Onward to a Bright, New Future of Some Sort

Exams are done, for better or worse. I hallucinated spiders on my keyboard. A day and a half to recuperate, and then Friday is moving day. And then no internet until May 5th! Oh noes! Such tumultuous change. I’ve been awake for all of twenty minutes after sleeping all day (yes, literally) so thoughts are [...]

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You Don’t Know if This is a Meta-Post

Technically speaking, all blogs are a form of social networking. I type stuff, you read the stuff I type, sometimes you type me back and I read that too, which prompts me to type more stuff, and so forth. It is a delayed conversation, akin to a forum. There are regulars, friends, a whole community [...]

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PvP: An Expansion in Ponderance: Druids

Yes, this series is probably going to continue for some time. I have to talk about every class, and anything else I think of along the way. So, druids. I have not played a druid, nor have I played with one extensively in PvP, so my insights are probably going to be significantly less insightly [...]

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Ret Paladins

Ret paladins are not overpowered, and have been underpowered for quite some time. They can put out absolutely huge burst damage against unprotected targets with lower than average resilience, and they have very powerful team based defensive buttons. That’s it. We all probably remember that one week where ret was ruthlessly overpowered. A ret paladin [...]

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And Then the Power Went Out

So the power went out Tuesday night. KABLOOEY and right in the middle of playing Dragon Age, too. But who will save Ferelden naow?!??!/1 There was a pretty huge snowstorm here on Tuesday. The wt, clumpy kind of snow, the kind perfectly suited to making snowmen and utterly destroying power lines. It is now friday, [...]

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So This Will Mostly Be Rambling

Damplify Magic is gone, and Frost and Fire Ward are biting the dust, that we know “for sure”. What other magey things are getting the expansion banhammer? Maybe teleports/portals are being simplified so that we have one button to port/teleport wherever we wish, similar to how an engineer’s Northrend wormhole machine works. Summon one thing, [...]

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Mage + Cataclysm = Squee

The real question is, of course, why are the shamans crying so much? But I’ll get to that. For now, some ruminations. Everyone is getting three new excellent buttons to push. But look at them from a categorical point of view. Us Mages, for instance, got a major DPS utility ability (Time Warp), a skill [...]

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Initial Reaction to Mage Changes

More coherent thoughts on monday when I’ve been able to think and marinate in the glorious, glorious changes.

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Burn Pain Hugger

Cataclysm announcements are coming hard and fast, which is bloody fantastic. The beta has got to be dropping forthwith, just in time for me to ignore it completely. (Final exams, if you were wondering. Which you probably weren’t, but hey, I told you anyway because my primary hobby is putting douche into bags for your [...]

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I Needed a Break

And that’s all the explanation you’re going to get. |—| So patch triple three came and went with no posts at all from me, and frankly I don’t have much to say because I haven’t played any WoW since the tuesday it dropped. Am I done with WoW? Unsure, probably not. I’ve taken breaks before, [...]

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