Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Classes, Talents
When the Public Test Realm is up, any player who has had an active account since November 2006 can copy their character over to help test the new update. During the Patch 2.1 Public Test phase, I copied my L64 feral druid over and respecced to Balance. Fortunately, I had a decent set of […]
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast topics, Classes, Buffs
Dolarhyde of the Boulderfist server posed a simple, but interesting question on the official forums today: what one buff would you give your class?
The reason I almost always choose druids in the multitude of MMORPGs I play has less to do with RP and more to do with versatility. I love […]
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The good people over at World of Raids are reporting a subtle unannounced change on the PTRs to melee haste rating, one of the new stats added in TBC:
Live: 10.5 haste rating for 1% hastePTR: 15.7 haste rating for 1% haste
While this may not entirely be intentional, it is not uncommon for new stats to be balanced prior to going […]
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Filed under: Two Bosses Enter
Another weekend, and you know what that means — it’s time for another episode of Two Bosses Enter, WoW Insider’s series of fantasy deathmatches between some of the toughest bosses in the World of Warcraft. Each week, two bosses walk into our arena, but only one of them gets to walk out again — and at […]
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Filed under: Mage, Lore, Arcane Brilliance
Once again we’re back with Arcane Brilliance, where we discuss all things mage-like. This week I’d like to talk a bit about our roots as mages in the World of Warcraft universe. In order to understand who you are and where you are going, sometimes you have to learn about where you’ve been. […]
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Filed under: Tips
For those of you who are interested in satellite television (and in the USA), DIRECTV is currently running a promotion for new customers: if you subscribe to DIRECTV and activate your account, you get a code good for 11 months of game time. In case you don’t already have a copy of the game, they’ll also give you […]
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends
Our good friends at Joystiq reported on a study earlier from Nottingham Trent University (it’s in England) about MMO gamers and their social behaviors. And supposedly– are you sitting for this one?– massively multiplayer online games actually help people meet others and make friends. Go figure!
They surveyed 1,000 […]
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Quests, Expansions, Burning Crusade, NPCs, Wrath of the Lich King
Blizzard has posted a helpful page of tips on how to run, in my opinion, the best setup of organized World PvP so far: Halaa, the conquerable city in Nagrand.
The tips are pretty straightforward: stick together (team– where’s my CS homies at?), do as much […]
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Filed under: Odds and ends
Many players insist loudly and long that they could do a better job then the Blizzard devs. If only they had the 3 years and $20 million required to create an MMORPG these days? Now they don’t have that excuse any more.
Say hello to Multiverse, a free software development kit (reg required) that gives you all […]
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Filed under: Machinima, WoW Moviewatch
I think most of us are aware that World of Warcraft has undergone a great amount of tweaking since its initial conception — and even more tweaking since its initial launch. This video just makes it easy to visualize the precise amount of change that’s happened since it’s been available for public scrutiny. So take a […]
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