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Champion BlueTracker - 4 Years of WoW
God, I used to love this game. May 6th will be my 4 year anniversary of playing WoW, and unfortunately I don t see myself renewing my account long enough to see it. This is not intended as a blasting post, but I felt it necessary to post up what made this game great, and why I feel it has been ...
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forums.worldofwarcraft.com — God, I used to love this game. May 6th will be my 4 year anniversary of playing... WoW, and unfortunately I don t see myself renewing my account long enough to see it. This is not intended as a blasting post, but I felt it necessary to post up what made ... (more) English (NA) Forums -> 4 Years of WoW
Why do you WoW?
Why do you WoW?
gnomeaggedon.net — Ask not what can do for wow, but what wow can do for you. I think there... is a problem with the questions we ask ourselves sometimes. I mean the are leading. Leading us to give a carefully rationalized answer to why we do things. Now before I get really started, I want to point out I started ... (more) Why do you WoW?
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Patch 3.1 Downloader, Blue posts
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — ... understand the class homogenization concerns. It is sometimes difficult to make sure that all classes are viable for what they want to do without pushing their stats and abilities too close together. We are going to continue to try to strike a balance here. However I will offer that for every player that asks what was wrong with the good old days, there is a Prot paladin, Feral druid, Ret paladin, Arcane mage or Survival hunter who is happy that their spec isn't a joke any longer. (Source) ...

3.1 Items, Noblegarden, Blue posts, OOMCast
MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft Guides and Raid Strategies - News — ... if this is true or not. Or more specifically, there were 40 player guilds in vanilla because that's all we offered. Then there were 25 player guilds for BC because that's all we offered. We had a lot of data and feedback that there are a lot of players who would prefer to run with a smaller group of friends even if the content was very challenging. As I said, we will see if 10 player guilds are more casual or if there are a lot of 10 player guilds who are up to hardcore challenges. (Source) ...

What is the Value of Large Raid Groups?
Player Versus Developer — ... a group where some overgeared members are carrying some less-than competent individuals (which, in all fairness, certainly includes me from time to time, as I try to learn encounters on a whirlwind tour of farming zergs) averaging out to the same overall effect. All the game can do is ramp up the difficulty to the point where the whole group has to perform at the higher level, kicking the underperformers out of the raiding game altogether. Some folks may be alright with that, but I'll quote the crab again to sum up the issue: ...

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