Posted on November 25th, 2008 by admin
WoW: Gold Farmers Arrested
According to a tersely worded article, Chinese WoW gold farmers were arrested:
Chengdu’s Shuangliu county has arrested two virtual item and currency traders, surnamed Li and Zhang, focused on tapping out The9’s (Nasdaq: NCTY) licensed MMORPG World of Warcraft (WoW), reports Chengdu Evening News. Police arrested the pair after Li reported Zhang for unfair revenue distribution. Going into business last August, the gold miners accumulated more than 20 employees with 20 computers to generate RMB 1.6 million in seven months of dealing.
It remains to be seen if this was done at the behest of Blizzard but it’s a positive step in the right direction.
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Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
A plea on behalf of frustrated tanks everywhere
Several classes and specs have gotten “knockback” abilities as part of patch 3.02 and the game’s transition to Wrath of the Lich King, and I’ve had fun watching these skills be deployed in battlegrounds to extensive and quite possibly evil use. It’s pretty funny watching an elemental Shaman defend AB’s lumber mill now, and the AV bridge? Even funnier.
And yet…as I laughed, I started to cry inside, because I knew that these skills would also be deployed in 5-man groups and raids to much less amusing effect. And man, it’s a real burden being right so often.
Now, 95% of the people I’ve pugged with since the patch went live have intuitively understood that skills like Typhoon, Blast Wave, and Thunderstorm are really intended for PvP and soloing use, and haven’t used them at all. But there is that 5% that hauls them out at every available opportunity (or, if you’re a mage in Alex Ziebart’s guild, set up a specific Blast Wave rotation guaranteeing that the mobs will never be
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Posted on November 14th, 2008 by admin
The Riding Crop
I am well aware that the riding crop is undergoing a lot of changes, so I’ll spare the usual tripe I might be tempted to dispense along the lines of “riding crops are broke baaaaw!”
Here’s what I’ve gathered. The crop will be used as a consumable enchant to make a mount permanently go 10% faster thus eliminating the need to switch trinkets. Sure, no problem. Just make a riding for each mount I own, especially since the Pets tab makes managing multiple mounts easy and … okay, not so easy since creating one requires a primal might which when Wrath comes out will essentially become a defunct commodity. After all, who wants to be a level 80 farming the Elemental Plateau? Thus I must ask, are there any plans to alter the material requirements for the riding crop, especially since it will become a consumable item?
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