Viable Tactics at the End of the Day

Ghostcrawler: "We understand that many players feel burst damage is too high
right now. We hear you. But when all is said and done, there still
needs to be a place for damage dealers. Killing a healer, even in the
absence of crowd control, silences or whatever, still needs to be a
viable tactic at the end of the [...]

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Farewell Maelstrom

When K- and I first started playing WoW, we joined a great guild:  The Shadow Watch.  It was either the first or second Alliance guild formed on Maelstrom, and it was full of a lot of wonderful people.  Kinolas and Khree were far far younger than the other characters in the guild, the majority of [...]

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It Burns When I PVP

I love to PVP.  From the moment I had my first experience fighting the Horde, I've been hooked on the rush that comes from battling another player.  As we leveled Khree and Kinolas — druid and hunter — K- and I never shied away from it… until we entered the arena.  The mechanics of the [...]

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Random Observations from a Four-Day Weekend of WoW

I wish I had an AOE.  (3 more levels!) Our guild ran a very bloobie Kara this afternoon, primarily to get some achievements for the death knights (and shadowpriest!) among us who'd never done the zone before.  Two of the raid were 80, and their AOEs made it so I could barely cast a spell [...]

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Broken, Season 2

All I wanted to do was to log in and start testing DoT timers.  Instead, I heard word of a rush on the Hall of Champions the likes of which haven't been seen since the Great Cabbage Patch Kid Holiday Debacle of 1983.  Apparently, along with the mail bug, today's "maintenance" ushered in several others, [...]

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The League of Arathor: Not Ready for the Majors

At first, I thought I'd do a nice little write-up today about the status of all our preparations for November 13.  I spent quite a bit of time on Khree this weekend, doing dailies for coin, and I was excited to report that I'd amassed almost 1500 gold to give to Kaleyen.
Today, however, I looked [...]

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How will I spend my last weekend before WotLK?

Duh.  PVPing.

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Dispersion: Some Initial Thoughts at Level 60

It was one of those comments from Beta that made many players /facepalm:  Koraa's assertion that "without dispersion, shadowpriests would not be PVP viable."
Upon hitting level 60, I specced into Dispersion, despite the consensus among shadowpriests that the talent is, at best, lackluster and, at worst, worthless.
And granted, I am only level 60, so any [...]

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Preparing for the Expansion

With just over two weeks til Wrath of the Lich King arrives, it's getting down to the wire to make those preparations for the expansion.  As K- and I are both switching classes, we have quite a lot to do.
Leveling the Shadow Priest:
Our goal was level 58, to coincide with the deathknight's level upon finishing [...]

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