Honest (s)Crap

Oh noes!  I’ve been rumbled!  That pesky gnome over at Armageddon’s Coming has tagged me with the Honest (s)Crap Award!  The rules are pretty simple… Them’s The Rulez 1. When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, [...]

Why Game Designers planning Military Operations is rarely a Good Thing.

I’m getting more excited than I probably have any right to be with the new Argent Tournament on the PTR.  I was always a sucker for faction reputation grinds.  There were far too many of them in Burning Crusade, even a rep junkie like me struggled to get them all (I only hit Exalted with Sporegarr [...]

“Useful and Interesting”

There’s finally some actual Mage notes in the PTR patch notes, and the good news is, we’re not just getting some more icon changes.  The bad news is that in the short term, we’re getting a serious beating with the nerfbat. The changes are two-fold.  First, the Improved Scorch crit buff/debuff is being slashed by [...]

Why is Abbreviation such a long word?

Regular readers may have noticed that my blog posts err towards the..  shall we say, epic in nature?  I never write a sentence where a paragraph will do.  In fact, I’m already doing it again, all I needed to say was “I write long blog posts”.  So Krizzlybear, and everyone else who doesn’t have half [...]

Ulduar Ahoy!

So, 3.1 and Ulduar are coming, and Ulduar will be available in both 10 and 25 man raid versions.  So far, so good.  3.1 also includes the much-vaunted arrival of dual character specs.  Other than the obvious, new content and more versatility for your favourite characters, there’s nothing here to get excited about before it [...]