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3.0.2 Hunters - A Primer2010-02-26 00:00:00I wrote this for the hunters in my guild, but as my server's down I decided to crosspost it here. Mostly for but also in case you want to use it whenever we update the FAQ. <br />I'm writing this mainly not for the hunter mains in the guild. Most of you will know this stuff already, but for alts and non-hunters who would like to know some of the more important changes in our class. <br />Pets <br />Lets do this first as this is probably the biggest and most noticeable change. Pets have been given a huge overhaul. Think of them now as 3 new player classes. A tank, and 2 varieties of DPS. They now get talented like players. the trees are a little as follows. <br />Tenacity: (aka the tanking tree) Pets with this tree make very good tanks, certainly a lot better than you'd expect from a pet. They are certainly capable of tanking a normal instance. The hunter skill required to have his/her pet tank effectively while they DPS is quite challenging, but also quite fun. Gorillas deserve special mention as they were buffed quite heavily and now function similar to Paladin tanks. Not quite as good at holding AoE aggro as Pallys, but frankly, not far off! <br />Examples of Tenacity pets: Bears, Warpstalkers, Gorillas <br />Ferocity: (aka the burst damage spec) Pets with this tree will probably be your best friend for raiding or PvP. They specialise in what the old 'good' pets did. They hit hard, except now they hit even harder. <br />Examples of Ferocity pets: Cats, Devilsaurs, Moths <br />Cunning: (aka the specialist damage tree...
question Id bet you already know the2010-02-11 00:00:00I don't think you really need to ask this question...I'd bet you already know the answer....you seem like you know how to gear. Your uritable, urushable (with shield blk or we the warrior skill isalled) and over 12k health unbuffed, with 4 greens, whh is perftly fine for heros. (I remember my old guild leader saying that warriors need to be uritable, and over 12k health, to tank kara...) P.S. I've seen people say don'tome to heros with greens, but I started heros with about the same stats as you and I had a green trinket :P....The mage probably saw four greens, and said ...
Battlefield: Bad Company2009-10-15 00:00:00Battlefield: Bad Company's multiplayer blew the doors off of a late-night premier event last week in San Francisco. It also blew off the walls, the floor tiles and the roof shingles. Bad Company's multiplayer lets you destroy just about anything you can see, faithfully reproducing the single-player mantra of total destruction. Violent hot points erupt around caches of gold, carrying Bad Company's relentlessly "Three Kings" view of army life into multiplayer as well.<br /><br />Bring Down the House (with Grenades)<br /><br />The game revolves around caches of gold in a modern war zone. In the single-player campaign, a squad of four U.S. Army soldiers go rogue to try to make it ri...
Laguna college adds game major and Warcraft art show 2009-09-26 00:00:00Everyone is jumping on the computer and video games trend, including the Laguna College of Art & Design.<br />This fall, the school debuted a new major: Game Art, with a focus on digital media for games. The new Bachelor of Fine Art degree is being touted by the school as a way graduates “will be qualified to enter this billion-dollar a year market.”<br />And to kick off the new major, the school is hosting a free exhibit featuring works inspired by the Wor...
Patch Perfection2009-09-17 00:00:00The Austin Game Conference is rolling along and our own Nicole Hamlett is there taking in the sights. Keep checking back for any interesting tidbits that Nicole throws our way.Apparently the MMOG Rant session was a hoot yesterday. NCSoft designer, Scott Jennings was first up and took on MMOG companies abilities to deliver patches and game content."WOW just had a patch a few weeks ago. As usual, their patch distribution completely failed. That may be because their patch distribution system is best described as 'Let's make something so frustrating people will just host the damn patches for us.' It's unacceptable. It amazes me that WOW's peer-to-peer distribution has become accepted practice. Why are you people putting up with it? Part of our core business as an MMO provider is providing the damn MMO."If you read this column regularly you know how I feel about the WoW patching system. Why not ram an Elephant down a straw? Jennings is absolutely right that others host the patches just to give players a quick and efficient option. You can find the WoW patches on our WoW Community site.EverQuest 2 does a good job at delivering both patches and new content. The downtime is usually small and the files are sent readily to your machine. Everyone realizes that World of Warcraft is a giant next to EQ2, but so be it. The patches should still be delivered in an efficient manner. Making the community sites hold the patches is ridiculous and why isn't the expansion going to be available by digital download?How do you feel about the patching process in the game you play? Is it a thing of be...
Gaia Online: A Different Way to Role Play on the I2009-09-16 00:00:00What do you think of when people talk about the "best" fantasy games? I'm sure you're probably going to immediately think of names like EverQuest, World of WarCraft, Lord of the Rings: Online or any of the other highly successful, commercial fantasy series. For those who have a
particularly good taste in games, you'll hear the Elder Scrolls series come up - and rusty old video game dogs like myself will tell you about the original Arena. But these titles are less successful based on their quality as they are on the simple amount of co...
WoW: Dual Talent Specialization - How Has it Changed the Game?2009-09-05 00:00:00Sincenearly the dawn of World of Warcraft manyplayers have clamored for the ability to have two talentspecs.With the release of Patch 3.1 those players finallygot their wish. Many aspects of the game were changed forever with thisintroduction and most of those changes were for the better. No longerdid raids or groups need to wait for a player to hearth back andrespec, no longer did hybrid class have to shell out 50g every timethey were needed to perform a different task Many aspects of the game were changed forever with thisintroduction and most of those changes were for the better. No longerdid raids or groups need to wait for a player to hearth back andrespec, no longer did hybrid class have to shell out 50g every timethey were needed to perform a different task. The flip side to this was increased loot competition as the linesbetween main spec and off spec blurred, with players asked to fill somany roles so often it becomes hard for anyone to keep track. No wherein the game did the ability to have two specs available with the pressof a button become more of an issue than in end game raiding. <br /><br />Anyoneknow a tank?<br />Prior to patch 3.1 most players were invited to or applied to a raidingguild wit...
Elect the Best Online Phone Card for You2009-09-03 00:00:00You will consider it not very easy to look for the most appropriate phone cards on the market nowadays, because of its saturation. You can see that there are a lot of variants. When you strive to get it with the help of the internet, it'll present you more than twelve million results. Most people strive to get internet calling cards with the lowest rates. But usually these are the most expensive cards. Make a scheme from your needs to economize your funds and get the most appropriate phone card. <br />Try to realize your demands, because of the large variety of cards nowadays. When you will look for international phone card, it will be really helpful for you. The calling time price should not be underestimated by you. The diversity of proposals will present you an opportunity to call for 1 dollar per 40 minutes to any region of Earth. <br />After identification of your needs, you are to clarify your options. Read all the info connected with phone card before buying it. There are lots of corpor...
Warrior Tanking in World of Warcraft2009-08-28 00:00:00Learn about the edges and drawbacks of the Warrior class as a raid tank, as the tank is one of the most important parts of your raid team.<br /><br />When trying to describe raiding to people who don't play World of Warcraft, the best analogy may be to compare it to a game of football. Raiding is all about team coordination - the raid leader is the quarterback, calling the shots, your damage dealers are your receivers and runners, and your tanks are the offensive linemen that take the hits to keep the ball in play and moving forward. The analogy isn't perfect when you consider healers, since the sort of injuries acquired in a football game don't generally need powerful magic to mend.<br />Regardless, this article is about your defensive line: the tanks, specifically, the main tank. The goal of the tank in World of Warcraft is singular - to take the hits so the rest of the team doesn't have to. In fact, in most raid situations, tanks are the only characters that can take more than a single hit from most enemy bosses.<br />There are three character classes in World of Warcraft t...
World of Warcraft - Amazing Online Multi Player Game2009-08-14 00:00:00y Michael Arthas<br />World of Warcraft (also referred as WoW) developed by Blizzard Entertaiment is the world’s most famous massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG). It is the newest series in the Warcraft universe after Blizzard gain success with the previous 3 Warcraft series and its additional game patches. After the success of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne, on September 2, 2001, Blizzard Entertaiment announced the development of World of Warcraft. By November 23, 2004, World of Warcraft was released to public. The released was also to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Warcraft.<br />World of Warcraft has been extremely popular ever since it has been released to the public. The success it gains in the MMORPG world is beyond what anyone, even themselves, could imagine. It is currently held the Guinnes World Record for the most-subscribed MMORPG in the world with more than 11.5 million subscribers. More than 2 millions subscribers from Europe, 2.5 millions subscribers from North America, 5.5 millions subscribers from Asia, and the rest, around 1 million subscribers, scattered around the globe. World of Warcraft leads the market in MMORPG. Around 62% of the MMORPG’s market is own ...
