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      Cataclysm CE features announced, I sigh

      August 18, 2010 /

      Cataclysm Collector's Edition

      I’ve never understood the collector’s editions for World of Warcraft. I really enjoy the game, but there are so many easily attainable pets (which is the only thing that really entices me out of the feature list) that I can’t really understand dropping the extra cash on it. People spend money on weirder stuff, and I guess there’s enough involved to keep the crazy lore freaks happy.

      Here’s what you get:

      CATACLYSM EXCLUSIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES DVD:
      • Over an hour of developer interviews and commentaries, discussing the game’s development from early design through finished gameplay.
      • The Cataclysm intro cinematic and major content patch trailers complete with Director’s Commentary.
      • A special Warcraft retrospective examining the rich gaming history of the Warcraft universe.

      COLLECTOR’S EDITION SOUNDTRACK:
      • Seventeen epic tracks from Cataclysm.

      THE ART OF CATACLYSM:
      • 176 pages of art, featuring never-before-seen images from the archives of the Blizzard Film Department and the World of Warcraft development team.
      • Progressive visuals from every stage of development – from early concepts through to finished, detailed art.

      WORLD OF WARCRAFT®: CATACLYSM™ PC/MAC GAME:
      • The full World of Warcraft expansion set on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM.

      WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRADING CARD GAME STARTER PACKS AND EXCLUSIVE CARDS:
      • One 60-card deck from the new Wrathgate series featuring two extended art cards and visuals from several of fantasy’s top creators.
      • Two exclusive hero cards, marking the first appearance of goblin and worgen heroes in the WOW:TCG.
      • One full-sized rule book to teach you how to play.

      EXCLUSIVE IN-GAME PET:
      • He may not be a breaker of worlds… at least not yet… but Lil’ Deathwing will still aid you in your titanic struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart.

      CATACLYSM MOUSEPAD:
      • A special-edition mouse pad depicting Deathwing menacing the ravaged continents of Azeroth.

      See, there’s some good stuff in there. Gamestop lists the box set at $79.99.

      Activision, Previews

      All Roads Return to WoW: The people are still the important part

      August 2, 2010 /

      Keep your people close.

      I know a lot of you don’t enjoy WoW, or at the very least you’ve burnt out, but I’m still having a lot of fun playing, and I can only see that going up. The main reason: people.

      I got back into WoW basically because I knew that a buddy who plays League of Legends was around. I didn’t think – not in a million years – that I would be back with my old raiding guild just a month after I started playing again. It’s actually pretty exciting and has turned out to be the thing I missed most from the game experience on the whole. It’s really nice to have a group of people consistently around for a game. I have that to a smaller extent currently in LoL, but I spent hours with these guys (and gals – hi Ishi!), for good or ill, and it’s been fun to reconnect.

      If you find yourself bored or disinterested in any game, I’d recommend one of two things – get to know some people in game, or get to know some people in real life. Either way, you win and win big.

      All Roads Return to WoW, MMO

      All Roads Return to WoW: Playing the Auction House

      July 26, 2010 /

      Hoarding your gold.

      It had been a few weeks and I was starting to lose interest in WoW. Well, I thought I was starting to lose interest. What was really happening is that I was only playing the few parts of the game I had yet to experience. I was running heroics – a lot of them – and kinda doing little else. I did go through a crafting spree, leveling jewelcrafting from 1-450 over the course of a few days, but I wasn’t doing all of the things I used to love about the game.

      The crafting was a start, but one of the things I really enjoyed in WoW was the Auction House. It seems a little see, and frankly there are a lot of games in the world with in-game currency houses, but nothing has gripped me quite like WoW. I love digging around to find deals, trying to find the hottest items, figuring out where sellers are over and under charging. For whatever reason it feels like a safe way to feed that gambling itch everyone seems to have (at least everyone I know). I’ve made thousands of gold over the past few days alone, and sure, it’s just pixels on a screen, but it does provide a simple thrill of success I find truly enchanting.

      There are other aspects of the game I’m slowly remembering to return to. More on that later.

      All Roads Return to WoW, News

      All Roads Return to WoW: I want to slap the guy that invented Gear Score

      July 22, 2010 /

      gear-scoreI finally got my druid to level 80 and I’ve spent the last week or so getting him geared up through heroics and the occasional PUG raid. It’s actually been a lot of fun. I’ve always enjoyed tanking, and despite my relatively little experience doing it, I’d say I’m starting to get fairly skilled at keeping a critter’s attention so my group can kill it.

      The problem now, though, is that there isn’t a ton of loot left for me to pick up, and I’d really like to see some more content before the expansion comes out. I thought that would be fairly easy to do, but dear god was I wrong.

      According to most information out there, I’m ready to start tanking the 10-man version of Trial of the Crusader. It’s a pretty straightforward zone from what I can tell, and my health pool, avoidance, and overall mitigation should be more than enough. I just have to learn the fights. Unfortunately, the people running those raids are looking for a Gear Score over 5000, and I’m somewhere around 4500. What’s worse, the items that will bump me more than 50 of these arbitrary points per slot are typically from 25-man heroic raids that are no longer being run or the normal modes of raids for which I don’t apparently qualify.

      I finally got a guy to ignore the GS issue and let me into a ToC 10 and when our melee pulled the fire from the second boss straight onto me while I was tanking adds and proceeded to follow me around, guess who got kicked? Yeah, it was me.

      All Roads Return to WoW

      All Roads Return to WoW: Tier set models are lame

      July 13, 2010 /

      Tier Blah.

      When I first started playing WoW I was so excited about the style of the game and enjoying the leveling process so much that I really didn’t care too much about tier sets. As I got more and more involved in the game, though, I started to lust after that gear a little bit. The original tier gear had really cool models, which is a big part of my drive for getting a piece of equipment.

      In Burning Crusade it was the same thing – the tier sets looked incredible. The Tier 4 sets remain some of my favorite in the game, and Tier 6 was amazing as well. I wasn’t a fan of most T5, but that might just be me.

      The current sets, though, are appalling. Most of the Tier 9 and Tier 10 sets look like a monochromatic blob of trash. Gone are the cool shoulder animations (remember those sweet priest shoulders with the blind faces of justice on them?) and the nifty details in the chest pieces and leggings. It doesn’t help that everyone is rolling around in the same gear because of the ease of the badge system, so as ugly as the sets are, I get sick of them much more quickly.

      Lucky for me I’m playing a druid, I guess. Bears always look the same…

      All Roads Return to WoW

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