I've always been meaning to do a series of posts where I spell out of basics of theorycrafting. Basically, I see a lot of people who want to help with the analysis of their class mechanics on sites like EJ, but lack the foundation of knowledge of WoW mechanics to be able to easily do so. People often spend time rehashing already done calculations, or trying to figure out exactly how various in-game quantities are derived, before they can get to working on anything meaningful. I want to lay out...

• Hamlet

As usual, some feedback I wrote up on recent Moonkin changes.

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Now that I've had some chances to play with it in raids, comments on how Moonkin is doing:

1) Lunar Shower.
This was the big 4.2 change. It accomplished the main goal of cutting out infinite Sunfire spam, but left a few awkward issues.
--The idea of just dropping the Lunar Shower talent from raid specs has become pretty popular. It first this seemed like a problem, but...

• Hamlet

This started out as a forum post giving my comments on Portal 2, but (surprise) it got kind of long, so now I'm just basically posting it as a review. This mainly concerns the single-player content; I'll be trying the co-op in a few days when my girlfriend is less busy, so I'll probably post about that later. There are no story spoilers for Portal 2.

Portal

First, a look back at the first Portal, which gives important context to understanding Portal 2. Portal was...

• Hamlet

The Balance Druid in Cataclysm is one of the most interesting and complex DPS classes ever put forth by Blizzard. People who don't play Balance often know very little about the class (among other reasons, because the mechanics are new and unique). And for people who do play Balance, it's often not obvious how to optimize your play. You often have you use your judgment, and a solid high-level understanding of the way the class works is important. This post is a basic analysis of the current Balance...

• Hamlet

As usual, just publicly posting any feedback I give:

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Few things on Resto (I should do Balance at some point, but Balance is really complicated).

1) Effloresence. People have been talking about this a lot lately. In particular, perhaps a redesign inspired by the current PTR bug where it's healing one player per tick. That could be a pretty neat way to have to an AoE heal work, actually (among other things, it would allow Swiftmend to be used...

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