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Just in from the Melting Pot, does your age affect your ability to play the game? My opinion, no. I’m guessing a little expansion on my response might be called for, firstly a datapoint or three.  I know within the social guild I am not the oldest, I’m pretty sure I know who is but…

This week the bundle of joy which is 4.0.6 lands on the servers, weighing in at 12,643 words (and that’s just the patch notes) it’s not a minor update.  There are many changes, every class has something to adjust to, heroics are getting nerfed, buffed and tweaked all over the place and so on.  I…

After a month and a bit of Cataclysm I have two level 85’s, a couple at 81’ish and some maxed out professions (Engineering, Mining, Herbalism) with others well on their way (tailoring, enchanting, alchemy, inscription). The cash position is promising being 5k up on where I started which can only be a good thing, though…

“Level-85 normal dungeon bosses dropping Justice Points — 30 justice points are awarded for normal level-85 dungeon boss kills to help with gearing up for heroics.” So what does this mean? Well it’s clear that people simply aren’t running heroics, they’re hard work (a good thing) but the PUG experience is not a good one. …

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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/critics-bash-facebook-for-sharing-phone-numbers-18274 The line here is simple, trust Facebook with nothing which you are not entirely happy making public to the entire world.  If you don’t want it shared, remove it from FB asap.    

How to start the new year. I’ve picked up (at least for 2011H1) another six heads for my team at work (this lot based in Kuala Lumpur to go with the teams in Bristol, Dallas & Vienna) and I appear to be throwing my hat into the ring to raid lead progression content, in addition…

“Fixing” LFD, once again the discussion arises over how to fix LFD and more specifically the behaviour of players using the feature. What are the problems? “Bad” players Refusal to cc, tanks charging in, healers bouncing around spamming their insta-casts and not focusing on keeping players up, damage classes pushing 500 dps at level 85…

Patch 4.0.6 – “Rebuke can now be trained by all paladins at level 54. Existing characters will need to visit their trainer, even if they had talented Rebuke before.” Finally, a decent cc for Paladin tanks.

This is pretty much how I’m feeling about LFD at the moment, anything other than certain normals are simply too much pain with a group which I don’t have a connection and more importantly voice comms running. So if you’re running a dps and wondering where the tanks and healer are, here is your answer,…