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 [...]
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Mage Trainers in Dalaran?
I know it’s a main city for the expansion. I know that it’s against blizzard’s design philosophy to add class trainers to a main city.
However, I cannot help but feel Dalaran is incomplete if mages can’t learn magic there. Sure, they can learn to teleport and make portals to Dalaran [...]
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The Ivory Tower
High above the Deadwing pass, Medivh conducted his research in his secluded tower. The village of Darkshire sat far to the east as the closest civilized place to Karazhan, but none from the village dare enter the cursed place, even Medivhs two servants feared the power the building itself held, and resorted [...]
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Ability to dye armor
The main issue in this case is mechanical.
Blizzard uses a static texture map system. That is, each individual “look” of armor is an individual texture file, even the ones that look very close in color, like the Arena gear and the Tier gear.
The current game engine doesn’t have the [...]
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Patch 3.0.2 primer for Holy Paladins
This was supposed to go up before the servers did, but as you probably already know, Patch 3.0.2 wasn’t quite what we all expected. Now that servers are starting to go back up online, I can better write up this handy guide for the brave new world. Let’s try to [...]
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Phat Loot Phriday: Swiftsteel Bludgeon
Haven’t done a Mace in a while, and there are surprisingly few melee maces floating around nowadays. Since Shamans can’t wield swords, most of the really high end maces have spellpower on them. But here’s one that’s meant for cracking heads.
Name: Swiftsteel Bludgeon (Wowhead, Thottbot, WoWDigger)
Type: Epic One-hand Mace
Damage/Speed: 105-196 / [...]
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potion sickness
saying something CANNOT go live when you havne’t expereinced it yet is not really what testing is about.
Sometimes, Blizzard makes bad decisions. Doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.
I very rarely get mad about something. However, after potion-chugging for the entire time I’ve played this game, being told I can’t potion chug [...]
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Specific NDA question
I know the NDA is lifted, but I want to be DOUBLY sure that my sponsor won’t get any dirty looks sooo..
I made video of lots of cool things during Alpha. As of right now they are viewed only by me. Is it okay to compile and post some stuff on [...]
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More on dual specs at Blizzcon
In the midst of a mostly unrelated post about the Druid Balance tree, Ghostcrawler let slip the following: “The dual-spec feature will shine more light on talent design (more on that at Blizzcon) and we’ll have a better idea of what we want to do with trees when that goes [...]
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BlizzCon 2008: Opening ceremonies liveblog
10:55am: Waiting anxiously for the show to begin. The crowd is excited and ready for a big announcement. WoW movie announcement? Mobile game announcement? Your guess is as good as mine.
More after the jump.
Update: It’s over, and the only real announcement we heard was that Diablo 3 has a new class: [...]
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