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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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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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Officers should all have Tanks and Healers

By GoW | Published: May 31, 2008
(Related post: Take the Group Role) The fol­low­ing state­ments are all true for raid­ing guilds: The health of a PvE guild is dic­tated by its abil­ity to progress through the game’s con­tent at the guild’s expected rate. Groups and raids live or die based on being able to assem­ble, launch, and progress. A suc­cess­ful raid [...]
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Not Pushing the Button

By GoW | Published: May 27, 2008
I’m a healer. I have other toons: a raid-ready tank that I love to play, a cou­ple of decent dps toons. But in my heart, I love being a healer. I’ve recently real­ized that peo­ple who are annoy­ing tend to die more often in raids where I’m healing. For exam­ple, my guild’s cur­rent off­tank is [...]
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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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