Why All the Talk of Brutally Hard Heroics is Bittersweet for Me

So if Twitter is any indication, 90% of the WoW-playing world is happy about the return of CC and “hard heroics” that went the way of the Dodo in Wrath of the Lich King.
But I gotta admit, I’m not entirely with you hallelujah-singers.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I loved the heck out of Burning Crusade heroics. I loved chain trapping. I loved long, careful pulls with the raid icons on everything. I loved heroics that took like an hour to do. I loved when asking people to

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Some cool World of warcraft images:
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Über 1.000 Fans feierten ab 22 Uhr in Berlin-Tegel gemeinsam mit zwei der Blizzard-Entwickler den Mitternachtsverkauf der "World of Warcraft"-Erweiterung "Cataclysm": Für die dritte Erweiterung des weltweit populärsten Online-Rollenspiels öffneten in vielen deutschen Städten die Shops um Mitternacht. Weltweit ist das Spiel ab 7. Dezember auch in den USA, K

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Facebook founder named as Person of the Year

Source - Well, this is essentially a MMORPG blog, but from time to time, I will post something a little bit off topic. Hey, it's my blog you know :p Well, if you haven't heard of TIME magazine, you should. It is perhaps the most respected magazine in the world today, and one of its annual features will be the Person of the Year honor. Famous people like current US president, Mr Barack Obama, was last year's choice. And this year, the honor goes to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social med

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Laying claim to the 4th pillar

In May there was a funny story where Derek Smart from Alganon plagiarized a press release from Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic, claiming that "Traditionally, massively multiplier online games have been about three basic gameplay pillars - combat, exploration and character progression. In Alganon, in addition to these we've added the fourth pillar to the equation; a story." Meanwhile, in a different corner of the internet, Blizzard had released Wrath of the Lich King in 2008, and it include

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You Fail At Cataclysm If...

So Tuesday is upon us and what does that mean? Fail Day, of course, and really who doesn't love Fail Day? You are either laughing your ass off or completely insulted, and either way that works for me. We have been playing Cataclysm for a week so I think I would throw these fails out there.You Fail At Cataclysm If...You roll disenchant on a BoE blue in an instanceYou have attempted to fly over the great divide while heading to an archaeology dig siteYou couldn't do the seahorse quest in Vashj'irY

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Sherwood Dungeon: new allies and pet features

Maid Marian Entertainment Inc. and Gene Endrody, sole creator of the indie hit MMORPG, Sherwood Dungeon (www.sherwooddungeon.com), today announced that, just in time for the holidays, two new allies are available - the Shadowfey Knight and Priestess.The Shadowfey are lost descendants of the Picts, an ancient Celtic tribe. Possessing ominous white skin and a dark mysterious gaze, this race of warriors will battle alongside players as they crawl through Sherwood’s perilous dungeons.An additional

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Cool World Of Warcraft images

A few nice World of warcraft images I found:
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Image by Schröder+Schömbs PR _ Brands | Media | Lifestyle
Über 1.000 Fans feierten ab 22 Uhr in Berlin-Tegel gemeinsam mit zwei der Blizzard-Entwickler den Mitternachtsverkauf der "World of Warcraft"-Erweiterung "Cataclysm": Für die dritte Erweiterung des weltweit populärsten Online-Rollenspiels öffneten in vielen deutschen Städten die Shops um Mitternacht. Weltweit ist das Spiel ab 7. Dezember auch in den

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