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Archive for the 'Guides & Tutorials' Category

Developing a Successful Raiding Guild: A Prologue

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

About a month ago, someone on my server approached me and asked for my advice on leading a successful raiding guild. This person wasn’t interested in building a guild that could score world firsts or dominate the server competition. Such advice is something I cannot give, as I do not have any experience leading guilds [...]

A GM’s Perspective: Where Do You Find the Time?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

These past few weeks have seen my guild leadership work increase twofold. Nearly every waking hour between half-marathon training, sleep, work and school has been focused on leading the guild. The work has obviously come to the point where my blog and time for leisure has suffered. Recruitment particularly has required more attention than previously. [...]

The End Heal of Lifebloom Generates No Threat: An Addendum

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The article assumes that the bloom portion of Lifebloom from being offensively dispelled is the same as the bloom that occurs naturally from one that naturally expires. –Xinhuan in a comment on the original article. This is a valid concern expressed about the original tests. So further testing had to be conducted to strengthen the [...]

The End Heal of Lifebloom Generates No Threat

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

There’s been a debate raging amongst the druid community for the past year and a half. It started with a series of rather simple empirical tests a friend and I conducted in early March of 2007, the results of which we posted on Elitist Jerks. In short, we concluded the end heal of lifebloom generated [...]

Guides and Tutorials: Threat Mechanics

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The entry is meant to serve largely as an introduction to the post I’ll be making soon after. However, it warrants its own entry because of the complexity of the subject matter. Be that as it may, you should know my take on threat is nearly identical to that of Kenco’s. So you can skip [...]