So am the only one that a few weeks after the so called expansion came out, looked around and said, “So… is that it?” I swear there were Outland content patches with more playable content that WotLK had. Sure the zones were massive and packed with quests, but quests have zero replayability except for dailies, [...]
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The Lich Kings new clothes.
March 31st, 2009 · 26 Comments
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Lich King, first thoughts.
November 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments
I’m a sucker for new content, so any time a content patch comes out I’m happy. So when a full expansion hits, I’m like a fat kid at an all you can eat cake party. There is a lot to love about Wrath of the Lich King and if you’ve read a review or two, [...]
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The shallow end of the recruiting pool.
October 31st, 2008 · 32 Comments
When I complain about the performance of the raiders in my guild it’s inevitable that someone responds with a post like:
This is all your fault. If you were a competent raid/guild leader you would kick out all of the people who are not perfect raiders and replace them.
When I see these posts, I don’t get [...]
Pre Lich King Nerf-o-rama
October 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments
As anyone who has raided since patch 3.0.2 has hit can attest, raiding just got a whole lot easier. Bosses and trash mobs got a big nerf to their health and damage and several boss abilities were removed due to changes in player’s abilities. Now raiding is like putting a UFC champion up [...]
Failing at simple shit.
October 8th, 2008 · 9 Comments
As I’ve mentioned in a few recent posts, my guild is working on Illidan right now. If you aren’t familiar with the fight, there is a an ability he uses in Phases 1, 3, and 5 called Parasitic Shadowfiend. It not very dangerous. In fact it’s one of the easiest boss abilities to deal with [...]
Stop stressing over loot.
October 7th, 2008 · 22 Comments
You can’t win World of Warcraft. There is never a point where the other side admits defeat and you get a gold star. The game is set up that way so you keep forking over your cash every month. There are quite a lot of people that seem to be perfectly happy playing the game [...]
Dps doesn’t win fights part II.
September 29th, 2008 · 26 Comments
A comment to my last post reminded me of one thing I forgot to mention…
Listen up all you leet dpsers. What do you think your most important job is in any boss fight? Dps right? Sorry, wrong. It’s staying alive. I’m sure about half of the people reading this post, just stopped, which is unfortunate, [...]
10 + 10 = 25?
September 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments
One of the problems that my guild had in BC and I’m sure we weren’t alone, was making the transition from 10 man to 25 man raiding. From my observations there were two ways to get there:
1. Run one Karazhan group. Get through as fast as possible, then dive into Gruul’s Lair and [...]
I’m a bad bad raid leader. I should be punished!
September 18th, 2008 · 20 Comments
I have a guy in my guild who posted on our forums today that he is quitting the guild as soon as we stop raiding pre-LK. His reasons boil down to:
1. We have too many people in the guild.
2. We aren’t progressing fast enough.
3. I don’t treat the healers with enough respect.
Translation - the [...]
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Put me out of my misery and launch the expansion.
September 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments
My goal in Burning Crusade has always been to finish Black Temple and down Illidan. My guild is close, we’re working on the Illidari council, but the closer we get to WotLK, the less likely it gets that we’ll kill him. People are starting to play less. I guess they need to [...]
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