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What are you trying?|wow power leveling

dimoyq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:55:13 +0000

What are you trying?|wow power leveling
WoW.com: How do you schedule your playtime? Do you try and work during “good times to queue?” Is this different now than in previous seasons?
Celestior: Haha, We haven’t really played at all this season. We literally only play one of two times a week, and only ten games per week. Sunday night or Monday night, because it’s impossible to get all 5 of us on at the same time. Many times, this doesn’t work out either, although we try our best so we get points for the week.
We would love to queue at “peak” times, but it doesn’t really work out with school, work, going out, etc. We’ve still been able to hold first for the majority of the season though once we got Filovirus back.
WoW.com: What signals to you that you need to radically change strategy midmatch? (And how do you accomplish that change?)
Celestior: It’s pretty easy to tell when a target isn’t dying. Even with 4 dps, if they pain suppress the target and have sacrifice up on a shield walled warrior, there’s obviously no reason to continue bursting him. The power of the composition lies in our ability to rapidly swap targets and instagib them. It’s roughly the same concept as PMRLS, except PMRLS purges swap targets while we just unload heavier burst into it.
WoW.com: What’s the key for your composition’s strategy? Are there multiple tactics you can use?
Celestior: The key for our compositions strategy is unhealable burst combined with spammable cc and ridiculous swapping ability.
On a triple DPS team, if the other team chooses to train a DPS. it locks down a significant portion of your damage. Generally speaking, our enemies choose to zerg our shaman down. That’s great and all, except that leaves a Destro lock, Frost mage, and a rogue freecasting into one of your teammates while our shaman can still toss out a lava burst into the target if he gets a second of breathing room. There’s no good way to “lock down” our damage, so surviving our burst depends on how capable your healers are at coordinating the use of their cooldowns.
WoW.com: What are you trying to improve?
Celestior: Nothing in particular, but there’s always room for improvement. By now, I know all the “tricks” of being a mage, but matters of situational awareness can always be improved upon. I’m sure there have been times when I used Counterspell on a healer instead of stopping a cast that killed a member of my team, or used it to stop opposing burst instead of CSing a heal that would have guaranteed a kill. It’s just the kind of thing that can only be improved by playing more. A HERDSMAN wow power level tending aion power leveling his World of Warcraft Gold flock in a wow power leveling forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. After a long wow power leveling and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief wow power leveling who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long wow power leveling afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to heaven, and said: “Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian Deities of the wow power level forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may only secure my own wow gold escape from him in safety.” A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands myyqqm1130 and caught a number of power leveling wow Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. “Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers– they are not the least like those of a Crane.” The Farmer laughed aloud and said, “It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.” Birds of a feather flock together. I’ve also been trying to keep a better mental image of where all my teammates are, because one of the most irritating things that happens is when someone out of my LOS gets hexed and I waste valuable time finding them to decurse.
WoW.com: What motivates you to keep playing?
Celestior: I think every arena player eventually gets bored and wants to pursue other things. However, I think one of the biggest motivators for me to keep playing is the trashtalk that runs rampant among the arena community. Everyone thinks they’re the greatest player, and I think the Arena Junkies forums uses the word “bad” more than anywhere else on the web. If it wasn’t for the rivalries and incessant tells from level 1 alts telling me how much of a “expletive” I am, I think I’d be bored of the game by now. Mal’ganis is a very active server pvp wise, and I’m glad I made the move here.
WoW.com: What’s the biggest thing that differentiates a good player from a great player?
Celestior: In all honesty, it’s positioning. Even low 2k players usually have a relatively firm grasp of their class’s mechanics. It’s not hard to pull off your optimal damage rotation, or to know who to CC and when. However, it’s very easy to differentiate a good player from a great player when you watch their positioning.
A great player will make you work hard to CC them, get out of LoS instantly before they see their healer even get CC’d, force you out into the open if you want to get a kill, etc. Average players will know when to use their skills, but they’ll constantly be standing out in the open and be easily CC’d or swapped to. A great player won’t leave the pillars unless they know they have some kind of cooldown up to break out of CC.

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Why aren’t you playing?|wow power leveling

dimoyq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:54:45 +0000

Why aren’t you playing?|wow power leveling
All of the recent discussion surrounding what people are planning for their Worgen and Goblin characters got me to thinking about the ingame races that just don’t get that kind of love. It’s no secret that certain race/class combinations are underplayed (witness, for example, the ingame hell of finding a Dwarf or Orc rogue for Turkey Lurkey), but some races are just massively underplayed, period. If Warcraft Realms is at least ballpark accurate, then Humans are roughly 5 times as popular as Gnomes, Dwarves, and Trolls at 80. Draenei are twice as popular at 80 as Gnomes and Dwarves, and Blood Elves have a chokehold on the Hordeside population. Zardoz’s Armory Data Mining (fast becoming one of my favorite WoW sites) did a breakdown on class, race, and gender populations as of November 4th, and the results are pretty illuminating. In case you’re wondering, Dwarves, Orcs, and Tauren are the least likely to be female, and Draenei, Blood Elves, and Night Elves the most likely (although Draenei are the only race in the game to have a female majority). The most played combination in the game is the Blood Elf paladin, and the least-played are the Dwarf rogue (I for one am shocked) and the Troll warrior. ONE WINTER a Farmer aion leveling found a Snake stiff and cheap wow gold frozen with cold. He had power leveling compassion on it, and buy wow power level taking myyqqm1130 it up, placed it in buy wow gold his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its wow power leveling natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. “Oh,” cried the Farmer with his last breath, “I am rightly wow power leveling served for pitying a scoundrel.” The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Father, “You are larger wow power leveling than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Father! do the hounds wow power leveling frighten you so?” He smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even wow power level the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.” A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country wow gold lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: “Hullo there! why do you make wow power level so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out.” Those who suffer most cry out the least. So my question is — if you don’t play an underplayed race/sex combo, why don’t you play them? For me, the breaker is usually the animations; a lot of the animations on the more underplayed race/sex combinations are just grindingly dull. The male Tauren warrior, for example (a hugely popular combination) always seems very dynamic, smashing their shields into someone’s face with a great slashing special attack. The female Troll warrior, by contrast (a hugely unpopular combination), just kind of…ineffectually pokes at things. I tried to play one for a bit and finally shelved her just because it didn’t feel like she was actually doing anything. Then again, I also have a huge herd of female Tauren characters, who are just as unpopular and have an incredibly boring casting animation, so I could be completely off-base. However, it does seem like there are consistent patterns to what most people are willing to play, and I’m curious to hear why people don’t like the less-popular combinations.

What is Eye of the Storm?|wow power leveling

dimoyq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:54:14 +0000

What is Eye of the Storm?|wow power leveling
Eye of the Storm is a Battleground that combines the resource accumulation mechanic of Arathi Basin with the flag capture aspect of Warsong Gulch. The map accommodates 15 players per faction in a game where the goal is to accrue 1600 resource points, or Victory Points as noted on the counter at the top of your screen. The accumulation of resources is dependent on the capture and control of points of interest on the map as well as the capture of the flag, which is located on the center of the map.
Taking the flag is a 10-second channeled action and players cannot ride a mount without dropping it. The flag can be captured by taking it to a tower that your faction controls and crossing over a capture point marked by a metal circle on the ground. Each flag capture grants an amount of resources depending on the number of towers your faction controls:
1 Tower or Ruin controlled = 75 Victory Points per flag capture
2 Towers or Ruins controlled = 85 Victory Points per flag capture
3 Towers or Ruins controlled = 100 Victory Points per flag capture
4 Towers or Ruins controlled = 500 Victory Points per flag capture
Teams also acquire resources at a rate that scales with the number of towers they control. Blizzard introduces a new capture mechanic in Eye of the Storm which is also evident in several world PvP objectives in Burning Crusade — strength in numbers. Points in Eye of the Storm can be captured through proximity, with the number of players expediting the capture timer. In order to capture a point of interest, players simply need to be near the objective. A MOUNTAIN was once aion power leveling greatly buy agitated. Loud groans cheap wow gold and myyqqm1130 noises level were wow power level heard, and crowds wow power leveling of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled wow power leveling in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse. THE ASS and the Fox, having entered wow power leveling into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into wow power leveling the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far when power leveling wow they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive wow gold for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately wow power level clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure. The more players there are, the faster it takes to capture a ruins or tower, although enemy presence cancels this out on a 1:1 basis. That is to say, if there are equal numbers of Horde and Alliance within the proximity of a point, it will be a stalemate and control will not change. The moment one side has more players than the other, control begins to shift towards the numerically superior faction. An advantage of 5 players is the fastest a team can capture a point, so there’s no difference whether you have a party of five or a raid of fifteen sitting by a tower. Assuming there are no enemies in sight, they will convert at the same time. Speaking of being in sight, stealthed players do not count towards the capture of a key point.
As with the flag captures, the more that your team controls, the faster you accrue resources:
1 Tower or Ruin controlled = 1 Victory Point per second
2 Towers or Ruins controlled = 2 Victory Points per second
3 Towers or Ruins controlled = 5 Victory Points per second
4 Towers or Ruins controlled = 10 Victory Points per second
The four points of interest in the game are the Mage Tower, Draenei Ruins, Fel Reaver Ruins, and Blood Elf Tower located at the Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, and Southeast areas of the map, respectively. These are usually abbreviated on Battleground chat as MT, DR, FR, and BE. The Horde start the game on a rock in the Southern end of the map while the Alliance start up North. Each of these locations also grant a nearby Graveyard where players from the controlling faction can resurrect. Teams that don’t control any points respawn in their elevated starting area.

Totem Talk: Shaman |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:53:47 +0000

Totem Talk: Shaman |wow power leveling
Totem Talk is the column for shamans. This installment sees Matthew Rossi contemplating the incoming influx of gear and how current itemization affects shamans. Also, sorry but you get Alliance shamans this week. I can’t wait until I can race change to a dwarf.
The thing is this: I hate doing gear lists.
My editors (I like to imagine them as an old Marvel Comics cosmic entity like The Living Tribunal) quite rightly point out to me from time to time that with Patch 3.3 so close, we’re effectively at the end of Wrath of the Lich King and therefore all sorts of new loot will be entering the game. Loot from the new five mans at Ulduar 10/25 quality! Loot from the new raid exceeding all previous iLevels! We’ll be awash in the best gear we’ll ever see until Cataclysm drops and we start it all over again. And of course they’re right. It helps me to accept this if I imagine that cosmic entity spinning a giant head around with different faces on it like Reliquary of Souls. (No, sorry, we didn’t call it Reliquary of Souls all those weeks just to be corrected by Blizzard. Heck, you guys even brought it back in Icecrown.) The next couple of weeks, however, I’m going to look not at gear but at itemization itself and how it interacts with shamans. I was inspired by the change to Elemental Mastery, the talent in the elemental combat tree that currently grants 15% crit when activated as well as making your next spell instant cast. On the surface, this doesn’t look like a bad talent all told, so why would we even want to change it? Because of the way shaman talents and spells interact, an extra 15% chance to crit is somewhat useless to an elemental shaman. Specifically, we’re talking about Flame Shock and Lava Burst. A TORTOISE, lazily level basking aion in the sun, complained leveling to cheap wow gold the sea-birds of her wow power leveling hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and wow power leveling demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float wow power leveling her in the air. “I will give you,” she said, “all the riches of the Red Sea .” “I will teach you to fly then,” said the Eagle; and wow power leveling taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces . The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “I have deserved power leveling wow my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?’ If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. A NUMBER of Flies were myyqqm1130 attracted to a jar of honey which had wow gold been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, “O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we power leveling have destroyed ourselves.” Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. Because of these two spells and their interaction, elemental shamans can basically crit every eight seconds or so. They can guarantee an Elemental Focus clearcasting state to reduce mana cost by 40%. Stacking crit doesn’t really do anything for them: they’re going to crit anyway. Most of the elemental tree has synergy with spell haste in comparison, with abilities like Lightning Mastery and Storm, Earth and Fire already reducing cast time on various spells.
So why does this talent change mean we should discuss itemization for shamans? Well, quite frankly, a great majority of the spell power mail in the game at present has crit and MP5 on it. Crit and MP5 are great for restoration shamans (speaking as a resto shaman, I enjoy both) but we just discussed how elemental can basically enter clearcasting at will (and with talents like Unrelenting Storm, can basically regen mana even while casting, making it even less useful for them): what we end up with is a situation where, within one class we have two specs who use caster mail, but those two specs share almost no gear preferences at all. Haste is good for both, hit is good for elemental (although there are talents like Elemental Precision as well if you’re very shy on hit) and useless for resto, crit and MP5 are both vastly superior for resto and inferior for elemental.

Earlier this year |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:53:21 +0000

Earlier this year |wow power leveling
Dodge the drama and become that player everyone wants in their group with the Drama Mamas. Lisa Poisso and Robin Torres are real-life mamas and experienced WoW players — and just as we don’t want our precious babies to be the ones kicking and wailing on the floor of checkout lane next to the candy, neither do we want you to become known as That Guy on your server. We’re taking your questions at DramaMamas (at) WoW (dot) com.
The internet is a hotbed of faux-mance. Other players seem infinitely more fascinating and attractive than the very real partners sitting just across the room, when seen through the lens of fevered imaginations. Add the spice of risqué chat, the attraction of regular time spent together and a dash of Vent and IMs, and you have the makings of the beginning of the end. Infidelity is an ugly subject, and the Drama Mamas think it’s best to deal with it in the same manner we advise handling other problem situations: head on, with respect and with firmness. Dear Drama Mamas: Hi, I am a wife and mother who plays WoW. I started playing with my husband over two years ago. I am a stay-at-home mom, so during nap time and after the kids go to bed for the night, I play. My husband plays when he gets home from work until he goes to bed. The raiding guild me and my husband are in is very family-friendly and is full of husband-and-wife teams.
Earlier this year, we had a large group of players join the guild (which me and my husband are officers of). I befriended one of the female players when she and her friends joined after her husband joined. We became fast friends. We talked about our kids and even became friends on Facebook. She never really grouped much with her husband; it was just mainly me and my husband and some of her friends. As we became better friends, she confided in me about the issues between her and her husband. Now, me and my husband had been having our ups and downs, like any healthy couple, and I had noticed that he was acting different after we talked or argued about something. I brushed it off, thinking that, I don’t know, he was just tired or something. And I then noticed that he and she were spending a lot of time together in game and on Vent. At first, I didn’t think anything about it. But after a month or so, I started to fell weird about it, and I told him. I said I really feel weird about the time you are spending with her. I mean, he was staying up later then he used to, much later, and was always in Vent when before he was only in Vent when we did a raid or a five-man. He told me that he understood and that he would try to keep it down and that it didn’t mean anything, that they and us were all friends. Well, I brushed it off for a week or so, thinking I was just being crazy. A MAN and a Lion sell traveled aion leveling together myyqqm1130 through World of Warcraft Gold the wow power leveling forest. They soon began to wow power leveling boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a wow power leveling statue carved in stone, which represented “a Lion strangled by a Man.” The traveler pointed to it and said: “See there! How strong wow power leveling we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts.” The Lion replied: “This statue was made by one of you men. If we wow power leveling Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the Man placed under the paw of the Lion.” One story is good, till another is told. SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds power leveling on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the wow gold terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great wow power level number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.” If words suffice not, blows must follow. And then I noticed after another month that I was getting left out of the groups, and for some odd reason, she just kinda only talked to me when she wanted to know something. I again went to my husband and said this time I feel uncomfortable about it, and I didn’t know really what their relationship was but I didn’t like it and I wanted it to stop and just be game-related stuff. Since we are officers, I didn’t want him to just ignore her. Well, things changed for a bit, and then it got really weird. I noticed that he was spending more time outside before he came in after work and that he wasn’t calling me as much. I brushed that off as a rough work week over and over again. LOL
Well, one day I happened to go to his computer to do something with his character and noticed a whisper from her, and I was floored. I knew then what was going on. They were talking on the phone with each other every day. I checked phone records, and lo and behold, he had been talking and texting her for months. I was heartbroken.
I did not say anything to him until the next day. I just was so upset. I told our guild leader that I was taking a break from game and I would let him know when I was coming back. I then told my husband this the next day. He wanted to know why and I told him. We yelled at each other and we talked for hours. I told him it needed to end. He said he would end it the next day; I said no, tonight. So we went together to his computer and he ended it. She ask if she needed to leave the guild and we both told her no, that we didn’t want to hurt the guild by her leaving. And here is my question or questions. Do you think I did the right think by not asking her to leave or not leaving myself? Or how do I get over something like this? They never were physically together. We live thousands of miles apart. This was just over the phone and the computer. But they did share things with each other that should have been meant for only me. I was very hurt by this. And since I found out and he ended the affair (that is what I call it), she has been really mopey in guild and raids. They do not talk anymore on the phone, and in game, it is only guild- and raid-related stuff. But she is still stuck on him, and she is almost 10 years older then him. I don’t understand what I need to do about this. I was just wondering how you would handle this kind of situation. I would love to know what other WoW women would do if they found themselves in this jam. Please help! Brokenhearted Raider

Feeding of Warriors: |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:52:49 +0000

Feeding of Warriors: |wow power leveling
The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about tree sloths. Why do you do this to me? We all know it’s about warriors as written by an extremely hairy man who crouches in a dark corner of his apartment muttering about block value vs block rating until his wife hits him with the hose. Matthew Rossi fears the hose. Completely unrelated to anything even tangentially warrior in WoW: Dragon Skin Armor. We’re one step closer to gigantic magical battle axes being viable in modern warfare. Since it’s a holiday in the States (which I’m from, although not currently residing in) and because I’ll take any excuse to gorge myself on turkey flesh and loll around in a swollen food coma (like, say, last week, when I used the fact that I’d washed red clothing with white clothing and now have a lovely pair of bright pink underwear and I don’t care if you know) I thought this week we could compile a list of things we, as warriors, can be grateful for. If it’s really an issue for you, assume it’s Pilgrim’s Bounty of something. Anyway, let’s you and I get our best grateful faces on (that’s me being grateful up there, in case you couldn’t tell) and discuss things we as warriors can appreciate. A FOX one day fell into a deep aion well and power leveling could buy wow gold find no means of myyqqm1130 escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the wow power leveling same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good. Concealing his wow power leveling sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and wow power leveling encouraging him to descend. The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape. “If,” said he, “you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I will run up your back and escape, and will help you out afterwards.” The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back. Steadying himself with the Goat’s horns, he safely reached the mouth of the wow power leveling well and made off as fast as he could. When the Goat upbraided him for breaking his promise, he turned around and cried out, “You foolish old fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which you had no means of escape.” Look before you leap. TWO MEN were traveling together, when a Bear power leveling suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and wow gold concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance wow power level of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. “He gave me this advice,” his companion replied. “Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.” Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. Charge/Intercept/Intervene – I’m not sure what people in Azeroth actually pray to when they pray to the Light… it seems like an abstract benevolence slightly akin to the Force from the Star Wars series…but whatever it is, thanks for Charge and its iterations, boy howdy. No other ability can be seen to be as iconic and representative of a class (only Death Grip and Totems come close) as the warrior ability to get from point A to point B in order to put point C into something, or prevent point D from going into that helpful person in a leather miniskirt or what have you. This particular trifecta of abilities (especially when talented with abilities like Warbringer or Juggernaut) have really grown on me over the years, and let me not pretend that Charge itself wasn’t the ability that made me say “Yes, this is the class for me” after my brief dalliance with paladinhood. The ability to Charge in combat (or Intercept if you’re fury) changes that “Haha, I slowed you and will now freeze you to death from over here” into a “Oh sweet Light why is a giant meat and metal thing whacking me in the face” situation that I find vastly more agreeable. And Intervene? Oh, sweet Intervene, thou makest me get out of the slowing field those stupid guys in TotC 5 cast, thou helpeth me past the bombs before Mimiron, thou help me get in front of the priest when the hunter pulls aggro and waits to feign too long. It’s even good for PvP, if you can time it just right: I’ve used it to sheep the guy who was going to sheep my healer with a well times Intervene/Spell Reflect combo. Seriously, I don’t know how you could not love these guys. Thanks for everything. Shield Slam – You know, when I first seriously specced heavy prot, back in Vanilla WoW, and got my first taste of Shield Slam, it was good, but not great, like destroying a scale replica of Monticello made entirely from toothpicks. (The best part of writing this column sometimes is waiting to see who gets the references.) Over the years they’ve beefed it up and made it a trainable ability instead of a talent and now it’s a very solid damage ability as well as a superlative aggro generation tool (especially with Sword and Board procs for a tank). And it looks and sounds cool. You’ll never get tired of hearing druids and paladins complain that none of their moves sound as cool as the Shield Slam “In the FACE KTHWANG” sound. Arms – the Protection Tree overhaul gets a lot of praise from the people that overhauled it (well, to be fair, it’s understandable that they’re proud of what they accomplished) but while I myself am prot now, and will no doubt talk more about prot and tanking in the future, let us take a moment and be thankful for the Arms tree and its really elegant solution to the “Oh, crap, they can use two big two hand weapons over in fury now, how do we keep this interesting” scenario.

Van Caneghem Talks |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:05:41 +0000

Van Caneghem Talks |wow power leveling
Amid news of layoffs and Pandemic’s closure at Electronic Arts came the announcement that Might and Magic creator Jon Van Caneghem had joined EALA to lead the Command & Conquer brand.

It’s hardly an easy time to come into Electronic Arts, admits Van Caneghem, but he tells Gamasutra he’s excited to bring a franchise he’s long loved into the online space.

“Direct-to-consumer is where I think most games are going, and I’ve always been a fan of the series,” he says. And despite highly-visible challenges for EA in recent months, Van Caneghem says he believes in the company’s goals for online migration. “It’s challenging, but I think it’s a great time,” he says of the timing of his hire. “The company has the same vision I do on the future of games and the future of this franchise, so I think it’s going be great.” A HERDSMAN wow power level tending aion power leveling his World of Warcraft Gold flock in a wow power leveling forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. After a long wow power leveling and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief wow power leveling who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long wow power leveling afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to heaven, and said: “Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian Deities of the wow power level forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may only secure my own wow gold escape from him in safety.” A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands myyqqm1128 and caught a number of power leveling wow Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. “Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers– they are not the least like those of a Crane.” The Farmer laughed aloud and said, “It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.” Birds of a feather flock together. “We have the opportunity to really make some quality stuff — the place to be is here,” he adds. “All the knowledge and background is here at this studio. It is a difficult time, but that happens.”

Van Caneghem says in particular that connectivity is driving games-as-service and less as stand-alone packaged goods, and it’s time for the strategy genre to have its turn. “Look what online has done for RPGs over the last 10 years,” he points out. “All the other categories are following suit… we’re looking forward to building something to be a leader in that space.”

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IGF Mobile 2010 |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:05:11 +0000

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Following record entries for IGF’s Main and Student competition, IGF Mobile organizers are reminding of a December 1st deadline for the third annual festival honoring handheld indie games.
This year’s competition — the sister event to the main Independent Games Festival — will again feature independently-developed handheld games for all mobile devices including Apple’s iPhone, other cellphone and smartphone OSes, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, and other handheld devices.

Now in its third year, IGF Mobile (part of Think Services, as is this website) has blossomed into a major showcase of the handheld form. Apple’s App Store created a special Store section just to highlight the IGF-nominated iPhone games from 2009’s IGF Mobile competition, which included acclaimed titles such as Fieldrunners, Real Racing, Zen Bound and Galcon.

In addition, last year’s IGF Mobile ‘Next Great Mobile Game’ winner Reflection has been signed by Konami for Nintendo DSi.

The overall IGF Mobile winner will be revealed at the IGF Awards Ceremony, which precedes the Game Developers Choice Awards on March 11th, 2010. (Both the IGF Awards Ceremony and the Game Developers Choice Awards are part of the 2010 Game Developers Conference, which takes place in San Francisco’s Moscone Center in March.) IGF Mobile submissions are still being accepted at the competition’s official website through December 1, 2009; finalists will be announced in January 2010, and will each receive one pass to attend the 2010 Game Developers Conference. Finalists will compete for $5,000 in prizes, including notable awards for design, art, and technology innovation in mobile game development. This year, winners in each category (with the exception of ‘Best Game’) will be announced before the show, on February 8th, 2010. Each category winner will receive $500 in spending money to come to the 2010 Game Developers Conference in March 2010 and showcase their mobile game, alongside their GDC pass. ONE WINTER a Farmer aion leveling found a Snake stiff and cheap wow gold frozen with cold. He had power leveling compassion on it, and buy wow power level taking myyqqm1128 it up, placed it in buy wow gold his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its wow power leveling natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. “Oh,” cried the Farmer with his last breath, “I am rightly wow power leveling served for pitying a scoundrel.” The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Father, “You are larger wow power leveling than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Father! do the hounds wow power leveling frighten you so?” He smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even wow power level the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.” A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country wow gold lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: “Hullo there! why do you make wow power level so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out.” Those who suffer most cry out the least. The five category winners will exhibit their games in a special area of the main IGF Pavilion, the winners will then compete for the coveted IGF Mobile Best Game award, worth $2,500. The prize is presented on stage during the main Independent Games Festival Awards, preceding the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony on March 11th, 2010.

For a complete list of IGF Mobile 2010 information and to enter before the end of Tuesday, December 1st….

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Top in Japan |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:04:40 +0000

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The new larger-screened Nintendo DSi LL outsold all other hardware in Japan during the week ended November 22, selling 100,553 units in two days, and toppling the week’s sales for PlayStation hardware that ruled a week prior.

Weekly figures from tracking firm Media Create now show three different versions of Nintendo’s popular DS handheld: DSi LL, DSi, and the DS Lite. Total sales for the DS line during the week were 137,674 units. The DSi LL figures align closely with numbers recently released by research firm Enterbrain.
The DSi LL’s sales from November 21st to 22nd handily topped the week’s sales of PlayStation 3, which have been solid since the console’s price reduction and hardware form factor revamp. PS3 led hardware charts in the two week prior to this week. Last week, PS3 and its handheld counterpart PSP together led the hardware charts. A MOUNTAIN was once aion power leveling greatly buy agitated. Loud groans cheap wow gold and myyqqm1128 noises level were wow power level heard, and crowds wow power leveling of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled wow power leveling in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.
THE ASS and the Fox, having entered wow power leveling into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into wow power leveling the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far when power leveling wow they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive wow gold for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately wow power level clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure. For this most recent week, the Nintendo Wii placed third place, and managed edge past the PSP. Sales of the new UMD-less PSP Go dropped again from the prior week to 4,574 from 6,427. The new handheld debuted on November 1.

The rest of the Japanese hardware rankings for the week ended November 22 are below:

DSi LL: 100,553

PS3: 34,752

Wii: 32,844

PSP: 32,752
DSi: 32,070

DS Lite: 5,051

PSP Go: 4,574

Xbox 360: 4,085

PS2: 2,024

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There is a villainous |wow power leveling

dimoyq — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:04:12 +0000

There is a villainous |wow power leveling
There is a villainous mastermind behind all of the events one sees, but it is never quite clear why he does all of the different things he does: surely some of the feints and counterfeints of his deception are completely unnecessary. At the end, when the player has clicked through and viewed all of the evidence, he’s invited to see a connect-the-dots playing that puts elements in their chronological order. That’s a bit helpful, but it doesn’t resolve the fact that this is a bizarre and basically nonsensical plot with no particular theme other than, perhaps, that nothing is what it seems.

The interaction exacerbates the problems, however. If the whole point of the experience is that we understand more when we know more, the failure of the whole project to come together into a sharp, coherent story is a very serious flaw. A good gotcha twist at the end of a movie — The Usual Suspects, say, or Sixth Sense — is that it makes an instant sense of everything confusing that came before. With HBO Imagine, the site and its interaction sells itself as being about discovery, about movement towards understanding. To the extent that there’s a purpose in making this an interactive rather than a traditional-format movie, it is because the act of exploration engages the player more fully, invites him to make and test hypotheses about what is going on. To go to that effort and still not to understand is vexing. And it is effort: it’s interesting playing with the cubical films, turning them this way and that to see the action from all angles, but it’s a lot more effort than watching a conventional movie. It’s easy to imagine the same information presented on a four-way split screen, and the result would have been a lot easier to process.

The only point of presenting the films this way is to force the player/viewer to take action in order to uncover what is initially hidden. The interactivity forces engagement with the content, but the player has only limited control over how much he discovers, and even diligent pursuit of the truth is incompletely rewarded with understanding. A TORTOISE, lazily level basking aion in the sun, complained leveling to cheap wow gold the sea-birds of her wow power leveling hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and wow power leveling demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float wow power leveling her in the air. “I will give you,” she said, “all the riches of the Red Sea .” “I will teach you to fly then,” said the Eagle; and wow power leveling taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces . The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “I have deserved power leveling wow my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?’ If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. A NUMBER of Flies were myyqqm1128 attracted to a jar of honey which had wow gold been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, “O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we power leveling have destroyed ourselves.” Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. It is possible to create an interactive storytelling experience where the chief mechanic really is just to look at all the pieces. The beauty of Le Reprobateur is that if you explore the story one way or another way, new themes come to the fore: reading the snippets in one order will suggest meditations on self-control, while in another the attention might be to the development of a particular character. There is no such depth to be gotten out of the HBO Imagine project.

One strength of the design is the “Chart Your Progress” page, which gives the reader/player a map of the interaction and labels each short film or piece of evidence. That provides a little sense of agency, in that it’s possible to decide to explore one subplot before another, or attempt to skip down to the end of a subplot in order to understand what everything builds to.

But notice I say “attempt”: the labels are often not very revealing of what the contents are really about, and that means that the player’s one possible form of agency, choosing a route through the story, is rendered meaningless most of the time. Moreover, the sense of involvement and agency slackens even more at the end: all the player can do is click through the last several elements.

With all that, I’m not saying this project is a failure. It is full of funny moments, and it’s certainly gotten more attention than most bits of advertising fluff I’ve come across. I was engaged enough to play with it through to the end. And the cube-facing films really are ingeniously made, with the body language of actors suggesting different things from different perspectives.

No, my real point is this: interactive storytelling — even when it’s not meant to be a game — still needs a game designer. It needs someone who will think about what the reader/player is supposed to do, and what that action means, and how it contributes to the story being told.

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