Monthly Archives: May 2008

Officers should all have Tanks and Healers

(Related post: Take the Group Role) The fol­low­ing state­ments are all true for raid­ing guilds: The health of a PvE guild is dic­tated by its abil­ity to progress through the game’s con­tent at the guild’s expected rate. Groups and raids live or die based on being able to assem­ble, launch, and progress. A suc­cess­ful raid […]

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Rock Band is better than Guitar Hero

Since I bought Rock Band (RB) for my PS3 a few months ago, Gui­tar Hero 3 (GH3) grew roots on the shelf. GH3 was my first fake-music game, and I enjoyed it very much. But the same source who prod­ded me to try Gui­tar Hero implored me to try Rock Band. And sure enough, I […]

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Not Pushing the Button

I’m a healer. I have other toons: a raid-ready tank that I love to play, a cou­ple of decent dps toons. But in my heart, I love being a healer. I’ve recently real­ized that peo­ple who are annoy­ing tend to die more often in raids where I’m heal­ing. For exam­ple, my guild’s cur­rent off­tank is […]

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Drama is Inevitable

Like most peo­ple, I learned the hard way about sec­ond chances at relationships–backsliding, regres­sion rela­tion­ships, what­ever you want to call it. Namely that they don’t work, despite the fact that regres­sion sex might sound like just what you need after a series of ter­ri­ble first dates. How­ever, unless one of you has been in a […]

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Small Group Raiding in WotLK

As Bliz­zard announced last week, every WotLK raid will have a small-raid (10-man) option. So if there are (guess­ing) four endgame raids at launch, each will have a 10 and 25 man ver­sion, cre­at­ing a com­pletely par­al­lel path to the cur­rent 25-man raid­ing stan­dard. Every sub­se­quent patched-in raid will fol­low the same design. No more […]

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