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Raiding does not mean Skilled

By GoW | Published: June 12, 2008
(Related post: Max level does not mean Skilled.) There’s a class of player who feels that their sta­tus in the raid­ing game means that they’re Right. They label other peo­ple noobs, and the silly thing is that peo­ple believe them. “I have this awe­some item, you don’t, there­fore I know what I’m talk­ing about and [...]
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Small Group Raiding in WotLK

By GoW | Published: May 15, 2008
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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The Downside of Endgame Guilds

By GoW | Published: May 1, 2008
I’ve been read­ing Tobold and Pot­shot lately. They’re talk­ing about loot and game design as it relates to endgame guilds, specif­i­cally guild hop­ping and pro­gres­sion prob­lems due to it. I haven’t seen a decent expla­na­tion of the prob­lem, but as a guild officer/leader I’ve seen it in action twice now, once with the orig­i­nal WoW [...]
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Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting–supplemental

By GoW | Published: April 28, 2008
(Pre­vi­ous article) While it’s a bad idea to link your dam­age meters over a com­mon chat chan­nel, it’s a very bad idea to link your dam­age report if you’re a dam­age dealer and you’re that one dps’er who con­sis­tently does less dam­age than the tank. What you’re try­ing to say is that you out­per­form the [...]
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Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting

By GoW | Published: April 28, 2008
I healed through Magister’s Ter­race this week­end to get a cou­ple of friendly guildies ready for MrT heroic. My wife, in the next room, said “What’s wrong?” I hadn’t even real­ized I sighed. “This new recruit just spammed his dam­age meters after our first wipe.” I had for­got­ten about this lit­tle slice of the game. Of [...]
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