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...]