Project Lore

The Twilight's Hammer is encountered by players all over World of Warcraft. From ousting the cultists defending Aku'mai in the Blackfathom Deeps to skipping Jedoga Shadowseeker when farming heroic Ahn'Kahet, the cult has made their mark nearly everywhere in the world of Azeroth and beyond.

The Twilight's Hammer started out as an orcish clan. Before even the first war, the orcish warlock Gul'dan formed the Shadow Council, an organization bent on serving the Burning Legion and spreading the practices of various dark magics to all of the orcish clans. Most of the major orcish clans had allied under the banner of the Horde and began exterminating the draenei for conquest. The Shadow Council became a secretive organization that controlled the Horde behind the scenes - they appointed the Warchief and communicated directly with Kil'jaeden and other Burning Legion demons.

Gul'dan, practicing his dark magic, ran several experiments on the ogres native to Draenor. He created the two-headed ogres, and one of them, Cho'gall (left head Cho, right head Gall), became Gul'dan's apprentice. He was one of the first ogres to learn of arcane magic and became a powerful spellcaster. He was also insane, probably part of the side effects of having two heads and being able to command magic. Perhaps from brainwashing from Gul'dan, he believed Armageddon would soon arrive, and the Horde would bring it into fruition.

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Protip is short video series with various tips and guides. Leave a comment to let me know what you want to see in future segments. Follow @Heartbourne or subscribe in iTunes for notifications of new videos!

On this Protip, we fight and defeat Omen to get the Elune's Blessing achievement.

Protip is short video series with various tips and guides. Leave a comment to let me know what you want to see in future segments. Follow @Heartbourne or subscribe in iTunes for notifications of new videos!

Its time for the lunar festival! Learn where to get started and what its all about.

The terms "supply and demand" are terms incorrectly thrown around by a lot of players. I think the average player understands that more supply means lower prices and more demand means higher prices, but many players do not understand changes in supply and demand very well. Its a problem that many beginning economics students have as well, so lets take some time to investigate it.

The first step to understanding a phenomenon is to collect data about it. When evaluating supply and demand of a particular product, economists ask the people selling the product "how many of this product would you be willing to sell at a variety of prices?", and of the consumers they ask "how many of this product would you be willing to buy at a variety of prices?" Using this data, they create charts called "supply and demand schedules". Lets look at a made-up example where we try to evaluate the Primordial Saronite market.

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A couple of weeks ago, the infamous "Get Lich or Die Trying" song and video were released to the interwebs. Complete with one of the most famous WoW cosplayers and their merchandise, this video has one of the highest production values of a non-in-game WoW video ever produced. It could be seen far and wide, from Kotaku to Digg, and after a month of development on our new NSFW image, its here on Project Lore! 

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Goblinism 101 connects real-life economic principles with the markets that exist in World of Warcraft. It seeks to teach about capitalism's WoW analogue, goblinism, through examples and stories.

The economy of World of Warcraft has a lot of similarities with real world laissez-faire economies. There are some key differences, but it is a close model of a no-government free market.

One of the biggest differences between a typical WoW economy and a modern real world economy is that there is little to no product differentiation and little to no innovation. That is, the Merlin's Robe you get crafted by your guildmate Legolasxlol is identical as the one you buy from a stranger on the auction house, which is identical to all other Merlin's Robes. Additionally, nobody can create or discover new items. Nobody can say "gee, I wish this belt had more stamina on it" and research ways to craft belts with more stamina. The only real exception is when there are recipes that are difficult to obtain or are very new. Jewelcrafting recipes are a great example; there are hundreds of cuts and few people have a vast library of recipes. Players have to buy them by spending time on dailies or money on Titanium Powder, an equivalent of research and development in the real world. There are some other exceptions, like Northrend Inscription Research, but by and large there is no innovation or product differentiation.

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Protip is short video series with various tips and guides. Leave a comment to let me know what you want to see in future segments. Follow @Heartbourne or subscribe in iTunes for notifications of new videos! 

In this episode, we continue grabbing Love is in the Air achievements. Check it out to learn how to get Dangerous Love, The Rocket's Pink Glare, and My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose.

Episode 4? What? Where is episode 3?

There were some technical problems with recording that we are ironing out. It may appear in the future if the ley lines align.

We recorded this on Thursday, just before a ton of news came out, so some of our discussion might seem a little moot.

Be sure to enter the contest to name our podcast! Like we said, we are still in a "beta testing phase" with recording this, so in a couple weeks the podcast will get fleshed out with a name, album art, and more.

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Protip is short video series with various tips and guides. Leave a comment to let me know what you want to see in future segments. Follow @Heartbourne or subscribe in iTunes for notifications of new videos! 

Continuing our quest against the Crown Chemical Company, we take down Apothecary Hummel, get the Tough Love achievement, and save Azeroth.

There is some great stuff in patch 3.3.3, which is soon going to be live on the public test realms. Check out my highlights then the patch notes after the break.

• Battleground queueing system completely overhauled. Random battlegrounds, no more marks of honor, more honor and adjusted prices!
• Dungeon finder tweaks. Add a reason to vote-to-kick someone, queue better with people of different levels, queue for holiday bosses!
• Auction House interface updates.
• "Many quests which require vehicles have had their vehicle mechanics updated and improved in the interest of fun."
• Subtlety buffed!
• CoS intro skippable! 

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