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Posted on Jan 25, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Hunter, Items, Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Guides, Talents, Pimp My Profile
Welcome to Pimp My Profile, the column in which the WoW.com staff turns zeroes into heroes. Don’t think you’re performing where you should be? Not sure how your class/spec is supposed to be gearing up? E-mail us with your Armory link, and you might be next to receive our help!
Hi, I’m 80 and I’ve been so for weeks. I’ve been running random heroics for gear and I followed your guides for my pet specs (though I think I messed up on my Tenacity). My DPS barely cracks 1000. As far as I know, as a hunter, there is almost no excuse for this. Please help me.
-Shippleton
Thanks for writing in, Shippleton. You are wise enough to understand that your DPS is lower than it should be and intelligent enough to ask questions. It seems likely that you are also uncommonly good-looking, a trait shared by most hunters. You are to be applauded for taking the first step down the road to becoming a death dealer, which is the right of every hunter!
Right off the bat 1k DPS seems sufficiently low that I suspect we should be taking a look at your shot rotation as well as your talents and gear. In the interest of science I went ahead and ran Utgarde Pinnacle heroic with some extremely understanding friends while I was completely naked except for my gun, shirt, and tabard. My lack of mana kept me in viper for about 50% of the fights, and I ended up at about 1,100 DPS for the run. So that gives us an absolute bottom DPS benchmark.
Continue reading Pimp My Profile: Shippleton, beast mastery hunter
Pimp My Profile: Shippleton, beast mastery hunter originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 20, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, PvP, Guides, Classes, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King, Battlegrounds, Arena, The Colosseum, Achievements
The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Relentless, Furious, Deadly, Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters on the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Frostwyrms. We’re especially focused on the people who play these games, to further shed light on the world of the PvP player. If you’d like to be interviewed for The Colosseum, please feel free to contact us — be sure to include your armory as a link!
We’re in for a real treat this week. We interviewed Jhazy of Blackrock, one of the few players in arena history to achieve a 3,000 rating in 3v3. More impressive yet, he’s done this on the very competitive Bloodlust battlegroup, and is currently holding that #1 spot by a margin of more than one hundred points. Jhazy’s team STRAIGHT TO THE TOP is a protection warrior + marksman hunter + holy paladin composition. As a team, they are holding down the world’s #1 3v3 spot!
Check out what Jhazy has to say after the break!
Continue reading The Colosseum: Jhazy of Blackrock
The Colosseum: Jhazy of Blackrock originally appeared on WoW on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 15, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, How-tos, Instances, Leveling, Guides, (Casual) WoW, Casually
Robin Torres writes WoW, Casually for the player with limited playtime. Of course, you people with lots of playtime can read this too, but you may get annoyed by the fact that we are unashamed, even proud, of the fact that beating WoW isn’t our highest priority. Take solace in the fact that your gear is better than ours, but if that doesn’t work, remember that we outnumber you. Not that that’s a threat, after all, we don’t have time to do anything about it. But if WoW were a democracy, we’d win.
Before the Dungeon Finder Tool, leveling through instances just wasn’t possible for those of us with limited playtime unless we had 4 friends with similar schedules and an appropriate selection of classes. But now, we can take advantage of the speedy XP, better gear and grouping practice.
More importantly, dungeons are fun. In order to research this guide, I dusted off a level 18 paladin I hadn’t played for at least 2 years. I picked up skills that were new since the last time she trained, redid her talents and tested the Dungeon Finder waters. It was an absolute blast running through Deadmines with an appropriately leveled group. I’ve also had a great time leveling a priest in her 30s and a mage in her 60s using the Dungeon Finder. If you too want to try some instance leveling (and I bet most of you already have), here are some tips to make the most of it:
Continue reading WoW, Casually: Instance leveling guide
WoW, Casually: Instance leveling guide originally appeared on WoW on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 15, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, How-tos, Economy, Features, Guides, Making money, Time Is Money
Kebina Trudough here, offering you the best gold making secrets they don’t want you to know about! I was like you once, poor and homely, before I discovered my patented system. Now you too can fill your pockets with the good stuff without ever breaking a sweat! Why spend all your time toiling when you could be vacationing in the Hot Springs? I’m not offering these tips for 100 gold, or 90 gold, or even 50 gold! No, not even 20 gold! My system is yours for FREE! Satisfaction guaranteed or I’ll give you a full refund (handling charges may apply). After all, Time Is Money.
If you’re like me, you have a lot of excess emblems sitting around. Maybe you never got around to spending them before the next tier came out, or maybe the badge gear just never quite compared to your raid drops. Whatever the case, there is no sense letting them go to waste when you could put them to work and earn some gold!
First, here is a quick breakdown of the current badge system, from most recent and difficult to acquire on down:
- Emblem of Frost: These can be acquired primarily by raiding Icecrown, completing the Raid Boss Per Week “weekly,” or by completing one WotLK heroic dungeon per day using the Random tool.
- Emblem of Triumph: Most raids now drop these badges, as well as heroics. You will also be awarded these for doing any number of WotLK heroic dungeons past your first one per day using the Random tool. You will also get some by completing your first normal WotLK dungeon per day using the Random tool, as well as completing the Raid Boss Per Week “weekly.” Also of note: If you get Heroic Oculus using the random tool, don’t drop group! Not only has it been nerfed like crazy, but when you defeat the end boss, every player will receive a loot bag that will contain these badges and more, plus a chance at getting the super rare Reigns of the Blue Drake, which used to be available only by killing Malygos, who now drops his 25-man version (Azure) in both 10 and 25-man.
- Emblem of Conquest: Originally, these were acquired by running 10-man Coliseum, or 25-man Ulduar.
- Emblem of Valor: Originally these dropped from Ulduar 10-man and Naxxramas 25-man.
- Emblem of Heroism: These were among the first WotLK badges, and dropped from Naxxramas 10-man and heroic dungeons.
Continue reading Time Is Money: Putting your emblems to work
Time Is Money: Putting your emblems to work originally appeared on WoW on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 15, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Paladin, How-tos, Instances, Features, Leveling, Guides, WoW Rookie
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. For links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s, visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide.
Want to level your paladin as a tank? You got it! Before the Dungeon Finder tool was launched in December, finding level-appropriate instance groups was well nigh impossible. Occasional knots of newborn death knights might putter about in a favorite Burning Crusade instance to scoop up some gear. The rest of the pre-Northrend instances remained ghost towns, populated only by speed-running level 80s who were farming or running low-level buddies through some quick levels. But the Dungeon Finder has re-invigorated the instances of Azeroth, Outland and beyond. What does that mean for leveling players? If you love to play in groups and instances or if you’re looking ahead to raiding and want to lay down your skill base now, you can.
Continue reading WoW Rookie: Leveling a paladin tank
WoW Rookie: Leveling a paladin tank originally appeared on WoW on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 15, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Warlock, How-tos, Guilds, Instances, Leveling, Guides, Classes, (Warlock) Blood Pact
Blood Pact is your weekly warlock digest brought to you by Dominic Hobbs. “Closer! Come closer… and burn!” ~ Keli’dan the Breaker
Once again Blood Pact turns its gaze towards those up-and-coming warlocks; those who are learning the craft, battling foes to hone their skills and sharpen their minds. I’ve said before that leveling a warlock is great fun and part of this is due to the diverse ways in which you can go about it. By the time you start getting a decent pile of talent points to spend you can shape your lock in many and varied forms. There’s the unstoppable train of death that is the affliction lock, cursing and corrupting all around it as it passes smoothly through the world. The demonologist, pouring their power into their minion and pushing them into the fore while sitting back and calmly picking off their foes. And of course, the destruction warlock, blazing a trail of raw power in an explosive display of mental prowess over physical frailty.
Let’s see how these locks in training are getting on.
Continue reading Blood Pact: Leveling a warlock, 40 to 60
Blood Pact: Leveling a warlock, 40 to 60 originally appeared on WoW on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 15, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Walkthroughs, Bosses, Guides
Really, WoW.com? A guide to the Oculus of all things? Over a year after the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, you’re doing an Oculus walkthrough? Is that necessary? Boy, I wish it weren’t. We’re all sick of hearing about this place by now, but of all the instances and raids in the game, this is the one where nobody seems to be sure what to do or where to go. I haven’t seen players this confused since Sunwell.
All strategy and ability discussion in this guide discuss the heroic version of the Oculus. Beyond the cut below you will find simple strategies for each of the bosses in the Oculus, as well as maps to help you find your way through the environment.
Continue reading WoW.com’s Guide to the Oculus. Yes, really.
WoW.com’s Guide to the Oculus. Yes, really. originally appeared on WoW on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 10, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Features, Raiding, Guides
On Tuesday night, my guild hit the new Icecrown Citadel bosses in the Plagueworks wing — Festergut, Rotface, and Professor Putricide. While Festergut and Rotface are both pretty straightforward encounters, Putricide is a different matter. Due to Icecrown’s gating system, you will have only 10 attempts on Putricide this week (on both 10- and 25-man, so 20 total if you see both versions of the fight), and mistakes are costly. Moreover, our raid found some pretty good strategies for both Festergut and Rotface, but there’s a lot of conflicting information about Putricide.
Our hunter’s guess was that the encounter on the PTR might have been buggy, and that’s why the different strategies we read seemed at odds with each other, so our raid leader looked it over and took what turned out to be a pretty good shot at what we needed to do. After wiping on Putricide-25 3 times and walking away from it convinced that the encounter was still bugged, we split the raid into multiple 10-man teams and took a crack at it there. The footage you’ll see above is our 10-man’s 4th attempt and a clean kill (i.e. no deaths), with my annotations on the fight. Past the cut are a few more notes (and one correction) that I hope will be helpful.
Continue reading Professor Putricide: Video and explanation
Professor Putricide: Video and explanation originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 10, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Tips, How-tos, Instances, Features, WoW Rookie
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. For links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s, visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide.
Level 80: You’re reached the beginning of the end. It’s never been easier to take your character to epic levels of gear and adventure. Whether you’re five-manning for its own sake or gearing up along the path to raiding, we’ve got the tips to help you make the most of your level 80 group experience. If you’re so new to level 80 (or still working your way there) that you’re not sure what to tackle and where to turn first, read Level 80: Now what?. Once you’ve got a handle on the available options, it’s time to tackle the wide world of Wrath’s five-man instances.
Continue reading WoW Rookie: The fresh 80’s guide to getting started in five-mans
WoW Rookie: The fresh 80’s guide to getting started in five-mans originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 05, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, How-tos, Jewelcrafting, Features, Guides, Classes, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance
Cinch up your robes and brandish your wands, it’s time for another edition of Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that sincerely hopes that this picture was taken by a warlock, just before the mage on the other end got an honorable kill.
Around Thanksgiving, Arcane Brilliance received an email from a reader named Todd. I liked it so much that I wrote him back and told him I’d devote a column to his topic at some point soon. Though it has been over a month, I’m finally getting around to writing that column. In my defense, though: I’m extremely lazy. In the interests of space, I won’t print the entire email, which was long, polite, and quite well-written. But here are some selections:
“Hi There,
My name is Todd. I LOVE your columns, and read them whenever I get the chance to. I am writing you trying to get help for my mother (who I sucked into playing WoW more than a year ago). She chose to be a gnome mage and embark upon the adventure of being an arcane spell caster. We fight side by side almost every day in heroics and raids (and rip the occasional warlock to shreds whenever the opportunity arises).
Anyway, I was hoping you might give us some assistance in regards to Gemming her gear. With the plethora of options out there it is hard for us to make a choice as to what will give her the best output for the investment…“
Todd then goes on to list the specifics of his mother’s gemming setup, and the philosophy behind it in detail, and closes with what he’s tried in the past:
“Now we have noticed that this current setup is a marked improvement over the previous setups we had going. First we tried pure spellpower gems but found it lacking in staying power due to a low mana pool. Next we tried Pure Intellect Gems and found a generous mana pool (30k raid buffed, 28k party buffed) but could quite hold the top of the charts in dps (however, She was almost always in the top 3). Now we are trying this new gem loadout and are looking for some guidance to see if we are on the right path.
If you can help we would appreciate it.“
First things first: Todd has the best mom ever.
Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: Gemming for mages
Arcane Brilliance: Gemming for mages originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 05, 2010 under how to's |
Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, Walkthroughs, PvP, Features, Guides, Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena
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 latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s beautiful “So What.” We featured the Smashing Pumpkins last week. This week, we’ll be shifting gears to some brilliant jazz. You have to love the diversity Blood Sport offers in pwning music.
Last Week: Part IV of our Arena Guide for Beginners. We talked about the marks of a skilled healer inside an arena battle.
This Week: Not surprisingly, today’s article will be structured in a very similar fashion to our last for our bloodthirsty DPS readers. More after the break!
Continue reading Blood Sport: Beginner’s Guide to Arena, Part V
Blood Sport: Beginner’s Guide to Arena, Part V originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 31, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Tips, How-tos, Features, WoW Rookie
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. For links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s, visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide.
There’s nothing quite like your first time through Azeroth. Capture those memories by snapping screenshots (pictures of what’s on your screen) in game as you explore, level, discover, plummet, laugh, triumph, fail … All the moments that make life within the World of Warcraft so utterly bewitching.
Screenshot basics
- Take a screenshot by hitting the Print Screen button on your PC or Command+Shift+3 on your Mac. You can set a more convenient key binding in game in your Game Menu; hit Key Bindings and scroll down to Miscellaneous Functions.
- Screenshots get stored in the World of Warcraft folder on your computer. Look for the folder called Screenshots. Screenshots used to be saved as big, unwieldy TGAs, but now you’ll find them in convenient .jpg format.
Continue reading WoW Rookie: Thanks for the memories
WoW Rookie: Thanks for the memories originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 26, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, Walkthroughs, Raiding, Bosses, Guides, (Warlock) Blood Pact
Blood Pact is your weekly warlock digest brought to you by Dominic Hobbs. “You have found your way here, because you are among the few gifted with true vision in a world cursed with blindness! You can see through the fog that hangs over this world like a shroud and grasp where true power lies!” ~ Lady Deathwhisper
This week we delve into Icecrown Citadel and see what these new bosses are all about. We face a bag of bones that won’t sit still, a somewhat effeminate version of Kel’Thuzad, a lift boss that is actually supposed to kill you and an orc-gone-bad. All in a day’s work for your warlock on the go.
Lord Marrowgar
Time to dance with the bone lord. There are a couple things to avoid here. First is the boss himself when he spins around and drunkenly staggers all round the room. He moves pretty quickly so there’s actually little chance of avoiding him completely but it’s not a bad idea to try and minimize the damage you take from him. This ability is called Bone Storm and is well announced, spreading out from others will reduce the chances of you getting hit while he molests someone else. The second thing to get out the way of is Coldflame. He’ll be sending out four lines of blue fire frequently throughout the fight, radiating away from him. This happens even when he’s spinning about the place. Simple and fundamental rule of raiding — don’t stand in the stuff on the floor.
Continue reading Blood Pact: Warlock tips for Icecrown Citadel, part 1
Blood Pact: Warlock tips for Icecrown Citadel, part 1 originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 26, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, Walkthroughs, Blizzard, PvP, Guides, Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena, Achievements
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 latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: Modeselektor’s Tetrispack. Allison Robert offered a challenge to our most beloved columnist last week. Ms. Roberts has chosen a clever and palatable piece with Richard Shindell’s On-A-Sea-Of-Fleur-De-Lis. And now we come to my retaliation. My wife recommended our musical selection today — it just happened to be on the absolute opposite end of the spectrum. How fitting. We love this song, albeit mostly for the intro. Upon your first listen, if you correctly predict the timing and type of shift in the first thirty seconds, serious e-props to you.
To wit, Robert: pan flute > no pan flute. Your move.
Last Week: part two of our beginner’s arena guide. We featured the cute ukulele kid who pretty much controls the internet right now. After that, we discussed frequently asked questions from new arena players. We talked about how to spec and what team composition to choose, with two different types of answers (easy and long).
Today, we’ll be talking some very basic class strategy. If you know your class inside and out, you’ll know what I’m going to say when it comes to your class and arena. You can still learn about other classes here. I’ve written over 2500 words about individual class perspective inside arenas, that’s a lot. Full article after the break.
Continue reading Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, part III
Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, part III originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 21, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Mage, Patches, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, How-tos, Instances, Features, Guides, Classes, Alts, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance
It’s time again for Arcane Brilliance, the weekly mage column that loves nothing more than to gaze down upon the whole of Northrend from one of the floating chunks of stone around Dalaran and realize that at some point, a mage has probably killed every living thing down there. At least the targetable ones, anyway. And the ones you can’t target? I’m sure more than one mage has certainly tried.
So I’m officially nominating patch 3.3 for “best patch ever” status. Here’s a short list of the highlights of this patch:
- Three highly challenging, fun, lore-filled 5-man instances, full of sweet loot
- A massive new raid, with four gated sections, 12 bosses, and the promise of eventually being able to shove a Fireball up the Lich King’s tailpipe
- The incredible, game-changing Dungeon Finder Tool, which is responsible for peace in the Middle East, has brought an end to the recession, and has cured cancer
- A few choice mage buffs, including a PvE viable Frost spec
- Quest Tracking without the need for an addon
- Quel’delar and Shadowmourne
- A swiftly approaching new Arena Season
- Weekly raid quests
- The Kalu’ak Fishing Derby
- Perky the Pug
- A host of little changes for low level characters
- Rocket bare
Not shabby, right? And best of all, Blizzard has managed to deploy the majority of this new content without also deploying a host of bugs, glitches, and instability, or otherwise making the game unplayable for awhile as we’ve come to expect from patches this large. There were some log-in issues and bugginess on day one, but by day two, everything was running relatively smoothly by day two. I’m being relatively conservative when I say that Blizzard, in my personal opinion, has hit this one out of the park.
Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: Gearing up after the glorious patch 3.3
Arcane Brilliance: Gearing up after the glorious patch 3.3 originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 21, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Hunter, Items, How-tos, Odds and ends, Phat Loot Phriday
Reader Matthias C. wrote in with a special request to see this item here, so here you go.
Name: Zod’s Repeating Longbow (Wowhead, Thottbot, Armory)
Type: Epic Bow
Damage/Speed: 541-887 / 2.80 (255 DPS)
Attributes:
- +34 Agility, +51 Stamina
- On equip: Your ranged attacks have a 4% chance to cause you to instantly attack with this weapon for 50% weapon damage. This one’s interesting — the tooltip actually says the chance to hit. It’s not the first time that’s happened, but plenty of tooltips will say “a chance of” proccing rather than mentioning the actual percentage.
Continue reading Phat Loot Phriday: Zod’s Repeating Longbow
Phat Loot Phriday: Zod’s Repeating Longbow originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 21, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Shaman, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Odds and ends, Instances, Bosses, Guides, Classes, Buffs, (Shaman) Totem Talk, Wrath of the Lich King
Totem Talk is the column for shamans. With the new Random Dungeons and Dungeon Finder, healing has never been more in demand, and shamans find themselves faced with the dilemma: do I wait 10 minutes and go as DPS, or get instantly invited by being willing to heal? Matthew Rossi is impatient and terrifyingly willing to heal random strangers.
Ah, the Pick Up Group. Long a staple of our gameplay in WoW, patch 3.3 revolutionized the way we do it with the new dungeon finder, giving us incentives to put up with fury warriors who rush the tank, ret paladins who forget to turn Righteous Fury off, and runs consisting of two DK’s, a paladin, a warrior and a shaman where people ask the shaman if he’s tanking. (Hint, he wasn’t.) Other things the shaman will not be doing in a PUG include making a summoning portal, a mage table (it’s got mage in the name what is wrong with you), casting combat res on the tank when he dies, summoning Army of the Dead (seriously, I can understand being frustrated that someone cast that and it dragged the trash around, but shamans do not generally summon forth armies of walking corpses), washing your laundry (that’s just gross), making a pinhole camera, performing a complicated medley of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s greatest showtunes (unless you catch me in a really good mood), or casting Divine Intervention.
Sure, I realize these are all fine things, and it’s a shame that the shaman or shamans in your group won’t be able to do them. That being said, shamans do bring all sorts of fun things to PUG’s. Things like hybrid magical/physical DPS, caster DPS, or healing, a plethora of totem buffs, a cornucopia of ancillary benefits like Unleashed Rage, Totem of Wrath, and of course Sentry Totem. I know that’s really why you bring us, it’s okay.
Continue reading Totem Talk: Patch 3.3 and shamans, part 2 — How not to PUG
Totem Talk: Patch 3.3 and shamans, part 2 — How not to PUG originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 16, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Podcasts, Podcasting, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Humor, WoW Insider Show
The WoW Insider Show went on the air last weekend, and despite the fact that we started out down two voices, the discussion was fast and furious, as we all had plenty to say about patch 3.3 and specifically the Dungeon Finder system. Adam Holisky, Turpster, and I started off the show, and then Matthew Rossi muscled his way in (as only someone of his stature can do) to join us in discussion on finding dungeons, Authenticators and the Corehound Pups, and since Rossi made it, we had to talk some shaman and warriors as well.
Bad news, all: we didn’t win the podcast award we were up for (congrats to the 4Player Podcast, who won the award and are now our sworn enemies — we’re igniting the rivalry!). But as we say on this show, we’ll still be doing the bedtime story for you all anyway, just because you’re so great. And yes, above is the check I’m mailing to Turpster for guessing the patch 3.3 release date correctly — don’t let it ever be said that we here at WoW.com aren’t men of our word.
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WoW Insider Show Episode 120: Dungeon Findorama originally appeared on WoW.com on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 16, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Warlock, Analysis / Opinion, How-tos, Guilds, Quests, (Warlock) Blood Pact
Blood Pact is your weekly warlock digest brought to you by Dominic Hobbs. “Ah, of course. Our latest prodigy. The real thing can’t live up to the legend, I’m afraid. No matter, you’ve come here to learn, not to hear me make jokes to myself. ~ Strahad Farsan
When Wrath first came along I wrote a piece about how warlock utility in 25 man raids had all but disappeared. I had many dissenters to that statement, using examples such as Soul Stones and the like. One that came up a few times was the Felhound and how useful he is. I have to agree, he’s a regular bag of tricks, but when it comes to 25 man raiding he’s been (rightly) left in the kennel for quite some time. This is about to change.
“But Dominic, you seething pot of demonic mage-hating bile…” I hear you cry “…where is all the mage-hate?” Well, yes, I can imagine the title did lead you to expect an article so vitriolic and anti-arcane as to leave nothing more in its wake than quivering lumps of nerdy arcanists, armpit-deep in tears; and maybe a lost looking sheep. I’m not sure I can do that though, as I don’t really hate mages — that point is really going to need clarifying.
Continue reading Blood Pact: Meet the minions, part 4 - the felhunter and mage-hate
Blood Pact: Meet the minions, part 4 - the felhunter and mage-hate originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 16, 2009 under how to's |
Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, How-tos, Instances, Features, Guides, Making money, Time Is Money
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Time Is Money: Dungeon finder originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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