Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the
Hai Gusy!First, I have a question because I have a score to settle with someone.In your professional heroic chain pugging opinion, which of the following is nubbier?a) Falling off the ledge in FoS and having to run all the way back because no one can
Don’t ask me to spec tank. If I do I will be able to make a water slide from the Warrior tears. ~ The DK TankGlyph of Mirror ImageNow there are FIVE more mages then necessary. Please make it stop. ~HydraThe landscape is beautiful. Next time you are
While I don't think I'll be doing a full Like a Boss type of gear readout, I figured I'd point out some of the gear that is going to be open to everyone tomorrow.The big one that will interest all druids (and pesky hunters) is Distant Land, which is the
I thought I'd start off by regaling you with the story of Honorshammer healing. We've really dialed back the raiding over the holidays, but most days I'd get on to run the daily heroic. I was getting pretty bored with tanking these heroics that I've
A few days ago I happened to inspect another paladin in Orgrimmar and noticed that her gear was... odd. It was a mix of holy, ret, and prot gear. If you check my armory I might be wearing a prot chest and PvP boots and trinket in what is otherwise a
When writing this Breakfast Topic I noticed in the comments a certain disconnect between how I approach running heroics and how other people seem to. So I thought I'd try and encapsulate the differences and try and help explain why sometimes tanks seem
The Care and Feeding of Warriors this week goes back to Icecrown Citadel to discuss the last two currently accessible encounters, the Gunship Battle and Deathbringer. Matt Rossi kind of wishes the Deathbringer fight was just against a great big talking
BioWare's latest fantasy masterpiece is an "epic tale of violence, lust, and betrayal" — much like my professional life, which chose to implode just as a free copy of the game landed on my doorstep. Luckily PS3 pro Nas stepped in to review the game
Today a guildy induced me to run Heroic Halls of Reflection on my tanking warrior. Sighing, I slapped on my heroic set and we went into the instance (actually, we ran all three ICC heroics) and when we finally got to the Lich King, said guildmate said
With 3.3 arrived a new Looking for Group tool, and the ability to group with random people from other servers. To entice the skeptics and Pug-o-phobes into trying this new system, they offered a pretty tasty carrot on a stick –a title of “The Patient”
One of the things that jumps out at me while reviewing September is that it was a fantastic month for Moviewatch. Apart from that players were occupied with the new version of Onyxia, the Argent Coliseum, still discussing some questions raised by BlizzCon,
As my priest and even as my hunter, I didn’t see much asshattery. Stupid, yes, but not asshattery. Of course things with my warrior, as I predicted, were…different.
Enter my warrior tank and suddenly OH GOD, people are UTTER ASSHOLES.
While thinking about the lack of tanking fist weapons, I got into a discussion with my wife about her favorite ability (or perhaps my favorite ability of hers), Misdirection. The discussion came out of the fact that I basically threw her into the deep
This isn't a breakfast topic where I protest. I'm not signing petitions or grumping, I'm simply looking back and saying "Gee, I wish X".
For instance, I wish there were tanking fist weapons. I love, love, love fist weapons. I'd settle for
The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com's column about aromatic essential oils for use in baths and to spruce up the house. Unfortunately I don't know anything about those so I'm going to have to talk about playing a warrior in World of Warcraft instead.
My sympathy if you are stuck at work today. You'll get through it.1. What did you do in the World of Warcraft in 2009 that you’d never done before?I had a max level alt. I got the Hunter to 70 shortly before the end of the Burning Crusade but outside
Usually, I am the 'perfectionist tank' in a run. I want things to go perfectly: I want to never lose aggro, I want the DPS to all attack the proper target, I want the healer to, well, okay, I mostly just want the healer to heal us, I'm not looking for
I have kinda ignored the last few arena seasons at 80. Also, It has been a long time since I twinked regularly. The one thing twinking did do was get me connected with a lot of friends that enjoy a PvP rumble now and then. That is where all my arena partners
So I’ve been pugging here and there on my little level 79 prot warrior. She should be questing for rep, but I astutely noticed that I stopped leveling her about the time I hit the Hodir rep grind phase. Clearly the solution is to random LFG
The new Looking for Dungeon tool has been working really very well. I’m using it to get level up some while I save the quests to do with my wife.
Some things I’ve noticed:
1) Most all the Tanks I’ve run with in these random
Ret vs. ProtI'm sure many of you have heard of a site called retpaladin.com. I was an avid poster at the site's forums since it first came out in Season 3 of TBC. During a period when the WoW community in general had no great love for Ret Paladins (there
There is allot of stupidity I'm starting to see in LFG. And I'm going to go as far as to say while using the new LFG system is all fun right now and it is. The good times now won't last for long. That is just my gut feeling. Is LFG on the decline? Maybe.The
And why won't people stop asking them to join guilds?Server/Realm (US/EU): Dark Iron (US), Racial starting area: Dwarf/GnomeYour character: Mcshane (Dwarf Warrior, give her a wave to let me know you're there!)How long will you be on: ~45 minutes to an
Am I in ur guild bank looting ur purplez?
So..who is that handsome little guy?
Why, you’ve seen him before…only he was crowded by the Gnome mage and that other gnome…girl.
But wait…that is not the only gnome invading…
In yesterday's breakfast topic we talked about what dungeons you've had to relearn -- how to deal with people in them and how to deal with all the pulls. Right in hand with that is the various ways people play their class. Prior to patch 3.3 WoW players
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the
So Askevar over at You Yank It, You Tank It had an experience similar to mine from last night. I needed the random heroic daily for my frost emblems (not sure what I'm going to do with the ones on my druid, by the way - most likely primordial saronite
The random dungeon finder is not only great for gearing up alts and getting mains the necessary badges to fill out their gear -- it's an amazing tool which forces an increase in the WoW community's collective knowledge about instances and game mechanics.
Time has passed in this game. People have histories, both personal with each other and in-game with their characters. These histories can be very telling not only about the individual, but about the progression of the game itself. For instance, my first