Since I already have one topic going about the changes to the most popular healers in WoW today, I thought I’d take a different angle to it – i.e. fix instead of nerf. The main reason Paladins (and Shammies and Druids to a lesser, more specific extent) are the main healers is they simply have a better healing tree. So I’m going to try my very amateur hand at redesigning the Holy and Disc trees. This will be a bumpy ride. More after the cut.
Author: Oz
Jaded old gamer, and father of gamers, who's been around long enough. Still, he's always up for giving the Next Big Thing a whirl.
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.Healing drama
Here comes one of those opinion type pieces that always get me in trouble later. Of my limited WoW time however, it’s the one that comes up the most. Every night in guild chat, and present on every board I read. So I’ll give my feedback on it. After pondering words for a while, it seems it’d be easier to simply just type out the shortest ones and go with it. So here goes – buff priests.
Ah there we go. Half of you have already tuned out. I can hear your mental gears already shifting into defense mode. You’ve got a long drawn out, probably number filled reason why priests don’t need buffage. I’ve got another one, but it has no numbers involved. It’s like my original statement, short ‘n sweet – healing sucks.
In lieu of something original
Just to be sure we’re on the April Foolery bandwagon, and because I’m at a loss of something clever, I giving you a link to the classic, and probably most famous, April Fools Day gag of all time- The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest . Yes it’s grainy, but this was from 1957. Back in those days, we carved our TV’s out of stone.
Enjoy!
No time for WoW, must Puzzle Quest!
Upon a mention from the always opinionated Tobold, I picked up a copy of Puzzle Quest for my DS. My DS was a purchase I made to avoid a boring wedding reception (really), but the lack of truly innovative or different games for it has been discouraging. I have the few ones that are out – Animal Crossing, Brain Age, Trauma Center, Partners in Time – but lately I’ve been playing the better GBA games instead. Golden Sun is fun and great graphics, but I was looking for something that actually used the DS’ power. This one delivers. It’s very fun, even in short play times, and is just different. Should you have a DS (or PSP, but I’m not sure if it’s as much fun without a stylus), I highly recommend snagging this one.
I expect I’ll be even more AFK on flight paths than normal now.
Me & My 10 Foot Pole
[World of Warcraft] The latest patch notes via WoW’s Test Realm have Priests, Druids, and Paladins crying foul, although as of last night some of the nastier changes for Priests at least had been undone. That said, there’s any number of other places on the web you can debate the pros and cons of the patch, so I’ll skip that and instead focus on a different issue I used to bring up with developers I interacted with: communication of said nerfs.
It’s all about tone. Remember Office Space and the TPS reports bit? There you go.
Growth via Cut-n-Paste
[World of Warcraft] For the first time in a long time I lost my cool on WoW last night. Of course, I had rough day at work, was fighting a migraine, and this was just the famous final straw, but I’ve gotten angry at the situation before. It has to do with the fact so many of BC’s quests are direct copies of each other for each side. This ends up causing annoying situations like where I spawned a mob for my quest (this was the annoying trampoline quest in Nagrand, which took almost 30 minutes for me to land in the nest), only to have a squad of nearby Ally druids snag it. Since they could fly up, they got the quest item without agroing the bird, then took mine, laughed, and flew off. I ended up swearing and turning off my computer. Yes, there’s an element of jerk-osity there of course, but even in the best of situations you can’t help but get in the way of someone else doing the same quest without any way to help.
BC turns 1 (month)
[World of Warcraft] Here we are, 759 long hours later, in the land of the alien lizard guys and stuck up elves. Where the quests are paved with gold, and the average orc abandoned in the middle of nowhere has loot in his quest cache that would make Nefarian cry.
It’s been an exciting, and fast month. The exp flows, the gold flows, the place looks amazing, really amazing, and on the whole the masses are quite happy with what Blizzard has done with the place. While the launch had a few issues, this may be (feel free to correct me) the only time we had a major launch and still had product on the shelves to cover the need while the servers remained mostly alive to players. As I’ve already written in some detail already about BC, I’d like to turn the floor over to you, our faithful reader. What about BC would you like to see some writing about? Sans high level raiding, I think I have tendrils in with enough people to get some sort of a story. The suggestion box is open.
Paying to Beta
[World of Warcraft] A thread I’ve been following elsewhere references a theme I’ve heard before: the release of unfinished content in an expansion has become acceptable. The poster states that there are several unfinished aspects in WoW’s expansion, The Burning Crusade, and declares that the solution to this problem is that the developers should have made it harder to level so that they had time to fix it, after release.
How has this become modus operandi?
WoW Item Creator
Stolen from AFKGamer, the WoW Item Creator is a fun little toy.
Found this one…seems appropriate, no?
Casual BC @ 60+: 5 things looking to see
[World of Warcraft] To finish this up, 5 things I hope to see in BC soon are included after the break. Some are flat expectations, some are desires, and some are wistful dreamings of a bewildered gamer.
Don’t ask which is which.