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The best of 2009, January-June-aion gold Reader comments -- ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week. The story's not over 'til [1.Local] has picked it to bits and pieces ... So what did the local denizens have to say about the world of WoW during the first half of the year? In fact, the [1.Local] scene itself became the news back in June, as [1.Local]: The epic rap battle comment war edition hit readers' screens: "Players disagree over Blizzard's upcoming badge changes. Rap battle ensues. Site is left terrified and confused." epsilon343: Ahh yes, the rap battle. Nothing like mad rhymes to cool off tempers. A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw yyqiang091228 his Dog wow gold stand at the door aion gold stretching himself. He asked aion gold him sharply: "Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so wow gold come with me instantly." The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: "O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting." The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend. A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of aion gold flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double wow gold his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his aion gold larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away. Higher on Killchrono's list of memories, though, was all the commotion about scamming: Aaah, I remember that run of articles about scamming. The best (and simultaneously worst) part about them were the numerous comments by phishers and scammers who tried to justify their actions by saying non-security savvy people deserved to get hacked and how they were 'doing them a favour' by showing them how stupid they were. A testament to how deplorable and vile malicious scammers truly are. ========================================================================================== Related Article: wow power leveling wow power level power leveling World of Warcraft power leveling wow power leveling ==========================================================================================
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Prayer of Healing-aion gold Hymns had been redesigned Divine Hymn: Anyone still remember what this spell used to do? It was originally a PvP-esque spell. It incapacitated nearby targets and healed friendly targets. I remember using it in the original form during arena to try to knock out opposing players. That changed in 3.1.0 when Divine Hymn single handedly became the best healing spell in the game. Continuing the trend of smart healing spells, Divine Hymn became a channeled healing spell which would automatically target the players with the lowest health. Hymn of Hope: This former priest racial turned a baseline ability accessible to all Priests. After 3.1.0, it turned into the mana equivalent of Divine Hymn. Yes, a channeled spell that restored mana raid wide for several seconds to players with the lowest mana. Prayer of Healing castable on anyone Prayer of Healing used to only heal up the party of the current priest. It was changed later on so that it could be used on any player within the raid. Not only that, it would continue to heal the target's party as well. That gave a great tactical edge to a healing priest since healing leads could set group specific healing assignments without having to position priests in certain groups. Prayer of Healing then gets nerfed A HERDSMAN tending his yyqiang091228 flock in a forest aion gold lost a Bull-calf wow gold from the fold. After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow aion gold that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would wow gold offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to heaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may only secure my own escape from him in safety." A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow aion gold pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing wow gold her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the aion gold Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race. Of course, it was (like Circle of Healing) deemed too overpowered and the healing coefficient was scaled back down even further. Although given the choice between being able to target any party with Prayer of Healing versus extra healing oomph, I'd go for the any party. Body and Soul talent Feel like going for a run? With Body and Soul, your Power Word: Shield gave you the ability to run quicker for several seconds. It's impractical since most PvP priests go down the discipline tree and Body and Soul is too far down in Holy. From the PvE standpoint, I've only seen it used specifically on the Anub'arak encounter in Trial of the Grand Crusader. I'm always willing to say that it's a must have to stretch out the kiting but I'm sure there are guilds who have done it without the use of this talent. The best of 2009, January-June-aion gold Reader comments -- ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week. The story's not over 'til [1.Local] has picked it to bits and pieces ... So what did the local denizens have to say about the world of WoW during the first half of the year? In fact, the [1.Local] scene itself became the news back in June, as [1.Local]: The epic rap battle comment war edition hit readers' screens: "Players disagree over Blizzard's upcoming badge changes. Rap battle ensues. Site is left terrified and confused." epsilon343: Ahh yes, the rap battle. Nothing like mad rhymes to cool off tempers. A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw yyqiang091228 his Dog wow gold stand at the door aion gold stretching himself. He asked aion gold him sharply: "Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so wow gold come with me instantly." The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: "O, master! I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting." The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend. A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of aion gold flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double wow gold his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his aion gold larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away. Higher on Killchrono's list of memories, though, was all the commotion about scamming: Aaah, I remember that run of articles about scamming. The best (and simultaneously worst) part about them were the numerous comments by phishers and scammers who tried to justify their actions by saying non-security savvy people deserved to get hacked and how they were 'doing them a favour' by showing them how stupid they were. A testament to how deplorable and vile malicious scammers truly are. ========================================================================================== Related Article: World of Warcraft power leveling wow power leveling wow power level power leveling World of Warcraft power leveling
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Lamented Mechanics-aion gold This isn't a breakfast topic where I protest. I'm not signing petitions or grumping, I'm simply looking back and saying "Gee, I wish X". For instance, I wish there were tanking fist weapons. I love, love, love fist weapons. I'd settle for a fist that had hit and expertise on it, even. But while I'm willing to switch to a slow main hander when I have a full rage bar to dump as Devastate threat (or for huge Cleaves when tanking lots of trash) it's just not really suitable for a good 80 to 90% of my time tanking. And yet, how I love fist weapons. I have an enhancement shaman, of course, and yet fists almost never drop for him (he's using axes at the moment) while they rain from the heavens and are almost constantly sharded when I'm tanking. I've taken to just picking them up and using them for fun. I understand there will most likely never be a dedicated tanking fist, as the only class that could use it would be a warrior (Paladins and DKs can't use fist weapons, Druids can but would almost never use one over a staff since they can't use shields). A FARMER placed nets on his yyqiang091228 newly-sown plowlands aion gold and wow gold caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he aion gold trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer wow gold to spare his life. "Pray save me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your aion gold pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane." The Farmer laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company." Birds of a feather flock together. ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen wow gold with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and aion gold resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. "Oh," cried the Farmer with his last breath, "I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel." The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. Similarly, whenever I go elemental I always end up drooling over caster swords, and there have been a few times I've heard paladin healers sigh at a dagger drop. So what I turn to ask you is, what do you wish you could use? What drop can you either not equip or just can't effectively use? ========================================================================================== Related Article: wow power level power leveling World of Warcraft power leveling wow power leveling wow power level ==========================================================================================
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Shield Slam:-aion power leveling Block It's been a roller coaster of a year for us block tanks. We talked about block back in May, and while the basic idea of block hasn't changed (you have two stats, block rating, which determines how often you block, and block value, which determines how much damage you block when you do) block itself has had its ups and downs this year. The changes to Block in 3.2 didn't magically fix all of its issues. Even Blizzard itself said in the Q&A series that block will eventually move to a pure percentage system where the amount you block will not be a static number but rather a certain percentage of a blocked hit. This will make the stat less godly on big trash pulls (in some instances a high block tank can simply ignore trash because their individual hits will never get over his block value, especially with talents like Critical Block) while making it more effective against a boss who hits for 30k or more. (Depending on the percentages blocked, of course... too low and it's just a nerf across the board, too high and block becomes the only stat anyone cares about.) Part of the issue for warriors and block and the reason we saw so much tuning when block value from items was increased (and also the reason the amount of block value we get from strength wasn't) is that we use block as a threat stat as well as a damage reduction stat. Right now you can go play arenas and see, possibly for the first time, prot warriors in high strength or strength/BV sets running around Shield Slamming as an offensive strategy. This is subject to diminishing returns (this was put in place in patch 3.2) - A YOUNG FAWN once said to his yyqiang091228 Father, "You are aion power leveling larger than a wow gold dog, aion power leveling and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Father! do the hounds frighten you so?" He smiled, and said: "I know full well, my son, that all you say wow power leveling is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog aion power leveling I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can." No arguments will give courage to the coward. A MOUNTAIN was once wow power leveling greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some aion power leveling terrible calamity, out came a Mouse. Don't make much ado about nothing. Shield Slam: The benefit from additional block value this ability gains is now subject to diminishing returns. Diminishing returns occur once block value exceeds 30 times the player's level and caps the maximum damage benefit from shield block value at 34.5 times the player's level. What this means is that when you hit Shield Block, the amount of block value you get from the talent doesn't just scale directly to Shield Slam damage, which while a clunky solution is certainly more elegant than the 'Shield Block just adds threat to your Shield Slam, no damage' solution that was the original goal. While the doubling of block value on gear and the diminishing returns on block value for Shield Slam damage is not ideal, it's definitely better than rolling back to pre-WOTLK days. ========================================================================================== Related Article: World of Warcraft power leveling wow power leveling wow power level power leveling World of Warcraft power leveling
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round and round-aion power leveling Arms goes round and round and round It's hard, looking back now, to remember that there was a time where fury warriors wore tons of leather and mail and used 2 1h weapons like discount rogues, and arms warriors were the undisputed kings of two handed weapon fighting among the clanky rage class. All through Burning Crusade, Arms was feared for its Mace Specialization Stuns (especially when combined with a Stormherald) and of course Mortal Strike. Arms was regarded as a PvE DPS debuff spec, able to put out respectable numbers while also granting Blood Frenzy to the raid. Frankly, when Wrath was in beta, I wasn't terribly impressed with arms. The new ability Bladestorm felt weak, arms felt kitable, and MS just didn't seem all that impressive anymore. Fury was over there dual wielding 2h and I was trying out arms and feeling like a tool. Frankly, I really missed paying attention to arms' new abilities like Taste for Blood, Wrecking Crew and Sudden Death. Obscured by my own obsession with Titan's Grip I missed as the developers moved arms as a spec into the ;disciplined and solider-like' spec they had in mind for it. This past year has seen a lot of up and down for arms. There was the creation of Juggernaut, followed hard upon by the nerf to Juggernaut (but not to macros yelling catchphrases from last year's internet memes) which did help give arms much needed comabt mobility in both PvP and in movement heavy fights like Ulduar. In the hands of a skilled player, arms is capable of solid DPS and is a threat again on the PvP battlefield (the sheer volume of people complaining about Bladestorm proves that arms is no longer seen as the free kill it was at the beginning of the year). Part of this is also the change to Battle Stance adding ArP and the buffing of Sword Spec to where it's actually a useful ability and you won't reject a sword out of hand for the spec. Arms is solid now. Although even at this late date we can find issues to fix, apparently. THE ASS and the Fox, having yyqiang091228 entered into partnership aion power leveling together for their mutual wow power leveling protection, went out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far aion power leveling when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised wow power leveling to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately aion power leveling clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure. A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the wow power leveling sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. "I will give you," she said, "all the riches aion power leveling of the Red Sea ." "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces . The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined. There's a lot more to discuss, of course (holy crap the Dungeon Finder alone), there always is. But here's to 2009, and looking forward to 2010. ========================================================================================== Related Article: wow power level power leveling World of Warcraft power leveling wow power leveling wow power level
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