Archive for August, 2010

A little bit of history repeating itself

The game is very cyclic. I’ve said this all along, and I’ve come to accept that most of the time, most raiding guilds will have a use-by date that they will reach, and no matter how successful they are, how good the atmosphere, how long the relationships, how aggressive the recruitment – sometimes there’s just no way to salvage raiding, because the announcement of a new expansion plants a seed in the minds of a lot of raiders. [...]

Blog tools: Wibiya

This is so cute and funky, I had to grab it. It’s called Wibiya – a super easy to install footer toolbar for your blog or website.

You can customise the applications that you show – including a share button, YouTube gallery, Twitter dashboard, a really nice search function, and best of all for bloggers, a real-time indicator of how many people are on the site *right now*. They have a bunch of applications, and keep adding more. [...]

Beta changes: nerfs, buffs, interesting tweaks

Yet another piecemeal beta update, just to pass on some small changes.

A few buffs, nerfs, and general tweaks. Nothing huge; a few new and interesting tidbits, though. Expect many more adjustments before this stuff is final. Still, it’s great to see the druid talent trees getting attention! [...]


Oops! I may have missed your message.

For some weird reason, in the last few weeks gmail has been sending all of my TBJ comment notifications and contact form emails (ouch) to my spam folder.

I apologise if I missed your comment or message – I wasn’t ignoring you, I promise! [...]

Cataclysm design updates

Hi all, still on a bit of a break while my wrists are healing and things in the game and in the blogosphere are quiet, pre-expansion; just dropped in to repost some updated restoration druid information from Ghostcrawler on talents etc, in case people aren’t aware of the changes. I don’t usually like to regurgitate forum/mmo/wow.com news verbatim, but it’s stuff that a lot of people are wondering about, and may not have seen.[...]