Officers’ Quarters: Cracking the whip

“My guild, existence both large and casual, has never really worried most leveling. In certainty, I took my time on the way to 70. I wanted to smell the roses, so to speak, and enjoy the new content without rushing through it. Of course, I was a hunter backwards then and far from essential to our raiding. Now I’m one of very few Holy paladins, so the situation might be a little different next time . In some event, we have the luxury of letting the chips fall where they may when the level cap was raised. Whoever hit 70 first would be part of our initial Karazhan team, and we’d just keep adding to the list of acquirable players as time went on. But for a small guild, one player hitting 70 can mean the difference between raiding every week or burning out on dailies and Heroics. D, first earmark me to make two comments on your current situation. The first is this: Even though your guild is casual, you have policies (or “”suggestions”") that are only slowing down your leveling members. I can understand that you don’t want people sitting in town waiting for a dungeon group to form, but it’s simple to join the Looking for a group channel while you’re questing. And if you do manage to get a run going, not only do you get the XP from the dungeon mobs, but dungeon quests often give a ton of experience. Plus you’re earn reputation to purchase meliorate gear, more recipes, helm enchantments, and heroic keys. I ran Underbog on an alt a few days past. I did three quests in a run that took most an hour, and each quest gave me 22,000 XP. It was well worth my time. I didn’t get some drops, but if I have, it would have only helped me to kill things faster. Also, forbidding your 70s from helping out those who are leveling is practically cruel and unusual.


Outland areas are full of quick group quests where you just have to kill one elite mob. With a 70 or two helping you, you could probably charge out every the group quests in Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, and Terokkar in most an hour. You’d rake in hundreds of thousands of XP, plus earn rare rewards to help you level. Since your 70s are impatiently waiting for these fellow members to catch up to them, this is clearly a win-win! Now, I understand that you want people to learn their classes and not have their hands held every the way to 70. That is admirable and in most circumstances I would concord with you wholeheartedly. However, it seems that the very existence of your guild is at stake. It might be time to make some compromises. ” “Don’t count the WotLK Wiki out already — after going down late last week due to a suspected cease-and-desist order from Blizzard’s lawyers (now confirmed), they have returned with a completely different host and every the information from the leaked Alpha they were originally hosting. wow gold They say that their original wiki hosts, Wikidot, were extremely supportive on both the traffic and legal fronts, as they upgraded their servers just to keep the site up, and originally did help with legal troubles. When Vivendi Universal took legal state against their ISP, however, Wikidot have to fold, and the wiki has now moved hosts to wotlkwiki.info. Last week, there was also mention that the C&D didn’t communicate them to remove every information, only “”over-the-line”" info, such as screenshots or video. But ostensibly that clause doesn’t administer to the new host — there are still screenshots every over the site, and though Vivendi has pulled video from YouTube before, it’s still there as well. Of course, some C&D sent to the old site would still administer to the new one — it’s just a question now of whether the wiki’s new host will comply with Vivendi’s demands (the wiki’s creators sound very sure that they won’t).

wow gold And after that, it’ll be up to Vivendi to determine how far they want to take this — if they really feel that having this leaked information on that site has hurt them in a justifable way, there is a possibility that an existent lawsuit could be issued, and if this escalates even further, the two parties could eventually end up in court. As ever, we’ll be watching to see what happenes. If Blizzard asked directly for the content to be removed, I would say: ‘I understand, guys. I’ll pull the content. mp3 You stick to making awesome games.’ If Blizzard’s so-called ‘parent company,’ Vivendi Universal, asked directly for the content to be removed, I would say: ‘Sure, sure, no problem. Hey, just one question, guys … Have you heard about this company, Valve. wow gold They’ve apparently got this really neat thing called Steam, and it’s really useful and easy to use, but there’s this little thing in their legal history … Interesting. They’re saying they had to design it because … buy wow gold Oh, wait, this is fascinating … Apparently you ripped them off for millions of dollars by distributing thousands of copies of their games without giving them the percentage guaranteed in their agreement with you. Oh, wow, even better: What is this about you dragging them into a protracted legal battle claiming that their original IP rights were actually yours. wow gold Do you know anything about this. … Guys. Where are you going. ‘ ” .

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