So, I looked at the patch notes and realized how little they actually have to do to get me to be super excited about something in a patch. The latest patchnotes for 4.1 include: A dead player can now be resurrected by targeting them using the Party or Raid Frame even if they have released. [...]
Yearly Archives: 2011
Restokin’s Second Blogiversary!
So, on March 7th, 2009, this humble druid started a blog with hopes of bringing druid guides, news, and discussion to the community. Two years later, I’m still going strong (though I’ve cut back my number of blog posts, since “every day” wasn’t going to be sustainable long-term, lol). In the last year, my blog [...]
Hurry up and wait (OR: why smaller, more frequent patches is better)
So, today I want to examine the history of patches and content releases in WOW’s history. My goal is to explain why the smaller, more frequent content updates are going to be better than the big (but infrequent) content patches we got in WotLK. First is our trip down memory lane: Patch 1.x (Vanilla WOW): [...]
Efflorescence and tranquility updates.
So, as I posted in my last post, there were 2 bugs: 1 for efflorescence and one for the tranquility cooldown reduction effect. Both of those have now been addressed by Blizzard, so I figured it was time for a follow-up post: First, the Tranquility cooldown reduction will be attached to Malfurion’s Gift, which is [...]
The joys of PTRs and bugs!
So, 4.1 has been on the PTR for a while. Like usual, the PTR testing phase is an exercise in patience and sorting out changes from bugs (both in-game AND in the patch notes). So, lets play a fun game called “it’s a bug vs. working as intended” for some resto druid changes people are [...]
Lissawen’s leveling by lolmanglespam
So, for research needed to keep my leveling guide updated, I’ve been leveling a new druid, who I named Lissawen. She’s a worgen on the same server as my main druid. However, this worgen druid is feral – mostly because I love the Worgen feral forms and I had feral heirlooms that I bought before [...]