Tanks just want to tank, plus supply-demand

To close this series of posts on balance, I wanted to use a few diagrams to outline the problem. This will be my last post on this topic for a [ more...]

Number of tanks required, a game design issue

Yesterdays post asking ‘whether DKs are being benched’ appears to have two root causes:

tank class mechanics which make a given tank the preference on certain categories of encounter
encounter design which [ more...]

The end of loser DKs is nigh!

I am most pleased that Cataclysm might clean out some loser DKs alts who clog up PUG raids, gearing themselves up, playing badly and giving us a bad name.

Since there’s [ more...]

Theckhd, maths guru, delivers Icecrown answers

My gratitude to Honors for tweeting this. Theckhd is a serious maths guru. He worked out the avoidance value of expertise. He has now looked at the -20% dodge aura [ more...]

Icecrown pwns you for 20%, and healing in Cataclysm

Icecrown is going to nerf your dodge by 20%, with an aura similar to Sunwell.

Daelos’ post on it:»

For tank gemming, you are basically just dealing with your discretionary gem [ more...]

Why can't bosses have expertise?

On PTR tank forums, that question was asked. Players scale up, why not bosses too? Ghostcrawler’s response:

It’s something we actually talk about quite a bit. We won’t do it for [ more...]

Cataclysm tanking and healing will be more strategic

Two comments from Ghostcrawler recently are clearly pointing at a design change which means we’ll have a more strategic playstyle for Cataclysm tanks and healers.

In Cataclysm:

relative to the damage input [ more...]

Guild income and repairs

The income and expenses of a guild are sometimes not a focus of leadership, but they do represent an organisational factor that should be managed.

Cataclysm will help income significantly by [ more...]

Blizzard gets social engineering, and my RSS changes

Firstly, Tobold will like this first blue post. Secondly, I’m changing my RSS feed. See below.

Blizzard very directly talks about the social aspects of slack people, and how behaviour is [ more...]

Blizzcon liveblogging

Check out wowraid.com for live news from every Blizzcon WoW Panel.

You can browse, and read, the history of blogged events too. See screenshots and read the text from the opening [ more...]