The Daily Quest: Of lists, lists and oh yes more lists
by Dan O'Halloran 
Mar 9th 2009 at 2:30PM
- Syll at the new Druid blog Rolling Hots has listed her favorite WoW podcasts around the net. Though she frames the post as Druid podcasts, most of them cover subjects for all players.
- Gnomeaggedon has 6 posts up on his 11 part series on creating a level 19 Alliance Warlock twink for Battleground PvP:
- Part 1 - Introduction
- Part 2 - Leveling guide
- Part 3 - Epic twink gear
- Part 4 - Enchants
- Part 5 - Warlock spells for BG scenarios
- Part 6 - Heirloom items
- Surazc at I'm Tanking What?! has finished his 8-part series exploring the evolution of RPG rules in terms of class balance and how that applies to the current Death Knight balancing on the Patch 3.1 PTR:
- Part 1 - What makes RPGs successful
- Part 2 - The evolution of rules in RPGs
- Part 3 - The problems with rule changes in an established game
- Part 4 - How class balancing by role ruins games
- Part 5 - How Warriors are being redefined by Death Knights
- Part 6 - The Death Knight cooldown problem
- Part 7 - A case study of how Star Wars Galaxies ruined the game by balancing around one class
- Part 8 - How normalization of roles doesn't create balance
Filed under: Warlock, Podcasting, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, News items, PvP, Death Knight, Battlegrounds, The Daily Quest
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Scott Mar 9th 2009 3:21PM
Syll puts the Wowinsider podcast first in the list, gives them two shout outs and disses The Instance! That wouldn't be any more transparent if it was covered in Saran Wrap.
Dragis Mar 9th 2009 3:29PM
1. She says she likes to listen to southern accents? Blargh.
2. The Instance is over-produced? Is that code for "put together well"? If so, than yes. The Instance is popular for a reason: it's done well.
3. She's a girl. She doesn't know what the internets are all about.
Gashet Mar 9th 2009 4:00PM
The alliance warlock twink guide is a bit *too* outdated and not very helpful or applicable. That buildis the all-too typical 'stam-build' for lvl. 19 lock twinks. The thing is, the pure damage build leaves you with 199-206 bonus shadowpower unbuffed while having 1.3k hp unbuffed (popping sacrifice tosses in another 300 hp per soul shard). From ~all~ of my experiences, my pure damage build is a lot better at pvp than the stam build.
When your Curse of Agony and Corruption together total up to 750 damage, dots just destroy the health of other toons (including the typical stam build). I think that the damage build is leagues better than the stam build... I think its great when you can run at the main group in a BG, hit all 10 players with CoA and Corruption... and less than half of them make it out alive.
jurandr Mar 9th 2009 4:41PM
I'm surprised you didn't mention this:
http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001647.php
epic Mar 10th 2009 10:57AM
Surzac main argument is refuted in one shot by http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15443408154&postId=154418195353&sid=1#18
shinken Mar 9th 2009 6:55PM
I have been playing RPGs since Final Fantasy 1 and D & D 2E
Rules serve three purposes: the suspension of disbelief, The illusion of impartial resolution, and a props for roleplaying.
The article "the evolution of rules in RPGs" has me concerned about the new crop of GMs and theorists. They forget rules are merely a tool for social interaction not even a sport like say blackjack.
"The developers listened to their community, sat down, and tried to play through a session with no magic at all. They failed, and hence, the book arose" from the article
That is utter hogwash. It is ultimately the story, not the mechanics that determines success.
Wizards of the coast are now what I hated about TSR
4.0 is trash what is the point of the d20 core system if they keep making unnecessary core changes.
frodo34x Mar 9th 2009 8:12PM
Kinda ironic complaining about 4ed on a WoW site.
bsides88 Mar 9th 2009 7:49PM
Nice post just for the re blogging of the favorite podcasts list. I would really love to see more coverage about different wow podcasts.
Wow insider is great, but most people who listen to podcasts listen to a ton of them and I want more!
twinkerbel Mar 10th 2009 1:00PM
Yeah that warlock twink list is severely outdated. Many of the of healing items don't have correct numbers for damage now that healing and damage have been merged. The heirloom boa shoulders are the best in slot by far now as is the boa heirloom spell damage trinket. You can also currently put the honor bought stam/resilience enchant on the boa item and trade it, though for those who were lucky enough to get the power of the scourge enchant out of old naxxramas, you have the best option for the boa shoulders if you saved it. You get far more out of a warlock twink with very high shadow damage than you will out of stacking pure stamina. You do need enough stam to survive really nasty rogues that seem to target you over and over and you can easily still be over 2k with 160 shadow damage when it's called for. My 19 warlock twink is twinkerbel on proudmoore and my 39 warlock twink is calyban on proudmoore. My main raiding warlock is ravenelle on the same server.
Syll Mar 10th 2009 1:59PM
/snicker
1. WOW Insider Podcast is my favorite of all the ones I listen to.
2. I did say that The Instance feels overproduced to me, but I also said that I listen to it and it is a good general podcast. Just perfer WI.
3. Girls on the internet? Where?
4. I also said that I’d encourage anyone to try the field and see if you find something you really like or relate to.
/kiss