Rage is a problematic mechanic, and has been since its implementation. It can be a lot of fun, but it can also be frustrating, and it contributes to Warriors’ gear dependance. Blizzard is probably working on a way to redo rage entirely, but in the mean time, I’d like to highlight this suggestion for a rage revamp from Alveredus, a commenter on a recent post of mine.
Here’s a quick rundown of Alveredus’s proposal:
Rage increases over time by itself.
The more rage you have, the lower your attack speed, but the higher your crit chance.
When your rage is at maximum, you start losing resilience.
Your abilities vent rage instead of costing rage – same thing really, but a different way of looking at it.
I’m not certain about the specifics of it, but I like the general idea of rage being something you want to get rid of instead of
We’re in the dog days of summer at this point — the sun is high and hot, the beaches and swimming pools are full, and if you’re a kid, the days are long and lazy. Which is probably why we’ve got all the kids in game lately — as donnyman notes, when school lets out and summer is underway, the population of Azeroth seems to get much bigger during the day. Some might say that’s a good thing: more people playing means more PuGs and more AH buying and selling, while others might say they don’t really want more of the younger audience in the game.
I haven’t had too much experience with this lately, as most of my gametime is in the evenings and on weekends, so I already see most of the school folks as I play. But I do remember the yearly migration of kids to video games — I worked at Gamestop for about a year and a
Sometimes, you come across something really special. I definitely think I’m MT Act I by Gforce resoundingly qualifies. The author apologizes on his WarcraftMovies.com page for a poor translation, but I had absolutely no problem with it at all. The subtitles sometimes were a little tough to read, but I’m not sure how much I needed the them in the first place.
The video’s about ten minutes long, and I don’t feel like any of the time was wasted. The characterizations of the Horde races were brilliantly executed, and each class is distinct and well-represented in the eyes of a knowledgeable WoW player. (This actually leads to the only translation error I really noticed, since the subtitles call the Shaman a Druid.)
The action is clean and simple. And, while I know I lose Man Points for saying this, it was absolutely adorable. The whole darn
When talking to Editor-in-Chief Liz Harper this morning, I noticed something. A few of us here at WoW.com have sort of forgotten the P in WRUP. It’s supposed to be What Are You Playing, not What Are You Doing In Real Life (WRUDIRL). Reading through this week’s WRUP entries, I’m pretty sure Lesley isn’t buying a camera in Stormwind, Lisa isn’t vacationing in Nagrand, and I’m almost positive Matt Rossi isn’t visiting a botanical garden in WoW. It’s certainly possible, but unlikely. Honestly, it’s probably more interesting this way. So what are we doing?
Adam Holisky (@adamholisky): Working my Rogue to 70.
Alex Ziebart (@aziebart): When I’m not trying to get things done around here? Gearing up my Alliance Death Knight while I can still use my Alliance resources, because I’ll be transforming him into a
Good morning Europe. While many of you are stuck waiting for a large number of realms to finish a lengthy period of extended maintenance, it seems like the rest of us are going to have to wait a little bit longer to get back into Azeroth.
Blizzard has announced that, as well as selected realms getting extended maintenance until 3:00pm CEST, all the non-affected realms will continue to be offline until 1:00pm CEST. These realms were originally supposed to go back online around 11:00am CEST. We’ll keep you up to date on more developments as they happen.
Update: Blizzard have announced that the following realms will continue to be offline for maintenance until 5:00pm CEST: Auchindoun, Ghostlands, Hellfire, Karazhan, Nagrand, Shattered Halls, Sporeggar, The Sha’tar.
We’ve started getting a few emails regarding the authentication servers. Apparently there are issues again tonight! None of us on staff were actually running into any trouble, so we assumed it was just an anomaly until we saw this thread. From reading through it, it appears that the reason none of us on staff had problems was because we had all converted to Battle.net accounts, and this time around only those that haven’t converted are running into problems. Fancy that!
Blizzard is aware of the problem, and seem to be actively investigating it. Keep an eye on the linked thread for updates, and if you want a quick fix to get on and play the game tonight… just convert to Battle.net and you’ll be on in no time.
And for the record, when you write in about server outages? If we haven’t posted about something yet, it doesn’t help you
