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Relationships in-game

A little while ago, wow.com published a touching story about a couple who found each other in-game and fell in love. Since yesterday I posted on motivations, this story came [ more...]

Why do you play? Motivations assessment

Nick Yee developed a four-page assessment. It doesn’t take long to complete.

It rates you against 3200 other players, so it’s statistically valid, and measures you on three dimensions of why [ 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...]

Three-day transfers change recruitment forever

This is really big news for top 250 raiding guilds, but it will help everyone.

I was interviewing the leaders of 120-world ranked guild Semper Fildelis last night. We got to [ more...]

More raiding nights?

Blizzard news about the next tier of raiding content, with five bosses, coming in 3.2 includes an important change.

There will be four different versions: 10-player, 25-player, 10-player Heroic, and 25-player [ more...]

Burnout is inevitable

Many of you might be familiar with the incredible, voluminous and precise research carried out under the Daedalus Project, by Nick Yee. The researcher looked at MMOs for ten years [ more...]

Raid buff checking addon, with taunt failure warnings: RaidBuffStatus

This morning I came across RaidBuffStatus. Update: I’ve since raid tested it and highly recommend this addon for raid leaders.

It provides intelligent raid buff checking prior to the pull, is [ more...]

Forums at pwnwear (6 comments)
- Gravity: Thanks matey.
- Chev: Launched with typical forethought and planning Grav, and from a very solid base of active...
- Gravity: Thanks guys, and it’s going well so far. Quite fun! Aye Rhidach, I’ve been...

Tanking weapons in 3.3 (40 comments)
- Tarragon: The reason I asked is because I have Ramaladni’s blade and Bryntroll, which are...
- Gravity: I didn’t actually analyse that. Looking at the strike values, you can see that a...
- Tarragon: When do the 25 man weapons become better then the 10 man ones? Or are all the 25 man...

Frost tank spec in 3.3 (61 comments)
- Gravity: yah, never compare your threat to that of a pally. They own threat.
- Instructions: I missed that part! I’m sorry! I think we can totally conclude the following:...
- Vanyana: Thanks for the reply, I don’t really have a problem with threat so I guess I...

Blood tank spec in 3.3 (32 comments)
- Drunknite: Wouldnt GoD be a threat increase? Just thinking about it (haven’t tested) but...

3.3 Death Knight dual-wield tanking (93 comments)
- tiny dk: Im speccing do Frost purely for aoe with main spec blood for raids and was wondering if...

The streamlined newbie experience (6 comments)
- AJ: Much appreciated.
- Gravity: The obvious visuals are from Shadowed Unit Frames plus Dominos, both of which are the...
- AJ: Gravity, this is probably an annoying question, but i have to ask. What UI is that? Now to...

/played (5 comments)
- Instructions: I don’t want to look at this. I think it’d be pathetic to see what...

The end of loser DKs is nigh! (15 comments)
- Wraithwail(caelsetraz): to be quite honest i am tired of nooby people playing the deathknight....

Flask market indicates the beginning of the free epics period (19 comments)
- Gravity: mr robot seems pretty good for deeps, but I managed to crash it the few times I...
- Instructions: Problem 1) Coding in .net = bad Problem 2) Microsoft = bad Sidenote: has anyone...

Warriors from the swiss army, DKs from lego (16 comments)
- xorellion: So many people are caught up with counting their DPS, not realizing that there’s...
- xorellion: Nothing stings worse than a healer saying “Great.. A DK tank” and leaving...

Relationships in-game

Why do you play? Motivations assessment

Cataclysm tanking and healing will be more strategic

Three-day transfers change recruitment forever

More raiding nights?

Burnout is inevitable

Raid buff checking addon, with taunt failure warnings: RaidBuffStatus

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