/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 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...]

Is threat fun?

Blizzard, in the developer chat, has asked the tank community for some discussion and feedback on whether threat is fun.

Q. You talk a lot about changing how we [ more...]

Independent film: the Raid

This endeavour is to make a film about raiding. Below is an HD promotional video made, featuring Darksend from Tankspot, and others.

You can pledge a few dollars to help get [ 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...]

Enjoying your tanking

Sure, Unholy’s fairly weak for tanking, but does it matter?

The usual argument I hear, a flawed one at that, is “you pay your $15, you choose your spec”. That is [ 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...]

Married to WoW, or do you date other games?

I was wondering this morning how many of us only play WoW; compared to playing a few games or possibly a few MMOs. Five years I’ve been playing Warcraft.

Five years.

That’s [ 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...]

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...]

Epic cogs

Sometimes the quest storyline really makes me smile. Just completed the Hemet series in the Basin, and he’s out bragging to the guy by the campfire. Have a read.

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...]

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...]