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...]

/played

It’s pretty mortifying to type /played.

If you want, log on your alts and check them too, or better yet: get the Altoholic addon which does it for you (amongst other [ 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...]

Levelling enchanting

I decided to level enchanting and mining on my new DK. Enchanting is expensive to level up.

From 1 to 300, it has cost 720g so far. Some of the enchants [ more...]

Next phase of my re-roll

I just hit 80 on my re-roll DK, Industry. I enjoyed it as much as levelling my first DK, Gravity. Such a great class.

Saw quite a few quests I hadn’t [ more...]

DK levelling in Unholy no-epidemic, plus a few addons

Found some great addons too, but first a snippet on levelling:

I ran the no-epidemic unholy dps specs in the simulator for L68, to see how it scales at low gear [ more...]

Design quality and humour

One of my favourite things about World of Warcraft. One of the reasons I came back to WoW for it, after a brief hiatus in Eve (wrote a guide, needs [ more...]

You don’t have space to track any more objectives: error solved

This is poor UI design and on-screen instruction. The Blizzard quest tracker says “you don’t have space to track any more objectives”, that’s OK but then it’s proposed solution is [ more...]

Death Knight levelling specs

Verified for 3.22 plus commentary on no-epidemic unholy.

What are the specs and talent options for levelling up a Death Knight? Fortunately, they’re all good. Here are some templates to help [ more...]