It’s Always Me Alone in the End

A long, long time ago, a friend of mine got me into WoW. He rolled a mage, and so I followed suit. Originally, we had intended to play together, but he already had something like a 20 level head start on me.
I was supposed to quickly close this gap, instead I fell in love with [...]

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Arena Transcripts

“What do we got?”
“Warlock and a shammy. Shammy is… enhancement? No, has a shield. Not resto. Elemental.”
“Ah. Warlock then?”
“It’ll be an easier kill, he isn’t sporting soul link.”
“Gotcha. Going after the lock!”
“He’s… Bloodlust, oh no…”
“I’m dead.”
“Yeah, me too.”
“What happened!?”
“Behold, the Bloodlust zerg. We basically completely failed to bring our mace and got raped.”
“How… how could [...]

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Ranting about Pirating

This is a very long post with very strong and unwavering opinions. It has nothing to do with WoW. Read at your own risk.
So.
Some of you are probably aware that there was a trial involving some of the people behind The Pirate Bay. These people were convicted, fined $900k, and are to serve a year [...]

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A Glimpse of the Bacon Judging

So there’s this show on TV called “24″. It’s wrapping up it’s 7th season, so if you wanted to see one of the freshest and most entertaining shows in the past decade or two, you’re too late. But I digress, as usual.
24 has a catch phrase. Y’see, the gimmick of the show is that it [...]

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Pointing the Spotlight Outwards

A little girl with cancer
As with all things logical, we start in a place of utter despair and sadness.
There exists a little girl named Eleanor Sultan. She is five. She is also dying.
I won’t go into too many details, because there is a far better and more emotional post here over at Skeleton Jack.
Suffice to [...]

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Raiding as Frost

Common Spec
18/0/53 is the best spec for frost mages. There is some variation, though with a spec that requires a minimum of 50 points in one tree and 18 points in another, there isn’t a lot of wiggle room.
Most mages in earlier gear levels will put three points into Brain Freeze for the extra damage [...]

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Raiding as Arcane

Common Spec
57/3/11 is, by far, the favored spec for arcane mages. There are some variations in the arcane tree, based on personal style and taste.
Where those final points are spent vary from mage to mage and what they deem to be the best options for themselves. Ones concerned about pushback invest in Arcane Stability, ones [...]

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Make Mistakes You Don’t Regret

Renovations are underway here on this fine blog.
See that “Critical” section? Everything on there is in the process of being finalized for Wrath. Work has been going on for some time to get them all up to snuff.
A fair amount of them will likely be reposted. As many of them from the TBC era, leaving [...]

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Raiding as Fire/Frostfire

Common specs
Fire: Something along the lines of 18/53/0.
You need 18 points in the arcane tree (deep enough for 3/3 Torment the Weak) and 51 points in the fire tree (for Living Bomb). The details are largely up to you. Some mages skip Imp. Scorch, some mages get 2/3 in Arcane Meditation for a 20/51/0 build.
Frostfire: [...]

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One Day I Hope to be Popular Enough to Sell Out

As many of you are most certainly aware, there’s this fancy book thing about Arthas coming out in the near future. Krizzly wrote a rather surreal poem about it.
Big Bear has already posted his review and run through his contest. So I’m going to be fashionably late and do pretty much the same thing, only [...]

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