I know I haven’t been writing about tanking or even Bear tanking for a bit, but still. Tanking 101. Healer aggro, and the counteracting thereof. Also to be known as “Keep your healer alive, you idiot!” Look, from the heroic runs I’ve
A while back, I asked for your suggestions on archived posts, or other things that I should add on the sidebar lest they should be forgot. I haven’t forgotten all of the comments and suggestions you took the time to offer me. It’s just busy
In a previous Cub Report, I mentioned that Alex was a huge fan of dragons, dragon mounts, and the golden dragon mount in particular. We redirected his love of dragons (seriously, he brings home books about dragons from the school library) by running his
When I posted a while back on the joys of mogging my leveling Mage, Mahdia left a comment asking what the items were I had used for mogging her look. I’ve been busy, but I havn’t forgotten. Just like I still need a “player’s choice”
I had a few emails from the guild leader for Shining Star Crusaders concerning the issues I brought up in a blog post about Dalra, at that time a member of their guild. The first email was simply a request to remove any reference to Shining Star
One of the problems with a naming and shaming post is that it can give a skewed impression of the game. If I, or other vocal WoW bloggers like me, spend all our time bemoaning the wastrels and wankers, why, we can give the impression the game is nothing
So, you know how I was amazed at how bad that LFR run in Dragon Soul was as a healer? Yeah. Second round was even worse. I blame Red, I went in for more healer gear. What we had tonight could have been a good run, except for one thing. A single player
Much time has passed since it was released, but I still like the concept of Looking For Raid. I keep running it on varying characters, and overall I have a good time. The only thing I haven’t enjoyed is the long wait time as DPS, at least on
With the addition of transmogrification, the ability to change the appearance of your equipped gear without affecting it’s gameplay stats, the World of Warcraft has seen the rise of many new mogging-related resources. Dawn Moore wrote a good compendium
You know, it’s not often that just the thought of what I’m about to do to YOU, my readers, brings such a smile to my face as I’m sportin’ right now. The best bit? I know some of you are going to buy this. I know it. I know you,
Welcome to beta Bear! I did spend a little time in the beta for Mists of Pandaria yesterday, and while I do not intend to write anything that would be a spoiler about story or quests or new races or classes, I did want to give you a few impressions. I
What follows is something I’ve written for Matty’s Boon Writing Challenge! The guideline was to write something concerning your relationship with your favorite weapon. Yes, I’m paraphrasing to make it sound dirty. :) I Bring
Some of you who have been with me for the very longest time know that what to think if I were to say “Oh John Ringo No.” I don’t have to say any more, now do I? Oh, and if you haven’t read Princess of Wands, seriously, what’s
I’ve noticed something unusual, and I’ve sat on it for a while, but I think it’s time to act. There is a saying; “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times it’s enemy action.” Well, we’re up
For all of you that, like me, spend your lives getting called to someone’s side to fix their shit for them, because something “just happened, I didn’t do it, it just happened”, this is for you, my brothers and sisters. The Equipment Operator
As you may have seen Gnomer mention in a few posts, I might have maybe sorta played some PvP this last weekend. Gnomer, Keredria and the Pugnacious Priest along with many others from their guilds did some pre-made xrealm Arathi Basin over the weekend,
I didn’t do it when it was the cool, in thing to do. All the really cool people leaped into it, and gushed about it, and made it sound very neat. Fun. Mahvelous. Challenging. The Iron Man WoW Challenge. I was really tempted, it sounded pretty fun
I have here some alternative lyrics for the classic song, “The Gambler”, and I’m going to share them here with you. Right now. Any second now. No really, look down there. Those are lyrics. Stop reading this and look, damnit! This
I was doing an LFR Dragon Soul with Redfyre last night, and we were talking a bit about our DPS, what we hoped to get from the LFR, why we were doing it, and what kept us trying to perform on things like the trash. Thinking about it, it all comes down
I’ve mentioned before that, while I myself am NOT (oh dear lord not) a progression raider, I find myself somehow IN a progression raiding guild, the Band of Misfits on Azuremyst. It’s strange as hell because you know all those stereotypes
Gnomeaggedon the chilled-out mage has returned from his blogging hiatus with a bang, recently dropping a devilish duo of posts. The first of these is about his earning the title Battlemaster, and after seeing what really went into earning that title,
Bear with me here, because I have a confession to make. I don’t really watch much television. I am what you might call functionally TV illiterate. I never watched… well, anything that you might consider “must see TV”. Never saw
When I started running LFR, I didn’t realise I was going to end up on Let’s Make a Deal. I still like running Dragon Soul on the LFR, but then I’m one of those kooks that likes running raid content even when there aren’t any
In the time since we last visited Alex’s Adventures in Azeroth, he has rapidly climbed through the levels, until he is now a stones throw from being a level 50 feral worgen druid. How have we gone so far in so short a time, even with the
All right. Seriously? Let me make absolutely certain I’ve got this right. 1) Liam Neeson. 2) Berserkers, a la Fred Saberhagen, brought up to modern Tranformer sci-fi special effects. 3) Liam Neeson. 4) U.S. Battleships, which (unless I’ve
I wish I had a great post to go with that title. Three events all overlapping, the Lunar Festival, Love is in the Air, and the Darkmoon Faire have come to town (for reals, this time). So much to do, so much to see, so many achievements to seek out. Providing
The Godmother has asked for submissions to her Ultimate WoW Mix Tape, an idea I simply love. Back in the day on my own blog, and holy crap it’s been years, I used to do a Raid Song of the Week feature, basically until the hosting I was using for
This song has been running through my mind this last week, as a constant background sound that has been comforting to me. You might recognize it from the Discovery Channel reality TV cheese-fest guilty pleasure that is Sons of Guns. It is Shelter Me,
A new post up this morning at WoW Insider struck me as being damn timely. The article, written by Josh Meyers and titled “Has the early Cataclysm gearing model failed?”, takes a look at the intent of early Cataclysm leveling, of gating
Last night, at the tail end of one long day, a few members of Team Wanda, Band Of Misfits most progressive raiding team, were chatting in vent. They had just completed the server first Glory of the Cataclysm Raider earlier, so I thought I’d pop