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    Real ID: here’s some info, now stop with the righteous indignation

    Share this post with your friends. I was going to write an actual post about numbers and the top 5 specs for each class from data mined from the top 20 PvE guilds in the world, but instead, I’m going to just put this all...

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  • The Putricide tango; or, anecdotal advice on positioning the Professor

    The Putricide tango; or, anecdotal advice on positioning the Professor

    Professor Putricide is starting to be a fun fight for me. The first few times we were in there, even as late as last week, I felt kind of like I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. After looking at...

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  • Dualboxing melee

    Dualboxing melee

    I mentioned this to The Mighty Gresh on twitter – I started dual-boxing again (so I could power-level my rogue to 60 using Recruit-a-Friend [so I could pickpocket junkboxes for Insane in the Membrane]). I’ll actually be leveling two or three alts this way –...

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  • How I joust

    How I joust

    I’ve seen a lot of people talking jousting lately – people who are just now getting to the tournament level, people who’ve hated jousting all along, people who actually refuse to do Trial of the Champion because it involves a short joust at the beginning…...

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  • In which Randall Munroe preaches it like it is

    In which Randall Munroe preaches it like it is

    This. A hundred times this.

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  • Forced Conscription: when to use Army of the Dead

    Forced Conscription: when to use Army of the Dead

    Every max-level DK has a delightful little spell at their disposal called Army of the Dead. For those of you who haven’t seen it, quizzed your friendly local death knight about it, or read the link, here’s the lowdown on it: 6-second channel, totally unlike...

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  • L2joust the Stoppable Force Way

    L2joust the Stoppable Force Way

    I see comments like this every day, whether it be in BA chat or Twitter or what-have-you: Leafy: Anyway, now I am going to drive home and then fail to joust for a while. It pains me to see so many people having such a...

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  • Archiving your combat log and screenshots (for Windows)

    Archiving your combat log and screenshots (for Windows)

    (3:37:17 PM) Nibuca: Lesson learned: make sure to delete your wow combat log more often than once every 4 months For those of you who log, for use with WoW Web Stats or one of its ilk, you may not have noticed but there are...

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  • The Blizzard Authenticator: a journey in pictures

    The Blizzard Authenticator: a journey in pictures

    As we were warned by quite a few WoW bloggers this past week (including Kestrel, Anna, Rohan and World of Snarkcraft), a rather sophisticated WoW phishing scheme has been circulating disguised as a 3-day suspension notice. While, yes, Blizzard has pounded it into our heads...

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  • Leveling unholy

    Leveling unholy

    Gotta love it when other people do the work for you, right? Geistig over at Skeleton Jack has a great post on leveling Unholy, for those of you who like the idea of ridin’ around with your best ghoul by your side, being nigh unkillable...

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