Patch 4.3 PTR: Modified item-level buff in Hour of Twilight dungeons

This is an interesting wrinkle to testing I noticed as I zoned into the Well of Eternity today. Apparently, for purposes of actually testing the dungeons at the minimum level of gear that players will be expected to have in order to even get in, the patch 4.3 PTR is throttling players' ilevels to 353. Now, I couldn't see any difference when I inspected my actual gear, so I don't know how this is expected to work -- if it's a flat reduction in our damage and/or healing or if ...

Articles tagged with: Raiding, Bastion of Twilight, Cataclysm, Skinning

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 ...

Officers' Quarters: Dropping the drama totem


Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook, available from No Starch Press.
Selecting players ...

Identify the Fail


In which I realize that WoW raiding and software development have a common element.
How does this relate to raiding? Well, it has to do with learning from one’s mistakes.
In the software development world, we have ...