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Back to Hibernation

By GoW | Published: December 9, 2009
Logged on a cou­ple of times in my free week. The Argent Tour­na­ment was inter­est­ing. My priest’s dual spec was fun. Play­ing along­side my wife was fun. I actu­ally blocked out some time last night to take an offer up from a friend regard­ing run­ning the Tour­na­ment of Cham­pi­ons. I was look­ing for­ward to it. Of course, it [...]
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Rebirth

By GoW | Published: December 2, 2009
The kind peo­ple at Bliz­zard sent me an email to let me know that they miss me would like me to come back to par­tic­i­pate in WoW’s five year anniversary They did this by offer­ing a 7-day free revis­it­ing period so that I could see all the new fun they’ve added. Some­thing about Onyxia being dual [...]
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Times Change

By GoW | Published: February 25, 2009
My wife and I were lucky enough to have our first daugh­ter last year. We will be luck­ier still to have our sec­ond daugh­ter later this year! The prospect of a sec­ond child has brought a lot of things into focus, includ­ing exactly how much time we’re going to have to play World of War­craft… [...]
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Wrath Emblem Design Revealed

By GoW | Published: February 6, 2009
Hid­den in an oth­er­wise bland post on the next sea­son of pvp rewards, game designer Kal­gan let slip how emblem pro­gres­sion is going to go for the rest of Wrath! Here’s the rel­e­vant quote: it won’t be quite as easy to get deadly items via emblems of con­quest as hate­ful items cur­rently are via emblems of valor [...]
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Emblem Strategy for the Super-Casual

By GoW | Published: February 2, 2009
Update! This arti­cle is well-intended but the truth has been revealed, and I guessed wrong. More infor­ma­tion in the arti­cle “Wrath Emblem Design Revealed”. How­ever, it kills me to delete text, so I’ll leave it here any­way. Also as a reminder to myself that design is opaque. Only raid or instance once a week? Won­der­ing [...]
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