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by Alice O'Connor, Dec 28, 2009 5:00am PSTIt truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Friends and family gather round, feasts are held three days in a row and there's enough half-melted refrozen snow slush for you to feel some kind of victory. Unless, of course, so much flu courses through your veins that even your sloshed uncle is more alert, stabler and a better conversationalist than you.
I ended up mostly playing King's Bounty: Armored Princess. It's fun. That's my review.
I've tried almost every potion, poultice, syrup, pill, powder, lozenge and tincture under the sun, all to no avail. Desperate times call for desperate measures and it'll be a cold day in Walthamstow before I let Kwanzaa be ruined too so if I'm not on the mend by tomorrow it'll be the ole Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. Dilute! Dilute! O.K.!
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Warriors and AOE tanking: They aren't really underpowered or unable to tank >3 mobs, the main issue is that if the group members don't assist the tank and try to AOE everything down at once as you can do with some other tanks (DK's most prominently). If the group knows the limitations of warrior AOE tanking and assists the warrior while doing some light AOE things go fine (assuming the warrior knows what he's doing).
Healing: Druids are probably the kings of healing, large single-target heals, huge ability to roll multiple hots on multiple members, priests CAN heal well but it's a lot harder to do so given the fact that the priests' spell toolbox is about twice that of a druid and knowing which heal/ability to use when is the most important part of playing a priest.
Rogues: Were they mutilate? Did they forget to put poisons on? Are they just horribad with specs that are meant for pvp and the like? Were they using proper rotations? Grouping rogues you run into in pugs with rogues who know their specs/rotations/etc. is a mistake. Just like any other class, if you play it poorly, use a sub-optimal spec or don't use a proper rotation you're going to get horrid dps. My rogue is about 300-500 gear score behind my other characters and can easily put out 500-1000 more dps in most cases (4500-5k dps in heroic 5-mans).
Your playstyle: GOOD! Situational awareness and using all your abilities > than being the #1 dps instead of 2/3 or the guy who out dps' everyone but can't stay out of void zones.
Balance: Yes, all classes have been balanced to be within about 5% of each other dps wise given same gear level, skill level, etc. That being said, Blizzard has admitted that some classes have a lot easier time reaching maximum dps than other classes (mywarlock has similar gear to my rogue and even following recommended rotations I'm still usually at least 1k dps behind my rogue).
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