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Blood Pact: Looking at the developer’s Q&A

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Blood Pact for affliction, demonology and destruction warlocks. For those who disdain the watered-down arts that other cling to like a safety blanket … for those willing to test their wills against the nether and claim the power that is their right … Blood Pact welcomes you. Send questions, comments, or requests for something you’d like to see to tyler@wowinsider.com or via Twitter to @murmursofadruid.

All right, this past Wednesday, there was an extremely awesome Live Developer Q&A about class and system design that pretty much rocked house any way you look at it. While there were some good questions fielded about the next patch, a majority of it focused in on things to come in the next expansion; with the changes that we’ll be seeing, this isn’t surprising. In perfect form, Xelnath handled everything warlock like a beast. Respects, hats tipped, and similar jazz of the sort out to Blizzard.

Without wanting to waste much time, let’s jump right into all of what we have learned from the chat. It’s certainly worth waiting for.

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Blood Pact: Looking at the developer’s Q&A originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ready Check: Looking at raid accessibility

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Ready Check helps you prepare yourself and your raid for the bosses that simply require killing. Check back with Ready Check each week for the latest pointers on killing adds, not standing in fire, and hoping for loot that won’t drop. Questions, comments, or something you would like to see? Email me at tyler@wowinsider or message me on Twitter @murmursofadruid.

Last week, we brushed upon the topic of what the next expansion might hold for raiding. Specifically, the talk centered around the concept that raiding cannot be Blizzard’s sole focus any more. As much effort as has been put into raiding, not every player is capable of getting involved with it. The argument was that Blizzard needed to focus on other content for max-level players aside from raiding and questioned what impact that would have on raiding overall.

First, at little bit of information. The blog Player vs. Auction House went off the norm and provided a little bit of numbers gleamed from WowProgress about T11 raiding before 4.2. While there is some interesting data as it relates to last week’s topic, that isn’t the focus I want to bring up. An argument was put forth that Cataclysm raiding is less accessible today than it previously was. I feel this is a great topic to delve right into this week.

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Ready Check: Looking at raid accessibility originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blood Pact: Looking at new warlock talents

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Blood Pact for affliction, demonology and destruction warlocks. For those who disdain the watered-down arts that other cling to like a safety blanket … for those willing to test their wills against the nether and claim the power that is their right … Blood Pact welcomes you.

Welcome back, warlocks! I know that this is technically the second post-BlizzCon article that you’ll be reading, but with how scheduling has to be done, for me at least, it’s actually the first. I know that it can get a little aggravating to have to wait this long for your roundup of new information, but let me assure you that it is well worth the wait.

Unlike the rest of the writers around this place, I’m not suffering from an incurable plague … guess it’s just a warlock thing. Shadow priest writer Fox Van Allen might joke that he’s getting 15% of the damage done by the BlizzCon Flu back as health, but clearly I’m just sitting there channeling Drain Life with no one to care about interrupting me. Speaking of Drain Life, the talents for the next expansion seem extremely promising. Why don’t we take a look at them? (You like that leap of topics, don’t you?)

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Blood Pact: Looking at new warlock talents originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blood Pact: Looking at new warlock talents

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Blood Pact for affliction, demonology and destruction warlocks. For those who disdain the watered-down arts that other cling to like a safety blanket … for those willing to test their wills against the nether and claim the power that is their right … Blood Pact welcomes you.

Welcome back, warlocks! I know that this is technically the second post-BlizzCon article that you’ll be reading, but with how scheduling has to be done, for me at least, it’s actually the first. I know that it can get a little aggravating to have to wait this long for your roundup of new information, but let me assure you that it is well worth the wait.

Unlike the rest of the writers around this place, I’m not suffering from an incurable plague … guess it’s just a warlock thing. Shadow priest writer Fox Van Allen might joke that he’s getting 15% of the damage done by the BlizzCon Flu back as health, but clearly I’m just sitting there channeling Drain Life with no one to care about interrupting me. Speaking of Drain Life, the talents for the next expansion seem extremely promising. Why don’t we take a look at them? (You like that leap of topics, don’t you?)

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Ready Check: Looking into the future of raiding

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BlizzCon 2011 was a great source of new information for a lot of players. One of the things that Blizzard didn’t really speak about, however, was the future of raiding in the next expansion and beyond. Since The Burning Crusade, Blizzard has made enormous strides in changing the face of endgame content. It started with the reduction from 40-man raiding to 25-man raiding along with the introduction of 10-man raiding. In Wrath, we saw an even larger change, with every raid having a 10-man option that allowed even greater access to the raiding scene than ever before. Now, 10-man and 25-man are, to Blizzard at least, considered to be on equal footing.

With each expansion has come a drastic change to the raiding scene, yet nothing was announced for the next game. This leaves us rather up in the air as to where Blizzard intends to take the raiding scene. WoW is becoming a game of accessibility, where the end goal is to make the largest amount of content available to the widest audience. In light of this, it is time that we don our tin foil hats in taking a look at what the future might hold for raiding players of WoW.

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Ready Check: Looking into the future of raiding originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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WoW Insider is looking for a PVP columnist

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WoW Insider is looking for a new PVP columnist. Every other week, you’ll dazzle our readers with your words of wisdom on all things PVP: Battlegrounds, Arenas, patch news and analysis, and everything in between. We want a writer who can balance being informative, entertaining, and accessible.

If this sounds like the chance you’ve been waiting for, you’ll find all of the information you need to apply on our applications page. Be sure to submit everything asked for under the columnist section. Being able to follow simple instructions is part of the job. You have until end of day, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, to send in your application.

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The Daily Quest: Looking good

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WoW Insider’s on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.

I can’t really decide what my favorite thing from the patch 4.3 PTR is. I don’t know if it’s the fact that I can customize my gear to look pretty cool … or the new dungeons that are relatively quick, challenging and filled with plenty of worthwhile loot … or the fact that I’ve suddenly got 80 slots free in my bank. I can’t wait to see what the Dragon Soul raid has to offer, but right now, the next patch is looking really, really good.

Today we’ve got some posts from around the blogosphere regarding the PTR and patch 4.3.

Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites.

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The Daily Quest: Looking good originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ready Check: Looking into roll-based loot systems

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Ready Check helps you prepare yourself and your raid for the bosses that simply require killing. Check back with Ready Check each week for the latest pointers on killing adds, not standing in fire, and hoping for loot that won’t drop.

Greetings once again, raiders. While the rest of the writers are off in their lofty towers of 4.3 land, I am stuck here in the trenches of reality. Fret not, we’ll soon be climbing out of this foxhole that we’ve found ourself in, but the time is not quite right. I promise you though, when next we hit 4.3 content with our feet running, it is going to be an epic adventure that you won’t want to miss. In the meantime, it’s back to the discussion on loot systems. Gear, after all, doesn’t distribute itself.

Last week, we talked about various DKP systems and the advantages or disadvantages that they hold. While DKP is a fairly common system that you’ll probably see in most guilds, it isn’t the only popular choice. This week, we’ll be taking a look into roll-based loot systems and how they too can be an effective method for distributing purples.

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Ready Check: Looking into roll-based loot systems originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blood Pact: Looking at tier 13 bonuses

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Every week, WoW Insider brings you Blood Pact for affliction, demonology and destruction warlocks. For those who disdain the watered-down arts that other cling to like a safety blanket … For those willing to test their wills against the nether and claim the power that is their right … Blood Pact welcomes you.

Many welcomes back once again, favored warlocks. If, like me, you are a studious creature of the night who probably has coffee flowing through his veins instead of anything closely resembling blood, then you know that late on Saturday night, Blizzard released some fun new information. My personal favorite CM (just don’t tell the others), Zarhym, released the new set bonuses associated with the up-and-coming tier 13. While at first we cursed that Zar would have the audacity to post such a thing in the wee hours of night, let’s take a look at what we’re to expected for the next patch and the terrible implications that come with it.

All does not seem to be well in the house of warlocks, my friends. Both of our newest tier sets hold warning signs of terrible things to come. We’ll be looking into those not-so-quiet rumblings and what they might hold for us in the next patch as we battle Deathwing himself.

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Blood Pact: Looking at tier 13 bonuses originally appeared on WoW Insider on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ready Check: Looking into DKP loot systems

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Ready Check helps you prepare yourself and your raid for the bosses that simply require killing. Check back with Ready Check each week for the latest pointers on killing adds, not standing in fire, and hoping for loot that won’t drop.

Welcome back, raiders. In our last edition, we talked about the importance of having a solid loot system as a part of a solid raiding team. Loot is the end result of playing this game, no matter which sector it is that you choose to focus on. Having a great distribution system for all the shiny trinkets that your raid stumbles across insider the corpses of giant beasts helps to ensure that everything runs smoothly. As was mentioned last week, each loot system is judged based on how equally it distributes loot as well as how well it rewards player participation.

This week, we’ll be taking a look at one of the more common loot systems that you come across in WoW and how they all rank. Remember, loot distribution is always something that should be taken seriously, but more than that, there is no one right answer. Which system works for one raid group might not pan out for another. The ultimate goal is to avoid any and all loot problems in a raid; provided that a system avoids that, then the rest doesn’t matter.

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Ready Check: Looking into DKP loot systems originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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