Looking to do a little research and determine if someone’s a loot ninja before you invite them to your run? Maybe you’re just as afraid of PUGs as the rest of us and you want to make sure that you’re not grouping with someone that everyone else on the server already knows is going to make your run miserable. Thankfully you can run their name through WoW Jackass, a community-fueled site where players report loot ninjas, bad tanks, horrible healers, hapless DPSers, and other all around assy players who are known to steal nodes out from under you when you’re mining or tag all of the quest mobs in the area just because they see you coming.

There’s a flip side to this kind of site though – because it’s all community generated information, you have no real guarantee that the person listed is the jackass or the person doing the listing is the jackass – there are always two sides to every story. So keep that in mind when you go hunting for jackasses – it’s one thing to be a ninja known across the server, it’s another thing to read someone’s personal account of when another player wronged them. But if you do come across some genuine jackasses, it’s worth getting their names up there so the rest of the world knows to avoid grouping with them.

My guild has a no drama policy. In fact you can (and probably will) be kicked for drama. So where do I go for drama? Well WoW Drama of course. As the site proclaims, “WoW Drama brings you the hilarity of drama in Azeroth and Outland”. From forum drama to guild drama to unexpected sexual missteps this site has it all.
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In Probably the most slap-dash article ever written on the topic, The Toronto Star has once again confused the World of Warcraft with a dating site.
WTF? I mean really, if you are going to do an article on WoW at least have the decency to play the game for more than 15 minutes before making sweeping generalizations or delarations about “What a world we’ve built for ourselves!”.
And why approach it from the perspective of an online singles bar?

You can read the article yourself, (It took me several runs at it to make it through), but you would think that with a subject like the largest online game ever created; you could do better.

They asked me why I was visiting Canada. I was to visit a friend I met on World of Warcraft…
“In an online game.”
“What online game?”
“Umm … World of Warcraft,” I responded meekly.
“What kind of game is this?”
“It’s a fantasy game … it takes place online.”
“Fantasy … like it’s got wizards and warlocks?”
“Well, it’s got warlocks.” (And they need to be nerfed.)”

Straight from the WTF category…. here it is.
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A level 60 druid kited a Devilsaur all the way from Un’Goro Crater to Orgrimmar. I caught up with it at Crossroads. (Note: the photo set is in exactly the opposite order.) It very nearly got killed outside of Orgimmar by a couple of jerks, but we managed to get them to stop. Once it walked into Orgrimmar and the guards started attacking it, the extra players who also won’t stop were impossible to counter. It must have taken hours to bring it all that way, but less than half a dozen players ruined the experience in minutes.

When my significant other’s character pops up in a blog entry about a 30+ Single Gamers’ Club?

My angel is a centerfold. /sniff