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] If your class can do many things, don’t expect to be unqualified best at any of them. There are three roles: tank, healer, damage (dps). But really, […]
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Secret Design of WoW PvE: Variety vs Specialization
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Secret Design of WoW PvE: PvP vs PvE
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] No class is globally better at PvP than every other class. WoW PvP is a huge rock-paper-scissor game, where there’s an answer for every move, or […]
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Secret Design of WoW PvE: Solo Difficulty vs Group Difficulty
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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Secret Design of WoW PvE: Introduction, and a call for comments
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] It occurred to me that people who haven’t been grouping or raiding a lot don’t know what role various classes have in a raid, or of […]
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Playing Around
I realized in my last article, I used the reference “25th person” without explaining what it meant. In my time as raid lead, it became a shorthand for the most underperforming person in the raid. A raid lead typically knows this as they’re assembling the raid. “Hey, Lisa wants to come along to Gruul tonight.” “We […]