Tag Archives: vanilla WoW

MMO Expansions and Sequels

By GoW | Published: August 22, 2008
I recently read a post at Tobold’s about the nature of Bliz­zard expan­sions, and it got me thinking. I keep ref­er­enc­ing World of War­craft 2 in my posts (“Maybe Bliz­zard will change this in WoW2”). But it dawned on me that there’s really no real dif­fer­ence between sequel and expan­sion with MMOs. We’re already play­ing [...]
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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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The Downside of Endgame Guilds

By GoW | Published: May 1, 2008
I’ve been read­ing Tobold and Pot­shot lately. They’re talk­ing about loot and game design as it relates to endgame guilds, specif­i­cally guild hop­ping and pro­gres­sion prob­lems due to it. I haven’t seen a decent expla­na­tion of the prob­lem, but as a guild officer/leader I’ve seen it in action twice now, once with the orig­i­nal WoW [...]
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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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Fools, Silence, and Damage Reporting

By GoW | Published: April 28, 2008
I healed through Magister’s Ter­race this week­end to get a cou­ple of friendly guildies ready for MrT heroic. My wife, in the next room, said “What’s wrong?” I hadn’t even real­ized I sighed. “This new recruit just spammed his dam­age meters after our first wipe.” I had for­got­ten about this lit­tle slice of the game. Of [...]
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