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Breakfast Topic: What would the ultimate raid be?

I should probably asked “What would your ultimate raid be” instead but let’s just run with it.


How to buy your way into a raid.

No, this isn’t about how you can literally buy a raid slot, much like Gevlon did many months ago.


ARG Designer Believes Online Gaming Can Save the World – Escapist Magazine

Mashable (blog) ARG Designer Believes Online Gaming Can Save the World Escapist Magazine Think about how you feel when playing an online game like Halo 3 or World of Warcraft . Against all odds, it’s still easy to be optimistic, and cooperation … Video Games Can Save The Planet, But Only If We Play More Kotaku Australia Jane McGonigal at TED: Can Gaming Save the World


What’s going on with Star Wars: The Old Republic?

Plenty, Jake Neri gave an interview to MMORPG in it he began talking about the development process and how they know there are a lot of expectations for the release of SWTOR.


Is Burst More Fun?

I whined about it a little yesterday. I’m going to try to be less whiny about it today.? The question I have in mind today follows directly from my whining.??Still, I want to ask it on a larger level, and not just pertaining to Warlocks.? Fundamentally, the QotD is this: Is Burst DPS More Fun


Spiritual Guidance: Bleeding the Blood Queen

On Wednesdays, Fox Van Allen takes control of Spiritual Guidance and spams all sorts of shadowy goodness.


Whiny Post Day Shall Commence!

H ey Gang! So yeah…


Soundtrack for ICC Challenge

Who likes to listen to music while raiding? I do! Of course I have to keep my WMP set at a volume no higher than “7″ so I can hear what people are saying in Vent, but I do still like to have that background noise


Stockholm syndrome and Hecker’s nightmare

I recently came across a player in World of Warcraft who was wearing a guild tag of .


The great gear explosion

Gear is fairly easy to get at this point in the expansion life cycle of Wrath .


The great gear explosion

Gear is fairly easy to get at this point in the expansion life cycle of Wrath . That’s not a flaw


WoW Patch 3.3.3 Honor and PvP Changes

There’s a lot going down in Patch 3.3.3 I haven’t really covered so far in regards to PvP and specifically my favorite feature – Battlegrounds. All of this is in preparation of the massive PvP overhaul coming in Cataclysm with a heavier emphasis on Battlegrounds. Tokens are being removed from the game, if you have tokens (the currency you get when you win or lose any BG) you’ll be able to turn those in now for a minor chunk of honor, which is a good thing I guess since there are some players out there with thousands of marks of honor


Hall of Fame: Anaalius of Chamber of Aspect-EU

The Warcraft Econ Hall of Fame  is a column featuring the few elite players that have hit the World of Warcraft gold cap of 214,748 gold 36 silver 46 copper.


Officers’ Quarters: Rolling like jerks

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters , a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.


Tanking Perceptions

(You knew it was coming. This is a rant.) Dear Heroic LFD Puggers: Let me explain to you some things. First, the defense cap for heroics is 535.


US First GotIR, Patch 3.3.3 Honor Changes, Blue posts

US First Glory of the Raider (25) by Midwinter Midwinter (US-Ysera) was the first guild to complete Glory of the Icecrown Raider (25 player) and I totally forgot to report it. Shame on me, and congratulations to them! Patch 3.3.3 Battlegrounds and Honor Changes Patch 3.3.3 brings a couple of changes to the Battleground system, the new system is heavily inspired from the current random dungeon system and it should be pretty easy to understand. Random Battleground and Call to Arms Call to Arms are no longer a quests and are directly integrated to the battlegrounds interface, a new “Random Battleground” option has been added and give you the same honor bonus as the Call To Arms, but applied to any battleground


Phat Loot Phriday: Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand

Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand lives on multiple best-in-slot lists.


Have a little links for my friends

There’s a lot of turnover in the blogging world. This crazy hobby (sometimes profession) is one that’s hard to keep up with


Gold, entitlement, and morality

As I mentioned in the previous post, Tobold the tauren shaman of Single Abstract Noun is now level 20. What I didn’t mention is that he has 851 gold pieces in his pocket, having earned 1,092 gold over his live already, starting from nothing, and with no outside help. That is something I *am* proud of.


The real purpose of end-game

So Ferrel wants to bring back the grind and make leveling slower again, while Chris thinks leveling should be slowed down by giving less xp for quests . Both talk about how much better life was in Everquest, where most players never even reached the level cap (I didn’t), and how MMORPGs should be about the journey, not about the destination.

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