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Rogers Still Under Fire For WOW Throttling
Dslreports Roughly half of Canada's network neutrality complaints have to deal with Rogers Communications, and most of those have to do with Rogers throttling World of Warcraft. … |
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Rogers Still Under Fire For WOW Throttling
Dslreports Roughly half of Canada's network neutrality complaints have to deal with Rogers Communications, and most of those have to do with Rogers throttling World of Warcraft. … Cable company company admits gamers being |
It tastes like burning! Drewish of the appropriately named Fire For Effect on Bloodhoof (US-H) recently won Fandral’s Flamescythe, only to discover that the fiery lion effect hurts. And the Stormwind guards are way too lazy to call the fire department to put out the burning cat. Heck, the main towers of the city gates have been smoldering for months now.
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Around Azeroth: Alive and on fire originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week, we resume our three-part look at the current state of the mage nation. If you say that fast, it totally sounds like “imagination.” DELIGHTFUL.
I am so sorry, guys. I want to write this column. I want to write it every week. Given the choice, I’d like to write it every damn day. I have an incredibly demanding work and family schedule these days. Each week, it’s like a magician’s trick trying to produce enough time to sit down and provide you guys with a quality column, and some weeks, I wave my hands and say the magic words, and a puff of smoke appears, and when it fades … nothing’s there. I’m working very hard to change my current schedule, though, enabling me to have a regular, slightly more controllable block of time every seven days during which to deliver you something worth reading. So take heart, and keep me in your prayers or thoughts or whatever it is that you think will help, you godless heathens. And if you want someone to blame for the recent irregularity of Arcane Brilliance, blame my children. They are time-destroying merchants of pure evil, and I tell them so as often as I can. Keeps them in line.
Anyway, I know when I wrote the state of the arcane mage column way back in June, I remember promising two more columns, touching upon the current state of affairs for the other two mage specs. It is almost August now. Yikes. Why do you guys put up with my nonsense?
Without further delay, I present to you the 2011 state of the fire mage address, delivered to you from a pulpit of pure flame perched upon the highest peak in the Firelands, to a congregation of mages seated within an auditorium constructed entirely of flaming warlock skulls. It’s incredibly uncomfortable, but also crazy-epic.
Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The state of the fire mage
Filed under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane Brilliance
Arcane Brilliance: The state of the fire mage originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Imagine you have a friend. This isn’t any normal friend, but a friend that you really, really, really want to get interested in World of Warcraft. To this end, you have the brilliant plan that if you let him raid on your character, he’ll be so taken by the experience that he’ll be level 85 within a week.
Naturally, this goes badly. Recount shows your character below the tanks every attempt, as your friend spends half the fight attacking the wrong target and the other half of the fight attacking nothing at all. Of course, that’s only on the fights where he manages to stay alive, which is one in 10 attempts.
Now, imagine that in order to do your maximum DPS, you have to let that friend raid with you every single fight. If you choose not to allow that friend to raid, you’ll lose about 3,000 potential DPS. However, if you choose to let him raid, you run the risk of his dying, attacking the wrong target, or standing in the center of the room while he mentally alt-tabs.
Welcome to playing an elemental shaman.
Continue reading Totem Talk: Fixing the Fire Elemental problem
Filed under: Shaman, (Shaman) Totem Talk, Cataclysm
Totem Talk: Fixing the Fire Elemental problem originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Totem Talk: Fixing the Fire Elemental problem
Joystiq This isn't any normal friend, but a friend that you really, really, really want to get interested in World of Warcraft. To this end, you have the brilliant plan that if you let him raid on your character, he'll be so taken by the experience that he'll … |
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The coming and going of the Midsummer Fire Festival was overshadowed by the arrival of patch 4.2 and the Firelands, but now all the assorted bonfires scattered far and wide have been extinguished, and the flaming torches have all come clattering to the ground. We’ve danced ’round poles and taken care of danger in Zangarmarsh. Heck, the Ice Stone has melted so many times it’s hard to keep track! It was a time for celebration and a time for fun, but like all good holidays, it had to come to an end.
Did you get your hands on that new pet you wanted? Some sweet gear for strutting around town? Did you finished your holiday achievements? If you didn’t get what you were seeking, what held you back?
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Breakfast Topic: Did you accomplish your Fire Festival goals? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.
Amanda is AFK doing … important things (I have no idea what she’s doing), so I’ve grabbed control of your precious little article, and there’s not a thing you can do to stop me!
Many congratulations to Agony, who correctly answered all of last week’s questions. Also props to Crispn, who correctly pointed out that WoW Eh has been notably absent these last few weeks. That one’s my fault.
What time is it? Trivia time! Today’s questions are:
Continue reading Sunday Morning Funnies: Fire safety
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Sunday Morning Funnies: Fire safety originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Blizzard has been getting hit with a few complaints since the Midsummer Fire Festival began — that the holiday was just a stat-bump for the items and was relatively the same event as last year. Even the highlight item, the Frostscythe of Lord Ahune, was part of the controversy. Bashiok took to the forums to discuss the changes that had to happen for the Midsummer Fire Festival to even happen and gave players a clue to confirm the widely held belief that Hallow’s End this year will play into the larger story between the Forsaken and the worgen.
The Midsummer Fire Festival remained largely the same due to the amount of work that had to go into rearranging fire locations due to the cataclysm, changing around all of the decorations, and generally spending a lot of time switching over from the old world. Bashiok does cop to the fact that the event is more or less the same as last year’s, but reminds us that the Midsummer Fire Festival has already had its major overhaul back a few years ago.
The more interesting news, however, is that Bashiok says we’ve got some surprises coming our way with respect to Hallow’s End, WoW‘s take on Halloween. We’ve been long speculating, based on data-mined items and story cues, that Hallow’s End will deal with the continuing story of Sylvanas’ march into the kingdom of Gilneas and the worgen’s fight to take back their homeland. Plus, who doesn’t love the classic Halloween monster movie tropes of zombies and werewolves?
Bashiok confirmed that there are changes in store for Hallow’s End. To what extent, we do not know. However, I will be looking forward to surprises because, really, I love surprises. I’m a giant sucker for surprises. Bring on the surprises!
Continue reading Bashiok comments on Fire Festival; new Hallow’s End surprises
Filed under: Blizzard, Cataclysm
Bashiok comments on Fire Festival; new Hallow’s End surprises originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Things are heating up all over Azeroth for the Midsummer Fire Festival. Well, everything except the Frostscythe of Lore Ahune, that is. Blizzard updated the holiday Ahune cloaks to ilevel 353 for players to grab, but Ahune’s trademark staff just got the “scale” upgrade — it’s not really ideal for the classes it is intended for. In fact, it’s fairly worthless for int-based classes. Bashiok responded on the official forums that to make Ahune’s Frostscythe an ideal weapon stat-wise would be to dissuade players from getting their weapon upgrade in ZA or ZG.
Many players were concerned with the Frostscythe’s stats because of its inflated +700 stamina instead of +Int, which casters obviously prefer, since stamina has been normalized across gear. To be fair, I think it is completely fine to have this holiday fluff item be a non-ideal, cosmetic item that players can wear for it’s on-use effect and prestige-luck. Not every item that drops has to be the ideal, especially during a holiday that is coninciding (potentially) with patch 4.2 dropping. That staff you want to be ideal so badly isn’t going to be exactly ideal in week, if the patch hits June 28. For now, it was an easier alternative to just scale the item opposed to tinkering around and making something perfect. I’d say just leave it as a fun, unique item.
Continue reading Midsummer Fire Festival: Frostscythe of Ahune stats to remain uncool
Filed under: Blizzard, Cataclysm
Midsummer Fire Festival: Frostscythe of Ahune stats to remain uncool originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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