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Something Awful in Warcraft

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Something Awful has been hitting the high notes lately with their Art of Warcraft columns. I haven’t been following SA as closely as I did, oh, 4 years ago. Fortunately, emailer Shin has been doing the work for me and tipped me to SA’s The 1st Annual “Best of Being a Dickhead” Awards Ceremony, an anecdote showcase of players being dickheads to other players. You will also enjoy the latest Art of Warcraft, Epic Mounts: Love in Warcraft (part 1), an experiment in the economies of cybersex. (includes screenshots!) The author, Caylen “Abraham” Burroughs, concluded the experiment by warning two of her/his subjects that they might want to get character name changes. Yeah. Ya think?

Now We Hate Patch 1.10

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And I had such high hopes for World of Warcraft’s Patch 1.10, the Patch that Would Save the Game!

Didn’t take long — a few days after the test realm players had time to get their hands dirty, just about everyone is pissed about something.

New Non-raider Epics. This is the gear that was added on the fly to Patch 1.10 to quell the rising shitstorm. (I’m guessing about that “on the fly”, the shitstorm is not a guess.)

What People Hate: New (even) lower raid limits on the Tier 0 Instances — those are your Scholo, the Strath twins, Blackrock Depths (BRD) and the two Blackrock Spires (UpperBRS/LowerBRS) areas. BRS limited to 10-man, all the others will be 5-man.

Translation: This time when you run these dungeons over and over again for your Tier 0 gear, you’re REALLY going to want a solid tank and healer.

The revamped Tier Crap instances will have new bosses, better drop rates and improved loot. Which is good, because you must have your Tier 0 set to turn in for the new epic set. You vendored it? Disenchanted maybe? Oh. Bummer.

(Seriously, just start raiding Molten Core, Blackwing Lair and Ahn’Queer. Life will be so much easier for you then.)

Here’s more from authorized Blizzard posters on the Dungeon changes: 90-minute runs, start re-farming Dungeon 1 pieces, dungeon sets are class specific.

What Foton Hates: Nothing. I’m in a raid guild so I dodged that bullet. Funny how that works out, huh? Being serious though, I’ve stopped asking, “WHY?? WHY??”, when it comes to design decisions. There often is no why.

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