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WoW Wrath Class Redesign and Reitemization Explained

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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Small Group Raiding in WotLK

As Bliz­zard announced last week, every WotLK raid will have a small-raid (10-man) option. So if there are (guess­ing) four endgame raids at launch, each will have a 10 and 25 man ver­sion, cre­at­ing a com­pletely par­al­lel path to the cur­rent 25-man raid­ing stan­dard. Every sub­se­quent patched-in raid will fol­low the same design. No more […]

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Wrath of the L

I’m work­ing on a cou­ple of pieces based on the WotLK news updates. Before that flurry of announce­ments, I was work­ing on bor­ing posts like “Mas­ter Looter is the only option”, “Pace isn’t that hard” and other pieces that sound even worse. Blah blah. I got bored while writ­ing them. I write every­thing con­cur­rently, so […]

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