Category Archives: Blizzcon

WoW class design and the illusion of choice

By Lissanna | Published: October 29, 2011

In 2006, I began writing guides to help new players learning World of Warcraft. My first adventure in guide writing was taking over the leveling guide for druids. More recently, I started the healing guide, when I felt there was a gap in the information available to healing druids who needed to do more than [...]

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Post-Blizzcon wrapup: OMG healing shrooms!

By Lissanna | Published: October 23, 2011

Hey everyone, I wanted to post a recap last night, but I was too exhausted to form coherent sentences by the time I got back to my hotel last night. This post, instead, is delayed in time but much more coherent & complete than what last night’s 1 sentence post would have read: “OMG healing [...]

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Vote for Blizzcon questions!

By Lissanna | Published: October 18, 2011

Last year, I watched the live stream at home and was really overall disappointed with the quality of questions people asked at some of the panels. The first time I went to blizzcon (in 2008), I actually got to ask a question at the class panel. I’m going to try and ask a question again [...]

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Blizzcon 2010: Class panel Q&A

By Lissanna | Published: October 23, 2010

At Blizzcon on Saturday, they had a Q&A with their class/systems designers. It’s pretty interesting. For the Q&A sessions today, I’m going to stick with druid questions to highlight what happened today in the Q&A’s. GC talked some about their full-time systems design team, highlighting that he’s not the only developer that has an impact [...]

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Blizzcon 2010: WOW Raid & Dungeon panel

By Lissanna | Published: October 22, 2010

So, the highlights of Blizzcon so far (for me) has been the announcement of the Moonkin Hatchling pet as a charity pet we’ll be able to buy in November. Contains spoilers for Cataclysm & 4.1 The Class & Dungeons Panel highlights (Itallics are my commentary on the panel): 5-man Dungeons “Classic Heroics (Deadmines & shadowfang [...]

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