gearing – Kaylriene

Building A Warband – My Early Progress In The War Within (And A Bonus Fresh Level 80 Gearing Miniguide)

Since The War Within launched two months ago in late August, I’ve been quite busy throwing myself headlong back into a new WoW expansion, chasing after the… Read more “Building A Warband – My Early Progress In The War Within (And A Bonus Fresh Level 80 Gearing Miniguide)”

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”

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”

One thing that is very nice about FFXIV at times is that it is very, very predictable in terms of content preparation and how things are handled.… Read more “If You’re Obsessed, You Can Start Preparing For Dawntrail Now (I’m Not Kidding)”

The last time I wrote about Dragonflight’s profession overhaul in WoW, I was a little skeptical of the difference it would make. The specializations are interesting, if… Read more “A Deeper Look At Dragonflight Crafting – And What (Maybe) Comes Next”

Something that is a theme with Dragonflight as an expansion is an idea of getting back to basics while also experimenting with the formula that has defined… Read more “Vault of the Incarnates, Raid Loot, and the Problem With WoW Raid Gearing”

It’s time for another predictive patch prep guide! With an announced Live Letter set for today, it seems quite likely that within a week or two, we’ll… Read more “Future Preparation – Things You Can Do Now to Get Ready for Final Fantasy XIV Patches 6.25 and 6.3”

A benefit to the relative predictability and stability of patch content in FFXIV is that we have certainty of things that we will be seeing come April… Read more “A Guide To Gearing In Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.1 You Can Start On Now”

The Shards of Domination system is a damn-near perfect microcosm of the kind of problems that modern Blizzard has with game design. That is what makes them… Read more “The Shards of Domination – A System-Solution to a Blizzard-Made Problem”

The other day, I read something that interested me at Wowhead. The gist is pretty easy to get to – a player got a Corrupted item in… Read more “What If – Old Gear Bonus Systems Were In Play While Leveling In Old Content?”