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Rising To Meet The Dawntrail – Tips For Progressing At The Start of a New Final Fantasy XIV Expansion

Dawntrail’s launch in just about a week (for early access) means a chance to start fresh, attack Final Fantasy XIV from a new angle, and for a… Read more “Rising To Meet The Dawntrail – Tips For Progressing At The Start of a New Final Fantasy XIV Expansion”

The War Within beta went live, and with it, a challenging change – the effect of damaging trinkets and cantrip effects (weapon procs) are going down by… Read more “Blizzard’s Shadowboxing Match – Their Fight With Themselves on Tanks, Healers, and Trinkets in The War Within”

There’s a lot to talk about with Final Fantasy XIV lately, as the first major batch of job changes for Dawntrail and the job action trailer have… Read more “My First Expansion Raiding Savage Is In The Books – Some Thoughts on Final Fantasy XIV Raiding Before Dawntrail”

Mists of Pandaria Remix has been out for just over a week and a half now. How’s it going? Uh…both really well and also with a lot… Read more “The Fun, Frustrating Ride of Mists of Pandaria: Remix”

Picture this: you’re healing a dungeon in World of Warcraft, and things are going well, when the boss stops to cast a huge party-wide damage hit. You’ve… Read more “Healing Dungeons in World of Warcraft Dragonflight is a Broken Gameplay Design, and Here’s Why”

The dungeon difficulty changes made to World of Warcraft have been interesting, to say the least. For the uninitiated, the basic rundown is this – in Season… Read more “The First Week: WoW’s New Dungeon Scaling, Experienced Firsthand”

Blizzard almost, dare I say it, made Season 4 a player-friendly one for the raid audience. The Season 4 concept that started with Shadowlands (not BfA, which… Read more “A Blundering Pre-Season Start to Season 4 – The Raid Rotation Fake-Out”

Blizzard’s recent experimental streak on World of Warcraft has brought about two huge shifts in content through unique modes of play – Plunderstorm and the upcoming Mists… Read more “The World of Warcraft Experimental Streak, Part 2: Remists of Pandaria”

World of Warcraft’s patch 10.2.7 had this interesting item atop the list of features on the roadmap published back in January – Timerunning: Pandamonium. Pandemonium mispelled to… Read more “Timerunning: Pandamonium is…A Leveling Experiment?!”