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Emblem Strategy for the Super-Casual

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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Historicity and WoW

In his excel­lent book “Man in the High Cas­tle”, Philip K. Dick talks about items and historicity: She said, ‘what is “historicity”?’ ‘When a thing has his­tory in it. Lis­ten. One of those two Zippo lighters was in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s pocket when he was assas­si­nated. And one wasn’t. One has his­toric­ity, a hell of [...]
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Where PvP Gear Often Helps

Yes­ter­day, I talked about How to Read PvP Gear for PvE, and short­cuts on how to eval­u­ate PvP gear when it comes to enhanc­ing your PvE set. The big take­away from the arti­cle was: use PvP gear to patch your PvE set, not for over­all gearing. Today, I’ll list as many of the commonly-patched cases [...]
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How to Read PvP Gear for PvE

Con­tin­ued from yesterday’s Intro to Using PvP Gear for PvE. (I apol­o­gize in advance for the for­mat­ting, I don’t have the patience for proper html coding.) PvP gear is typ­i­cally heavy on the fol­low­ing stats. I’ll explain how each mat­ters in PvE.
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Intro to Using PvP gear in PvE

Raids and instances are PvE. Bat­tle­grounds and Arena are PvP. You get to play mul­ti­ple ways with the same toon, it’s really fun! The cool thing about WoW is that even in PvP, with no group, you can get gear to help you in PvE. This arti­cle is writ­ten for the PvE player look­ing to sup­ple­ment [...]
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