June Blog Posts

A week later than we would've liked, but we played poorly last week so probably deserved our placement at US 5th instead of US 2nd. Alas.

I wish I could wax poetic about it being a great fight. It isn't.

I wish I could go on about how clever the 1-hour mechanic was. It wasn't.

One of the bonuses you get as a top guild is getting to spend hours on a fight like Mimiron hard mode figuring it out, before there's all the videos. It takes you longer (although you get your kill before others), but the sheer joy that is a very hard fight without extra information is the reward.

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This is from Enthorn, on Dunemaul, in the guild Shadow Brotherhood. It's a good list of actual problems/proposed solutions. My previous essay, which was myths, is what you should read if you have objections to anything here -- e.g., "We can't give mages better gems, then they'd do more dps!"

It's from the same monster thread that my previous post was in: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17899801584&sid=1&pageNo=1

Also, my additions to his list are in italics.

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I posted this on the WoW forums earlier today, but reposting it here for posterity:

Here's some more mage myths for you, GC, that I have seen you and other Blizzard posters make over the years.

All are provably false. Please feel free to ask for supporting data if you wish, but I've posted on all of them so many times that I don't want to waste my time re-writing that which may again be ignored:

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