Archive for February 22nd, 2009

Mage PvP Gear: Season 5

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

From: http://spicytunas.com/2009/02/mage-pvp-gear-season-5/ While I was on an honor farming spree last week to upgrade my PvP gear, I made frequent visits to various sites, and took note of which gear is out there that I could acquire. I took note of how much honor or emblems I needed to help plan ...

Nostalgia vs. reality — fight!

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

There's an interesting post on the forums that's become a catalogue of what old-time players miss most about classic WoW. While it's become a pretty thorough compilation of iconic moments, there are admissions that, well, maybe some of the stuff that's fun to look back on wasn't actually that much ...

Tuskarr Mage!?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

From: http://spicytunas.com/2009/01/tuskarr-mage/ While we’re on the topic of different Mage races, here is one of my favorite transformations so far. The Tuskarr transformation! “The Tuskarr are humanoid walrus people who live in Northrend. Although seen throughout Northrend, they make their homes primarily in the Borean Tundra. The Tuskarr culture is centered around ...

Are disenchanters getting robbed by rolls?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Sardonis sent us a note the other day, with an interesting, if probably controversial, point inside: when we're in instances, Skinners take their skins, Miners take their ores, and Herbalists take their herbs (or of course they rotate around if there's more than one). At the end of the instance, ...

The Tankadin for Dummies

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

  I know a lot of you have asked for this, and I know I haven't been delivering on the tanking front, so here it is. Today, we focus solely on Paladin tanks, who in my very humble opinion make the absolute best tanks in the game. With dual specs looming ...

How easy is too easy?

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Karthis, a feral Druid from the Garona-US server, wrote a thought-provoking treatise on the current end-game on his blog a few days ago. Of course, he's hardly the first to declare the current end-game far too easy, but he brings a very interesting angle to the discussion -- namely that ...

How to be useful on the PTR

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

From: http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/02/21/how-to-be-useful-on-the-ptr/#continued Yep, another PTR post. For all we know, the recent frenzy surrounding the PTR has been manufactured by Blizzard as a practical joke while their programmers are out playing skee-ball. We don't have the foggiest idea of when it's going to hit, but back-channel discussion here at WoW Insider ...