Tuesday Morning Post: Philosophy Edition
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Sep 15th 2009 at 7:00AM
I don't know what was in the air this week, but it seemed like everyone was doing a little philosophizing around the WoW webosphere. Chief among those, of course, was Ghostcrawler, who waxed eloquent about community reactions to balancing and the reasons for killing off 2v2 arena. We got into too, with Adam wondering if Blizzard's just a little too secretive,
There's plenty more armchair quarterback philosophy where that came from, and you'll have plenty of time to experience it all, with downtime lasting... Wait. There is no downtime. But hey, it's cool. If you're stuck at work or school with no access to WoW, you might still like to browse. Here's our usual tuesday morning list of news and navelgazing:
Hot News and Features
- Blizzard slipped in a nice little Cataclysm preview in the wee hours of this morning in the form of a page on the Abyssal Maw.
- Dragon*Con 2009 was full of WoW goodness of the fan variety, including a WoW addons panel.
- WoW Rookie helps you figure what to read when you want to catch up on WoW lore.
- WoW Casually looks at Patch 3.2 from a casual point of view.
- See what Blizzard was up to at FluCon - I mean PAX 2009.
- That's right. With a little work, you too can own the hottest shirt of BlizzCon 2009 - the Ghostcrawler Promised Me a Pony T-shirt.
- Blood Pact's back, baby. There's a new Warlock in town, and he's making a list, and checking it twice.
- Encrypted Text continues offering tips for raiding the Coliseum.
- The Care and Feeding of Warriors has some thoughts about tanking.
- Lichborne looks at the future of Death Knight Lore in Cataclysm.
- Arcane Brilliance continues helping you make your mage raidworthy.
- Totem Talk discusses leveling via the AV blitz as a Shaman.
- Shifting Perspectives takes a look at leveling a Druid from 51-60.
- Eddie looks at the Armor Penetration nerf from a Hunter perspective, as well as the recent Beastial Wrath nerf.
- GuildOx has implemented strict 10-man rankings.
- Do you know your basic shapes and colors?
- Ready Check helps you take on Koralon the Flame Watcher.
- Raid Rx takes a look at Coliseum healing loot.
- There's a new version of WoW model viewer out. It's the perfect toy for server downtime... even if we don't have any today.
- Cranius, writer and singer of such classic WoW folk songs such as Big Blue Dress and Darrowshire, has a CD. You can get it on Amazon or iTunes.
- The Guild Season 3 continues with episode 2.
- Psychologists weigh in on WoW: We spoke with an Internet Addiction specialist who's never actually played WoW, and looked at a study that touts the positive effects of guilding on your stress levels.
- Mike takes a stab at interpreting some of the data from our unscientific faction transfer poll.
- Figureprints is offering armor sets.
Filed under: Realm Status, Odds and ends, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Neyssa Sep 15th 2009 7:17AM
I hope Dominic the New Warlockwriter's list will contain Mages X-ed out too :) Thx for doing Blood Pact, we are eager for your new posts!
Jamie Sep 15th 2009 7:43AM
While warlocks & the warlock column will consider their rival always to be mages due to them both being cloth/pure dps, I always take the RP/non mechanics point of view as a Paladin seeing warlocks as our polar opposite.
Of course what both classes fail to learn the best way to use schools of magic is to slap it on the end of your weapon of choice and smack the crap out of the unfortunately n/pc to get in the way, one day they'll learn I'm sure...
Aureliusz Sep 15th 2009 8:11AM
Not so much our ties as pure cloth caster dps... More the fact that Warlocks are just Mages who know how much better Demonic power is, and have decided to harness it. The Mages are just the losers we left behind. They've had it in for us for some time... Some crap about impurity and demonic taint...
So every now and again, we take the time out to purge the world of one more prissy little anti-demonic spellflinger. Man up and start summoning Demons. Everybody knows they're better.
macster Sep 15th 2009 8:14AM
Warlocks are the Delta fraternity of Mage school. Up all night partying with Succubi when we should be studying.
eric_barbaric Sep 15th 2009 11:49AM
@ macster
If that's the case, then you should best be very afraid of Bluto (John Belushi) the Warlock when they take the bar away.