(Previous article) While it’s a bad idea to link your damage meters over a common chat channel, it’s a very bad idea to link your damage report if you’re a damage dealer and you’re that one dps’er who consistently does less damage than the tank. What you’re trying to say is that you outperform the […]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting–supplemental
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Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting
I healed through Magister’s Terrace this weekend to get a couple of friendly guildies ready for MrT heroic. My wife, in the next room, said “What’s wrong?” I hadn’t even realized I sighed. “This new recruit just spammed his damage meters after our first wipe.” I had forgotten about this little slice of the game. Of […]
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Take the Group Role
If you like to group in these big social MMORPG games, then choose the hard but essential role, whatever that role may be. In World of Warcraft, my primary character is a healing priest. My close runner-up is a protection warrior. Say what you want about inability to solo, but every single time I log on, […]
Bad Guild Names
Many guilds have outright terrible names. Ok, not terrible, just terribly bland. They’re all stamped from the same lame press: X of Y. Seekers of Truth Champions of Honor Seekers of Honor Defenders of Glory Champions of Truth Seekers of Glory Defenders of Truth Champions of Glory Defenders of Champions Protectors of Italian Virginity (kidding, this one would actually be ok) Tell me that […]
There is no healing spreadsheet
A rogue in my guild is working on making a competent healing priest alt. He asked me where the priest spreadsheet is. Like how you actually know for certain, the way a rogue can just say “Well, this sword is just flat-out better than that one because I put them both in the rogue dps […]