Tag Archives: instancing

Raiding vs Parenting

By GoW | Published: August 30, 2008
My wife and I like WoW a lot. We’ve played it together for more than two years now, and have been endgame raiders for most of that time. Some­times as many as three nights a week! There have been ups and downs, but we’re both excited about Wrath. As new par­ents, we’ve learned what the hard­est [...]
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Disconnectors: Internet Impaired or Pug Menace?

By GoW | Published: July 24, 2008
I went on my first pug raid in quite a while: a full Kara clear with my mostly-battleground hunter. It was decently fun; Kara’s a good time although by now I’ve spent entirely too much time there. This being sum­mer and all, the raid chat­ter tended to cen­ter around gen­i­talia and bod­ily functions. Over the [...]
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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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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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