Today, I’m going to talk about some of my problems with frost mages in the 5.2 MOP patch. With the Invocation talent change, my frost mage was still running OOM before the Invoker’s Energy buff faded, and so I was having to use evocation early (thus losing out on the benefit of the change they [...]
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Patch 5.2 resto druid buff update
Restoration druids are getting a pair of buffs in 5.2 that should help your overall healing. Lets take a look at what hit the PTR today. 10% overall healing buff First, there is a “new” passive called “naturalist”. This is a straight 10% buff to all your healing spells. This helps off-set the fact that [...]
Why I hate the level 90 Mage talents
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 [...]
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 [...]