I love that this blog is written by people who don't seem to actually play the game very often. While I suppose it gives that "don't be scared, we're just like you" vibe to the lowest common denominator of player I suppose, I'd like to think that most of the players that are diehard enough to read a blog about nothing but WoW, would be at least slightly more invested in the game than this.

This is an infinitely useful and solid upgrade to the chat system. If you can't instantly see the very visible utility with it, I'm not sure anyone can help you. Everyone has their own stupid pet names for the symbols. Some call them by their colors, which is confusing for people who say "x" or "cross". Some say condom, some say circle, some say shield. All are potentially confusing remarks either in chat or on vent.

If you're REALLY saying that you don't find it very easy to type the curly brackets (it's shift [, it's not like you're using some arcane script and magic key combination, if you can type any capital letters at all I think this is a fairly rudimentary thing to do) then I'm absolutely stunned.

Confusion is often the major point of failure in this game. I don't see how this isn't anything short of a really awesome but subtle way of eliminating one of the MAJOR barriers to success, which is understanding your targets and your encounter.

I'll absolutely have macros set up with this sort of thing as soon as possible. It's an elegant and awesome change and I'm really excited to see it and I don't know how I didn't notice it before.

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