The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Do you have an ego? If so, keep reading! Would you like an ego? If so, keep reading! This post is dedicated to us, the thinking, educated people. Pats on the back for everyone, we are all the best humans on earth. Go us. In short, the Dunning-Kruger effect is thus: a cognitive bias in [...]

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Fire Mage PvP: Problems and Solutions

Disclaimer: the solutions I offer were all thought of by me in the past few days. I do not claim any of them to be original ideas. Maybe I invented them, maybe I read a suggestion on some forum somewhere a year ago, maybe I just borrowed a mechanic from another class. Problem: unpredictable and [...]

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It Is Three AM and I Need to go to Bed so Here is This

My level 74 marksman hunter averages 1300 DPS on a target dummy in quest greens and with aspect of the viper active easily 60% of the time. I have a guildie who’s warrior alt in absolute shit gear (and even the Bind to Account sword from WG) pulls 2200 DPS on heroic dungeon bosses. I [...]

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Fire Questions Answered

In regards to the frag belt, as opposed to simply building the individual bombs. If you want to use the cobalt bombs every minute instead of the belt every six, go right ahead. The belt is far cheaper in the long run, which is the only reason I consider it superior to using individual bombs. [...]

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Dear Mr. Gnomeaggedon, Sir

I’ve had several pleas from the various far flung corners of the internet for help, regarding fire PvP. So without further ado, I will try my best to answer those questions. First, gearing questions. Ignore haste, crit and spellpower all the way Haste is the best friend of frost and arcane PvP specs. Not so [...]

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Adapting Specs For Your Needs

A cookie cutter spec is not the end all, be all spec. A cookie cutter spec is a base line spec that will serve you well in any situation. It is an unmodified car, the basic WoW UI with no addons. It will get the job done. A cookie cutter spec, however, is not always [...]

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Talking About Forst Fro a Bit

As has been noted elsewhere, there is a macro that the warlocks discovered that can be a rather large boost to frost’s DPS. I found a thread here, Lhivera talks about it here, and krizzlybear goes into great detail here. The jist of this whole crazy thing is that you macro your water elemental’s attack [...]

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Petrification

Ten wipes on Putricide, no kill. Damn it all! We came so damn close, too. As in “thirty thousand health remaining” close. Only two tanks and one healer were alive at that point though, and all of them died in about two seconds. Gah. Our raid composition: Protection warrior, main tank. Protection paladin, abomination jockey [...]

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ASDFGS

I originally thought Lady Gaga was some sort of internet meme, some random quasi-terrible 80′s artist resurrected from the dead for the lulz. Think Rick Astley, but chosen more for tripping balls David Bowie-ism than annoying catchy pop music. Then I actually went and watched a Gaga video (poker face if you must know) and [...]

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Lowbie LFG

So far, I have played three different characters through the Dungeon Finder tool. A destruction warlock, early twenties; a prot warrior, mid 40s; a discipline priest, early sixties. Queue times, oddly enough, are basically exactly the same as they are for 80 heroics. The queue as a DPS warlock usually runs about ten to twenty [...]

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