Yesterday, Blizzard released the long-awaited 2.4 patch. With it comes a new raid zone, the Sunwell, and newer, better gear for raiders. I am always glad to see new content, both from a "my character gets fun stuff" perspective and for the chance to experience new fights. However, my enthusiasm is tempered somewhat by a growing problem among raiding warlocks.

This problem is familiar to all of us, of course: Affliction spec and its place in raiding. What may not be obvious is...

• bartolimu

I'm a male who plays WoW. There, I said it. I don't want any special treatment, but everyone should be aware of it, so I get treated like a male. I rolled a female human, because the male human jump animation is terrible. I don't like getting called "sweety" or "honey".

I am definitely not competitive. I just like doing difficult things like raiding to challenge myself, not to fulfill any stereotype about guys who play video games all the time.
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Twid

Tanilin told me yesterday he HATES when I say that.

I do it for a few reasons though. And I'm going to explain to you "boys" exactly why.

First of all, when you keep getting called "dude" or "man" in a pug, it gets a little annoying. I realize that you assume everyone, even those who play the chick toons, think that every player is a guy, and probably not as cool as you.

Which brings me to point number two. As a girl,...

Innaraa

This is my Off Topic Blog.

Derail 1: Games

I played this crazy AZN Shump the other day it was just a demo and I imagine there are plenty of things I can do that I just couldn't figure out. Here is the Website Check it out.

Smash Brothers is so awesome but playing online is pretty gd laggy. I'll take playing at the same console any day. But alas my friends can't be here everyday. I must break all the glass in the hall of challenges it compels me....

• Double-Neg

Ok, time for the second instalment.

Black Temple part 1
The trash for the first five bosses are fairly standard. DPS the assist target, keep your totems down, but otherwise there isn't really anything out of the ordinary. Make sure you use Poison totems leading up to Naj'entus, and an (one at a time) Earth Elemental on the elemental pack after is a good idea as well

• Naj'entus
  Standard fight. DPS the boss, re-drop totems each shield, and if you can manage it, time a

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Binkenstein