Blessing of Kings

I know it's been a long while since I posted one of these. I'm probably going to write a post on the AVR mod, and in a lot of ways t...

John asks: I’m running up my human female pally after being away from the game for about a year. I had played a warrior tank for a couple o...

Age of Conan released its first expansion, Rise of the Godslayer, last week. I know I ragged on Age of Conan a lot when it was first releas...

Traditionally, dungeons in WoW were in the hidden corners of the world. Players would get several quests leading them further and further un...

It took a bit longer than it really should have, but at long last I have defeated the Lich King. It was the second kill for my guild. The fi...

The good people at No Starch Press sent me a review copy of The Guild Leader's Handbook . It's written by Scott F. Andrews, a long ...

By way of Righteous Defense , paladin blessings are revealed to be: Blessing of Might — Places a Blessing on the friendly target, increasing...

Cathak asks: Been reading your blog for a few years now and Ive got bitten by the Healing Bug (IE, supporting my guilds raid as a Tank and a...

Via Honor's Code and Pwnwear.com , comes an observation at Blue Murder that, in Cataclysm, a 10-man tank will have just as much health...

Selynida emailed me the following regarding 10s and 25s: I had written this comment to your blog, and unfortunately I seem to have vastly pa...

Big Bear Butt asks, "Can 25 man raids really be as fun as 10’s to play in, if most people have to be bribed to take part in them?...

Well, Blizzard has posted some changes to the way Cataclysm raids will be structured. Here are the high points: * Shared lockout between 25s...

The other night I got to DPS in Icecrown Citadel. When we got to Valithria Dreamwalker, I decided to try healing her specced as Retribution ...

I've made my feelings on RMT and micro-transactions pretty clear . I have not bought a Star Pony, nor am I likely too. Of course, I don...

Beacon of Light puts paladins in an odd place, power-wise. In my view, Beacon breaks down as follows: No Beacon = Underpowered. Beacon heali...

New Paladin Spells Blinding Shield (level 81): Causes damage and blinds all nearby targets. This effect might end up only damaging those fac...

From the Druid Preview: Eclipse: We are moving Eclipse from a talent into a core mechanic of the class and making it less random. Balance dr...

I had a really weird thought. What would the game be like if there was a cap on DPS? I was following a discussion on Glyphs. The Healers wer...

The Cataclysm Shaman Preview is up. I have to say that Healing Rain is absolutely gorgeous. Healing Rain (level 83): An area-effect heal-o...

In the previous post , I outlined what I think the pre-raid endgame should look like. Now, let's take a look at gear progression in raid...