WoW Infection: Brightly Coloured Punctuation

I found myself in dire need of a good RPG game, preferably a sci-fi adventure. Something along the lines of KotOR would be perfect. Well hey, says I, why not Mass Effect? Same people, same general idea.

Mass Effect was great. Definitely 9/10 material. It had a couple small issues, but what game doesn’t?

Anyway, point is, quests were marked with a Yellow Exclamation Mark.

What? Again?

In a sci-fi RPG with sniper rifles, powerful empires, and mighty starships, the people I need to speak with to finish up quests are marked with a great big !.

There’s really nobody to blame here but whoever first decided that putting in the YEM was the perfect idea to grab a player’s attention.

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Frostfire, Just This Once

Like every single mage in the world, I initially felt that Blizzard was politely trying to rip off my limbs and sell them to a seedy looking Vietnamese chef with the new expansion.

“Living Bomb” sounded awesome, but turned out be used dishwater, frostfire bolt was kinda cool, but confusing with really no explanation of how it worked, and Deep Freeze was kinda cool.

What? Why don’t you like our cool spells?

No offence, Mr. Blue Text, but Living Bomb is only cool in theory. That spell needs some serious help before I’ll even consider speccing it. And Burnout? What the hell kinda crap is that?

Fine. Be that way. Look, we’ll add a mana burn to Living Bomb, and buff Burnout a bit. How’s that?

Gah, so now Living Bomb and Burnout only mostly suck? Good job guys.

What about Deep Freeze? That’s cool, innit?

Well, maybe, for an instant cast…

OH FINE. FINE. BLAH DE BLAH. Now it deals over a thousand damage too. HAPPY? Them warriors are going to rip your procreative organs off.

That’s fine. They’ve been trying to do that for years. So about them fire talents…? They still suck.

Ok… maybe… we can buff Burnout a bit. How’s this. It effects base mana cost, not your total mana.

NOW you’re speaking sense. That’s awesome. And Living Bomb?

…

LIVING BOMB?!

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