Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Gaming Mice and Keyboard Reviews

A review of various gaming mice and keyboards on Pwnwear's forum.  The second link has photos of all the items discussed.
http://pwnwear.com/forum/gaming-mice-and-keyboards-t185.html

http://pwnwear.com/2010/05/25/gaming-mice-and-keyboards/

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Monday, May 24, 2010

A Priest's Guide to Tanks

Brief summaries of various tank classes useful for priests who heal them.  Know how a tank tanks and you can heal them better.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/23/spiritual-guidance-a-priests-guide-to-tanks/#continued

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Game We Get is the Game We Deserve?

Wolfshead has written an article the whole Blog-o-sphere is talking about.
http://www.wolfsheadonline.com/?p=4221#a41a0

And here is an article from 2004 that clearly predicts the situation we are in now, although not in all details.  After all, there hasn't been a growing maturity of the player base.  In fact, we are seeing the opposite as far as I can tell.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2157/soapbox_why_virtual_worlds_are_.php

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Using A Level One Bank Alt at Remote Auction House

A tutorial by Cyn on how to use your level one bank alt with the remote Auction House beta.
http://cynwise.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/cyns-guide-to-using-level-1-characters-with-the-remote-auction-house/

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Blood Tap for the Death Knight

Skeleton Jack describes the Blood Tap buff in great detail in these two articles, one older and one brand new.  Each article has macros to use with Blood Tap and rotation examples to explain how it works.
http://www.skeletonjack.com/2009/07/27/blood-tap/

http://www.skeletonjack.com/2010/05/21/blood-tap-additional-uses-and-macros/

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Cataclysm and the Battlegrounds Guild

Speculation on how PvP guilds might work in Cataclysm.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/21/the-art-of-war-craft-looking-ahead-to-battleground-guilds/

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Leveling a New Warrior in Patch 3.3.3

There is so little information about low level characters I have to include this series.  In part one, the author gives you some tips and a combo arms/prot spec so you can either solo or tank as needed
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/21/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-behold-the-orc-1-20/

Level 21-40
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-to-40-and-beyond/

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Theorycrafting: What's It All About?

Theorycrafting and how it works from Frostheim.
http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/05/theorycrafting-101-gathering-data-part-1/

http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/05/theorycrafting-101-gathering-data-part-2/

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Wrath of the Lich King Progression Stats

This statistical analysis is full of graphs that show how much help the cheat buffs are in getting guilds through Icecrown Citidal.  It also shows how many guilds have gotten through earlier content which leads the author to speculate how Cataclysm might be structured.
http://www.rawrcast.com/2010/05/wotlk-progression-statistics-looking-forward-to-cataclysm/

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Everquest 2 Adds a $25 Mount

See what happens when you give Blizzard millions of dollars for a Celestial Mount?  Other game developers jump on the bandwagon.
http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2010/05/20/everquet-2-introduces-its-own-greed-steed/

It's either the end of civilization as we know it or the first steps into widespread micro-transactions in MMOs.

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