Posts tagged ‘Raiding’

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 [...]

Pre-Cataclysm Rogue Adjustments

February 25th, 2010

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 [...]

Tolerating Failure

February 15th, 2010

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. [...]

What Good Are Alts?

February 4th, 2010

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 [...]

LoD beat Blood Queen on Sunday night, not without a fair amount of practice.  As I detailed in my previous post, concerning raid reps, we used a 25 man alt run and 10 mans to get practice attempts in.  Those runs gave us a chance to see the mechanics in action and get a lot [...]

Guild Leadership: ICC Reps

January 22nd, 2010

I’ve been slacking on posting, especially with the time I had over the holidays.  So I’m going to publically pledge to post at least once a week (on Fridays), else I’ll get a race change to a gnome priest in Cata.  Ick.  Without further ado… Reps IRL One of my favorite sportswriters often talks about repetitions [...]