WoW News 01/23/10 – A Look at World of Warcraft: The Magazine, Why Rogues Rock, And More
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ZAM’s World of Warcraft Stein-a-Week Series
Every gamer loves his canned and bottled beverages. Whether its Mountain Dew or Jack Daniel’s, we’ve never met someone that has a penchant for gaming who avoided processed drinks. Still, every gamer has his or her own drink of choice and sometimes that drink of choice isn’t exactly the most… shall we say “dwarven”… of beverage selections. Believe it or not, we do have individuals on our staff that love to play through their favorite MMO with a nice cup of hot cocoa in hand.
The World of Warcraft Gamer’s Guide to Being Seriously Casually Hardcore
Hi, I’m Brandon here with MMOMFG.com. You might remember me from insightful articles such as: “Aion: Steaming Pile of Crap,” and “Koreans: What’s with those guys anyway?” It’s been a while since I’ve posted an article here thanks to a confluence of real life events which left me with little time to game and thus little to contribute to the world of video game journalism. However, the siren song of Icecrown Citadel has lured me back into the World of Warcraft with its alluring promises of forbidden pixilated pleasures. Oh Dark Mother, once again I suckle at your electronic teat!
A Look at World of Warcraft: The Magazine
We’ve gotten our hands on the first issue of World of Warcraft: The Magazine and are ready to share our thoughts. It comes out a steep $40 a year for four issues, or ten bucks an issue. Is it worth that kind of money? Who exactly would find it interesting? Find out here at Ten Ton Hammer as David “Xerin” Piner delves into the magazine to see if it’s worth your cold hard cash.
Ok, so my last post was about one specific reason why it sucks to play a rogue.
Article - Nerfing Assassination Rogues – An Overheard Conversation
While there are several reasons why playing a roguish character is infuriating, (we ALL remember how crappy VANISH use to be)… I thought, “you know what, I shouldn’t be so freaking negative all the time! How about a post the focuses on the POSITIVE reasons to choose rogues?”
OK! Here goes!
The Lost Skill and Art of Target Crowd Control (CC)
We couldn’t get enough alts together (odd, eh?) to do the Alt ICC10 run last night, so instead we headed into ToGC10 (non-alt style).. I brought my Hunter with my new bow (I got that from ICC10). We one-shot all the bosses until the last. Unfortunately we were unable (in the time allotted) to get him down. During one try though, we got him all the way to around 170k before we wiped. It was really sad. It was also sad that we had all but the last boss down without deaths and were, seemingly, close to the achievement..
Friday Five: 5 Raiding Lessons to Remember in ICC
- If a mob does a knockback, keep your back to a wall.
- If you forgot a mob does a knockback and you ass pull another group of mobs, let everyone know on vent immediately. Most importantly, don’t keep quiet about it, and don’t keep ass pulling.
- Don’t stand in the red/green crap on the ground. If you can’t see the crap on the ground, turn up your spell detail settings.
- If you lag too much to do your job when your settings are high enough to show you the crap on the ground, consider not signing up for 25-mans until you can optimize your computer to do so. First try turning off add-ons or background applications while you raid (including the wireless connection on your XBox.)
- When a role or raid leader says everyone needs to focus on target X, this means you. I don’t care who you think you are, mister hot shot DPS. You do realize recount shows us when you don’t change to the Beasts o Saurfang, right? Or when you spent all your time DPSing Lady Deathwhisper? And when the raid that always 1-shots a boss wipes due to adds staying up too long thanks to a couple DPS who felt like they were too good to switch targets, folks will know why. Don’t make me pull my THIS MEANS YOU %t macro back out….
In a comment to the last post, Jeremy offers another suggestion for promoting Crowd Control:
Another alternative is to make it difficult or impossible for a single tank to hold threat on all mobs simultaneously.
Back in the good (bad?) old days of vanilla WoW, when warriors were basically the only tanks and had very few AoE threat-generating abilities, you *had* to CC because the tank simply couldn’t hold all of those mobs at once.
I’ve learned how to walk in the -10F weather by now – it’s really not too bad actually. The snow and ice are generally quite crunchy and make sounds like broken glass with every step. I’ve gotten better at ducking my chin deep into my coat and breathing through my mouth. But woe is me when I forget and breathe through my exposed nose! It’s quite a sensation for the cold weather noob to have one’s nostrils insta-freeze.
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