Ciderhelm

The title is misleading -- this won't end all maps. So, apologies on the bait and switch.

As some of you know, my hobby is a strange one. I draw maps. I love maps. And I happen to have a very good excuse for this time-consuming activity -- it's for the Evensfell game project!

Yesterday I began something I had been dreading, not because I didn't want to do it, but because I know how long it will take me to do it. Think Gandalf telling Frodo to go from the Shire and throw...

We completed our first raid in AOC. For those who weren't aware, a very large chunk of our guild is TankSpot folk.

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Kylliki's Crypt is where we first hit. Here's your outline of the entire zone: Honorguards, Spellguards, Priests, and minions (inconsequential mobs that can be 1-shot). That was the trash. That was the only trash. Every single pull had at least one of each. There was zero variety over the course of about 15 pulls.
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I'll keep this brief, because I'd like to expand on it later.

WoW's 5-mans require reaction and reflex at a level that other content really does not. This is especially true the quicker you pull packs of mobs. Being able to near-instantly respond to a target moving towards a healer, being able to handle multiple mobs through rapid tab targeting, these kinds of things let a Warrior really push ahead in terms of overall skill. There's no real point where a Warrior feels powerless in a...

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I am going to be putting this into something more cohesive, but since the subject keeps coming up, I'm posting this. This is partly in response to the recent issues from Nihilum, as well as the announcement from Risen that they'd no longer be raiding.

Also, I'm not interested in casual players saying "I told you so!" Or any of the garbage that fills the WoW forums. If you've never raided, don't even respond unless you have something substantive, because 9/10ths of non-raiders...