Bonemaw Workaround (Shadowmoon Burial Grounds Heroic)

I just finished running Shadowmoon Burial Grounds on Heroic difficulty. I'm not going to write a full guide to each dungeon, because frankly better people than I have already done so, but we did figure something out that works quite well against this boss. Bonemaw during the Inhale phase A quick overview of Bonemaw: He basically has two mechanics that you need to worry about. The first is Body Slam, which will do some damage and knock players...

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Changes

With the coming of Warlords of Draenor, as well as some changes going on in my World of Warcraft guild and my Dungeons & Dragons group, I've decided to change some things around. Previously I ran two separate websites, one blog that was about gaming in general, and another blog that was specifically geared toward hunter pets. I have since migrated all of my hunter pet pals over to the Insanitarium, as well as the other posts about general gaming.Starting forward this blog will be about all of my gaming, technology, and general nerd culture...

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Ziri'ak

Almost everyone in my guild, when they reached the Spires of Arak, chose the Brewery Garrison Outpost, which rewards (among other things) a passive 20% increase to XP while in the zone. Pretty good deal, right? Well, maybe not. After a bit of research I chose the Trading Post building, which allows you to summon an NPC called "Honest Jim" every 10 minutes while in the Spires of Arak. What's so good about Honest Jim you might ask? Well, in addition...

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WoW's 10th Anniversary

It's that time of year again, time for us all to gather around and be thankful for everything we have. Especially World of Warcraft. 10 years ago I was playing Warcraft III, and still tinkering around with StarCraft and Diablo II, when Blizzard announced that they were going into MMO business. I played a little bit of EverQuest, and didn't really enjoy it that much. And I certainly didn't like the idea of paying a monthly subscription just...

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Blizzard apologizes for worst launch ever - and it is totally acceptable

About ten hours ago, J. Allen Brack, Executive Producer of World of Warcraft, posted a rather long thread on the WoW forums, which you can read here. In it he explains the issues that were involved in the launch, and how the WoW team worked to fix those issues. I won't go into detail here, and he doesn't express all of my concerns, but in the whole I'm satisfied. He also explained that Blizzard is giving everyone 5 days of free game time. This is to off set the 3 or so days when it was practically impossible to log into the game for many players,...

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World of Waitcraft: The most anticipated disaster of the year.

Now don't let the title fool you - I love Warlords of Draenor. I love it far more than the tolerable Mists of Pandaria, more than my apathy allowed for Cataclysm, and I even like it more than Wrath of the Lich King, which up until this point was the last expansion that I pined for. So let me be clear that I love Warlords of Draenor so far - when I'm able to play it. But that's the real problem with WoD right now: you can't play. Let me take...

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