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Gamma-Correct Lighting: wow power leveling
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gracedimo
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02/23/2010 04:18:14
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Gamma-Correct Lighting: wow power leveling
as a more casual player of the game, I find the friendly, informative tone of each piece much more appealing than the tone of many online guides. I’ve got the column “Tanking: Major Threat” dogeared for future reference, since the toon I’m getting the most play out of right now is a Draenai warrior. And even the over-informed might find something inside this magazine that teaches them something new about the game they’ve been playing for five years. That’s because it also does a great job of exploring the many different ways that people play World of Warcraft. “Animal Magnetism” explores the hobby of collecting in-game pets, while “Crowning Achievements” tracks players who chase the game’s many secondary goals for fun, profit and cred. There’s a lot of room to explore the culture of Azeroth and the goings-on of the people that play there. My biggest gripe with the magazine is about the stories that center on lore. The one-page piece “Who is Deathwing?” does a fine job of laying out the motivations and origins of the armored dragon who will be the centerpiece of the Cataclysm expansion. But a second lore article, “Sylvanas vs Arthas: A Woman Scorned” reads too much like a Wikipedia plot synopsis. There’s lots of improvement to be made here, especially if the writers decide to focus on telling a story and setting a scene rather than rehashing plot points. This first issue will most likely be the last to feature Dan Amrich, now running the One of Swords blog for Activision Blizzard, as editor-in-chief. Wired.com’s former managing editor Marty Cortinas has taken over the gig. It feels like the magazine is on a good course; it’s already a find addition to the World of Warcraft fan’s real-world library, and a few course corrections will keep it interesting.
Blizzard quite clearly believes that players wow power leveling should not be skipping through heroic instance bosses to get to the wow power leveling last boss ... But do the players?
Qot: I'm wondering if there might be a role division on this topic. If you're DPS, you spent 15 minutes in the queue. Spending 10 extra minutes clearing trash and doing the optional bosses isn't awful and bumps up your badges/hour. If you're tank/heals, you spent a minute or less in the queue. In the 10 extra minutes on optionals, you could've finished this dungeon, gotten your two completion badges and be half way through a Nex or DTK random.
Gamer am I: It's sad that heroics have become so easy wow power leveling that people feel entitled to skip to the last boss. I think that's one of the new emblem system's failures: giving people raid-quality gear without giving them the content to use it in. As such, they get bored with heroics but don't run anything other than them, so they just want to get them over with quickly.
Docp: I think the problem is, is that people are being forced to do something they don't like wow power leveling in order to achieve in another aspect of the game. I think giving Frost as an incentive was a mistake; it should have just been two extra Triumphs and left at that. This way, you'd only have people who actually want to run heroics going. I'd rather have longer queues than be forced to team with grumpy people who really don't want to be there.
uncaringbear: @Docp I think you have a legitimate point there. The original idea of rewarding Frost emblems in heroics was to give incentive to high-end players to wow power leveling participate in heroics and help newer/less-geared players progress through heroics and build up their emblems. Instead, what has happened is that heroics have now become a farming ground for the high-end players who have no desire at all to run them, except to get the two Frost emblems. Many players who genuinely need to run the heroics end up being abused and criticized by the raiders for wearing level-appropriate gear and making honest mistakes.
When you force people to play a part of the game that they don't want to play, this is bound to happen. And yes, these raiders can opt to not run heroics -- but for them, that is not a choice they would ever make for fear of falling behind in progression.
Here is a suggestion: Remove the Frost emblems from wow power leveling the random heroics. This will ensure that the people who run the heroics are the ones who really need to run them. As an alternative, make a series of daily quests that need to be completed that will reward a total of two Frost emblems. One of the quests can be a group quest. The people who want the Frost emblems can get it on their own time without making others miserable.
Are you a speed-runner, or do you like to savor your heroics? Do you think removing wow power leveling Frost emblems from the daily heroic would help alleviate the teeth-grinding, "let's get this over with" attitude of some players?
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