Paladin Healing: Comparing Crit vs MP5 as Item Budget
Several of my blogging peers have spent time pondering or explaining the difference between stacking +MP5 versus +spell crit for healadins. While I refer you to the two links for specifics, I decided to compare both stats in terms of Item Budget.
Random thoughts on Welfare and Patch 2.4
With reliable predictability, the 2.4 test patch notes brought a new round of QQing on the topic of loot distribution.
The debate has, however, not evolved at all since last time, and the same cheap shots get thrown around. As usual, of course, it’s a tiny but vocal fringe of hardcore PvE players doing all the [...]
How to Improve level 70 Horde PvP
Euripides over at Critical QQ relates his past 7 months of disastrous experiences in the level 70 BGs as horde. Although by all accounts how each faction fares depending on the battlegroup you are playing in, I have definitely noticed a difference (read “a slump” to put it politely) between the level 70 bracket and [...]
Good Grief, Get a Grip!
Dear fellow gamer,
You are playing a MMOG. Your accomplishments are something you do for your own sake, for your own enjoyment and for your own pleasure. And yes, sometimes it will garner you some recognition of other players.
You want to be admired for what you did? Log off. Go outside.
AFK BG Leeching now a Big Deal
After clinging to the “we want to remove the reason people AFK in BGs” line for way too long, Blizzard has revised their stance and will now crack down hard on the eternal leechers:
The Losing AV gives Zero Honour Fallacy
Every other month or so, there’s another common QQ theme, and the current one is about AV post 2.3 - the complaint that losing nets you next to no honour, making queuing up pointless.
Now I’m holding the opinion that AV needs fixes, both in its design and more generally through improvements with the AFK mechanism, [...]
Paladin Healing Spreadsheet Revision
I added two new columns to take crits into account, as well as the Healing Light talent. You can now play with these values accordingly, and if these don’t match the average heal value displayed by DrDamage, my formulas are definitely wrong somewhere.
I’m at work though so I can’t check it out right now [...]
Paladin Healing Spreadsheet
Following a message board post on alla’s paladin forums, I quickly put together a spreadsheet calculating the proper average heal values including spell bonus and downranking:
Since I tend to fail at maths, you are invited to review the spread sheet here. The downranking formulae have been taken from http://www.wowwiki.com/Downranking. If you wish to simply check [...]
Halaa: Minus One Guard
I’m fishing in Nagrand, and suddenly notice the Halaa counter at the top of my screen:
This kind of stuff tends to get my mind into silly mode. And what happens when I enter silly mode? I try to imagine how you could end up with a negative amount of guards.
After the jump, here’s what I [...]
A few Ideas to Improve Battlegrounds
As I have spent some time in the past railing about several flaws in raiding which were being exposed by the availability of arena and BG gear, I haven’t yet really written about where BGs in particular need work and improvement. Pretending all is fine in PvPland is of course blinding ourselves from reality, and [...]
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