Thanks for the Good Times Everyone, Time to Move On

I considered doing one of those “I’m leaving WoW now, see ya!” type posts as a joke for April Fool’s day, but in light of recent events that probably wouldn’t be received too well. Even if I went all out and cited the lack of in-game bacon as the primary reason for me quitting.
It would [...]

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Orders of Business

Hooooookay.
First, much apologies for the site outage. I’m not sure what happened, I suspect that twitter whatever haberdashery caused some coding issues. A new twitter widget added to wordpress? Then all the wordpress blogs suddenly fail to load? Coincidence? I THINK NOT.
It took something like six hours to even post those four words yesterday or [...]

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Site Finally Working Again

Sorry about the outage.

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Free Stuff is Serious Business

So Horns and his friends with unpronounceable names over at Yet Another Warlock Nerf are having themselves a little contest. A contest which, conveniently, involves them giving away stuff for free*.
Now, as Horns bribed asked me to throw them a shout-out, and as a firm believer in free things (especially food), I feel it is [...]

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Things I’ve Learned as a Paladin Healer

Yes, I have a paladin. Some of you know that, I suspect some of you don’t. I know for a fact that very, very few of you know that I actually heal on said Paladin.
Heal instances, even.
All if you who just shivered or otherwise suddenly felt a great deal of fear are forgiven. It’s ok. [...]

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(Part Three) Nerfy Nerfy Fear Fear

(Sung to the tune of the happy happy joy joy song.)
So FINALLY, after endlessly rambling about stuff, I get to ramble about the specifics. It’s all well and good to call for a split between PvE and PvP, but without giving precise details, I just sound like nut job.
So here we go. Specifics.
1. Eliminate hit [...]

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Nerf Don’t Warlocks, Fear Nerf! (Part Two)

I am of the opinion that PvE and PvP should be kept as separate from each other as possible. To the point where each can be treated as a completely different game from the other.
Imagine how much faster PvE content could be developed and balanced if the developers could tune players and abilities with absolutely [...]

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Don’t Nerf Warlocks, Nerf Fear! (Part One)

“Nerf fear?!” I can hear the scorned ‘locks cry, “but it’s already such an unreliable spell! And what the hell are you calling for nerfs to it, anyways? Seriously, f*bleep* you and your f*bleepity* Mage Armor!”
(Or Magic Absorption, the two are basically interchangeable at this point.)
Oh, I hear ya. And I agree. In a clutch [...]

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It’s Like Sunwell All Over Again

Patch 3.1, so far, is trying very hard to restore the age of raiding where warlocks were superior to mages in every regard.
Let’s start broad. Blizzard adopted the philosophy of BTPNTC (bring the player, not the class) and spread around utility abilities to various classes. This way, a raid wouldn’t have to have a shadow [...]

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Ignite Nerf? What Ignite Nerf?

Mabd asked about the ignite nerf last post. Which confuses me, because there isn’t one.
Or at least, I’m not aware of one. I’m not aware of a great many things, like my dentist appointment next week or that creepy guy who keeps leaving confetti in my mailbox.
There is this:
Ignite: The damage done by this talent [...]

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