The mind boggles at that large number of bugs. This information comes from the Game Developers Conference currently underway in Austin, Texas. WOW Insider promises a transcript of this keynote speech later on but beside mentioning the 180,000 bugs Blizzard is tracking, the speech mentioned that Blizzard has 2500 customer service people worldwide. However, you should note that the bug list includes bugs that have been fixed, and we don't know that if bugs customers have reported that Blizzard can't find are listed. The Solo MMO Player thinks this is all the bugs from the earliest builds to date. He also says that the number of bugs has no relationship to the quality of the software. Sometimes the best programmers create bugs as they try something no one has tried before.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/17/blizzard-is-tracking-180-000-bugs-in-wow/
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Role of Soakers in Raiding
I thought soakers were just large squirt guns but in WOW soakers are one role in raids. Bell explains, "If you're not sure what a soaker is, it's a person who is the opposite color aura of the group they are closest to, and their job is to soak incoming orbs before they hit the raid, as well as dodge their opposite color orbs so that they do hit the raid (and thus buff damage). A soaker has to be highly mobile, as standing still to cast is a bit of a danger to them, depending upon persistence of orbs."
If you want to read more about soakers and the raid Bell was on with them, here's the link.
http://4haelz.blogspot.com/2009/09/crucial-roles-and-failure.html
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If you want to read more about soakers and the raid Bell was on with them, here's the link.
http://4haelz.blogspot.com/2009/09/crucial-roles-and-failure.html
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Engineering Leveling Guide
Darth Solo swears by this quick leveling guide for engineers on his blog.
http://www.wow-professions.com/wowguides/wow-engineering-guide.html
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http://www.wow-professions.com/wowguides/wow-engineering-guide.html
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DK Tank's Guide to Enchants and Gems
WOWhead has a short list of enchants and gems a Level 80 death knight tank needs to run raids and Heroics. NOTE: This was done for Patch 3.2.2, folks. It probably doesn't work now that we are at the pre-Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1.
Voice Chat for PUG Groups in Beta Testing
Apparently, you use your browser window to go to their website, open a chat room and just add everyone in your pick up group via a shared link. Since this is targeted at WOW players, a little bit of Amory information appears on the players in the PUG and you assign roles via a pull down menu. Judging from the screen shot, there are links to reference sites at the bottom so you can look up things (via another browser window?).
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/17/easy-voice-chat-for-pugs-with-puggable/
Sign up to be a beta tester via their website.
http://www.puggable.com/
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http://www.wow.com/2009/09/17/easy-voice-chat-for-pugs-with-puggable/
Sign up to be a beta tester via their website.
http://www.puggable.com/
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