home realm, so don't expect things will be easy just because it's late! [View Remaining 3 Paragraphs] Instant Vote: [+] [-] (No votes yet) 2012 WowFix.com  |  RSS Information  |  About Us  |  Suggestion Box  |  Contact Us World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.