What Makes a Raid Interesting?
Rogptor | July 21, 2010I read a comment that says the Ruby Sanctum is too easy.
So what makes a raid interesting and what would make it more interesting for the largest group possible?
You have the pro raiders, with the top gear, and the highly practiced skills who will have one view and then you have the casual raiders who probably have a very different point of view.
Is an instance interesting just because it’s hard? Or there’s an interesting set of loot?
So how to improve it, for the largest group of players?
Should raids require completing A, B, and C before entering D? Should one be able to skip A, B, and C if the group just want’s to do D?
What makes the fight(s) interesting, in your view?
What makes a raid worth doing several times? Such that you might say, “cool,” rather than, “Oh D***, not THAT old thing again…”
Comments? Or should I make up (steal from elsewhere) a few comments and post those?
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Recruit a Friend Guide Review
Rogptor | July 19, 2010Blizzard’s Recruit a Friend system is a cool way to bring new people into the game and get them leveled quickly. It’s not hard to figure out, but people still have plenty of questions.
There’s a new guide out that will walk you through all the details to getting the RaF running properly and which will also show you how to do it without a friend.
Here’s our review: Secret Recruit a Friend Leveling Guide
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test
Rikto | June 30, 2010The World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta test is now live. Did you get in? If you have not signed up yet it’s still not too late. Just go to your battle.net account at http://battle.net/ and make sure to check the box for all the beta opt-ins.
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World of Warcraft Patch 3.3.5
Rikto | June 29, 2010Check out the Patch Notes for more info.
The most interesting parts imo are of course, one: “The Ruby Sanctum” and another interesting thing is the Dungeon Finder Vote Kick system change.
The functionality of the Vote Kick feature in the Dungeon Finder will now behave differently according to a player’s history with the system. Players using the Dungeon Finder who rarely vote to kick players from a group, or rarely abandon groups before a dungeon is complete, will find that the Vote Kick option will have no cooldown. For players who frequently abandon groups or vote to kick other players, the Vote Kick option will be kept on a cooldown. This functionality will adjust itself as a player’s behavior while using the Dungeon Finder changes.
You should probably read the rest of the patch notes also. It’s not like you have anything else to do while the servers are down :-p
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Death Knight Leveling Guide Updated + PVP Builds
Rikto | June 27, 2010Just some small changes and additions to the Death Knight Leveling Guide.
Also added some PVP Specs for all classes. Check the links along the PVP Builds links along the left side of the main page.
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Priest Class Guide Updated
Rogptor | March 29, 2010Updated for 3.3, our Priest guide. Tweaked some this and that, added a Discipline PvP build, and added a list of level 80 pre-raid gear.
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Top 3 Tips for Rogue PVP
Rogptor | September 3, 2009There’s a brand new WoW site coming up that has some good PvP stuff with more coming, WorldOfWarcraftChamber.com. The Author of the site has kindly agreed to write the following article.
- blind and wait to leave combat
- gouge/kidney shot your oppenent and run out
- get your oppenent crippled and sprint away
- vanish
- Burst: When you do a lot of damage in a short period of time. This usually involves getting back into stealth again multiple times to get max damage possible.
- Control: When you use all CC (Crowd Control) methods available to control an opponent and take them out of the game, so to speak. This means you have to always leave enough energy to gouge and be ready to kick the right school magic. Also blinding into a sap can be a game breaker when speaking in terms of arena.
- Defensive: A rogue who needs to be”defensive” would simply try and avoid as much damage as possible. This would include moves like evasion, vanish,blind, dismantle, gouge, and trying to re-stealth.
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Goblins, Cataclysm, and Stuff
Rogptor | August 29, 2009A friend an I are working on another WoW blog, OrcAndGnome.com, and we’re putting up some Cataclysm stuff there. As you know, Cat is the 3rd WoW expansion, to be released “when it’s almost ready.” New playable races, Human hunters, the destruction and rebuilding of much of Azeroth, new bugs, etc.
- New Cataclysm Race – Goblins for the Horde!
- Blizzcon 2009 News – Cataclysm announced
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Warrior PvP Guide
Rogptor | August 5, 2009We have a draft of a warrior PvP guide up. Topics covered are tips, builds, and gear.
We’re looking for input, basically what does it need to be better? What’s missing?
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