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On Golden Lotus Dailies 27 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
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A Thousand Cuts: Cognitive Fatigue in the Warcraft UI 14 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
Kathy Sierra returned to blogging with Your App Makes Me Fat, a thought-provoking post about the effects of decision making and cognitive fatigue on our willpower. Like all good posts, this one doesn...
Deployment 8 Jun 2013 | 01:22 am
I have not been playing Warcraft for about 4 weeks now due to a RSI. Playing WoW leaves my thumb and fingers numb and my hand in agony, and I’ve needed a lot of ice and painkillers to make it … Contin...
Class Distribution Data for Patch 5.3 2 Jun 2013 | 09:05 am
World of Warcraft’s Patch 5.3 was released on May 21st, 2013, so as with previous patches I’ve taken a snapshot of population data to provide historical analysis of class popularity trends. The method...
On Disastrous Stargate Pulls 10 May 2013 | 08:04 pm
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Five of us were in Ulduar, helping our guildmate and friend Rezznul finish up his Val’anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings. Val’anyr – dubbed the Science Mace, for rea...
The Few Versus The Many 9 May 2013 | 08:56 pm
I really enjoy battleground healing on my Druid, Cynli. She spent most of Cataclysm as a level 70 twink, and while she was effectively my main in 4.2, I haven’t played her much of late. That’s okay. W...
Children’s Week 2013 and the School of Hard Knocks 29 Apr 2013 | 07:29 am
Children’s Week 2013 has begun, and with it is everyone’s favorite holiday PvP achievement – The School of Hard Knocks. And by favorite I mean “slightly above a root canal,” since for the past 4 yea...
On Rejoining the Leveling Brackets 26 Mar 2013 | 04:52 am
I’ve had some time for the 5.2 battleground scaling changes to sink in, and it’s pretty clear that for a twink, the best place to be is at the top of a bracket. If you’re going to be level 89 … Contin...
Cynderblock’s Guide to the 5.2 Twink Brackets 14 Mar 2013 | 12:00 pm
pssst… is she gone? This is Sgt. Cynthia Block – you might remember me by my Charlie Company call sign, Cynderblock. You might not, that’s okay too. I don’t need the limelight like Ms. Cynwise does ov...
Analysis of the Post-Hotfix 5.2 Battleground Scaling Changes 14 Mar 2013 | 12:35 am
The hotfix applied on March 12th addressed the most obvious bugs present in the battleground scaling changes of patch 5.2. More testing will be required, of course, but I think we can say that we’re ...
