The days of Warlock supremacy have passed. Nobody seems interested in keeping up complex Affliction DoT rotations – or are they? "I've played my 'lock as my main since 2005," notes Hohen. "I actually like the complex affliction rotation. While it's not for everyone, I like it as is. I would rather the Affliction mechanics that are broken were fixed, so we might experience DPS payoff worthy of the work one does during a boss fight. Keeping up seven DoTs and moving is working harder than a cat burying a turd on a marble floor. I don't have to be top of meters, but to be out-DPSed by classes who are not keeping seven dots up is just a bit much.
"I just have a feeling (a not-un-Warlocky feeling) that their well-intentioned cocking around will screw us over in the long run. I cheered at the destruction of the Shadow Bolt spam DemoSac/Destro spec I had to do in Sunwell. It was too good not to ... but it was boring. It also attracted mouth-breather FOTMs. I had hoped 3.0 heralded a return to the old days, when fewer played the class and the class was known as a bitch to play but had some payoff."
Overachievers, rejoice!
Achievement hounds – we've got your Mecca, right over here. Make a beeline for our new weekly feature on achievements, The Overachiever. Be sure to read through all the comments, as well, including helpful tips like this one from soon-to-be-Loremaster Aggrajag: "I'm six quests from completing Loremaster for the whole game. I have four in my log for Icecrown, but they're all 80g5, and I'm damned if I can get a group. I'm hoping that when I finally do, they will lead on to two more quests and then I will get my title. My observations about Loremaster:
Dailies do not count, although if the first time you do it the exclamation is yellow, then it will count that once. Each zone seems to have about a 5% margin, i.e., you may need 100 quests for the achievement, but in the zone there are 105 quests. There is no fixed pattern about which zone gets the quest count if you pick it up in one zone and hand it in, in another. Some zones you need to leave (via a quest chain) and return to complete the achievement. Instances usually do not count. They do for Seeker, but not Loremaster."
A copper for your thoughts
We love the flavor text on all those coins in the Dalaran fountain – and we love readers' ideas of what they'd put on their own coins, too. The denizens of [1.Local] came up with quite a few thought-provoking, silly and RP-appropriate choices, but we think Silverlynx35 had a point when he observes, "This is what I picture on the blank coins if that were allowed:
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