Tag Archives: tanking

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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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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Take the Group Role

By GoW | Published: April 25, 2008
If you like to group in these big social MMORPG games, then choose the hard but essen­tial role, what­ever that role may be. In World of War­craft, my pri­mary char­ac­ter is a heal­ing priest. My close runner-up is a pro­tec­tion war­rior. Say what you want about inabil­ity to solo, but every sin­gle time I log on, [...]
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