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[WoW] Improving Patch Notes
Friday 27th of March 2015
The Godmother, in a recent post , discussed ways to improve World of Warcraft patch notes, in response to a tweet by Blizzard Community Manager @Rygarius . The problem is that a significant number of people don’t read the patch notes, for many reasons: they might not even know they exist, they might not know where to find them, or perhaps they find them and see a huge wall of text and just “Nope…
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[WoW] Field Photographer: Pandaria, Outland and Draenor
Sunday 15th of March 2015
The final part! Part one : Eastern Kingdoms, and part two : Kalimdor and Northrend, were quite a bit longer than this one, since there’s only ten pictures for these three maps combined. Seems a bit odd really that there aren’t more Draenor locations in particular, given that the achievement itself is part of the expansion. At some point next week I might also write a brief post about how I edite…
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[WoW] Field Photographer: Kalimdor and Northrend
Saturday 14th of March 2015
Part two of the selfies from my Field Photographer achievement – see also part one : Eastern Kingdoms, and part three : Pandaria, Outland and Draenor. Kalimdor Caverns of Time Caverns of Time Deathwing’s Fall Deathwing’s Fall (yes I know it’s not really in Kalimdor) Echo Isles Echo Isles Halls of Origination Halls of Origination Moonglade Moonglade Nordrassil Nordrassil Onyxia’s La…
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[WoW] Field Photographer: Eastern Kingdoms
Friday 13th of March 2015
The latest patch, 6.1, of World of Warcraft introduced the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera , and a related achievement: Field Photographer , where you have to take a selfie in all the listed locations. I’d originally planned to do one post for each continent, but since they all have widely varying numbers of locations, I’m grouping them as Eastern Kingdoms Kalimdor and Northrend Pandaria, Outland and Draeno…
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[WoW] Tracking Buff Power With WeakAuras2 Progress Bars
Saturday 21st of February 2015
NOTE: this was written in 2015, so it’s probably out of date now. Several classes in World of Warcraft have a buff or debuff they can apply, of which it would be useful to know the power. For example, fire mages have their Ignite debuff, which determines how much damage Combustion will do when cast, so it’s important to keep track of the current Ignite damage in order to make best use of C…
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[WoW] 10 Years, 10 Questions
Tuesday 12th of August 2014
This is in response to The Godmother’s post wherein she presents the 10 questions to World of Warcraft players. 1. Why did you start playing Warcraft ? I’m honestly not sure any more, it’s been so long. I think it was mostly just idle curiosity, piqued after I saw an advert somewhere about the free trial, and simply wondering what all this MMO lark was all about. 2. What was the first ever char…
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[WoW] Ups and downs of scaling
Tuesday 22nd of October 2013
As suggested by a recent leak , the next World of Warcraft expansion may introduce level scaling, similar to how Guild Wars 2 does it. The basic idea is that when you enter a zone or instance, your level and gear are scaled down to the maximum for that place, making much more challenging than it’d otherwise be. Up There are a few positives to scaling, based on experience with the system in GW2 .…
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[WoW] I transmogged my heirlooms
Sunday 20th of October 2013
Heirlooms are pretty great if you just want to get from 1 – 90 as fast as possible. There are two problems with being decked out in a full set of standard heirlooms, though: You look like everyone else in them. And worse than that, I kinda think the heirlooms are ugly as hell. You make new tanks/healers nervous. You see, heirloom gear is kinda overpowered, and many folks let this go to their head…
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[WoW] Walls of text
Thursday 17th of October 2013
World of Warcraft is a complicated game. The Godmother’s recent post on the matter , and specifically on ways to improve the in-game ‘player education’ aspect of it, comes just as Bhagpuss published a post on a similar topic, that of how newbie-friendly the game is. Both posts shine a light on the unfortunate fact that honestly, WoW doesn’t do much within itself to guide new players, or veteral…
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[WoW] Guide: using Hugin for panoramic screenshots
Thursday 17th of October 2013
Quick link: Hugin Panoramas are cool – they show a much wider/taller view than it’s possible to capture in one shot, and do so in a way that doesn’t have the same weird rectilinear or fisheye distortion you get from regular wideangle or fisheye lenses. Here’s an example of what I mean: Trial of the Crusader panorama If you actually go to the instance and stand in the same spot, you’ll notice r…
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