It will come as no surprise that the uproar over the upcoming Raid Progression Refinements in Cataclysm has been astronomical in volume and emotion. As of this post, the official thread alone has 5000 replies in just over 36 hours and of course countless discussions elsewhere on blogs and forums around the web. What, then, could I possibly have to add to the conversation that hasn't already been said? Likely not much, but as a generally big fan of these ideas for a long time, I ...
Well it's been a couple days now and I wanted to see the rest of the class changes before posting, but now that we've seen all but Paladins it seems appropriate to begin my tirade. Overall, I am extremely underwhelmed by the Warrior Class changes in Cataclysm. "Meh" is the best descriptor. I realize everyone has a strong bias toward his or her own class and wants to have their cake and eat it too, but clearly there seems to be a lack of creativity when it came to Warrior changes in ...
There seems to be a growing trend over in Blizzard HQ -- to force players to socialize. "Dear God no! Say it ain't so!" Now that may sound very silly on paper, considering we are playing a Massively Multiplayer game, after all. How could socializing be harmful in an environment and game that revolves around it? Socializing isn't the culprit here: Forcing the player to socialize with random people is. Think back to the first day of work at a new job ...
For a long time now, I've thoroughly enjoyed writing blurbs about my WoW Guild progress and challenges we've faced and, on occasion, even overcome. However, I realized with the advent of this new Blog feature on our site, I now have the opportunity to write about more broad topics of self-interest. I have no doubt these postings will be all but entirely ignored by the WoW and web community as a whole, and that's fine by me in truth, but on occasion, a man needs a place to vent, rage, and generally ...