It's a common misconception that if fewer players run LFR, queue times will automatically go up. Queue times only go up if (a) role imbalance forces certain roles to wait, (b) fewer than 25 people...
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It's a common misconception that if fewer players run LFR, queue times will automatically go up. Queue times only go up if (a) role imbalance forces certain roles to wait, (b) fewer than 25 people...
Combining the lockouts and equalizing the loot was definitely a good change for me. I quit 25s after BC because I didn't like herding 25 cats, and while I had fun doing 10s in Wrath, I didn't like:...
I had a kind of zany idea about leveling alts: if you have a max-level character, perhaps you should be allowed to pick up quests at a lower level than you could the first time through. So, instead...
I vaguely remember a fight where an NPC runs off to fight adds while you deal with the boss. Maybe Akama during the Illidan fight? But I think it happened far enough away that you normally don't...
If you're going to count the dance on Will of the Emperors, which melee also have to do, then you ought to count the Durumu maze and other mechanics which apply to everyone. (Sure, it's a bigger...
While most of the Throne of Thunder fights have a taunt swap for a debuff, tanks often have other stuff to do as well. Jin'rock has a bit of positioning (though it's simple), Horridon has a bunch of...
Nalak is basically a scaled-up Isle of Thunder rare, so they've got that covered.
I expect Blizzard to take at least one more swing at world bosses, probably in 5.4. One of them will probably a...
I would be in the "wait, that's it?" category if the big game-changer were tri-spec (it probably isn't). I play a elemental/resto shaman as my main in Mists, and it's hard enough keeping reasonable...
I'm not sure where 4 interrupts comes from. In my group we kill the first venom priest before the next two spawn (using damage CDs), then mark one of the pair with a skull and assign an interrupter...
Spirit swords are unusual, I think because holy paladins and mistweavers would be the only users, but Jin'rokh drops one.
A few other things I've noticed in recent Blizzard statements:
* Blizzard doesn't generally make fine-tuning adjustments during a patch, because many players react negatively to change. They are...
I've been seeing a lot of "all we have is our DPS" from mages, which is kind of puzzling. If mages can't do viable DPS, that would be a problem, full stop. If mages have substantially less unique...
My favorite twist was Marshall Windsor revealing that Lady Kathana Prestor was Onyxia--another quest chain you can't do any more, and alliance-only. (Also, less interesting after you did it dozens...
This depends a lot on your role. While it's possible to time a phase transition or line up a 6s cooldown with a big hit, it's much, much easier with DBM timer bars. DPS usually don't have to worry...
Two relevant recent tweets from Greg Street:
https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/286195938295422976
https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/285887743878393856
The first one says that...
I'm not sure if WoW could introduce real progression-oriented 5-man content without turning it into a "mandatory" extracurricular activity for raiders, which might be really frustrating for some...
Black Temple was nine bosses, but it came alongside Hyjal with its five bosses and endless trash. Of course, there were no heroic modes, so the time pressures were different.
Adding new content...
It's a bit like going to a restaurant and ranting loudly about how much the food sucks.
I would love to see an option where after an LFR finishes, you could stay in the group, backfill it, and restart at the beginning. Then it wouldn't matter where you queued in initially; you could do...
Simulationcraft can actually model a lot more than just Patchwerk fights performed by perfectly behaving robots; it can model periods of movement, stuns, boss vulnerability/invulnerability, and even...
I think people are hugely overreacting to the BMAH Brawler's Guild invite system. In a few weeks or a few months, supply will exceed demand and invitations will cost, at most, whatever the BMAH...
You kind of quoted me out of context there. In many cases negative feedback is constructive, but not when it's "you gave me a bunch of menu options, and because I have to eat all of them all the...
The more I see this argument going around and around, the more I think "I am forced to do everything I can to make raiding easier, but I will complain about everything I don't like" is toxic to the...
They keep making the BOP crafting mats non-binding because that's their plan, not because it turns out to be a bad idea every time. They came right out and said that spirits of harmony probably...
When I explain an encounter to my raid, I start with the basics of what to do in each phase (often stopping at phase 1), and then drill down into the mechanics after one or two pulls. A video can't...