Tag Archives: pve

Dynamic Duos

By GoW | Published: August 8, 2008
One of the great joys of WoW is how couple-friendly it is. My wife and I are suck­ers for some coop­er­a­tive mul­ti­player, and we haven’t looked back since we set up her account. We play together all the time, doing dailies, farm­ing mobs, instanc­ing and raid­ing (although we’re learn­ing that being new par­ents isn’t really [...]
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WoW Itemization Dreams

By GoW | Published: August 5, 2008
Con­tin­u­ing yesterday’s expla­na­tion of Wrath item­iza­tion, let’s exper­i­ment and take it a step fur­ther. Here are some fur­ther class changes Bliz­zard could make to sim­plify the “nobody in our guild could use this loot” prob­lem. (Ram­pant arm­chair game design follows.)
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WoW Wrath Class Redesign and Reitemization Explained

By GoW | Published: August 4, 2008
I love what I’m hear­ing about the new item­iza­tion from beta. A lot of it is still in flux, but there’s a core vari­able that isn’t: a num­ber of for­merly sep­a­rate stats have been combined: crit­i­cal strike = crit­i­cal strike + spell crit­i­cal strike hit rat­ing = hit + spell hit haste rat­ing = haste + [...]
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Where PvP Gear Often Helps

By GoW | Published: July 30, 2008
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

By GoW | Published: July 29, 2008
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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