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Just Hit 80 Ran TOC your advice
2010-03-25 00:00:00
I 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.
Not sure abou...

Loyalty vs Levels
2010-03-11 00:00:00
BaseWolf wrote:If I keep my pet from lvl 10 and raise it to lvl 50, dose it get more skill points then a new pet at lvl 50 with full loyalty lvl? And are there any other differences then t...

ammo and quivers
2010-03-06 00:00:00
So I was recently checking out the leatherworking patterns for my rogue and noticed that after around lvl 40 there aren't any recipe's for ammo pouches or quivers. Now the reason I ask is on my ...

Ex-NCsoft Employees on Tabula Rasa's Demise
2010-02-24 00:00:00
NCsoft Europe's ex-CTO Adam Martin commented on his T=Machine blog about his close-up experience as a NCsoft insider with Tabula Rasa's prolonged development, and giving an excellent analysis on the reasons that led to the eventual demise:

In the online games industry, if we keep quiet about the causes, the hopes, the fears, the successes, and the failures of the best part of $100million burnt on a single project, then what hope is there for us to avoid making the same mistakes again?
Unlike Scott, I actually (superficially speaking) agree with this statement as to why Tabula Rasa, Age of Conan, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and Hellgate:London failed (TR, AoC, PotBS, and HL from now now...)
"No, these games failed because their developers let it happen."-Fu...

with one of our guild druid healers while
2010-02-09 00:00:00
ewtkler wrote:I was having a similiar issue with one of our guild druid healers while doing heros. Anytime, I had more than 1 mob on me, it was very diffult to hold the 2nd one on me and would head for hi...

it tually doesnt say that
2010-02-06 00:00:00
ead the spell again and it tually doesnt say that itant be summoned in instaes. I just always asumed itouldnt :)
My guild had two replement healers in yesterday...

World of Warcraft: PvP Panel Discussion
2009-10-24 00:00:00
While much of the World of Warcraft PvP Panel was dedicated to the hows and whys of designing the game's battlegrounds, a few choice tidbits of information were revealed during the discussion that preceded the Q&A session. Once the attendees were able to ask questions, it was clear that their most pressing concern was balance -- specifically the underpowered state of their own played classes, and the overpowered classes everyone else plays (at least, that's the way players often seem to see ...

Florida Paper Details WoW Gold Lawsuit
2009-10-12 00:00:00
South Florida's Sun-Sentinel surveys the legal landscape relating to virtual game goods in a pair of articles from today's edition.

The paper's primary report covers an attempt...

Chinese gamer sued for using WoW add-on
2009-09-22 00:00:00
What 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 ...

Unadulterated Awesomeness
2009-09-21 00:00:00
Unadulterated Awesomeness
Last time, the Mage They Call Jayne(z) died quite a bit. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and all that. Thanks to the wondrous magic of "Rez Spells"? death was in no way permanent. Oh, video games. Where else can you die and live to complain about it?
After going up against some nifty bosses and actually not winning, Jayne(z) decided that he'd had enough of this zone for now-besides, he didn't like it ANYWAY. So THERE! He made his way to the gentle rolling plains of Nagrand, ran into Sir Hemet Nesingwary of Nesingwary's "Gank Me" Expedition, and ended up in Garadar, home of the Mag'har tribe of brown Orcs.

I kinda wonder what makes them "Brown." I mean, they're definitely biological kin: we see Kilrogg Deadeye's son, Grom Hellscream's son, Saurfang's son... and they're all brown, not green like their kin. Strange. Perhaps it's something in Outland? Let's just say a wizard (Medivh!) did it.

As one can expect, there's a boatload of quests for yours truly, with objectives all over the massive zone of Nagrand. I can tell right away that this is going to be a blast. No, really, it's actually pretty cool. But what would I be without my sarcasm? Certainly not your loveable, humble, narrator!
I've got quests up the wazoo, which is a very uncomfortable place for quests. Apparently, the Mag'har had another village far to the West, which was then invaded by the Murkblood tribe of Broken, who slaughtered most of the inhabitants. But since the Greatmother is sick and dying, Garrosh Hellscream can't get off his emo ass and go do something. So, the orcs ask if a certain awesomely nifty Mage can go help them get revenge. Unfortunately, as revenge is against my code, I have to decline.
Just kidding. Yo...