Heya guys!! Lots to talk about, especially the Chinese gold farmers, snicker. For the details you can read here. But lets not forget about things like the new DW talents and more for DK’s!!
Chinese Gold Farmers
Pretty much every MMO company out there has figured out that it’s nearly impossible to beat down those cochroaches known as the “chinese gold farmer”, but it seems there is a new big boy on the block willing to take a swing. China itself. Heh.
If you read any site about WoW, outside of blogs, you’ve probably already heard about this. But we’re gonna give you some facts, and then point something out I don’t really see anyone else mentioning. But before then, you can also refer over to a study on Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games if you really wanna.
So, the skinny of the deal is that chinese gold farming contributes roughly 80%+ of the virtual gaming economy in the world. This business brings in over a $100 million+ per year, and it’s growing at a rapid pace. And China thinks they can monkey stomp it…heh.
Anyone remember when everyone went after Napster? Or how all of the companies are going after Torrent sites for pirated movies? Or any other similar occurance? Sure, you ended up seeing some companies fall. Some people will go out of business. But in the end you can still download music for free off of the internet. And you can still download movies for free as well.
While I firmly support the abolishment of “gold farmers” as it detracts from any gaming experience, I would be shocked to see this new law have any long term impact on the MMO gaming experience.
DK’s Dual Wielding
Let the DW diehards rejoice, their time has come. Maybe…
It’s still far too early to see how well DW is going to perform as the only tests that can really be done atm are on test dummies. Few guilds are running Ulduar/Naxx runs just to let DK’s get some testing in, ya know? While the future is promising, we’ll still have to wait and see.
But as this is the new “big deal” I promise to stay as much on the cutting edge as possible to let you guys know what is going on with the newest iteration of DW DK’s.
BISI
Well, BISI for T8 content is fairly well behind all considered, but then I also did quit WoW for some time. It’s coming along however (already half way done), and will be finished in under 2 weeks maximum.
As to the T9 content, I had hoped to actually have this prepared and ready immediately when the new information was released. However due to the changes to Unholy and Frost this will not be possible. However it is my goal to have T9 content BISI posts done ASAP.
What is a Hero Class?
Death Knights are now being defined by Blizzard as a melee hybrid class. This means that they will be directly compared to Druids, Paladins, Shaman, and Warriors in many respects (all have a melee dps build/spec). It appears that their opinion of DK’s is that they should not break any rules and fit solidly into pre-existing molds.
So it is becoming apparent that the “Hero Class” feature is meant to be nothing more that a higher starting level, cool class quests/starting zone, improved leveling gear, and not much more.
If you were to ask me (which by reading here, I’m assuming you did ;P), a Hero Class should be defined as…
Hero Class: A class which falls under the definition of “pure” or “hybrid”, yet can still cross currently held barriers without becoming “OP” or “broken”. Examples include casters who can melee, AoE’ing while doing other actions (ex. Death and Decay), healing and doing damage at the same time, and more. While these classes are not intended to be the most powerful, they can do things outside of the accepted norm.
While this was at the core concept of DK’s from the get go, as every patch passes we become less and less of this ideal dream.
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
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