A faster connection will help if only because it allows you to send more packets of data without getting constricted. If you play with a green latency bar or green screen icon (0-300 ms), you should be good. Yellow (301-600 ms) will probably see some delays in your spells, and red (601+ ms) will render you unable to compete at the highest WOW level

I remember the first time I was ever kicked from a guild. At the time, my main character was my very first rogue, who was a new WOW leveling 60. I browsed around the realm forums for any guilds recruiting and found one that seemed to fit my schedule. I started raiding with them, and everything seemed to be going great. Well, it was going great, unt

I thought maybe there was some study about MMOs and player types. When I think of MMO research, I immediately head to Nick Yee's Daedalus Project and his more recent PARC Play on 2.0 studies with Nic Ducheneaut. They tackle motivations of game play, but they don't define where these motivations lay on the casual-to-hardcore sliding scale. There is

In a WOW, Casually article from last year, Robin Torres asked and answered the question, What is casual? She defines different WOW leveling of casual play and concludes the distinction is how you define fun. That may answer the question about defining casual, but what about everything beyond that level of play? And where does the casual line end? I

To determine what style of healing a priest is using, select that players name on your healing meter to get a breakdown of their spell usage. If Renew is in the top 3, then they are probably using a spam healing technique. A holy priest might also choose to be a bit more conservative with their healing since we do so much overheating with our spell

Boy has the priest game changed since the original Naxxramas the world is so different now for a priest. After witnessing the second best discipline priest ever rule the school with healing and absorption, I was in love with the spec. Quickly, I rushed to the internets, pulled up a talent build and went to town. Upon loading up my priest, it dawned

Are there specific methods aside from manually tracking the swing on specific items each week for predicting profit? Is buying items shown to be at a lower percentage in Auctioneer a real noob maneuver? I really appreciate your help. If I'm wasting my time trying to take advantage of market swings and reselling and I'd be better off just leveling a

I agree that the perks (as they currently exist in the beta) are good enough particularly the second set I reviewed to make joining advanced guilds extremely desirable for the average player. It's pretty difficult to ignore less durability damage, more frequent trade skill-ups and hearting, getting more items while gathering, and gaining more heroi