Posted on October 28th, 2009 by admin
Just about every wall has been broken down now. The only thing left is the ability to change one’s class, which probably won’t happen anytime… soon®. Yesterday, the highly anticipated Race Change service went live, and I’m sure a lot of players rushed to get their makeover. Take Gregg, for example, who went on and changed his Level 70 Tauren Hunter into a weed-loving Troll. I mean, he’s wanted to do that for a while. I know I’ve been hankering for race change myself, but now that the service is here, I haven’t exactly jumped the gun. Why? I said I wanted to turn my Blood Elf Death Knight — I’m quite happy with just one Sin’dorei — into an Orc, but now I’m kind of wondering.
I still want to change my character’s race, I’m just not quite settled on which one to switch to. Race change is kind of like a retcon in the World of Warcraft, more so than name changes or customization of appearance. It’s right up there with gender changes. Faction changes are different because it kind of take away your
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by admin
Interesting weekend for me: My schedule is such that I can’t really do weekend raids with my Alliance guild, but with fall coming the crummy weather seems to have led to a renaissance for my Horde side play, and suddenly I found myself running Onyxia and TotC 10 on Malfurion in my finest Tauren warrior self. (Tauren warriors: great race/class combo or the greatest race/class combo? The world may never know.) Since I’m fairly familiar with the fights in both cases, it seemed natural enough to explain them for people who hadn’t done them.
And then I realized that, without really even paying attention, I’d sort of taken the job over entirely. It just seemed like what I should do: even when I forgot to mention an element of a fight like Gormok’s spell lock, I just found myself calmly explaining things in a voice that, frankly, I didn’t really even recognize. It was as if I was comfortable telling people what to do. Almost without realizing it I’d started telling people what to do in a raid, and they were doing it. The whole thing was somewhat surreal
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Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by admin
Lately, I’ve found myself messing around with alternative strategies, ways of doing things I wouldn’t have tried before. One of them is Titan’s Grip-less fury. Since I have so many warriors, I can devote a respec to a pet theory or a strange idea (like, say, building a leveling spec around self healing) and so, kitting out my tauren with a fist weapon and a tanking offhand (I don’t have two DPS weapons for him) and seeing how it works in instances is one way to play around with the class. Gotta do something to keep the mold off the ol’ cow.
I have characters I need to keep min-maxed (my alliance raiding toons, who generally have specs/builds that hew fairly closely to what might be called cookie-cutter) so having toons where I can play around and see for myself are fun. So far, the TG-less fury build isn’t exactly rocking the world, but I’m going to stick with it until I can get an offhand that suits the spec for a more fair comparison. I’m not expecting it to end up replacing TG, I just want to do some tests to see for myself.
One of the
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Posted on October 19th, 2009 by admin
All the World’s a Stage, and all the orcs and humans merely players. They have their stories and their characters; and one player in his time plays many roles.
We’ve talked before about getting started in roleplaying, as well as how to find the right group to roleplay with. But there’s also another aspect the question of roleplaying for the first time, which is that inner attitude people feel towards it.
I often see people leaving comments on All the World’s a Stage, saying that they have some sort of story for their character inside their heads, but they don’t let it out, for various reasons. Some don’t feel that they have the right social space to let it out, and find it difficult to connect with others in such a way that their internal idea can actually take shape in reality. Others feel as though roleplaying isn’t for them, even though they clearly seem to have the gift for it. In both cases, their roleplaying is limited to their own mind, where no one else can hear it or benefit from it at all. For every one who posts something about it on a
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Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin
With the Light as his strength, Gregg Reece of The Light and How to Swing It faces down the demons of the Burning Legion, the undead of the Scourge, and helps with the puppet shows at the Argent Ren Faire up in Icecrown. This week, he ventures into the unknown depths of the Mines of Data to bring you information on the upcoming tier 10 paladin armor.
Being as paladins, along with half of the other classes, still don’t actually have models for their tier 10 gear yet on the PTR there isn’t much we can actually show you other than a dwarf in his boxers. What we do have is the set bonuses which may or may not change by the time patch 3.3 actually hits. Both holy and retribution have been changed a couple times throughout the test builds thus far, so they should be getting fairly close to what we’ll see. Protection hasn’t had much change in it thus far, but the bonuses are in line with what we should be expecting. After the break, we’ll look at each spec’s set bonuses and do a little theorycrafting in some cases to see what they’ll mean for us in
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Posted on October 12th, 2009 by admin
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Dang — I never got anything as cool as this for my birthday. When Wolfgar of EU Aggramar-H hit the teenage years recently, his dad decided it was time to whip up something special. We’d say he managed quite nicely, wouldn’t you?
“My son is a huge WoW fan, and as he has turned the dreaded age of 13, I decided to do something unique for him,” explains Wolfgar’s dad, who goes by the not-so-fatherly in-game moniker Ripyernutzof. “I decided to go with as realistic an interpretation as possible of the subject matter while still keeping the flavour of the original toon. (I sometimes wish he’d chosen a gnome character as it’d take a lot less material to complete!)”
Gallery: Wolfgar’s birthday sculpture
The Wolfgar sculpture measures about 6 inches square, sculpted
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Posted on October 11th, 2009 by admin
I don’t care for a lot of music that was made in the last decade. The Killers are something of a breather for me. They’re one of those bands I’m glad exist. When I’m forced to listen to a terrible radio station, and hear change your mind sandwiched in between auto-tuned, unoriginal dross – I’m satisfied there is still music being made that can intrigue. (Brandon Flowers has some epic bard tier 10 shoulders there too)
This is part two of part two of a three part article. Confusing? Join the fun! Surprising Patch 3.3 timing, i.e. wrenches in cogs, is a blast!
In our first installment, we covered pillars changing shape in great detail, and also mentioned a few other tweaks. Our second article dealt with five classes — paladin, priest, rogue, shaman, and warrior. Warlocks were left out of the 3.2.2 patch notes. This article is going to talk about the other four classes – death knight, druid, hunter, and mage.
Being “TheArenaGuy” here at WoW.com lends to forcing myself to a very balanced perspective on classes. It makes me feel guilty
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