New Need Before Greed Issue

My praise for the new Need/Greed system may have been premature. It's been pointed out that there is a moderate flaw in the system Consider the case of a player who rolls Need on everything she can, regardless of what she is currently using. Under the new system, that player will prevent a off-spec character from getting the item. Under the old system, the off-spec character at least has a chance of getting the item. So it's a trade-off, I guess. Under the old system, a rogue player has ...

Articles tagged with: Rogue

Assassinate Creed

You know that great feeling you get when you've been struggling with a boss and finally get it down?  That's how I felt after this quest.It's part of the rogue legendary quest chain and is definitely a rogue quest.  You must not only sneak, but ...

Rogue specs in Mists of Pandaria Beta

After the download process and login, I found myself standing in Stormwind.  Unfortunately, I also found myself looking at the default Blizzard UI.  It made me realize how much I have customized my own UI, and how difficult it will be to play without ...

I’m going into MoP completely in the dark

As soon as I said that I was in the beta, I had people asking me about preferred talents, and which features I planned to check out first.
Interesting  thing.  I have no idea.  I don’t even know what’s available.  I have done virtually ...

Classes as Professions

My rogue is a miner and a jewelcrafter, a pretty terrible jewelcrafter due to having been reactivated only recently. These are not how she gets rich. Her true profession is as a rogue. She's a maxed-out pickpocket, optimized with a spec for faster ...

MoP Beta… soon

Things are happening fast.  On Monday Blizzard lifted the press NDA and a torrent of MoP information was released.  Then by Wednesday it became clear that the beta servers were about to go online.
Once I get into the MoP Beta I’m sure that ...