The Daily Quest: Icecrown, tunnelvision, and something more
by Alex Ziebart 
Jan 4th 2010 at 8:00PM
- Tales of a Priest discusses tunnevlsion for healers, and how to prevent it with better mod placement.
- World of Matticus's Lodur brings is more PUG tales, this time detailing the Val'anyr curse.
- Gray Matter asks, was Chill of the Throne enough to keep WoW raiding under control until Cataclysm? Should it have impacted DPS, too?
- Forever a Noob keeps the great rogue advice coming. Deathbringer Saurfang is your next target.
- This is our last link of the day, but it's the most important. Vigilance, a new warrior blog, honors the memory of a fallen guildmate. Rest well, Revanx. A word to the author, from me personally, is that you guys are not alone. Hang in there.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, The Daily Quest
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Taedran Jan 4th 2010 8:07PM
I'm gonna link some of my guildies that Tunnel Vision healer thing... they need it.
Dur Jan 4th 2010 9:08PM
I was almost crying at that article about revanx... Untill the last sentence, really not cool of him to make a joke like that in a serious post about someone's death.
niko Jan 5th 2010 1:22AM
I think the joke, while not well-employed, still captures the essence of what Revanx brought to the guild: a downright good attitude with tons of potential and a certain amount of playfulness. It sure is sad to hear that such a great player and person is no longer with us. Hell, I didn't mind the joke so much as I did the typos, esp. for someone that only brought skill and precision to the game we all enjoy so much... seems like he should have nailed the spelling at least. :/
Also, I find it hard to believe you could honestly feel like the blogger is somehow offending this guy's memory. He's doing a damn good job honoring the time he got to spend with him IMO, and you can't fault him for that.
RIP Revanx.
traptinacivicsi Jan 5th 2010 9:20AM
For the record, I'm a Prot Paladin, and I found the joke to not only be in good taste, but hil-AR-ious.
Darkfreak Jan 4th 2010 9:14PM
For some reason, the links for the gray matter and forever a noob post aren't working. They're blue and underlined...but not clickable.
Alex Ziebart Jan 4th 2010 9:39PM
Try now. For some reason the pasted links had double https in the URL.
derevkapriest Jan 4th 2010 10:42PM
Hot! Thanks for the link over to Tales!
/hug
Derevka, www.talesofapriest.com
Hal Jan 4th 2010 11:19PM
Ah, the Val'anyr curse. I've had one pug healer with the weapon (that I know of) and I didn't play any differently. Although I did ask the healer whether or not he'd gone to sleep based on how little he'd have to be healing me, since between my block set and the hammer's shield proc I was barely dipping into my health during the dungeon.
artifex Jan 6th 2010 2:59PM
I became buddies with a guy on my server, and as I was helping him level (shhh, I logged in as him a few times) to 80 he told me he was in and out of the hospital a lot, because he had cancer. He eventually just stopped turning up, and his guild and I never heard what happened. I hope he decided he had better things to do with his (remaining) time than spend it online. I even hope he made up being ill just to get help, as that would be preferable to what probably really happened.
Knew another guy, had been a great friend in the game, we were always competing against each other for achievements, and I even joined his achievement guild. But then he said he was going on a trip, and would be back in a month. That was only a couple of months ago, but the guildies have since dug up that he went to visit his family overseas, in a country that's been subject to terrorist violence. We wait, wonder, and worry.
Finally, the leader of a different guild I had been in suddenly went homeless. His ex-roommate said he was going to his sister's, but we didn't hear from him for months. Thankfully, he showed up last month, and I made sure he knew he was missed. :)
If you make friends in WoW, please let them know if you plan to quit the game, so they don't worry what's happened to you. Especially if you've got health problems or other risky situations in your life you've told them about. And please, if you have good friends online anywhere, write down a way for your loved ones to contact them if something happens to you. Nobody likes hearing bad news. Nobody likes sharing bad news. But if we're friends, we need to know.