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): [...]
Category Archives: Cataclysm
saving yawning’s feral cat guide
So, there was apparently some excitement on the WoW forums today. Yawning decided to call it quits. However, his goodbye post managed to get him banned, and along with that came the deleting of all his posts and all the content from his feral DPS guide stickied on the forums. While I know I don’t [...]
Where did the 25-man guilds go?
The current raid statistics (on sites like WoW progress) say something about the new popularity of 10-man over 25-man raiding. While I expected there to be fewer 25-man guilds than 10-man guilds in Cataclysm, the differences in numbers of boss kills for each type of raiding is something I really thought was interesting now that [...]
Druid raid healing design problem Redux
So, during Beta, I found a huge & obvious problem with the restoration druid design in Cata – namely that HOTs don’t make good triage tools on their own, and that druids completely lack direct multi-target heals. I posted multiple times about druids’ weakness in terms of their AOE healing toolset. However, there WAS a [...]
Heroic 5′s teach raid movement mechanics
So, with Cataclysm now upon us, many people have been running heroics and raid dungeons. One of the things that has become obvious is that we have returned to the days of “GOOTROF” (“Get out of the Rain of Fire”). The punishment for not moving in a lot of fights is not just a drain [...]
If resto druids get to see our armor…
Can they at least make the armor not buggy? Okay, so today I just have a short update on a couple of things. At this point, my druid has been able to start running heroics. I’ve mostly run stuff as DPS, but I’ve solo-healed a couple of heroic bosses. I haven’t been able to run [...]