Tag Archives: group

The Pleasant Surprise

By GoW | Published: August 1, 2008
In The Incred­i­bles, Dash is the young son who can run and move very very fast, like the Flash. There’s a scene where he’s run­ning away from some mer­ce­nary vil­lains, through a jun­gle. So he’s zip­ping between trees and jump­ing over logs, but his vis­i­bil­ity ahead is lim­ited because the jun­gle is so thick. Sud­denly [...]
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Maximum Performance Isn’t Always Maximum Fun

By GoW | Published: July 11, 2008
This is a thought in progress. A lit­tle rambling. My wife is a com­bat rogue. Always has been. When she joined the game she fell in love with being a rogue, and she asked what the high­est dam­age ver­sion of rogue was. I went off to the inter­nets, and came back with the answer: Com­bat [...]
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Secret Design of WoW PvE: Your role in a PvE raid

By GoW | Published: July 8, 2008
The series: [Intro­duc­tion, and a call for com­ments, Solo Dif­fi­culty vs Group Dif­fi­culty, PvE vs PvP, Vari­ety vs Spe­cial­iza­tion, Solo Per­former vs Group Util­ity, Your role in a PvE raid] This is how every tal­ent tree of every class fits into a pve raid.
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Secret Design of WoW PvE: Solo Performer vs Group Utility

By GoW | Published: July 7, 2008
The series: [Intro­duc­tion, and a call for com­ments, Solo Dif­fi­culty vs Group Dif­fi­culty, PvE vs PvP, Vari­ety vs Spe­cial­iza­tion, Solo Per­former vs Group Util­ity, Your role in a PvE raid] In group­ing, not all classes are sim­i­lar. Some pro­vide sim­ple and eas­ily defined ben­e­fits, while oth­ers pro­vide aux­il­iary ben­e­fits beyond their basic stated role that more [...]
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Secret Design of WoW PvE: Solo Difficulty vs Group Difficulty

By GoW | Published: June 24, 2008
The series: [Intro­duc­tion, and a call for com­ments, Solo Dif­fi­culty vs Group Dif­fi­culty, PvE vs PvP, Vari­ety vs Spe­cial­iza­tion, Solo Per­former vs Group Util­ity, Your role in a PvE raid] Your abil­ity to solo par­tially deter­mines the expe­ri­ence you’ll have in groups. If you have an easy time in the lev­el­ing game, you are going to [...]
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