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Patch 3.5 is just about ready to hit the PTRs and one of the biggest new features it will introduce is Blizzard’s RealID system. You can think of this as an advanced version of the humble friends-list. It comes with a number of significantly attractive benefits… but it also comes with some very, very unpleasant [...]
Single Minded Focus is an occasional series of articles offering players an insight into the supposed master of the single-target melee DPS classes. Today we take a brief moment to perform a sofa-analysis of the proposed rogue changes announced earlier today due to appear in the Cataclysm expansion. Thus far, we’ve not paid too much [...]
Single Minded Focus is an occasional series of articles offering players an insight into the supposed master of the single-target melee DPS classes. Today we look briefly at raiding as an assassination-mutilate specced rogue following patch 3.3′s release. In a series of raids where our guild ran progression attempts on Deathbringer Saurfang, I had the [...]
Patch 3.3 was recently released and initial fervour for all the new content meant the realms strained under the weight of some many players attempting to get into the new instances all at once. Meanwhile, for those with some time to spare, patch 3.3 brought some other nice benefits… First, let me start by saying [...]
Cheapshots is a collection of shorter informal articles for the rogue that needs quick bursts of useful information whilst waiting for their Thistle Tea to brew. Today we ask whether you’re swapping weapons in combat for a little extra DPS? Following the recent release of patch 3.2, many rogues have been playing with various forms [...]
Player versus Player is a very very very occasional series exploring aspects of the game’s PVP sensibilities from the perspective of someone that does hardly any PVP at all. Today Player vesus Player examines how patch 3.2 has killed the level 39 twinking bracket stone-cold dead. Patch 3.2 was released in Europe on Wednesday 5th [...]
WoW Nerdy is a celebration of the more geek oriented aspects of our favourite WoW pastime. Today we’re going to offer some advice on how to manage the WoW Combat Log for those of you responsible for logging your raid’s combat data to various sites like WWS, World of Logs and others. Regular raiders are [...]
Cheapshots is a collection of shorter informal articles for the rogue that needs quick bursts of useful information whilst waiting for their Thistle Tea to brew. Today we comment briefly on how tricks of the trade is bugging out in Ulduar At first it seemed like a random isolated incident. Our guild tends to leave [...]
Player versus Player is a very very very occasional series exploring aspects of the game’s PVP sensibilities from the perspective of someone that does hardly any PVP at all. Today Player vesus Player examines the attractions of twinking and wonders how the new ‘turn off XP gains switch’ purportedly coming with the forthcoming patch 3.2 [...]
WoW Nerdy is a celebration of the more geek oriented aspects of our favourite WoW pastime. Today we’re looking at how WoW runs on Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system and offering some advice to those thinking of giving it a try. Microsoft recently released what they call the “Release Candidate” of their latest desktop [...]