Thursday, November 12, 2009

Death Knight Pets

WOW Insider writes about death knights and their pets.  Ghouls, gargoyles and the Army of the Dead are explained.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/12/lichborne-the-care-and-feeding-of-pets/

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Healers' Reflex Versus Rotation

Miss Medicina has written a two part article about healers and their use of reflex button-mashing versus setting up rotations to heal in a raid.
http://missmedicina.blogspot.com/2009/11/rotation-versus-reflex-part-1.html

http://missmedicina.blogspot.com/2009/11/reflex-versus-rotation-part-2.html

It's an interesting article that accidentally shows off something that the Solo MMO Player feels is under-appreciated:  how individual style comes into play, often undermining what players have learned is the "best" way to gear a character or run that raid.  The Solo MMO Player's position is that, for example, there are folks who heal/heal/heal compulsively because that is who they are.  If you know you have a play style that runs counter to the accepted way of playing your character, toss the accepted ways out the window and figure out how things should be arranged for you to play your characters well.

In other words, theory crafting is a simulation of how things should work in a perfect game world.  Inside WOW, nothing will work that way precisely.  It's time players start thinking outside the box instead of boxing themselves in.

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Affliction Warlock Specs (Solo Players)

Darth Solo lists the affliction warlock specs and talents he uses in his solo play.  Note that he does not raid and will talk about glyphs in another posting later.
http://wowalone.blogspot.com/2009/11/affliction-warlock-spec.html

Here is the promised glyphs posting.
http://wowalone.blogspot.com/2009/11/affliction-warlock-glyphs.html

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Rogues Versus Mages (and Why Mages Win)

Slice and Dice explains why mages kick rogue butt when it comes to DPS.
http://samueltempus.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/whats-up-with-my-heroic-dps/

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