Wired.com posted this article by Clive Thompson. It's about why MMO players, specifically World of Warcraft players, grind levels. It mentions experience in specific, but I think it could be extended to Honor, Arena Points, Reputation, BG Marks, etc.

Thompson's main point is that grinding is a direct time-to-reward relationship: The more time you put in, the more reward you will receive. Fact. He further points out that nothing (or at least, very few things) in real life work(s) that...

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... and so is Rend.

Last night, I did about half of UBRS, trying to help Zigystardust get some more Tier 0 (Dungeon 1) stuff. We had Khia, a 62 Shadow Priest along with us for some DPS (Zigy being specced resto at this point). I was really excited about tanking some dragons, even if they were terribly under level.

I have really fond memories of running UBRS over and over (all PuGs) with my Warlock, to get his [item]Dreadmist Robe[/item]. Gyth seemed really impressive back...

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Well, I haven't tanked anything since Gruul. And, you know, that's okay with me for right now. I'm not terribly interested in Kara for the moment, and I think that's what's going down tonight (Thursdays being one of our two guild nights). If there's a ZA run in the works, I'm definitely in, though.

What I have been doing is PvP. On three different toons. This may surprise some people who've known me for a while, as I had absolutely no desire to PvP for the longest time. But for now,...

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When off-tanks aren't needed to tank anything, usually on single-mob boss fights, they turn into DPS. We all know this. Assuming said off-tank is a protection warrior, we can assume they have Devastate. Most of the time, they will also have One-Handed Weapon Specialization - increasing the damage done while wielding a one-handed melee weapon by 10%.

Devastate is a pretty awesome DPS ability. Not quite as awesome as Bloodthirst,
but it will do for us prot warrior who are forced...

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