Welcome to a hopefully humorous look at World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is many things and the meaning of the wht it is varies by what each person considers significant.

Programmers might be fascinated and engaged by the technology itself; highly customizable and sophisticated.

Gamers like it for being a cutting edge MMO RPG.

Adults and kids alike enjoy its social aspects; communication/collaboration with others.

Collectors and puzzle-solvers find plenty of items to collect and puzzles to solve.

Some, perhaps a very few, regardless of their involvement in the game if any, will gaze at it from a distance — ponder upon what they see — and perhaps wear a small grin.

This blog is for those with perspective, not just a narrow interest, and the ability to perceive things in context.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Serious Math Puts Lighthearted Fun into Rogue Class Characters

The rogue class in World of Warcraft is basically all about rapidly ending the life of something in the game.  In PvP the word "rapidly" can often be changed to "abruptly".

The rogue class is incredibly sensitive to gear. The statistics of the character have dramatic effects on outcomes.

Rogues can be very rewarding to play.  I have noticed I do not see them in dungeons as often as I did half a decade or so ago.  However, I still see them in battlegrounds.

Nevertheless, they are good for both PvE and PvP play.  One resource available to rogues to help pick out and evaluate gear, glyphs, and talent points is a web site named Shadowcraft.

If you have a rogue character that you play in WoW, you should take a look at the site and see how you can max out your gear and tactics so you can get the effects you want.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

YouTube retooled leads to Undermine Journal reacquaintance

Institutions of the Web really outdid themselves from my perspective this week.  I was very impressed by 4 of them in the course of a quarter of an hour today.

First, I learned on social news site Digg from news content site Discovery that web superstar Google has completely retooled the user interface of social video web portal site YouTube.

While there, and encouraged to poke around and look for some new feeds to subscribe to I learned that The Undermine Journal has a YouTube account with a feed on it to which I could subscribe.  So I did.

While watching the introductory TUJ tutorial video, I learned about some neat little features in The Undermine Journal web site that I had overlooked.

The video was uploaded at the end of October, making it just over a month old.  It was new to me, and contributed to my overall impression this evening that the Web has really evolved this autumn.

I think this is the way the web is supposed to work.  Lots of different sites and services all working together in a smooth, open, non-monolithic fashion.

It is kind of funny I got acquainted with these neat TUJ features thanks to a YouTube web site facelift getting announced on Digg.  But that is the way the Web works.