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When there are a lot of comments here, I find that it can be hard to find the latest, because blogs are oriented around the fresh news more so than [ more...]

The streamlined newbie experience

Unless you have rolled a L1 alt recently, you won’t realise how much Blizzard have improved the experience for new players. People completely new to WoW will really find their [ more...]

The class you avoid playing

I was thinking today about which class, or classes, I totally avoid playing. I have interest in my DK (obviously) and my Druid alt (resto). I have loved and raided [ more...]

Updated strategies index

I’ve put some new references into my meta-guide of Icecrown boss strategies.

The new content is from bloggers Death Goddess (Hinenuitepo), Divine Plea, Children of Wrath (Renaissance Man), Wrathy, Leafhead. Included [ more...]

Many interesting Blue posts

There really is quite a lot of meaning packed into these posts. What do you guys think?

Top guilds and raid encounters difficulty

Players try to play that card a [ more...]

People pay in Free to Play games

I’ve been following the Allods Online debacle with fascination. The pricing on their cash shop, for opt-in purchases, is incredibly high and much more expensive than everyone expected… except for [ more...]

Flask market indicates the beginning of the free epics period

First, Frost Lotus rate up 50%.

Now, Frost Lotus for free from frozen orbs. I bet every orb on your AH is already sold by profiteers ahead of the market. They [ more...]

Patch 3.33 for DK tanks is goodness

Significant changes for DK tanks.

Probably help dps too, but I don’t write about that as much, like DW Frost dps might be viable (instead of lame).

Awesome, [Will of [ more...]

Class choices in Allods Online

Open Beta is launching now… once they get the server back up. It crashed with the number of users.

I’m still going to blog on Death Knight tanking more than anything [ more...]

Allods Online review

You should check out Allods. Looking at it from the perspective of a WoW enthusiast, it’s very appealing. Released on Feb 16th in a ‘beta’ which is actually launch. Here’s [ more...]

Woo more stamina for us!

Frost Presence now provides 8% Stamina, up from 6% Stamina.
Icebound Fortitude now provides 30% base damage reduction, up from 20% damage reduction. For a geared tank with high defense, this [ more...]

Saronite grenades

I didn’t know they are instant cast (were is more precise; Blizzard removed them for the moment) and are used in a normal high-end rogue rotation. That’s a pretty cool way to [ more...]

Sad elitism and my own disclaimer

TheLordPsy pointed out this side-conversation on the EJ benefactors’ bar “BB”, which is talking about the maintankadin epic thread. It’s here inside the ’stupid thread’ with over 2000 pages on other topics.

Not [ more...]

How to debate badly

The armour versus stamina epic thread on maintankadin is an entertaining read. Other than being a good analysis of Total Effective Health, and its applicability to decisions between armour and [ more...]

Wordpress 2.91

Just upgraded, let me know if something isn’t working like it used to.

More site speed

The site is slow for me on Mac OS X, whilst others I checked on Twitter say it’s fine for them. I did a website optimser test, and found the [ more...]

Things that made me smile

A few moments yesterday made me smile at Blizzard’s cleverness, and one wtf moment you might help me puzzle out.

This quest text is brilliant. I laughed out loud.

quest: adding [ more...]

Enjoying a Random HoR

The other day I did a random and ended up in Halls of Reflection. In my frost tank spec, I’m comfortable with the waves and the gauntlet. Does take fiddly [ more...]

Collection of good reading

I read a number of blogs. You can download a file containing them all from my sidebar, which can import to Google Reader. I sometimes read on the train, or [ more...]

Goals

I’m a very goal-oriented person. I like to have a plan of some kind, in my head, of the kinds of things I should do when I’m next in the [ more...]

Happy new year!

Hi all,

I’m a little busy with new year, buying a cat for my kids, and other housey stuff, so will do some more posting in the new year! Hope you’re [ more...]

The spoon-fed era

The combination of:

easy and abundant Emblems of such high iLevel,
teleportation instantly to and from the instance,
easy PUGs with cross-realms giving minimal waiting times and
T9 raiders carrying people in random LFG [ more...]

If you couldn't tank, what role would you take?

Let’s say you had an equivalently geared alt of any class/race you chose, so his pwnage matched your current tank character. I’m talking to people who’s main character is a [ more...]

Settled

I’m now in my new house, got ADSL2+ going, decent wireless coverage, and a horrible work laptop to game on. Better than my last one (Lenovo T60), which constantly overheated [ more...]

What I like about 3.3

I think 3.3 is a great patch, not just the new content we’ll see but the major changes to the systems. Beyond the new raid and 5-mans, Blizzard have really [ more...]