I have been raiding on my mage for all of Mists of Pandaria thus far. I really enjoyed the mage class leveling up from 89 to 90. However, as succinctly discussed on a youtube video by MikePreachWoW, the level 90 mage talents are the exact opposite of fun. The level 90 talents are largely a [...]
Author Archives: Lissanna
Patching in the New Year
Happy New Year everyone! The 2o12 year was very exciting, with the release of the Mists of Pandaria expansion! The start of the new year will soon bring us a new PTR patch with new content and fixes. Lets take a look at what is currently on the table for druids in 5.2: Cyclone was [...]
Managing your gaming time with school responsibilities
Wow Insider recently had an article in their “drama mamas” series about a college student who was having a difficult time with balancing his gaming and college studies. The article does a nice job of talking about the importance of learning self-discipline and time-management skills. Their most important advice is to make sure that you [...]
Video game research!
Our crowdfunding for science campaign has now ended! Thank you everyone! There was a great TED talk in November about the importance of making better educational video games. Video game researcher, Daphne Bavelier, from the University of Geneva, talked about research on how playing video games can change cognitive abilities and brain development (for the [...]
Last week of crowdfunding for autism video game research
Hi everyone! We have now hit the last week of the crowdfunding campaign for my research lab’s autism video game intervention project (it ends on Friday, December 14th!). These last few weeks of sharing my autism intervention research with all of you has really been incredible! I have had so much support that I can’t [...]
15 Minutes of Fame and some druid news
Hi everyone! I have a few things to cover today. First, I was featured on WOW Insider’s 15 minutes of fame blog series. You should read the article about my experiences with WOW, my real life research, and more! There are a couple of other things for druids I’d like to cover, as well, since [...]