Category Archives: Asides

Forum Surfing

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I found two threads in the World of Warcraft forums that might actually qualify as intelligent discourse. First, “Priests the only class with forced spec”, which isn’t entirely true, but is true enough to generate some tasty commentary. Go on, put that in your mouth, it’s delicious. Lastly, this monster thread titled “The best post. These guys deserve a nod!” about a player (Dredd GaRyn, NOT HIS REAL NAME) from the Feathermoon realm. Mr. GaRyn (NOT HIS REAL NAME) was recently diagnosed with cancer and his guild pulled together donations and other support to aid in his treatment and recovery. Now stop that! I know you’re skeptical already. And I know … how many cancer and heart surgeries have we heard about on gaming forums? More than we can count. Frankly, the freakish and fraudulent fails to catch our notice anymore. (Warning: Today is vacuum out the servers day, so the forums may load slowly or not at all.)

Massive Magazine has Game Creds

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I haven’t found, or looked for either, that new ad-rag Massive Magazine, but I have read article excerpts on their website! Looks like they do a lot of “this person doesn’t exist but if they did, they would do or say this” kind of stuff. Also, they have a lengthy piece on “virtual property brokers”, which is what we all call ebay and IGE (or RMT if you’re a Poindexter), and once you’ve covered a topic as edgy and NOW! as virtual property brokers, you’ve got game creds. Here’s something you won’t read in Massive, unless they steal it or actually log into a game and play for more than 30 minutes, my guild has a throwaway account just for laundering IGE, et al, gold. It’s not talked about openly of course, but if someone needs a little extra scratch for an alt’s epic mount or resist equipment materials and they’re nervous about exposing their primo Warcraft account to the roving band of Blizzard investigators, the throwaway is available to them, including some very rudimentary methods for laundering the gold. We’re a full service guild that way.

Rogue Talents v1.12 RC2

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Warcraft rogue talent review RC2: Rogue Talent Review – Second Sight. What looks good on e-paper: “Garrote, Eviscerate, and Rupture now all scale with Attack Power. The previously announced Eviscerate book will still be made available in an undisclosed location. While we had always planned to scale these abilites at a point in the future, we felt that the rank upgrade for Eviscerate and damage increase for Garotte would provide a well needed boost in the current game and carry these abilities until the scaling mechanic was implemented. Our ultimate goal to scale the abilities in a future update was decided to be moved ahead, and the current plan is to implement scaling for these abilities in 1.12, instead of in a later update.” Rogues are reportedly cautiously optimistic.