Bandage, FFS – the curiously stagnant tradeskill of First Aid

In the month or so since Cataclysm has come out, and over the month or so before that that we played with patch 4.0.1, many improvements have become evident. Questing is more sensible, better organized. Class training, abilities, and talents have been overhauled. Stats have been turned on their ear. But the lowly trade skill still has one foot firmly planted in the past. This goes doubly so for the secondary trade skills – First Aid, Fishing, and, of course, Cooking. Lets's have a ...

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Is height a requirement for a serious character?


I'm 5 feet 3 inches tall. When I wear heels, I call them my tall shoes because they make me tall. Not taller, because that would indicate that there were some degree of tallness to begin with. Trying on platform shoes is an exercise ...

What signals the end of an expansion?


Wrath of the Lich King ended on kind of a sour note for me, largely because I didn't get to participate in my guild's one and only 25-man heroic Lich King kill before Cataclysm launched. Part of the rankle was ...

The Five Levels Problems: Introduction

I kept thinking about how Cataclysm has only five levels.  Was it a good thing?  Bad?  I was leaning towards bad as I kept finding problems and changes that needed to be made to compensate for only having the five levels.  So I decided to really look ...