All the World's a Stage: Roleplaying 101

When it comes to various high-brow roleplaying concepts, it's amazing how difficult it can be to find some basic common gaming ground. I've spent time roleplaying in MMOs, MUDs, tabletop games and Live Action Roleplaying environments. I've played elves, vampires, cyborgs, angels and robots. I've had the honor of being the game master for massive LARPs and the immense pleasure of being the dungeon master for a small D&D pen-and-paper game.
The thing that I've had constantly reinforced ...

Articles tagged with: Mage

Frost Magery in MoP – Talents


As writ previously, talents are differently applied this time than they have in the first four iterations of WoW. Rather than choosing from 60ish or 40ish talents, you get to choose from six tiers of talents, each containing three choices, of which ...

Frost Magery in MoP – getting started


In the following series, I’ll be looking at the way that the Frost Mage specialization has changed between Cataclysm and MoP  I’ll be handling this via a series of small posts. Today’s is regarding the initial impressions moving ...

Being too low keeps you out of content, so does too high

I wish I'd discovered BC heroics before my mage hit 71. At that point, it just seems like cheating. So now what? She could level up more, but what's the point? I'm not going to hang out waiting on DPS queues at 85. She hit 72 and that's when it fully ...

Mages need buffs

By buffs I of course mean giving them a tanking and healing tree. Frost seems like a good choice for tanking, particularly after they screwed up and made blood the DK tanking tree. BLOOD IS STUPID! Fact. Fire has a cauterization theme going for it, ...

People who want to be where they are

Why would a level 70 be in a BC heroic? Or a 74? Yesterday I decided to try something different on my mage and queued for a BC random heroic.Surprisingly, I not only found a group, but found it pretty quickly. But that wasn't the best part. The people ...