Your Wish List vs. The Need Before Greed System

The other week, as a gift to you from us, we each offered to write and discuss a topic of your choice. Here’s what we came up with! What do you want for Winter Veil? You want to wrap your boomkin snugly in an Ancient Polar Bear Hide or keep your holydin’s toes toasty in …

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How Our Guild is Handling Primordial Saronite

Primordial Saronite is the item that’s required for the next level of crafting gear out of Icecrown. There’s all sorts of methods of picking up this stuff and our leadership’s been hard at work figuring out what our approach should be. There’s a few things that are high on the priority list. Shadowmourne, for one, …

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Healer DPS: The Good, The Bad, The Unfair

The boss looms before you.  Psh!  Boss?  More like pansy!  You’ve worked on this guy for a whileand are just not yet on farm status.  You look at your raid frames and see that everyone seems to be taking minimal damage.  The tank is taking slight damage, but it’s nothing like the early days of …

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Trophy vs Token

When Burning Crusade touched down we received a token system. The system tied multiple classes to a single drop from a boss. This allowed for less loot being sharded or discarded and allowed for quicker gearing as a guild. The tokens could then be turned in for your tier set pieces. A lot of people …

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Pass the Parcel: When Raiders Won’t Roll

This is a guest post by Mimetir, an oversized owl of a raid leader on The Venture Co (EU). You can find her twitter feed. Loot. Shiny items of [insert rainbow colour here] pot of gold goodness. Many players actively strive to better their equipment and make that their main goal in the game. Better, …

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