theorycraft

Buried treasure.

May 10, 2011

Historians believe that at the end of World War II, the Third Reich managed to hide considerable gold stores before succumbing to the Allied invasion. Some of these gold stores were discovered shortly after the war ended, but others may still lay undiscovered, as though some sort of Nazi-pirate treasure. Nazi archives show that battalions [...]

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Hunter blogs: welcome to 2004.

December 25, 2007

A few days ago, Xizang became another World of Warcraft (WoW) blogger to point out the proliferation of WordPress-based blogs in the WoW blogosphere. This trend has has been the village gossip for a couple weeks, but to us older bloggers, the emigration from Blogger is pure common sense: serious bloggers are going to use [...]

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Class breakdown for multiboxing.

August 30, 2007

My recent experience with multiboxing helped me organize my thoughts on which World of Warcraft (WoW) classes lend themselves towards the practice. In general, the “main” character (or master)can be anything, while secondary (or slave) characters are better off as ranged classes. This is because positioning becomes a concern when multiboxing, and though positioning issues [...]

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The five-man dream team.

July 25, 2007

When I get a chance to play World of Warcraft (WoW) these days, I find that running an instance as a PUG (public group) is more difficult than it used to be. I blame this primarily on the fact that there are less low-level players than there used to be, since everyone is running Heroics [...]

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Class Roles: Instances

December 27, 2005

v1.5 What a lot of people don’t understand when they begin playing a game like World of Warcraft (WoW) is that their choice of class is very important when it comes to the type of role the character is expected to play in a group. Understandably, the reasons that lead a player to roll a [...]

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