Just Hit 80 Ran TOC your advice2010-03-25 00:00:00I got the Purified Twilight Opal for all my blue/red sockets, because spell power and spirit is awesome. Spirit gives you more mana per second through Intensity and additional spell power as well. <br />Not sure about your talent build as I'm working on mine as well, but with 200 haste rating, can't you afford to take one point from Balance of Power, especially since you have Improved Faerie Fire? +9 hit chance from talents alone there, plus 200 haste rating which is 7.5 or so, right? Of course, that's on level 80 mobs, so I don't know how that converts to level 83, but ...
Ex-NCsoft Employees on Tabula Rasa's Demise2010-02-24 00:00:00and get ready for release and... yeah, that didn't happen. People downloaded the game, had varying degrees of the "it's not THAT bad" reaction, and didn't play it again.
This was noted. One of the mantras that went around production discussions after Auto Assault's launch square into the pavement was that if you can't get people to play the beta for free, you have serious, serious issues. Tabula Rasa had those issues. Not as bad as Auto Assault - there were people doggedly playing every night and presumably enjoying themselves, and metrics were duly assembled to measure every movement those testers took.
But it was pretty clear, at least from my completely disassociated and busy with my own thing viewpoint, that there wasn't a lot of excitement.
So, as Ad...
Chinese gamer sued for using WoW add-on2009-09-22 00:00:00What if World of Warcraft had no add-ons, would you still play? Worse yet, what if they had the add-ons, and you were aware of them, but it was actually illegal to use them? That's the state of the game in China right now, thanks to the country's licensed WoW distributor, The9.<br /><br />As part of The9's ongoing war against add-ons, they introduced anti-...
Unadulterated Awesomeness2009-09-21 00:00:00in my abilities at first. It must be the dress. I laugh in his face and tell him that I'll take whatever he throws at me, no problem! My first adversary is a giant Clefthoof named Brokentoe. I've soloed Elite quests before, so the fact that it's marked as such doesn't mean a thing. The Mage They Call Jayne(z) enters the Ring of Blood, solo and confident.
One corpse run later, I decide that I should probably get some allies. Ow.
Two warriors, a shaman, a priest, and myself. Time to rock.
It turns out that with a party, the fight isn't that bad. It really does require a proper healer and tank, though. Brokentoe falls, and Gurgthock applauds my victory. (and gives me 11 gold and a nice chunk of XP. I think I'm going to like this quest...)
But it's not over yet! Round two is against a pair of Murkblood twins calling themselves the Blue Brothers...
Blue Brothers? More like... BLACK and Blue brothers! Because they're... bruised! 'cause we hit them! A lot!
...don't judge me.
Fight #3 is against Rokdar the Sundered Lord, a Mountain Giant (but not the cute friendly kind we know from Azeroth, a big spiky ugly brute) from the Blade's Edge Mountains. He's not particularly hard, though he does hit like a truck-and his size makes it hard to get a good screenshot. Once Rokdar goes down, Gurgthock ups the prize, giving us 5 Super Health Potions and 5 Super Mana Potions in addition to the gold and XP. Sweet deal!
The fourth bout is Skra'gath, one of those armored Void Lords we've been seeing about (like Pandemonius). He's got some shadow damage, but really, not all that hard. This is cake! Easy cake, too!
Hey, Gurgthock tells me (and my party) that the next bout is against the Warmaul Champio...
Holy is not THAT bad It may not be2009-05-14 00:00:00YJMark wrote:Seriously though - Holy is not THAT bad. It may not be easyakes healing like a Druid or Priest or Shammy, but it's still better than any non-healing sp :) My Holy Light will beat out any bandage-using punks anytimeanyple. Bring it! very true. however, sp holy in theurrent beta build and see if my ret pally with the same gear doesn't heal better and for longer. <br><br>honestly as mh as we'll berit'ing i think the HoT from SoL will be veryommon and the instant FoL was available on most of my judgements on the test dummy testing i was doing for the seals. this was very handy for SoB testsause i never had to stop toast a heal....
