The concensus within WoW is that there is a tank shortage, the designers built wrath around a tank shortage (enter the DK), there is also a shortage of healers, not as huge but it’s there. I disagree, there is no shortage of players who play healing and tanking toons, who spend a lot of time…

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[Edit: 20/Sept/2010 These images are outdated, there are more recent posts on this blog as well as elsewhere which cover the new models which dropped over the weekend.] As always, things may / will change.

Or, “you pulled it, you tank the damm thing!” Following on from the discussion from Blog Azeroth on healers letting people die to their own stupid it struck me that the same question applies equally to the tank. So, should I as a tank in a 5-man heroic (or indeed any other 5-man content) let…

Another day, another update on Real ID (Updated Blue on Real ID), Let’s look at some of the interesting points. Addons A bit of a dodge here by Blizz, apparently as long as you don’t install an addon designed to collect the data there’s no risk.  However how many of us spend the time to…

Pretty much everything in the original classic Azeroth is changing, the world is being ripped apart and rebuilt.  A massive undertaking, we’re getting new quest lines, the rewards are being re-worked, this is earth shattering.  What about all the old content, where is it going?  Away is the simple answer, more likely stored in the…

For the moment. Things have had a chance to calm down and settle though the rumblings are continuing, rather like the earthquakes we’re getting in the build up to Cataclysm. I’m hoping that it isn’t a portent of what is to come in the future.  The storm on the forums and what I suspect was/is…

Guardian / Blizzard Interview (part1) (part2)

As the world is changing the calls of classic realms are back.  So let’s look at the arguments. Blizzard are made of money True, they make a lot of money from the sales, but a chunk of that goes to support the kit, dev team, support etc etc.  A chunk of the ‘spare’ cash is…

Take one female lovebird, ideally fixated with nesting, eggs and populating the world with more lovebirds, add the top of a huge dresser where they can hide and play without being annoyed by the two legged food providers, throw into the mix twin and earth cabling. I present a work of modern art, or possibly…