Tag Archives: crafting

Improving Inscription

By GoW | Published: November 17, 2008
My main is a holy priest and has always been a straight gath­erer. I liked the gold. When I learned that Scribes made books, my fate was sealed. Inscrip­tion Ho! It’s early in the young life of Inscrip­tion, and like Jew­el­craft­ing and every other craft­ing pro­fes­sion, it has a bare­bones feel at the out­set. There’s one [...]
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Expansions are the Great Reset

By GoW | Published: August 25, 2008
World of War­craft 3/Wrath is com­ing. A new expan­sion drop­ping is the per­fect time to make big changes in your rela­tion­ship with WoW.
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WoW Itemization Dreams

By GoW | Published: August 5, 2008
Con­tin­u­ing yesterday’s expla­na­tion of Wrath item­iza­tion, let’s exper­i­ment and take it a step fur­ther. Here are some fur­ther class changes Bliz­zard could make to sim­plify the “nobody in our guild could use this loot” prob­lem. (Ram­pant arm­chair game design follows.)
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One week with patch 2.4

By GoW | Published: April 2, 2008
I’ll start by say­ing that Magister’s Ter­race (MrT) is won­der­ful from start to fin­ish. It’s beau­ti­ful to look at, the music is great, the bosses are fun, and the gear poten­tial makes me want to bring all my char­ac­ters there. If it were none of those, it’d still be a new place to go with [...]
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There are Many Ways to Win

By GoW | Published: March 25, 2008
The game indi­ca­tor of win­ning in WoW is receiv­ing an epic item. In vanilla WoW, the vast major­ity of epic items came from 40-man raid­ing. I’ll grant that there was an epic hunter quest, a few lim­ited craft­ing bits, some world drops, and a top-level pvp set that only a hand­ful of peo­ple could get. [...]
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