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World of Warcraft: How to Make Dailies Efficient and Fun
It’s a given that most people hate the dailies. Blizzard obviously will not be changing course at this point in time with dailies so you might as well get used to them. However, you can do things to make dailies less painful and even fun to a degree. The key is organization and psychology. What…
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World of Warcraft: How I’m Spending Valor Points
Right now, we’re into patch 5.1. Not a particularly great patch as we’re anticipating 5.2, which is going to have a new raid, more world bosses and yet even more daily quests. The big thing to keep in mind with patch 5.2 coming up is that LFR will require ilvl 486 gear. For those doing…
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World of Warcraft: Clearing Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring
Tonight was my first time clearing part 2 for the LFR version of Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring. Since my job had wound down, I finally decided to get back into putting effort into my Paladin and make some progress into the game. Matter of fact, I did 4 of the LFRs…
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Diablo 3: Potentially Good Gold Earning Run
Tired of Alkaizer runs for Act 3? Want to change it up a bit? Here’s a run that I’m starting to use. First, you must have the Staff of Herding from Inferno mode (yes, we are going to hit Whimseyshire as part of this run). So before you proceed with this article, make sure you…
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Diablo 3: Hitting 60 on My Witch Doctor and Gearing for Inferno
My witch doctor is the latest to achieve level 60 and make it into Inferno mode. Actually, I had hit 60 in Hell mode (which you can do easily). I took a look at my stash and quickly decided that it was far better just to buy all new gear and vender any left overs.…
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Diablo 3: Odd Gear Mixtures
If you check out the top DPS people (or even the top EHP) on diabloprogress.com, you’ll often encounter odd combinations of gear these people. I find it interesting how people determined what the best in slot items would be to achieve these means. For instance, seeing monk gear on a demon hunter, or monk pants…
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The Best Code Written and Myth of Academia
Yesterday, I had lunch with some friends and two people mentioned that they lacked a proper college degree. Somehow they felt that having a proper college degree has hurt them in some way. While that part might have some truth, it’s not the whole story. The conversation led me to de-construct the notion of academics…
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How I Should Have Never Left Japan in the First Place
Only in retrospect can we clearly see. And at this point, I finally see the whole picture. My whole picture. What I should have done in the first place. And that thing is not leaving the first time. Back when my dad had his stroke, I panicked. I feared for him. But honestly, the damage…
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12-21-2012: The Great Disappointment
It’s a week now with 12-21-2012 having come and gone. Apparently, we all physically survived the imminent end of the Mayan Calendar, what people for the last few years had been predicting as the apocalypse. Once again, prophecies were not fulfilled. Despite all of this hoopla, many people were lured into the belief that the…
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Diablo 3: The Controversy of Magic Find
There was an argument going on over at the Blizzard Diablo 3 forums where Athene called out Blizzard on false advertisement with regards to Magic Find. His complaint was that there was no empirical evidence that clearly demonstrates what Magic Find does. He compared the experience of playing his Wizard vs his Demon Hunter. His…