LoDBlog

There are lots of different measures for lots of different things when it comes to Warcraft. Some are obvious like logs and meters while others are a bit more subtle. I’m going to share a little secret here about one of the things I look for when rogues put in an application to Ladies of [...]

Ah the ever changing landscape of an MMO. With every new major and minor patch these days it seems each class can expect something that comes along to affect them either directly or indirectly. A long time ago classes didn’t change much, you’d get a class review once in a blue moon but that’s about [...]

Gaming phrases are all over the place, some are good and some are bad but most are trying to convey something in a way that the reader will remember. There’s a good phrase that gets passed around on gaming forums, put into peoples signatures, and has even made it onto my much maligned Facebook page. [...]

Everybody has alts (alternate characters). You may only have one lonely little bank alt or a server of max-level behemoths on both sides of the faction fence but if you play WoW you have alts. For a very long time, Tinwhisker was my only character. Leveling in vanilla WoW wasn’t terribly difficult (although it was [...]

A recurring theme on WoW forums that I’ve seen since the days of Molten Core, is uninformed raiders complaining about Damage Meter mods and how they hurt the raid.  The truth is that damage meters are a tool, much like a hammer.  When used properly, a hammer can help you build some very cool stuff [...]

Ah, the age old problem of a movement heavy fight. Whether you have to move a lot to avoid damage or to switch targets the effect is the same. Back in the day a movement heavy fight very much favored ranged/caster DPS while static fights tended to favor melee. This isn’t nescessarily the case anymore [...]

Thus far for the Drunken Retnoob blog I’ve mostly focused on issues related to endgame raiding or arena PVP, but in promoting the blog I’ve talked with so many Ret Paladins who are just getting into the spec and get overwhelmed with all the options out there for gearing up, and have so many questions [...]

Wow, this is a big topic. If you don’t think it is then you should probably just move along. A lot of authors might shy away from doing a post like this so early in a blogs existence because it can sometimes be very polarizing but I don’t think it does anyone any good to [...]

Unfortunately, Icecrown Citadel is already released before I was able to put together a post for tips for Ret Paladins in Trial of the Grand Crusader, but ToGC won’t be immediately obsolete due to the gating system in ICC.  So better late than never!  One of the most important tricks for improving your DPS in [...]

More than almost any other class, rogues are mathy and egg-headed. Ghostcrawler himself puts this forth and I have to agree. Now that’s not to say other classes aren’t like that at all, it’s just that because of the way rogue talents work (or don’t work) we tend to stand out in this regard. The [...]