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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
Posted in Altitis, PvP
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
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
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
Posted in blogosphere, PvE, PvP
Tagged beta, Healing, Paladin, PvP, Retribution, wrath
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Muckbeast on Raiding Design
Cambios is a game dev who may just have started his blog recently, yet posts interesting stuff from day one. Taking on some of the more visible flaws in raiding in current MMOs, he writes:[...] Continue reading
State of Altitis: May 2008 Edition
After toying around with another Shaman a month ago, I moved around again, and joined up with my pre-TBC GM (and former healadin role-model) on a PvP server. Continue reading
Raiding and the Patrouille des Glaciers
From last Wednesday to Sunday, the Swiss canton Wallis was host to the biannual Ski-touring competition Patrouille des Glaciers. This is pretty much one of the biggest races in Ski-Touring, an otherwise not very widely-known sport combining running, mountain climbing and skiing. Continue reading
Catering to the Casuals Indeed
As most of you will have noticed by now, Blizzard, in yet another clear demonstration that the hardcore whining raider-fabricated myth of the complaining casuals is just that, a myth, kowtowed to the tiny but vocal minority and added arena rating requirements both to most S4 arena gear but also, in a slightly more surprising move, to the S4 honour gear. Continue reading
