Archive for July, 2009

Is there a BEST setup/strategy in WoW?

I recently received the following comment to one of my posts:
Balanced said,
“Having played this game practically since the outset, I am still amazed that people think there is only one way to do things. If this is the case, why bother having talent trees at all? The way many of the commenters describe it, they [...]

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Blizzard’s definition of “Soon”… oh and something about Sam Raimi

Blizzard has spelled out in legal terms their definition of “Soon™” in their news release last night.  They also revealed that Sam Raimi will be the director for the new Warcraft movie.
I absolutely loved the first Spiderman movie, but I’m not sure if that kind of experience can be translated over to Warcraft.  I’m going to try not [...]

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Flirting in WOW

I normally play on male characters, so I don’t get a lot of exposure to people looking to pick up chicks in the online world.  Yes, we’ve had some issues in game with people sending inappropriate messages to our female guild members (we have about 7 females who play regularly in our guild), but I’ve never [...]

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Paladin Q&A with Ghostcrawler

Blizzard has been asking for questions from community members of each class on the forums for awhile now and lately they’ve been releasing their official Question and Answer sessions one at a time for each class.  Today was the paladin’s turn.  There was no surprises in the Q&A and we’ve talked about these questions on this blog before.  There was [...]

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Time-Lost Proto-drake in my dreams

You know you play WOW too much when it invades your dreams.
I dreamed last night that my stupid level 61 Death Knight somehow found and killed the Time-Lost Proto-drake instead of my Holy Paladin main.  In my dream, it was a mistake… I was somehow logged on to the wrong character.  I even tried to put in a ticket [...]

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What makes a good healer in WOW?

If you check out the official World of Warcraft forums, you’ll find a lot of discussion about which healer is the best in different situations and about how changes to our class affects our ability to heal.  At the basis of this discussion is the underlying question of what exactly makes a class, or even [...]

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