Kontroversial Keith

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  • World of Warcraft: What to Do At Level 90 for PVE

    You just hit level 90 maybe finishing Townlong Steppes on your journey. The game opens up the doors and you have far more options now since you no longer are in the tunnel of gaining experience. What should you do? This post is geared towards newer players or even players interested in figuring out some…

  • The Zend Framework: Problems with Controllers, Models and Domain Modeling

    In talking with an ex-colleague, I realized that there’s a lot of confusion that takes place in these so-called MVC frameworks. What I’ve noticed is that many have different interpretations of what the Model-View-Controller looks like (typically only getting the view portion correct in implementation). Most controversy in architecture revolves around the Model and the…

  • World of Warcraft: A Proposal for Better Social Mechanics

    I have to constantly come back to the topic of social mechanics inside of World of Warcraft since it’s such a prevalent issue that comes up all the time. On one of the forum topics, I think I came up with an interesting idea that I wanted to expand upon here. But we have to…

  • World of Warcraft: How I Am Preparing For Patch 5.2

    More than likely Patch 5.2 will be released next week. Today, Blizzard released a new preview video of the upcoming patch and many articles in the past week have set the tone in getting our appetites wet for battle. Yet, the question is how one can prepare for the upcoming patch. Most of the patch…

  • World of Warcraft: Death Knight at 90 and Moving Shaman Up

    I managed to hit level 90 earlier on my death knight. I figured that it was important to get a few more toons up to 90 before the next patch hits just to start preparing them. I quickly got some PVP gear, along with the 476 chest piece and the crafted 2 handed weapon. Also,…

  • World of Warcraft: Tank or DPS for Leveling?

    Currently, I am homing in on level 90 with my death knight in World of Warcraft. That’ll mark my 4th level 90. It took me slightly longer to work on my death knight as I had prioritized my other 3 90’s much higher. However, getting slightly bored of dailies and with the patch approaching quickly,…

  • Why We Need to Move to Micro Thinking Rather Than Macro

    Something hit me the other day when a friend of mine sent me an article about the way Japan’s economic situation in reality is better than people feel. The article in question was more of an economics one and uses numbers to paint a rosy picture. However, the article itself is flawed in its approach…

  • World of Warcraft: Improving the Valor Point System Numbers

    With patch 5.2 around the corner, one major retraction Blizzard has incorporated is removing the upgrade system. The way Blizzard discussed this situation is that it’s more or less a temporary removal so there’s a chance we’ll be seeing them in the future. I think that the upgrade system is an interesting one, but the…

  • World of Warcraft: Ganking, World PVP and Solutions

    There has been a lot of heated debate on the forums regarding World PVP and ganking. Ganking boils down to camping, picking on lowbies and ganging up on people or in general griefing others. While Blizzard has a limited stance on defending ganking, the truth is that it won’t go away. However, sadly enough there…

  • Blizzard: Where Does It Go from Here in 2013?

    Today, Blizzard announced that the current PVP season for World of Warcraft is ending on March 5, creating speculation that the new patch most likely will be in effect about the same period. If, indeed, the patch does get deployed during that week, we should think about how this unfolds, considering that the next expansion…