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I Got Keystone Master For Dragonflight Season 2 In Eight Days, and I Have Mixed Feelings About It

I set a goal of KSM on my raiding main Monk in two weeks this season. I expected to be hundreds of points away by this point… Read more “I Got Keystone Master For Dragonflight Season 2 In Eight Days, and I Have Mixed Feelings About It”

In this tough world of ours, sometimes, it is drip or die. The return of tier sets to WoW in late Shadowlands signified a few fun things.… Read more “Ranking How Likely I Am To Push Keys In Dragonflight Season 2 Based On 10.1 Tier Set Appearances”

In Final Fantasy XIV, the Savage raid tier lasts for two major patches. What this functionally means is that the tier launches, item level adjusts upwards such… Read more “WoW Patch 10.0.7 – Mid-Season Catchup Gear, At Last”

Something that is a theme with Dragonflight as an expansion is an idea of getting back to basics while also experimenting with the formula that has defined… Read more “Vault of the Incarnates, Raid Loot, and the Problem With WoW Raid Gearing”

One of the things that I find difficult when writing about World of Warcraft is adequately capturing my feelings about the game at a given point in… Read more “The Dragonflight Discussion Dilemma”

Blizzard’s approach to Dragonflight design in a nutshell is probably best described as, “talent trees make things better.” To be fair, in some ways, they are on… Read more “The Crafting Changes of Dragonflight – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”

Last night, I dinged level 70 on my new raid main Monk, finished the baseline story of Dragonflight that was available to me, and took a look… Read more “First Level 70 In The Books – Some Early Dragonflight Thoughts”

Mythic Plus is changing quite a bit in Dragonflight, and most of these are, to my eye, positive changes. Currently, in Shadowlands, the way Mythic Plus works… Read more “Mythic Plus In Dragonflight – Fixing A Symptom But Not The Issue?”

It’s time for another predictive patch prep guide! With an announced Live Letter set for today, it seems quite likely that within a week or two, we’ll… Read more “Future Preparation – Things You Can Do Now to Get Ready for Final Fantasy XIV Patches 6.25 and 6.3”

I’ve been talking a bit about FFXIV’s upcoming patch 6.2, from the perspective of what might be in it, when it would come out, and the like… Read more “My Personal Preparations For Patch 6.2 In Final Fantasy XIV”