From the category archives:

World of Warcraft

Poem: Tyrant Velhari

August 5, 2015

  Raiders gather round The fire of Jeeves Repairing to fight again Progression The boss swings hard Her damage is thrown Fighting with trial and fall Progression She calls her force Each comes to her side We counter and turn the tide This time – Progression 8/4/2015

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Tankless Fight

June 23, 2014

With Warlords of Draenor coming up and the ability to have gear change primary stats (and set bonuses) depending on what spec a person is in it will make spec swapping much easier.  This means it becomes easier to have more or less tanks or heals per fight without everyone gearing up and carrying around […]

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Bugs and Patches and WoW

September 24, 2012

The other day I was hanging out in Mumble talking with some guildies (in iToons) and we were talking about bugs in WoW and how easy/hard it could be to find or fix a bug.  Most particularly we were talking about the “no xp from turning in dailies” that occurred at the start of Cataclysm […]

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Post Shattering – Views of Deathwing

November 26, 2010

After the patch that brought the Shattering dropped, I hopped onto my new mage to check out the world (and maybe level a bit.)  I logged into Orgrimmar and was immediately lost.  I had no idea where I was.  I stumbled around the city trying to figure out where everything had moved, and eventually found […]

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The Socialification of Games

November 19, 2010

I think by this point the idea of “social networking” and “games” being two separate worlds has melted away with the popularity of casual games on Facebook.  Very few people who use social networking sites have not heard of Farmville or Zynga, even if they don’t play the games themselves.  We also have been seeing […]

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A Walk About the PTR

September 29, 2010

I went on the PTR to see some of the changes such as what happens to stats that are going away, what to do the trees look like and the like. I figured that some people won’t be heading over to the PTR and might like to see what these things look like. Most of […]

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Humor: Reply to WoW Dev Team on Reciept of Perky Pug

August 5, 2010

Dear WoW Dev Team, Thank you for my perky pug. He is a wonderful companion. Unfortunately he appears to have worms. I stopped by the pet store and Breanni didn’t have anything to treat him, and while the pet grooming kit has left him sparkling it doesn’t seem to have given the poor thing any […]

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Playing Video Games Can Boost Your Career?

July 21, 2010

A while ago I wrote about “The Gamer Divide” and how I think we are approaching a time when gaming is viewed as normal or even positive, instead of some thing that you might want to avoid mentioning. Just this week Forbes had an article on How Playing Video Games Can Boost Your Career. It […]

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Azeroth Public Radio

May 3, 2010

This morning, listening to the news on the radio, I started pondering what the radio shows in Azeroth would be like. In discussing the idea with Shamir, we decided that the gnomes would run the public radio station. You would have announcements like “This episode brought to you by Sisters of Elune”. Goblin radio on […]

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(Almost) Everything you wanted to know about Gear and Were Afraid to Ask

February 4, 2010

This isn’t my typical post here, so as a fair warning – this is about World of Warcraft Gear. I’d posted this over in my guild forums and had wanted to share it with a friend outside of the guild and realized it might be useful to have this somewhere other than in the archives of our guild forums. So with that intro, here is an introductory overview to WoW Gear, and how to pick your gear and know what you are looking at.

I was having a discussion with someone the other day about gear, and thought I’d write up a bit about gear in case anyone else can benefit from it. I’ve included item links below so you can click through to the items and see the information being discussed.

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