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Why loot drama happens (and how to prevent it)

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

I like this post over at I am a Paladin -- it's a pretty insightful look at why drama is so easy to come by in bigger guilds. Blizzard has done almost everything they can to divide loot fairly (and they're still working on it, with the addition of more ...

15 Minutes of Fame: Ferarro revs up

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

From: http://www.wow.com/2009/05/26/15-minutes-of-fame-ferarro-revs-up/#continued 15 Minutes of Fame is our look at World of Warcraft players of all shapes and sizes – from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you'd like to hear more about. "'Paladin, Schmaladin' ... No way a blog ...

Armor Penetration to be capped at 100%

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I'll admit it: Armor Penetration has always confused me. I understand it moderately well - it makes your attacks act as if your opponent had less armor. The conversions from numbers to percentages, and the corresponding DPS increase, can be found at various places on the internet. But due to ...

Stealth detection items nerfed

Friday, May 15th, 2009

I tried to make a "stealth nerf" pun in the headline, but it just wasn't coming to me. Anyway, Blizzard has decided that items that grant stealth detection were feeling too mandatory in arenas, "forc[ing] players to use lower level equipment even when more powerful items were available to them." ...

U can’t touch this

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

For if u touch this, more whelps will spawn. Aspiring naked rapper Molimo of <Lament> on Cenarion Circle recently recorded his first song, "Draconic for Dummies (Deep Breath Version)", featuring MC Onxyia and the Whelplings. Sadly, it was banned in Orgrimmar for inciting post-traumatic stress in Horde members who remembered ...

Randomizing the Strand of the Ancients spawn points

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Strand of the Ancients is a battleground that's gotten relatively short shrift lately -- it came along into the game with the crown jewel of Wrath PvP so far, Wintergrasp, and while it's still frequented on honor weekends (it's one of the best ways to farm honor, actually) and for ...

Do you know any good iTunes substitutes for playing my music in the background?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

I recently noticed patch 3.1 has been making WoW a little bit more demanding with my resources. Now iTunes seems to be using up a bit of crucial memory and I know that there are better music players with smaller memory/CPU foot-prints out there that I can use. Do you ...