Grinding can be boring. Why not spice it up with some PvP practice? Don’t just be a bot. Be a killing machine.

Use the force. Play naked. Clearing the conscious mind can be meditative and improve performance.

With Cataclysm, we’re getting another secondary profession with archeology.  It seems like a really cool profession and all, but there is another secondary profession that I’ve always wanted to see.
I like how fishing works as a “support” profession for cooking.  So I would like to see a support profession for fishing as well – one [read more...]

The first rule of Fight Club is, keybind.  The second rule of Fight Club is, keybind!  From what I’ve seen around Azeroth, many of you have been breaking the first two rules.  Don’t worry, I’ll have y’all fixed up in a jiffy.
Why Keybind?
Keybinding is an absolute must for PvP.  And with the increasing number of [read more...]

Hardcores loathe casuals for “dumbing down the game”. Casuals accuse hardcores of being basement-dwelling elitists. But aside from their differences, what do these two camps have to share and learn from each other?

Today’s concept is something I call the damage delta.  The damage delta at any given point in a fight is a snapshot of how we are faring in a given battle.  But it is not a metric to come up with a number to measure our performance.  It is a way to conceptualize the swings in a battle [read more...]

A notorious trade troll resides on my server - the kind every server has.  His name is Oathkeeper.  I would lend him a blanket of anonymity, but I don’t think he minds.  Anyways, this is not a post to criticize him.  It is about speaking the truth – the truth about Oathkeeper.
Let’s be frank.  Through all his [read more...]

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare
The above quote is also at the top of Blizzard’s naming policy overview page.  Usually, a quotation at the top of the page captures the essence of the content to follow.  How ironic that Blizzard’s naming [read more...]

“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.” -Sun Tzu, Art of War
Last time, we talked about territory.  Territory is the static view, a snapshot of the current situation.  Today we talk about another useful concept – time, or change in territory.  We will look at how to change the territory to [read more...]

“Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us.”  -Sun Tzu, Art of War
Territory is a key concept in many games.  In go, territory is the game.  In chess, the concept is called space .  What does territory mean in terms of battlegrounds?
Territory [read more...]