P-P-P-P-Politics

Much as I’m enjoying my European Politics of the 19th century class, this post has nothing to do with that. Rather, it’s about the in-game politics. Thanks to PC Gamer UK, it has essentially been confirmed that Thrall is stepping down as leader of the Horde to go save the world (Guardian of Tirisfal or [...]

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Secondary Education

I, the master of the arcane arts and QQ of all forms, am now officially attending a post secondary institution, in order to bleed off that extra twenty grand I got kicking around under my bed (I am lying). I, a young, handsome, humble, cynical, anti-social bastard am entering the adult world wide eyed and [...]

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Conspiracy Theory for Thought

/tinfoil hat on Imagine you are the King’s Advisor. You have always been the King’s Advisor, for the past four thousand years. Whoever was in power, whoever was king, or emperor, or khan, or president, you have always been standing there, in the background. You, and those like you, have been known by many names. [...]

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Don’t Be So Hasty

If I ever remember to log off in my raid gear again, those of you who actively stalk my armory to see what I’m up to (and I know you’re out there!) will note that I have forsaken spellpower gems in favor of haste gems. Shock! Le gasp! I know, eh? (Canadians do not say [...]

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An Inconvenient Truth

With the Onyxia patch hitting either this week or next, we stand on the cusp of arcane’s third or fourth facelift. Honestly I’ve stopped counting, poor girl’s had more tweaks and fixes done than a ret paladin. In case you missed it, the tweaks are as follows: Arcane Blast buff can now stack to 4, [...]

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Why Walk When You Can Blink/Slow Fall?

Mages have access to a whole bunch of skills that make others go green with envy. Blink, evocation, blink, frost nova, blink… I think you get the point. In and of itself, Blink is a fairly innocuous ability. All it does is teleport you forwards 20 yards, and it sometimes fails if the terrain is [...]

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Carrier

The tank. The healer. The damage dealer. This is the holy trinity of WoW. At least one of each is necessary to defeat end game content. Interestingly enough, for early end-game content, only two of these three need be good enough. Carrying DPS is not a new concept, probably all of us have done it [...]

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The Inevitability of Progress

All of us have been in that nightmarish PuG filled with paladin tanks that don’t consecrate, druids that don’t use HoTs, and DK DPS who can’t stop using death grip. All of us have been in that PuG from heaven with the ret pally who flawlessly swaps to a spellpower weapon and starts healing when [...]

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Arcane and Val’kyr Twins – Two Quick Notes

The twin val’kyrs have an interesting “light” and “dark” mechanic that sounds confusing at first, but is actually incredibly easy to pick up. Basically, if you can down faction champions, the twins will not offer any challenge whatsoever. See, every member of the raid chooses to become light or dark. If you’re dark, you deal [...]

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Why We QQ, Part Three

This was touched upon briefly in comments, but this has to do with a difference in ideals. Basically, it’s a disconnect that occurs between players and developers where the two groups have different visions of the game in question. My recent despair at the death of things like defense rating and armor penetration is exemplary [...]

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