Blessing of Kings

I figured out what was bothering me about Cataclysm tree design. If you look at the first row of talents, Blizzard usually has 2x 3pt talent...

The Dev chat on Friday revealed the new paladin mechanic for Cataclysm, Holy Power: All of the paladin specializations will make use of a ne...

There are beta talent trees up at WoWTal . Honestly, the trees are still a great state of flux, so it's really too early to comment on t...

Extensive talent tree changes coming in Cataclysm. I'm not really sure what to think of these changes. In general, I like the smaller t...

Recently there has been some commentary about death penalties. There are some people who feel that the current penalties are too low. My que...

Most of us have heard of John Gabriel's Greater Internet F******d Theory (link slightly NSFW). I would wager that the majority of gamer...

Managing a raid force is a very complex task. You have to recruit enough people so that you have redundancy, that you can still raid when so...

Group play in Age of Conan is an interesting experience. In many ways it is very different than WoW, even though they are both games based o...

It occurs to me that gemming has become very boring these days. It's pretty much choose the best stat for your class and stack it. When...

In an interview on Gameplanet , Ghostcrawler talks about reforging: The way [reforging] works is, instead of being tied to trade skills, now...

Heroic loot distribution in Icecrown Citadel is slightly different than in the three previous tiers. In Naxx, Ulduar, and Trial of the Crusa...

Measuring performance in a raid is somewhat hard. You can do a bit with damage and healing meters, but those meters are often skewed by the ...

I missed this when Gevlon first proposed it, but he proposed a variant on the standard Gold DKP loot system. For those people unaware of GD...

Blizzard announced that they were scrapping the Path of the Titans system and instead fleshing out Glyphs a bit more. Seems like an interest...

In the last post , I discussed what I see as the economics of Free-To-Play versus Subscription games. Here is my reasoning on why Free-To-Pl...

The recent news that Lord of the Rings Online is going Free-To-Play, and being supported by a cash shop instead of subscriptions has reignit...

Jeremy had a very interesting idea in a comment to the last post: I just had an epiphany: Blizzard is building a Raid Finder for a mid-Catac...

First, let us stipulate that there are two types of group content: transient; and extended. Transient group content is content that is expe...

HolyPally - Barth writes in: Basically it is obvious that the paladin needs some sort of AoE heal but nothing amazing because you don't ...

This post was, oddly enough, prompted by Age of Conan rather than WoW. But you get a similar situation in WoW as well. Most hybrids I know m...