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The Balancing Act: Splitting Your Time With Alts
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 ... More
Old School: Battle of the Newbs
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - 13 Comments
My adventure into old school instancing has lead me to one definitive conclusion; everyone is a critic. Everyone believes they know your class better than you, something I can be guilty of when it comes to dagger-equipped rogues. The five person team that I joined ... More
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems: Start Hording For Patch 3.3
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 - 9 Comments
Patch 3.3 is all over the WoW news of late. The patch notes have been continuously updated, bosses have been tested and Heartbourne has posted more videos than I can keep up with. Lost in the information overload may have been the reveal by MMO-Champion ... More
Old School: Dungeon Quest Design
Friday, November 6th, 2009 - 7 Comments
I have been spending a substantial amount of time leveling a new toon since BlizzCon 2009’s Cataclysm announcements. Like many players, I want to experience the aspects of vanilla WoW before they disappear into the digital abyss (maybe then Blizzard will setup a vanilla server ... More
The Next Expansion: Making A Case For Guild/Server History
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 12 Comments
My name is iTZKooPA and I’m a History Channel addict. /me waits for other members to say “Hi, iTZKooPA.” I watch numerous other shows across the greater TV universe, but the History Channel is one of the networks I always check first. I don’t know what it ... More
The Experiment: FarmVille > WoW
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 - 15 Comments
For those who don’t frequent the world of Facebook, FarmVille is one of those ‘apps’ that users play to pretend they aren’t stalking people kill time between status updates. The video game was created by Zynga , a company that specializes in these types of ... More
Know Thy Blogger: What’s In A Name
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 - 27 Comments
You’ve been staying up-to-date with our news, reading about our excursions and tales in Azeroth and sharing in our knowledge of World of Warcraft for some time now. But we’ve heard that you want more, you want to know us. Know what makes us tick, ... More
Wishful Thinking: Changes To Inventory
Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 13 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. There’s no denying it, ... More
Fond Memories: My First Guild Drama
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - 11 Comments
It seems like a most appropriate time to reveal to all my first experience with quality guild drama. You see the guild I’ve been running with since Warriors of Faith went in to administration mode died over the weekend. It wasn’t until yesterday that I ... More
Wishful Thinking: Boss Mob Rotation For 5-Man Flavor
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 ... More