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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Guidelines, Conventions and Rules on a Role Play Server

Lissana talks about role play servers, what you can expect there, the conventions, and a link to Blizzard's rules about how to conduct yourself while there.
http://www.restokin.com/2010/03/so-you-want-to-play-on-an-rp-server/

Since this must be Role Play Day*, Gazimoff wrote a long article about role play with a lot of useful links to guides, folks who wrote how to role play articles, and blogs documenting role play experience.
http://manaobscura.gazimoff.com/?p=229

*I think the creation of the Single Abstract Noun guild for bloggers on a role play server has sparked new interest in learning role play conventions, which explains all the new articles. After all, folks must be looking for things to do while waiting for Cataclysm to arrive and many bloggers have joined Single Abstract Noun on either U.S. (Alliance) or EU (Hoard) servers.

Role Play 101 from WOW Insider.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/04/all-the-worlds-a-stage-roleplaying-101/

The mechanics of role play vary by server. Here are some common ways to communicate with other players whether you are out of character or not.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/09/all-the-worlds-a-stage-the-basic-mechanics-of-roleplay/

UPDATE: Naming conventions by class with links to help you choose a name that won't get you reported.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/23/all-the-worlds-a-stage-common-name-conventions/

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Friday, March 19, 2010

WOW Insider's Guide to WOW Resources

WOW Insider has published a list of WOW resources on their site.
This includes things like databases, blue postings, talent calculators, prominent blogs and character websites, etc. It is worth browsing whenever you can't find things anywhere else, just in case they have something listed you don't know about. I'm going to put it on the list of Favorite Links.
http://www.wow.com/resources/

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Update on Trading Card Game Plans UPDATED

WOW Insider points us to an official statement on plans for the Trading Card Game (TCG) expansions and championships.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/17/current-plans-for-the-wow-tcg/

UPDATE: The TCG is now being run by Cryptozoic.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/24/cryptozoic-takes-over-wow-tcg-license/

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Increase Your Roguishness

All about rogues. This seems to be as of Patch 3.3.
http://roguedps.com/guide/

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Want to Be in a WOW Survey?

This survey wants to gather data about players and try to predict "who they are" based on their player behaviors. The authors and sponsors are very reputable. I just wonder what they will find based on the incredibly selfish behaviors we see in the game?
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/17/gnome-rogue-with-pink-mohawk-wants-your-data/

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There were lots of addon reviews and explanations this week. I'll summarize them all here.

First up, a guide to setting up Grid for raiders.
http://onemorealt.blogspot.com/2010/03/getting-started-with-grid.html

Useful addons for healers are mentioned here, including Grid, SmartDeBuff, Pitbull, Bartender4, SexyMap, Recount, Prat, BTex, Monkey Clock, Monkey Quest, Buffalo 3 and various Fubar addons. Some of these aren't directly for healing but the writer uses them. This is not an in-depth review but a list of the addons that this healer finds useful. It'll give you names to research if anything looks useful to you.
http://sarindre.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/useful-healing-addons/

If you are always tinkering with your UI, you might find Mystic Chicanery's State of the UI series interesting. Note the links at the bottom of the page--this player does a State of the UI periodically.
http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/2010/03/04/state-of-the-ui-march-2010/

An article about the paladin buff tracker called CLCBPT that explains how it works (the writer is a holy paladin).
http://thephysicianslog.blogspot.com/2010/03/clcbpt-your-one-stop-holy-paladin.html

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Free Character Moves on EU Servers

If you play on an EU server and want to move, Blizzard is offering free transfers. What you can and can't do here.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/18/free-character-moves-for-eu-servers/

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Raid Math

I am speechless.
http://forthebubbles.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/friday-funnys/

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