The Balancing Act: Splitting Your Time With Alts
Posted by iTZKooPA on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 - 15 Comments
Forget about other video games, I find it difficult enough to split my play time across multiple characters. Despite my best efforts, that is exactly what I have been doing lately. Over the past month I have put serious time in to not two, but three alternates avatars and my trusty bank alt. Solidsamm hasn’t ... More
Dungeons and Raids: Keep All That Strategy Straight
Posted by pixiestixy on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - 6 Comments
The first few times I ran Vault of Archavon, I was lost. It was my first real foray into 10-man content, and I was trying to keep Archavon, Emalon and Koralon straight. Which one overcharged adds? Which cast a nasty fire that you had to get out of immediately? Is it Lightning Nova or Chain ... More
WoWjackass: Keeping Tabs on All that Treachery
Posted by pixiestixy on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 - 9 Comments
This past week, for me at least, has been all about crazy, oh-no-they-didn’t moments in WoW, and hopefully educating our dear readers a bit about how not to get duped by would-be bad apples. I have one more tidbit to share before shifting my concentration back to where it belongs, which certainly isn’t on these ... More
More Treachery: Stealing Raid IDs
Posted by pixiestixy on Monday, November 9th, 2009 - 13 Comments
Speaking of douchebaggery on the Khaz Modan server, apparently Alliance aren’t the only ones acting up. While on the same Ventrilo server where an enemy player listened in to my raid group’s precious Wintergrasp tactics, another interesting topic came up: the stealing of raid IDs. It’s been a while since I’ve heard anyone mention stealing raid ... More
Treachery on Vent: Infiltrating Enemy Tactics
Posted by pixiestixy on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 - 23 Comments
A couple nights ago, I was running Wintergrasp on my server, Khaz Modan, and lamenting the fact that all day the Horde had been unsuccessful at capturing the contested zone. Finally in one raid group, someone offered up their ventrilo server for everyone to use so we could better coordinate our efforts. It sounded like a ... More
Get the Most Out of Your Keyboard With Keybindings
Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - 16 Comments
I’ve been playing my priest a lot more often these days. No matter which spec she’s in, I use far more keys, far more frequently, than on my rogue. Solidsamm doesn’t go much farther than 6 on the keyboard, with ctrl+1-6 and Q and E joining the fun during certain situations. Sagart , either in ... More
The Back-and-Forth Saga of a 3.3 Vanish Fix
Posted by pixiestixy on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - 9 Comments
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, rogues have got to be sneaky. It’s a good part of what defines the class, allows them, as leather-wearers, to deal melee dps without instant death, and sets them apart from other DPSers. So it’s no huge surprise that Vanish, one of the key skills that rounds out that specialty, ... More
The Hodir Dailies Need More Sexual Innuendo
Posted by pixiestixy on Monday, October 19th, 2009 - 18 Comments
I had been putting off starting on the Hodir quests for several weeks in favor of working toward becoming an exalted champion with all my Horde factions, but soon realized that was a mistake. To up my raiding game, I really need those shoulder enchants that come with exalted status with the Sons of Hodir! ... More
3.3: Haste May Soon Affect HoTs, DoTs
Posted by Amatera on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 13 Comments
Haste can sometimes be a hard stat to measure. Not being the mathematics whiz that some of my fellow WoW players are, I honestly couldn’t tell you the difference between a spell that takes 2 seconds cast and another that takes only 1.9. Sure, I can generally assume that the latter will lead to more ... More
Wishful Thinking: Boss Mob Rotation For 5-Man Flavor
Posted by iTZKooPA on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 - 7 Comments
Wishful Thinking is a column for the theorycrafting behind World of Warcraft. No, not the number crunching madness perfected by the folks at ElitistJerks, but the features, abilities, and design ideas that the Project Lore writers conjure from their squishy pink stuff. I love WoW’s PvE content, but there’s no denying that it can get boring. ... More
