I played a Paladin for most of Burning Crusade. Mostly he was Holy, but I more than dibbed in the forbidden arts of Retribution and Protection as well. I guess you could say I got burned out, because all I did was heal, heal, heal, heal, heal… (*waves hands like Paul Barnett*) and it wasn’t fun. [...]
Tag: Wrath of the Lich King
WoW’s Most Original Raid Encounters
May 31, 2010
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Most of the raid encounters in World of Warcraft has the same basic concept. You got a boss, and you tank it until dead. Tank ‘n’ spank. Then you add a “gimmick” feature on top of the tank ‘n’ spank fight and get a standard raid encounter. Onyxia fears, Prince Malchezaar summons infernals, Flame Leviathan [...]
The problem with badges
May 15, 2010
I hate the badge system in World of Warcraft. It’s the result of an issue Blizzard saw in The Burning Crusade expansion. But was it really an issue to begin with?
The issue was that plenty of statistics showed that only the very tip of the iceberg that is the WoW playerbase got to beat the [...]
Lowering the bar – to the ground, baby!
October 7, 2009
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I got this horrible feeling in my gut that Blizzard is doing this simply because of statistics. It was shown back in The Burning Crusade that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the playerbase got to enter the highest raid instances and clear them. The percentage was way higher than in vanilla WoW, but it [...]