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Wrath Emblem Design Revealed

By GoW | Published: February 6, 2009
Hid­den in an oth­er­wise bland post on the next sea­son of pvp rewards, game designer Kal­gan let slip how emblem pro­gres­sion is going to go for the rest of Wrath! Here’s the rel­e­vant quote: it won’t be quite as easy to get deadly items via emblems of con­quest as hate­ful items cur­rently are via emblems of valor [...]
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WQ: Grizzly Hills Stink

By GoW | Published: November 22, 2008
I recently wrote some gush­ing praise on Wrath quest­ing–about how Bliz­zard finally has it fig­ured out, how it’s great fun, blah blah blah. All that was before my wife and I moved into the Griz­zly Hills. Now, I’m eat­ing my words. What a mas­sive come­down this zone is after Dragonblight! Let’s run down really quickly the change [...]
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WQ: Better Questing!

By GoW | Published: November 19, 2008
The bread-and-butter of lev­el­ing, quest­ing, is bet­ter than ever in Wrath. Quest­ing is more fun from both from a nar­ra­tive and mechan­i­cal perspective. The nar­ra­tives are stronger. A scourge-ravaged vil­lage where many peo­ple have been lost, where you ulti­mately rally the peo­ple to flush the zom­bies out. Some ani­mal activists work against overzeal­ous ani­mal hunters, [...]
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Expansions are the Great Reset

By GoW | Published: August 25, 2008
World of War­craft 3/Wrath is com­ing. A new expan­sion drop­ping is the per­fect time to make big changes in your rela­tion­ship with WoW.
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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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