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The Summoner's Guidebook: Anything except solo top in League of Legends
Filed under: PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Guides, MOBA, League of Legends, The Summoner's Guidebook It's really no surprise that I'm not an amazing Summoner's Rift player. I feel like I perform decently...
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EverQuest Next groups will function without 'the stereotypical tank'
Filed under: Fantasy, Classes, Game Mechanics, Interviews, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, PvE, Free-to-Play, EverQuest Next, Sandbox The holy trinity has been a hot topic ever since SOE...
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EVE Evolved: Odyssey 1.1 and PvP balance
Filed under: Expansions, Game Mechanics, Patches, PvP, News Items, PvE, Opinion, EVE Evolved, Dev Diaries It's been just under three months since EVE Online's exploration-focused Odyssey expansion went...
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The Mog Log: Final Fantasy XIV's dungeons
Filed under: Fantasy, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log, Dungeons My interest in Final Fantasy XIV is not purely about racing to the endgame, but I am well aware there is an endgame....
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The Daily Grind: What kind of tank do you like to play?
Filed under: Classes, Game Mechanics, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous All right, people, today's question is for tanks. Yes, just the tanks. DPS, healers, you're excused. I'm glad you play...
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The Stream Team: Tank time in TERA
Filed under: Fantasy, Video, PvE, Free-to-Play, Massively Meta, Hands-On, TERA, Livestream, Dungeons, The Stream Team, MMORPG The world of TERA is filled with gigantic monsters just waiting to make...
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The Mog Log: Why aren't there more tanks in Final Fantasy XIV?
Filed under: Fantasy, Culture, Endgame, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log, Subscription To the surprise of pretty much no one, tanks are the rarest thing to find in Final Fantasy XIV at...
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The Daily Grind: Do you like to tank in MMOs?
Filed under: Classes, Game Mechanics, PvE, Opinion, Massively Meta, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous, Dungeons The very first serious MMO tank I ever played was my day-one Warrior in World of Warcraft....
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I saw a real Jedi in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Classes, Culture, Game Mechanics, Lore, MMO Industry, PvE, Free-to-Play, Star Wars: The Old Republic, MMO Travelogue Let me tell you about this Jedi Guardian named Nayelii. She...
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Officers' Quarters: Tanksplosion
Every Monday, Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. He is the author of The Guild Leader's Handbook. A good tank is a precious resource to...
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LFG vs LFM for Blizzard's Group Finder tool
We've been talking a lot here on WoW Insider about the new group-finder tool Blizzard will be putting together to rival the tremendously popular oQueue (yes that is the real link) come 6.0. Lead...
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Clarifications on Cross-Realm raiding and Warlords' Group Finder
Community Manager Lore has released some additional clarifications on the differences between the cross-realm functionality being added to the Raid Browser in patch 5.4.2, and the new Group Finder...
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Tanking mechanics that aren't taunt on X stacks
Lead Encounter Designer Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas has been putting his new Twitter account to good use, keeping players informed of design intent, limits, ideas and more. One recent tweet particularly...
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The coming tank squish?
When Wrath launched in 2008, the last thing I ever expected to see was a decline in the number of druid tanks. We'd just come off a successful expansion of not being Innervate bots, and I thought we'd...
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The Light and How to Swing It: The ups and downs of protection's funky aggro
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the...
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Oops, I queued as tank again
I've tanked a few LFR's lately. The thing is, I didn't mean to. I don't mean I pulled aggro. I mean that when I queued, I forgot that I had tank selected alongside DPS. I do this in five man heroics...
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Next steps after boosting a paladin tank to 90
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the...
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Next steps after boosting a paladin tank to 90, part 2
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Light and How to Swing It for holy, protection and retribution paladins. Protection specialist Matt Walsh spends most of his time receiving concussions for the...
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Wowhead introduces class guides
Wowhead has just launched a new feature for players new to the game, and players new to a different class as well -- class guides written for virtually every class and spec in the game. The guides act...
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Interview: Technical Game Designer Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig talks Warlords...
I was lucky enough to head over to Blizzard Campus this week to talk to Technical Game Designer Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig. Chadd is a huge part of the class design team, key to a lot of the changes we...
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