I return!

Firstly, I apologize again for the fact that I have not posted anything in over a month. I have been very busy here in Arizona with classes, and that coupled with the fact some people wanted me to wait to post anymore of these until after 2.2, resulted in the absence. Yet here I am, writing to all of you again about yet another class in WoW: Hunters.

Hunters are a funny class in a few ways. They are the only physical dps range class and on top of that they have a pet. T…  More

So it has been a while since I posted something here, and for that I apologize.  Here is why I am taking so long:

First I went to GenCon in Indy for about a week.  That was very fun and we ended up with a lot of good connections to dev teams.  These teams include EA-Mythic, Blizzard, and Flying Labs.  Pretty fun stuff overall (and I got into the Pirates of the Burning Sea beta, which I haven't played much of yet.  It looks good though.).

Well after I got back from …  More

Before I start I want to thank the people who commented on my last blogs, as the feedback was amazing and it changes how you look at things. With that said, it brings me to the next class I am covering in detail, which should please a lot of people: Rogues.

Rogues are an interesting class. They are good burst when it's needed and also have the ability to be excellent sustained damage over a long period of time. I really like the Energy Bar as the best out of the three types (Rag…  More

Hey everyone, some of you know me, some of you do not. I am Jder, one of the leaders of TAO. I have been helping to make and tweak balance changes in WoW for about 7 months, and I have played the game since Beta (gogo level 40 cap) on Tichondrius.

What I am going to use this blog for is to break down each class and relate strengths and weaknesses, then state how I feel they can be tweaked for the better. Some classes need complete overhauls. Some need just a few touches, like warriors.

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If you have never read one of my blogs before, welcome. I am not going to go into a large introduction, but I think of myself as quite knowledgeable about the game and have been doing this (balance changes/ideas) for quite a while. Anenga from Notorious helps me out, as he is just as knowledgeable as I am. This time I will be covering my thoughts on Priests.

Before you ask:
Am I an employee for Blizzard? No.
Then why is this important? You never know who is reading. Think abou…  More

So this was a hard choice which class to publicly evaluate in detail next. I had it down between Rogues, Priests, and Warlocks before Blizzcon. During Blizzcon I saw the overwhelming "booing" towards Warlocks when they were discussed by the devs, so I figured it was a good class to talk about here.

Warlocks are very questionable in their dominant role, as they can be both great support or supreme damage. They have the ability to get great damage mitigation through Soul Link …  More

So my last entry was about Warriors, a highly debated class. I got a lot of feedback either way towards liking and disliking the suggested changes, and I thank everyone for it. I have actually added two more changes to warriors since then and removed one of my suggestions due to a lot of talking and discussion through game, IRC, AIM, and Email. You can see the article on warriors and the changes I made here:
http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/WoWs-Balance-Blogs/WoW-class-balance-Warrio…  More