The Big Bad Beta Breakdown … For FFXIV

My feed may be all a-Twitter (/wrists) with debate, discussion and fury about the Cataclysm beta, but I’m not particularly interested in Cataclysm. Call me a luddite, but the massive overhaul of the talent system and the merging of a lot of stats is a little too… Cataclysmic (I’m just full of them, aren’t I?) [...] ...

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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 ...