Last week on Massively: WoW-related stories
“This week’s round up of WoW-related posts on our sister site Massively covers many different angles of the MMO universe dominated by World of Warcraft. You can click on the links below or subscribe to a special WoW-only Massively feed. Player vs. Everything: I look hot in leather Well, not me personally (I think), but my my World of Warcraft Shaman sure looks hot in leather. By hot, I mean ridiculously badass and uber. It’s not just fun to run around looking like a Tauren Rogue– it’s also functional. You see, I play an Enhancement Shaman. We’re the much-maligned, often mocked branch of the Shaman class (especially for PvP where we get kited around or pounded down with ease). Still, I persevere because it’s fun to dual-wield while shocking and because I like being a support class. It’s nice to be able to toss some heals out sometimes, boost my whole group’s DPS, resurrect people after wipes, and still be 4th or 5th on the damage charts. So, if I love my Shaman so much, why am I wearing lots of leather when my class calls for mail. Simple. My primary role in a raid as an Enhancement Shaman is still pumping out damage. Take a look at the Shaman section of MaxDPS.com, a site that calculates the highest DPS items for a number of classes. If you glance through those lists, you’ll notice something interesting: The best possible items in the game for Enhancement Shamans are leather items in more than 60% of the armor slots. Weird, huh. wow geld It’s like that at every tier to some extent. Unfortunately, those leather items are also the best possible items for Rogues, Feral Druids, and Fury Warriors (in some slots). As you can imagine, this leads to some frustration and drama as everyone scrambles for the same loot (you’ll notice that almost everyone shooting down the Shaman in the first thread is a Rogue).
lord of the rings online gold Still, the numbers are there. While Shamans have options, leather is often the best thing they can be wearing. What’s the deal. sell wow gold Why isn’t there more appropriately itemized gear for Enhancement Shamans (and should they get to roll on leather to make up for it). Read more here:”This approach to filling your raids is something that Blizzard wouldn’t smile on at all, but that we’ve seen happening in several guilds. There are two sides to this; firstly, solve the problem of getting skilled players, and secondly solve the matter of gear. wowgold It works something like this: random warlock leaves your guild for RL, abandoning a raid-ready character with bucketloads of epics. Instead of recruiting an undergeared or inexperienced replacement, you find someone you know will be a decent player in their shoes — say the top warlock from your server’s other faction. Then you boldly break the TOS and risk getting that player banned. Alternatives include simply getting the cross-faction character to 70 and in basic gear (say a PvP set) then gearing it up as you would any lower-geared player, or even buying the character illegally. runescape money We don’t approve of this behaviour, not least because it’s made serious dents into our guild’s pool of decent players — of course, the argument that they wouldn’t have been tempted away by ready-made cross-faction characters if we’d been the right place for them holds some weight here.RELATED LINKS:http://blog.goo.ne.jp/teresa_2008/
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