I’ve been waiting for account-wide mounts and pets since the day I even considered switching mains from my rogue to my shaman. I finally have access to my prized Netherwing Drakes, my rare Azure Whelpling pet, and so much more. There is a rather unforeseen consequence of the account-wide feature. Since pets and mounts are available to [...]
Mists of Pandaria Beta: Initial Questing with Jade Forest Closed
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been off enjoying the outside world, or just playing other games. WOW hasn’t been a part of my life at all this summer. After listening to a few of my usual podcasts, however, I felt a slight flicker of interest. I finally found the energy to try the WOW [...]
Behind the Mists: Wandering Isle
I wasn’t among those Annual Pass subscribers that were up in arms about the lack of an immediate Beta invite. It was an unrealistic expectation that 1 million people could suddenly log onto a small set of beta servers. I completely understand Blizzard’s situation, and they’ve handled it all quite well in my opinion. With [...]
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 [...]
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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Here It Comes, Ready Or Not
Shiny New Home I’m all moved in to my new home – I think I finally have things unpacked and stable. I know that when Cataclysm launches, my desire to muck around with the blog beyond just posting is going to be minimal. I hope that the feed-reader switch worked correctly (although there was a weird [...]
