Early Healadin Reports: Holy Shock Becomes Viable
To follow up on my previous post, via the EJ thread linking to it, someone wrote about his experiences group healing in the Wrath beta on the o-bards:[...]
Bartle doesn’t get MMOs says Tobold, who doesn’t get Bartle
In one of these interesting meta-spats in the blogosphere, Tobold took exception to Richard Bartle’s statement in an interview to Massively that “I’ve already played Warhammer. It was called World of Warcraft.”
Tobold proceeded to write a withering post about Bartle’s bitterness and irrelevance in modern MMOs which, Tobold believes, the old curmudgeon doesn’t grasp anymore.
Disease Mechanisms in PvE?
Part of the pre-announced Death Knight’s abilities include using the disease debuff quite liberally. I’m wondering how that will play out in PvE (obviously I don’t hold my breath, bosses will probably be immune to most of it).
And thus TBC Ends, both in a Bang and in a Whimper
As most of you will have seen already, Kil’Jaeden is down, and the PvE content of the Burning Crusade is now complete.
Two things strike me, first, it was SK Gaming who got the world first, putting an end to 25 months of Nihilum dominance. Congratulations.
Death Knight Tanking Unveiled
As everyone will have found out by now, there’s a lot of WotLK info bursting out today. Gamespy’s report on Deathknight is particularly interesting.
Daostrasz on Tweaking your Graphics in WoW
Daostrasz has an excellent post out here for people not making full use of a good gfx card and plenty of RAM, explaining how you can improve the eye-candy value in the game.
Draele on Improving Warlock Talent Trees
Draele of Rantings of the Afflicted spent some time recently to think about issues with the Warlock class. Now before all non-warlocks start thinking “pff, like warlocks need any buffs”, this isn’t about buffing the class but about fixing glaring inconsistencies in the talent trees which limit warlock playstyles.
More Complex Comparison of +Crit vs MP5 for Healadins
To follow up on yesterday’s post, here’s another short series of comparison in terms of item budgets, using a more complex casting pattern.
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.
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, [...]
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