Archive for the ‘WoW’ Category
Karma and Player Reputation
With MoP in the horizon and Dungeon Challenge Mode coming, my brain has started to think of what player reputation could be really like. Ever since I started playing WoW, players would gain notoriety because of their armor. If you had purples you were obviously raiding or PvPing at a high level. Mounts also made [...]
I hate Douchewing
He has spent an entire expansion frying me like only goblins should be fried (I wonder if they taste like frog legs… I have never had froglegs btw.) Well in reality, I have summoned more people to their death than I should be comfortable with. Only in our game do we get excited about someone [...]
Why Does My DPS suck? – Add Ons
I have a love/hate relationship with addons. Some are extremely helpful, some clutter the screen, some make life convenient until a patch breaks them. I think the important thing to remember about addons is that they are not required for you to play WoW. This topic can turn into a monster, but lets look at [...]
Road to Raiding
The conversation lately in the WoW blog world has revolved around the “casuals” now being handed the keys to the kingdom with the new Raid Finder (or LFR – Looking for Raid, which seems to be what everyone calls it.) It made it hurt a lot more for some people when it was announced that [...]
Why Does my DPS suck? – Computer
I am starting a new mini series of post geared towards helping people that are searching for the reason that they are told that they suck. Hopefully some of the people that don’t suck still read this and are maybe a little more patient with the people that are not topping the charts. One of [...]
Rewarding Bad Play
If you don’t already read Grumpy, do so! its like having a conversation with someone. He posted about something I have been suspecting myself. That the LFR loot system seems to somehow give loot to the player trying the least (or not knowing how to play their class). While this is speculation bordering on conspiracy [...]
Nerd Badges – [Shared Topic]
This week’s shared topic from BlogAzeroth is as follows: How do you express your geekery? Do you own obvious paraphernalia like a Horde-symbol bumper sticker, in-joke tshirts like the dps/ups pun, or less obviously related items like a gift from a guildie? Rather than physical indicators, do you mix nerd lingo into your everyday speech [...]
Who’s your main?
Vuuk wrote an excellent post talking about “mains“, when I started to reply to post I realized that it actually merited a post. I currently don’t have a main, while I raid with my priest with our raid team, I have also tanked a lot with my warrior this expansion. I also use my bear [...]
Why I love the LFR
The Raid Finder (what most people are calling Looking for Raid, and then shortening it to LFR) is a new feature introduced in WoW that throttles the difficulty of the raid (first out being the Dragon Soul where you kill DEATHWING! – yesterday I LoLed when someone called him DoucheWing.) and automatically groups 25 people [...]
The LFR and the New Dungeons means Blizzard was wrong
There is a lot to be said about the vocal minority, but blizzard was wrong to listen to the people that wanted to make the game “hard” again. A lot of people miss the point that the complexity of the game in vanilla was not because the end game encounters were harder, but the game [...]