Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

Some of you ridiculously long readers may remember a crazy guy named Voxmortis. Suffice to say, he’s an extremely good friend of mine. We used to get up to all sorts of crazy crap. Until he quit the game, the bastard.
Anyway, he’s back, and playing a Death Knight of all things. In fact, we’re leveling [...]

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The Selfish Theory of Selflessness

There are three types of talents. Talents that buff only you and your performance, talents that buff only somebody else and their performance, and talents that do both.
Take Improved Fireball. This talent only improves your own performance, having zero effect on anyone else.
Improved Scorch, on the other hand, provides a very powerful buff to everyone [...]

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Preliminary Frost Testing

Was able to waste some time with a dummy on the PTR with a frost build.
Replenishment is nice, but it’s suffering from a fairly huge bug right now. The same bug, actually, that plagued Shadow Priests back in LK beta.
Replenishment, as you know, ticks every second. But it doesn’t tick immediately, it ticks the following [...]

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On A Serious Note

The following post has nothing to do with WoW, but is instead a sad story involving human negligence, somebody dying, and proof that being a cynic is really the only option in today’s world.
So this couple from Quebec take a short vacation to a mountain resort in Golden, BC. On their last day there, they [...]

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New Mage Glyphs in Patch 3.1

Good morning, Azeroth! How was your-oh. New glyphs, huh? And all that was posted after I went to bed?
Way to immediately invalidate my post you jerks!
Well, then, let’s dive right in.

Glyph of Ice Lance – Your Ice Lance now causes 4 times damage against frozen targets higher level than you instead of triple damage.

Wow. I [...]

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Pthremature Patchth Noteth: Patch 3.1 Changes for Mages

Patch 3.1! Holy crap look at those changes. Ret pallies got nerfed, Howling Blast continues to be nerfed into the ground, dual specs are here, and mages have Replenishment!
The worst part is that probably none of this will be relevant in a week or two. So why blog about it?
Because I’m a blogger and I [...]

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Om Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom

Obligatory screenshot of the Critter Gitter achievement!

Here’s a glimpse into my train of thought…
Hee hee, lookit all those penguins! Man, I bet orcas wished they were player characters!
Hmm, there are orcas swimming all around here… I wonder…
*Flying Mount*
*Fly over water*

And thus is the true meaning of a chef: the ability to prepare delicious food for [...]

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Awesome Things and Things!

Lag is the most powerful force in WoW. Nothing else can even compare. 1500 Stamina is nothing compared to the sheer power of 1500 ms. Even the most well stacked, overgeared raid can easily fall victim to the almighty lag.
Lag allows for clever people to do clever things. Like Spell Steal Ice Block, or Counterspell [...]

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Manamana – We Haz Numbers!

Ghostcrawler has taken the time to inform the community of the exact mana regen numbers we can expect to see in the next patch.
This is what’s relevant.
Base mana regen has been nerfed by 40%. That little number on your character pane that shows what your mana regen is (OOFSR) is going to drop very heavily. [...]

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Thing: The Most Versatile Language in the English Word

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my thing. Prepare to die!
That’s no moon. It’s a thing.
Madness? This is thing!
I’ll have what that thing’s having.
But why is the thing gone?
They may take away our thing, but they’ll never take our other things!
A thing. Shaken, not stirred.
Well, a thing’s a thing, but they call it [...]

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