Grimmtooth recently commented on a post that Massively had published under its “Soapbox” column – an opinion piece titled, “How raiding turns you into a horrible person“. You can immediately tell from the title that the post was intended to cause controversy, to incite emotion. In other words, it was a big fat attempt at trolling. [...]
The Rest of the Video Game World
I remember the days when I played other video games besides WOW. For the past few years WOW has sucked up nearly all of my gaming time. The problem is that if I’m in the mood for gaming, I’ll log into WOW because I have things I “need” to get done. If I’m not in [...]
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PAX: Everyday I’m Hustlin’
I recently attended my first ever geek convention. Jardal and I took a trip out to Seattle to attend PAX, one of the largest gaming conventions in the country. Jardal is a huge fan of the Penny Arcade duo Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik (also known as Tycho and Gabe), who started the annual convention, [...]
Con, Convention, PAX, Seattle
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Shaman Style: Dungeon Set Look-Alikes
There has been a lot of exciting news lately – from transmogrification, to void storage, to tank threat changes. Although there has been plenty of dissent from those that seem just generally unhappy with the game (or aren’t even playing WOW anymore), most of us appear excited. The collector in me is squealing with glee [...]
Collection, Dungeon Set 1, Dungeon Set 2, Outfits, Shaman Style, Vanity
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Circle of Healing or… Perpetually Late to the Party
Yes I know that every other healer out there in the entire WOW blogosphere finished this weeks ago. You were probably hoping that it was done, that you wouldn’t have to skim through another post of the same things over again. Too bad… I’m late to the party as always and I’m here to bore [...]
Healing, Late as Usual
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MurgleKae
We may not have downed Cho’gall before the patch, but I at least I have a new hat. What is a resto/elemental shaman doing with an agility hat? It all stems back to my hatred of Murglesnout. Since the expansion launched I have raged about the utter stupidity of the existence of such a fish. Back before fish feasts, [...]
Maps and Musings
I’m hoping that unlike the other five posts sitting in draft status that this one will actually get published. Yes, I still exist. I didn’t mean to disappear, but intentions mean very little. My WOW schedule has been fairly minimal. I log in for raids, and the rest depends on the week. My priest is [...]
When Fiction Becomes Reality
I was walking through my house yesterday, and had one of those moments. I suddenly realized “this is my house”, realized that something I imagined for so long was actually real. I was overwhelmed by that weird feeling of “how did I get here”? It’s the most potent kind of Deja Vu – living something you [...]
Balancing Ability Count and Change
The most recent Dev Water Cooler gave us something to ponder while we waited for the servers to come back up on Tuesday. In his post Number of Abilities, Ghostcrawler comments on the challenges Blizzard faces in balancing the number of spells, how often they change, how many cooldowns vs. rotational abilities, and more. Class Design [...]
Class Design, Dev Watercooler, Ghostcrawler
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4.1 Caster Shaman Loot
Notes I was very excited to dig into the loot pool of the new Zul’Aman and Zul’Gurub bosses that will be added in patch 4.1, coming SoonTM. Blizzard has done a great job of supplementing our pre-raid gear with new ilevel 353 epics. Note that none of these are going to be as good as [...]
