Kontroversial Keith: Saying It and Meaning It.
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World of Warcraft: Was Wrath of the Lich King the Best Expansion?
I know a lot of people ended up panning Wrath of the Lich King, with old timers calling people starting in that era “Wrath Babies”. People criticized the instances as being too easy, ICC as allowing casuals to participate, allowing people to purchase gear using badges and even some of the dumbed down quest design.…
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Game Streamers and My Pet Peeves
Normally, I try to say positive things about streamers I enjoy following. However, I was one particular person (who I won’t name here) and some of his actions really made me disgusted. The issue was over giveaways and the idea of being disqualified for giveaways for those who leave the chat for whatever reason. I…
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World of Warcraft: DPS Class/Spec Review for Patch 5.3
Mike Preach has come up with some interesting videos discussing whether you should roll a certain class or not. I felt inspired by a lot of his commentary and wanted to throw my two cents into the mix by examining the DPS roles of classes and specs I’ve played in this expansion so far. Retribution…
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Diablo 3: Nice MP5 Farming Route for Barbarians (Act 1)
I managed to upgrade my barbarian slightly recently, which is allowing me to handle Monster Power 5 Act 1 just fine. Stat-wise, he has (unbuffed) 38.8k health, 640 all resistances, 6.5k armor, 1.1k life on hit and is around 113k DPS. I use a Scoundrel as my companion for the increased critical hit chance. Unless…
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World of Warcraft: Some Cheap Tricks to Get Easy Stuff at Level 90
I consider myself a casual and lazy player. But not lazy as in “I just want to sit on my ass and be handed stuff while sleeping and eating pizza simultaneously.” Lazy as in “I want to play smart with doing minimal effort but maximizing what I can do with my time.” Sometimes, I feel…
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Diablo 3: Itemization Design Ideas
There was some talks on the Itemization patch (aka Loot 2.0) with a nice summary on the Diablo Fans page. The three big ideas are 1) making legendaries have unique properties; 2) making items upgradable (and thereby non-tradeable); and 3) more attention to less used class talents/skills. While the last part is yet to be…
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No More H&R Block Software for Tax Season for Me
Today, I received my second letter (actually my mom’s second letter) from the IRS concerning how the bank funds for her taxes were not paid. I don’t know what happened exactly in the transaction process but H&R Block’s software failed on two different accounts to properly submit my mom’s bank account information to the IRS.…
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World of Warcraft: Advantages/Disadvantages of Belong to a Low/Medium Population PVE Server
I used to belong to an older, medium-high population PVP server called Ner’Zhul. We were afforded some nice benefits as well as having a fair amount of disadvantages too. Later, I transferred to an Oceanic server called Saurfang. Over time, I’ve pondered moving back to a higher population server in the US but wanted to…
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World of Warcraft: Pre-Throne of Thunder Raids Loot System Broken After Patch 5.3?
I noticed something once patch 5.3 came in: the loot drop rate feels like they’re back before patch 5.2. I don’t know if Blizzard has bothered testing whether or not the loot drop rate is still at the new level but it’s pretty bad again. Hopefully, enough players will complain to Blizzard because I’m seeing…