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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
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
Ghostcrawler on Current Raid Difficulty
Says the designer crab: “A couple more points about Naxx: many of the guilds who cleared it quickly already knew the encounters from 40-player days, AND were allowed to practice extensively on beta. By contrast we gave players very little … Continue reading
Extreme Hardcore Guild Wins Wrath, Jumps the Shark
So Nihilum and SK Gaming merged, rushed to level 80, and then proceeded to clear all raid instances weeks or even months before the unwashed masses. Good for them. When you pay a monthly subscription to burn to content which … Continue reading
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
Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday
So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now. Continue reading
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Wrath to End PvE / PvP Gear Dispute
One of the gripes most often heard during Arena Season 2 and Season 3 from part of the hardcore raiding crowd was about the fact that Arena gear was recoloured tier gear, so that an Illidan-killing hero wouldn’t really appear remarkable when walking in areas where arena dancers gathered. Continue reading
Nothing is Certain in Life…
But Death, Taxes and an infernal dropping at the wrong moment. Continue reading
Sunwell Cleared: A Raider’s Perspective
From the other end of the gamer spectrum, Lume the Mad offers his perspective on reaching the end of the Burning Crusade, and the meta-game represented by the world first race. Continue reading


