Category: World of Warcraft

No matter if you are a veteran or a new player. Being a Mage in World of Warcraft, you should get used to a fact: you will die often. Yes, that is the Mage. You made your decision, so you should learn to like it, or quit your character. After all, every death makes you an incrementally better player. And you will often be out performed in damage, this is common, get over it. It doesn’t mean you’re any worse of a player.

Watch out for enemies that you cannot see, try and use “Arcane Explosion” so you can hit them when they are close by. Then use Frostbolt to slow them down by 50%, and then it’s up to you what you like best and what does the most damage.

Keep in mind that higher damage does not always equal better player. In fact, it is the technique you use that makes a difference. Tanks don’t like to chase their mobs, and priests will not be happy at having to heal/res you over and over. Make sure to control your Mage.

However, Mage is not supposed to be the highest damage class in the World of Warcraft, it’s generalized to be able to deal the most amount of damage in the shortest amount of time.

The forums can be informative, but you should have to make a right judge. Do not ever take them too seriously, most posts are created by people who haven’t played very long, done very little research into the subject of their post, or are merely trying to get a reaction.

Get outdoors at least once a day. There’s a bigger world out there! Go experience it. If you can’t do this, you may need to break your World of Warcraft addiction. By the way, sometimes you will be more powerful when you back to your computer after some kind of entertainment outside.

The last thing, remember that it is you who can control your Mage. This is your character, don’t let anyone decide how you should play it. 

orld of Warcraft is a game, but it never just simply be a game.

Forever I believe the members in our team or once in our team, love Walking & Dancing (the name of my guild and W&D is short for Walking&Dancing) as I do, or even more. The past is history, who was right or who was wrong? It doesn’t matter any more. Only the days that we spent together matters. Because we will remember that days for a long long time. I am really proud of being a member of W&D!

I always want to write something, about our days. Just because we have experienced too much. I joined W&D with patch 4.1, and I still consider it is my honor to be a member of W&D. As a new member, I have been confused, frustrated and discouraged even want to quit when being arranged as a candidate. I have once dreamed to fight as a member of W&D and get a huge victory. And finally I do have a chance, and I did well, everyone did a good job. That is what I get from W&D.

It is in W&D where I meet the guild master who really hated calling people names. Even when big mistakes happened in the crucial moments, he would angry, blame and point out, but he would never shouting and cursing, never! To find out problems and solve problems, that was his style. We could enjoy a friendly environment here. Even in the toughest time, the leader would smile and courage each other. It made me think I was important too.

When looking back, we indeed have our great time. We own our glory and success, and also suffer from misunderstanding and disappointing. All are essential on our way to WoW.

Game is a game, it can not replace our real life. So, it is unavoidable for W&D’s dismission. We joined together just for gaming, but we all unintentionally put our heart into it. Whatever, I do help my friends would still have their fun in other new guilds and learn more from gaming. 

Tillers Addons

Last week’s Addon Spotlight on reputation addons included the amazing Factionizer, which monitors reputation with all factions. Factionizer works fantastically well for the Tillers too, showing rep not only for the overall faction but also for each individual NPC with whom you earn reputation in the hunt for your WoW BFF. I’ve not met all my potential BFFs just yet, but Factionizer seems to show the BFF-style rep in the same fashion as the usual rep, i.e. it’s listed as running from Friendly to Exalted rather than from Stranger to Best Friend. Nonetheless, the numbers seem accurate.

If you don’t want to use Factionizer, there are other options, one of which performs the same role as Factionizer, but exclusively for the Tillers. It’s called Tiller Tracker, and keeps track of your daily Tillers’ food quests by “keeping track of what quests have been completed that day, how many dishes need to be cooked, and what materials are required”. It requires a broker like TitanPanel, ChocolateBar, FuBar, or something along those lines.

So you can see from the screenshot above how it works, it logs the gift quests for you, and maintains a record of the ingredients you need for each dish. It will also remember what you’ve got in your bags, and if you look at the very top of the screenshot it will display your preferred item for easy record-keeping without having to keep checking the tooltip! You can also lock the tooltip open by clicking either the bar icon or the minimap icon.

My one criticism of this little addon is that when I moused over the tracker button in my TitanPanel, and took the screenshot above, I didn’t have a single “A Dish for…” quest in my log. I’d love for it to scan my quest log and ascertain what I need from there, then display only that information rather than what’s shown. It’s a very minor quibble indeed, though, and if you want to just deal with the Tillers cooking dailies rather than installing the heavier duty Factionizer, it’s a brilliant choice! Edit: It appears that from SmaugsLair’s comment below, this complaint is unjustified as they don’t appear in your log! I take it all back, then.

Another great Tiller addon is Vlud’s Tiller Gifts, which adds to the standard tooltip illustrating which items are gifts for the various Tiller characters. It’s so simple, and just adds a little more information on the tooltip that makes it far easier for you to get a gift or two for your chosen future BFFs.

Vlud’s Tiller Gifts works on every source of tiller items, and also, as you can see from the toolip, shows your current standing with the relevant tiller, and the percentage of your progression through that reputation level. Simple but effective!

Another simple but effective Tiller addon is Delete Tiller Items. This, as we say here in the UK thanks to a lengthy and successful advertizing campaign from a wood-stain brand, does exactly what it says on the tin. As the description says, it allows you to get rid of the Dented Shovel, Rusty Watering Can and Vintage Bug Sprayer hanging out in your bag with one of two slash commands, /deletetilleritems or /dti, once you’re done with your farming for the day. 

Order of the Cloud Serpent

There’s only one addon I could find for the Cloud Serpent folk, and that addon is Cloud Serpent. Now, this requires the fabulously popular navigation addon TomTom to work. But once you have TomTom up and running, Cloud Serpent senses whenever you enter the Windward Isle, and adds the waypoints for every single Onyx Egg into your TomTom system. What does this all mean? Well, when you enter the zone, you will have an in-game navigation system pointing you to every single egg. You can check out the video below to see it in action!

Lately we’ve been talking a lot about addons for features that have been implemented in Mists, and today is no different. However, we are going to be shying away from re-treading old ground, and moving into some new areas. If you’re looking for pet battle addons, there have been three posts about them recently, two from Addon Spotlight, and one other.

As we’re all grinding out our reputation with each faction, last week’s Addon Spotlight took on reputation addons to try to make this experience easier and hopefully less frustrating! This week we’re examining some other addons that help with some new features brought in in Mists. As ever,  Sell wow gold your feedback and addon suggestions are much appreciated, and if you think there’s a type of addon I should be featuring, drop me a line!

And in exciting news, we can announce that Reader UI of the Week is making a return! Send me your UIs, and we’ll get to posting! 

Monk Addons

Yes, monks count as a new feature for the purpose of this column! I’m not looking, here, at general addons which monks can use, which, of course, are very plentiful indeed. I thought I’d have a look into some monk-specific addons to show you all, and didn’t find very many, so as ever if you have a great monk-specific addon, do share!

First up is Monk Timers, which is a cooldown and buff monitoring system designed specifically for monks. While its roles could be carried out with a combination of various other addons, if you want something lightweight and monk-specific, this addon used precious little memory and worked well for my baby monk’s very low requirements for its services!

You can see it in action above, I chose to use an image from the creator’s site rather than one of my own as it just shows so much more of what this addon can do. The stagger bar for brewmasters is particularly good, and you can see the other cooldown timers as well. I have to say I found the combined chi/mana bar for mistweavers rather tricky to see in a hurry, but others may not share this opinion, or maybe it was just my color settings!

If you’re not using the standard UI, this addon is also compatible with popular skinning addons Masque aka Buttonfacade, and rActionButtonStyler, meaning that it can be styled to suit most UIs.