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Official Wrath talent calculators on EU site
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Jul 21st 2008 5:32PM I noticed the much touted improvements to the magic absorption arcane mage talent are not there. It still has a set number of 10 for resistances instead of the 1 point per level. Other preexisting talents such as Arcane focus DO reflect proposed changes, so I do not know what to think.
Ask WoW Insider: My Girlfriend won't let me level
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Mar 31st 2008 10:36AM Try creating a member of the other faction on a different server. Horde and Alliance quests are sufficiently different that she should have no complaints. Yeah, there's a lot of overlap of actual tasks, but the questgivers and hence the storylines are different. Let me guess: she also frowns upon using sites like Thottbot, or add-ons like QuestHelper, which might make questing too easy and streamlined at the expense of experiencing the story as intended. It comes down to this: if the only way she will play WOW with you is if you adopt a playstyle that makes the experience an excersize in frustration for you, then you should probably find another game you can play at her pace, while you continue to play WOW at your pace. City of Heroes comes to mind. I was for a period of time playing both WOW and COH, and the supergroup was all about accomplishing firsts together as a team. Eventually, I could not devote time to two MMORPGs and maintain RL, but if one of them occured at a glacial pace, that could work. :-)
Two Bosses Enter: Ragnaros vs. Kel'Thuzad
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Feb 10th 2008 11:57PM I never got to Kel, but he seems like a clothie, and that's a big fraggin' mace Rag has. Fire and ice might be a draw, but I think the melee would wear Kel down. Oh, and mind-controlling a boss? No way. I vote Ragnaros.
Gamers on the Street: The XP experience
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Jan 24th 2008 4:46PM When you think about it, the argument that one reaches level 40 too quickly because one doesn't have enough gold to buy the mount and riding skill is silly. You would have needed to devote some time to making money anyway, and I'd bet the time spent farming for money plus the reduced time spent levelling would still add up to less time spent than the old way. Plus, if you know some of the tricks to making money, you can probably have the money you need by level 40.
Arena smurfs are "100% awesome!" according to Blizz
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Nov 29th 2007 8:35AM Not only is the chat text suspicious because of the GM name and player name being the same, but the player name in the whisper text does not match the player name in the portrait screen at top left. These screenshots are clearly staged, probably on a private server.
Blizz still evaluating afk reporting feature
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Nov 27th 2007 8:36AM @26, I agree that making players the bot police is on the one hand a bit of a programming cop-out. On the other hand, it gives players who otherwise feel powerless and frustrated by cheaters a chance to personally have an impact on the issue, however problematic that impact may be.
0 honor for 0 damage and 0 heals = brilliant and obvious; that should be in there too.
For an additional impact, how about a challenge/response mechanism triggered when a heuristic flags a player's actions as too bot-like? One of those "Type the characters you see in this picture" types of things that bots cannot handle.
Blizzard plans soloing improvements for Protection Warriors and Paladins
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Nov 13th 2007 10:17AM Heh, if Prot Pallys already have things easy for multimob grinding, then perhaps Blizzard meant they will make it easier for them to grind single mobs...while with the other hand nerfing their glorious multimob fun. Wouldn't be the first time an announced buff turned out to be a nerf in disguise.
Breakfast Topic: What are you most excited about in patch 2.3?
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Nov 12th 2007 9:01AM I read somewhere that a mage with 3 points in the new improved Arcane Meditation could while wearing Mage Armor actually gain mana back while spamming arcane missiles! It may depend on how much spirit and mana ticks one has, but I cannot wait to find out how true that is. I loaded the test realm and copied over my mage, but I never tried it out. Silly me!
