I find that I am torn between two contradictory impulses when it comes to casual (well, let’s call it semi-casual to be honest) raiding: The desire to be essential to every raid and to have my raid spot guaranteed whenever I feel like signing up Being able to take time off for whatever reason (holidays, [...]
Archive for February, 2009
The world goes on without me
Posted in general mmo, tagged life/ game balance, raid leading, succession planning, two criteria, wanting to be loved on February 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Handing out the legendaries
Posted in warcraft, tagged atiesh, fragment, handing out loot, legendary weapon, ulduar, Val'anyr on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Amongst all the information we’ve been seeing on patch 3.1 are hints of a legendary weapon. Legendaries in WoW have been rare items, often with particularly good bonuses or abilities, that have required people to not only kill raid bosses but also enjoy the favour of the luck gods. They have also tended to be [...]
5 things I want from dual specs
Posted in warcraft, tagged 1000g, criteria, druid warrior, dual spec, easy of switching, use cases on February 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I did have a post planned for today about dual specs. But Blizzard have outdated it already by announcing that their current plans include all the features I would have wanted. My personal take on dual specs is that I have a couple of very specific use cases in mind. A use case is a [...]
Can you spot the alts?
Posted in general mmo, tagged alts, correcting mistakes, same role on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tarsus wrote a great post about why he tends to end up tanking on his Death Knight alt while levelling, even though it isn’t really tank specced. His experience of tanking on another class makes it easy for him to spot the key abilities on the new one and also to eye what other people [...]
Quick raid update
Posted in warcraft on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oops, been falling behind a bit with these. We killed Malygos 25 last week for the first time (hurrah!). I wasn’t there but I’m dead proud of everyone who was. From raid leader comments, I think they’re planning to try Sarth+1 for the first time this weekend. I won’t be there again due to being [...]
So there is more to 3.1! New mounted combat
Posted in warcraft, tagged 3.1, argent tournament, couched lance, mounted combat, warrior changes on February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Blues speak out about the new Argent Tournament. OK, so patch 3.1 is finally shaping up to make some sense. This new announcement sounds as though we will have a slew of new daily quests somewhere in Icecrown (commenters on that thread think Scourgeholm and that sounds likely to me also) to help the Argent [...]
Deciding on loot rules
Posted in general mmo, warcraft, tagged dkp, loot priority, memoryless, random on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You cannot play an MMO for very long before butting your head against the notion of loot rules. In fact, the first time you are in a group and some item drops, what do you do? Maybe a little box comes up on screen with some obscure symbols. Perhaps it says need or greed. So [...]
Most common mini-bosses in Violet Hold
Posted in warcraft on February 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m on a roll now with tables of boss frequency. So here’s the numbers from wowhead for frequency of bosses appearing in Violet Hold heroic. The last boss (Cyanigosa) will always be there. But the two other minibosses are ‘randomly’ selected from among the other possibilities. Nr Times Looted Boss Name 7419 Lavanthor 8908 Erekem [...]
The sixth sheik’s sixth screenshot…
Posted in about me, links, tagged 40 man raids, onyxia, sixth screenshot on February 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So I’ve been tagged by Tarsus to post my sixth screenshot. And this one is a real blast from the past (I hadn’t even figured out how to hide the UI). Aside from the fact that the UI and raid frames fill up most of the screen, you’ll see that there are 40 people in [...]
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