Paradigm Shift
Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »Looking back on my original character, I was never very good at playing a rogue. True, I did OK, but I was never great at the whole thing. If I came top of the DPS charts, it was because everone ...
Lagtasia
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »There comes a point in every challenging raid where it's far too tempting to give up and go on to something else instead. Sometimes it's the right call, Sometimes it's just frustration at the way certain people are playing, sometimes ...
Strategisin’
Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Burning Crusade, Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 6 Comments »I remember my first time tanking a level 70 instance - it was Shadow Labyrinth. This was Shadow Labyrinth pre-nerf, of course. Pulls were very tightly spaced, with a mere split-second between a good and a bad pull, particularly when ...
Burning Crusade all over again
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion, General, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »One of the biggest problems I had early on in The Burning Crusade was getting hold of a decent tanking weapon. The Sun Eater never dropped for me, despite countless runs into the Mechanar. King's Defender took almost as long ...
Easy to get, hard to keep.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion, Wrath of the Lich King | 2 Comments »Apparently a problem that was apparent in The Burning Crusade was that tanking gear was too easy to get hold of - people were able to hit the then-magic number of 490 defense without having nearly enough stats to run ...
Loken!
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in Bosses, Wrath of the Lich King | 8 Comments »I've been having a lot of fun running heroics recently. Everything has seemed to be achievable, and even if we haven't downed a boss the first time, the subsequent times hve always been an improvement. Until yesterday, when I ran Halls ...
Gnomeregan Redux
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Wrath of the Lich King | 2 Comments »So, level 72 now. What have I learned so far about the Lich King and his plan to destroy the world? Very little, I'm afraid. Instead I've been finding out about the origin of the Gnomish race, by following the questlines around ...
The First Rule of Lich King Club is…
Friday, November 14th, 2008 Posted in Wrath of the Lich King | No Comments »... you don't talk about Lich King Club. The second rule of Lich King Club is, no whining. A day into Lich King, and it's very pretty. A lot of work has been put into the art, I'll grant that. Utgarde Keep ...
Shambolic Zombification
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in General, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »The Scourge Invasion carries on at a pace, and it's starting to really affect the world in more and more undesired ways. It was fun when it started, but things are starting to wear now - it's impossible for many ...
…Wait a minute, what?
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Dungeons, Wrath of the Lich King | 1 Comment »Zombies! Ready the shotgun. I'm curious to find out how this event progresses. It's almost like they've deliberately re-introduced the Corrupted Blood plague. I logged in briefly this morning to see what it was about and witnessed Khadgar consumed by the ...
