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Our Survey Says: Arena Joy

Shell — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:45:11 +0000

It’s arena tournament time! Well technically it’s arena practise time but whatever, you can spend the time until things get official dressing your character in all the things you wish you really owned. Duel some persistent yet curiously cowardly mages outside Stormwind, try out other classes, run about spamming owl macros, whatever tickles your pickle. You could even do some arena, though I hear that’s a controversial approach.

Playing enough ranked games nets you a cool non-combat pet, but actually being good at it could get you a title. If there’s a reason for not taking part (*cough* apart from the £12 entry fee *cough*), I just can’t think of it. Look out for Shootygoose,Holygoose and Hittygoose!

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Oh yes, and if you’ve forgotten how to turn off the annoying newbie popups, it’s in your interface menu under “help”. Don’t spend 2 days looking for it like a certain priest did.

Our Survey Says: Mounts for money?

Tethane — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:00:00 +0000

I can be quoted from my Guild website saying “I would give my first born” for the Celestial Steed mount when I first saw a sneaky peek of the design, but on the day of the release and still some weeks after, trade has turned into one huge mount rant… what do you think and did you buy it?

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Our Survey Says: To buy or not to buy?

Tethane — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:44:53 +0000

Buying gold is in most peoples minds akin to treason against friends, against your community, and least importantly, usually against the End User License Agreement that you failed to read before clicking OK.

It is regarded as debilitating to the WoW economy and more so to our gaming experience leading to hacking, botting and all manner of nasties.

BUT If there wasn’t a market for gold, there wouldn’t be an economy to worry about. For every ten guys who swear they would never buy gold I’m pretty sure we could find nine Pay Pal accounts that will tell you differently.

We know that this subject causes flustered tempers and the united sound of fists banging on tables me thinks that the community doth protest too much sometimes.

So, and for the sake of curiosity (and please remember that this poll is confidential) come clean about your gold buying or lack of gold buying activities!

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Our Survey Says: Peer Pressure

Shell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:28:48 +0000

An easy one for you this week! I remember when I first heard about WoW. I’d been living like a student for a couple of years despite working and hadn’t had internet, so I was completely out of the loop when a friend mentioned he was getting it. I yelled at him not to be silly, because at the time he was working 12 hour days and I worried he’d have a nervous breakdown.

Of course after the first night of sitting in his bedroom calling out instructions from the manual while he, like a typical bloke, dived straight in and then found he didn’t know how to make his character sit down, I was officially counting the days until I could get my hands on some internet and join him. A few months later, in Summer 2006, my first character was born (and then crashed in IF never to be seen again.

Anyway! The upshot of this rambling is that I want to know how did you get into this game? Do you have bragging rights because you knew about it since Beta, or did your husband hassle you to join to avoid wife aggro?

If your partner is to blame, feel free to leave a comment and let us know whether you’re male or female. I think it’ll be interesting to see just how many girls get their man into WoW rather than the usual.

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Our Survey Says: To EZMode or not to EZMode?

Shell — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:57:27 +0000

That is the question.

For those who aren’t aware, Icecrown Citadel zone-wide buffs have gone live on US servers (my gnomes tell me it’s not live for us yet, which can only mean it’s coming tomorrow). The current buff will give a 5% increase to your health, damage and healing done, which is a pretty big increase when you think about it. It’s very likely that higher percentage buffs will be activated over time.

The catch here is that these buffs are optional, but either the whole raid takes them or the whole raid doesn’t so far as I can tell. There are bound to be disagreements among those who would rather get a “clean” kill and those who just want to get through the bosses as quickly as possible, but if it were up to you which camp would you fall into?

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Our Survey Says: Goldmine

Shell — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:01:01 +0000

A common question you hear from newer players is how to make a lot of money very quickly. The stock answer appears to be “take skinning and mining, sell everything you gather, and worry about real professions later”. To an extent this is great advice, though I’ve seen people get to 80, change their professions, and spend the rest of their lives in poverty.

My question is this: on an established character, how do you find yourself making your gold?

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Our Survey Says: Website Fiend

Shell — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:15:20 +0000

How many times have I pointed a guildie* to Gear Wishlist? I’ve no idea, but it’s got to be a lot. This is an excellent example of a far-too-underused and yet extremely useful game-related website, and only a few of us seem to have ever even heard about it. I’ve been an avid user of these sites for a long time, in TBC for example my obsessions were Warcrafter and Loot Rank. Yet I’m constantly reminded that most people haven’t only not heard of these sites, they actively don’t care.

Do you use these resources to improve your character and your gameplay, or do you prefer the more relaxed “it’ll be fine” approach to character development?

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*often the same one

Our Survey Says: Holiday Blues

Shell — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:30:07 +0000

Brewfest 2009 marked the first time that those players devoted (and lucky) enough to have completed all of the seasonal meta-achievements were able to get their hands on a genuinely stunning mount, inspiring awe and jealously in those around them. I myself know a depressing amount of people who fly about on their violet drake at every opportunity, often just because they know I want one.

On the other hand, maybe getting the drake first time round isn’t so fun now that everyone else is running about (or sitting still disguised as a snowman, whatever) getting their Winter Veil achievements the “lucky” few have nothing much to do.

So which camp do you fall into? Is Winter Veil achievementastic or just one long wait for your BB gun?

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Our Survey Says: Are You A Guildhopper?

Shell — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:21:27 +0000

From Wowwiki:

Guild hopper is a term used to describe players of World of Warcraft who join a guild for the sole purpose of gaining loot, then leaving to join another guild. It was possible for this type of player to gear themselves up in a very short space of time by gaining drops from boss kills with their guild.

If you’ve been in a lot of guilds, chances are that somewhere along the line someone you know has considered you a guildhopper. You may not fit the definition above, but whether you left your guilds for good or bad reasons often doesn’t matter since all we see when researching guild history is the number. The question is do you think your guild number is a bit over the top, or is all fair in WoW and loot?

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As a sidenote I’d like to point out that this poll is two days late, I have had horrendous flu and will be spamming you all again shortly.

Random Responses

“People I know in-game always call me guildhopper. Every guild I join seems to want too much from me, like being extra polite to their members even if they’re idiots.” – Anonymous

“I wouldn’t consider myself a guildhopper, though I have been in quite a few guilds. It all depends how settled I feel there.” – Clbull

“I actually shy away from joining guilds. There’s too much pressure to be social when you don’t feel like it, and since the patch there’s even less reason to bother.” – Filandria

Our Survey Says: 3.3 Release

Shell — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:39:13 +0000

The news should have filtered down to even the most oblivious player by now…the patch is on it’s way! For some of us it’s an exciting time, we’ve managed to complete at least most of the current raid content but with enough left over to keep us from becoming bored, but others haven’t been so lucky.

I’m glad to count myself among the former group, but which are you? Share your thoughts, ‘cos let’s face it we have little better to do while the realms are down.

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For this week’s poll I was accused of being a keylogger. The things I do for you.

Random Responses

“It’s a commercial win for blizzard just before xmas! But tbh I need it now as ToGC is soon gonna be a bit boring – so it’s nice timing for me. Selfish i know!” – Brekkon

“My guild kinda suck and haven’t completed much, so I wish it came out after Christmas instead. Maybe we’ll be better after Christmas” – Anonymous

“Actually I’m not looking forward to the release date tomorrow. We are currently working on Dedicated Insanity and I wanted to get that one done before the patch” – Nightspear

“I would of liked more time get get some achievments done and geared up slightly more but welcome the new content. I am getting tired of Hc ToC, VH, etc etc most days” – Ankle