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Category Archives: PvP
33rd America’s Cup: Thanks God it’s Over
So the 33rd America’s Cup is finally run, congratulations to Oracle who crushed the Swiss team Alinghi. Ironically, despite writing about the shameful display of court action (that would continue for a long while) a couple of years ago, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Alinghi, America's Cup, Arena, cheating, lawsuit, offline, PvP, sportsmanship
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Honourable Foes
Leveling to 80 on a PvP server brings its share of mistrust about the opposite faction, the amount of backstabbing gankers on both sides sees to that. I’m therefore always quite wary of my surroundings when engaged with some NPCs … Continue reading
The Four Learning Styles and How They Can Help Team Progression
Are any of these familiar? Some of your players simply never seem to read strategies posted to the website? Some others, no matter how, will always forget about vital buffs or die to ground fire at least once? When you … Continue reading
Time to Rethink Arena?
This week ended up a lot better for Steptoe and I than our first week in Season 5 (where we ran 1-9), with a 10-6 win ratio out of 16 games. In general we felt a lot more comfortable with … Continue reading
80 at Last, Now What?
On my paladin, I finally dinged 80, ending my first toon’s journey to the new endgame. A couple of thoughts about the latter parts of the journey, if you will. Veteran of Wrathgate: I completed what some people have dubbed … Continue reading
As the Year Turns
And here we are, on the brink of 2009, and as usual, it’s time to look back at what changes the year brought. One year ago, the hot topic in the WoW blogosphere was still the PvE / PvP opposition … Continue reading
If You Can’t Stand the Heat…
… Get out of the kitchen! While I have another post planned to join the chorus of bloggers writing about their first Wrath experiences, I have come to a realization this weekend. Let’s call it by its name and not … Continue reading
The Mandatory Paladin QQ Post
Being away and with little playtime to try out things has some advantages, I don’t get to react to strings of nerfs + partial reversals as they happen. I got some playtime on my paladin (now Ret with the blue … Continue reading
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Tagged beta, Healing, Paladin, PvP, Retribution, wrath
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Armchair Theorycrafting: the lackluster Wrath Healadin
With time and many tweaks and adjustments, the WotLK beta has wrought many changes from the initial beta outlook. As we get closer to patch 3.x and its class overhauls, I took a long, hard look at the current state of the healadin.
And I don’t like it. Continue reading
Posted in Altitis, PvE, PvP
Tagged beta, Healing, Mechanisms, Musings, Paladin, Retribution, wotlk, wrath
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