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While working on an article about a legendary quest chain, I recalled the days of class quests -- specifically, the days of Molten Core and The Eye of Divinity, along with the Ancient Petrified Leaf that started the class quests for epic weapons. Epic anything was rare to see in the early days of vanilla, and even when Molten Core first came out, it was rare to see people decked out in purple gear. But these days, it seems everyone is wearing epics, as it's dropping from dungeons with alarming frequency.
When you look at gear labels, each color of gear is assigned a different label. Common quality items are white, uncommon are green, rare are blue, and purple of course are epic. But as the game has evolved over time, each expansion offered more raids and more epic gear, which led me to the question -- just how common is common gear? How rare is rare? Is uncommon gear really that uncommon? I hit Wowhead just for a quick look at these items to compare numbers, and the results were actually pretty surprising.
According to an oh-so-brief glimpse at Wowhead's database using its filter, there are 12,492 common-quality items in the game's database at this point. That's a lot of common junk, all right -- but there are 12,442 uncommon-quality items. That's just a few less than common quality. Rare is actually suitably rare in comparison, with only 9,404 items in Wowhead's database. Epic, on the other hand -- that's a different story altogether.
That brief glimpse at Wowhead turned up 13,971 epic-quality items in game. Again, this is after the most cursory of searches, and that number may be a little high or a little low. But that's almost 2,000 more items than your average common-quality item. Sure, I could just be arguing semantics at this point, but the point is still there -- epic items are not at all scarce in supply, even though they're rated far, far higher than their supposedly common cousins. It can be safely assumed that as we progress even further into WoW's expansions to come, this number will only get larger.
All this makes me wonder if we've outgrown the days where common items are ... well, common. As we level and particularly with the leveling revamp, our quest rewards -- even at the lowest of levels -- are still of green quality, and many of the end quest chains in those shiny new zones even offer rare-quality items as rewards. With the new transmogrification feature, it is impossible to transmogrify armor that is common quality, no matter how nice it may look. In fact, it seems as if common-quality items are slowly on the way to being phased out altogether, since they serve no real purpose.
Are we slowly approaching a day where common-quality items, weapons and armor become as rare and elusive to find as legendaries? What do you think?
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The first videos of the cuddly new fighters have been making it to YouTube from Blizzcon 2011, which was held in Anaheim, CA, over the weekend. The videos reveal the new Panda race on a serene island continent called Panderia (which is all contained on the back of a giant floating turtle floating in the ocean), practicing their new Monk class moves.
While the new videos reveal plenty of details about Pandaria, perhaps most telling are fans' reactions. The videos seem to carry about an equal number of likes and dislikes, though they skew toward the dislikes, and many comments are scathing insults directed toward developer Blizzard. Of course to be fair, gamers do tend to be a particularly vocal and argumentative lot when it comes to YouTube. Activision's Call of Duty videos are often filled with online haters quick to argue in favor of the Battlefield franchise, and Blizzard is the type of company that can weather a few angry gamers.
It's easy to see why WoW gamers wouldn't immediately embrace the whole Pandaria thing. From the outside it looks like a ploy to draw in new, younger gamers. The characters and continent look positively kiddie compared to the visuals of Cataclysm. Check out the videos and let us know what you think.
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While investing in a long-term, moderately powerful computer makes the most sense financially, every diehard PC gamer needs to splurge on a monster gaming rig at least once in their life — ideally, during that sweet spot after they’ve gotten a steady job and can afford it, but before they have a wife who will scream at them to no end for “wasting so much money on toys.”
So for you, the unwed PC gamer who has decided to make the leap and buy a monster rig, as well the married gamer with balls of steel, we put together the following system for approximately $1500. It may not have all the pretty bells and whistles of more ridiculously-priced systems, but in terms of raw gaming power, it’s tough to beat.
Case
Antec Three Hundred Illusion
$60
Antec’s Three Hundred Illusion is a humble mid tower at a reasonable price. Built with a steel frame, it offers terrific cooling potential with a bottom-mounted power supply, a 140mm top fan and three 120 mm fans (two intake, one exhaust).
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3
$150
If the endorsement from Tom’s Hardware isn’t enough, this reasonably-priced motherboard offers everything we need to complete our rig: 4×240pin memory slots, two PCI Express 2.0 slots, four SATA 6Gb/s, and multi-display support with CrossFireX and SLI.
Power supply
Seasonic SS-850HT
$120
This 850 W Seasonic model will provide wow gold www.bookwowgold.com enough power for an SLI/CrossFireX setup, and an efficiency rating of over 85% is hard to argue with.
CPU
Intel Core i7-2600K
$315
This is where we pull out all the stops: the i7 is a significant step up from the i5 due to Hyper Threading technology, and Sandy Bridge delivers exceptional per-core performance. Throw in some decent overclocking potential, and it’s hard not to fall in love with this processor.
Cooling
Xigmatek Gaia SD1283
$27
It’s quiet, and it provides decent cooling for an excellent price.
Memory
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-1600 CAS 8
$70
G.Skill provides this cheap, reliable RAM with 8-8-8-24 timing. The fact that this kit consists of two sticks of 4GB means you have room to expand to 16GB in the future with the four slot motherboard we selected.
Hard drive
SSD:
OCZ Vertex Series 30 GB SSD
$65
An SSD is essential for booting up at lightning-fast speeds. 30 GB is big enough for your OS and allows you to save money that you can spend on other gaming-performance components.
Storage:
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200
$80
Western Digital provides this quiet, fast hard drive with enough storage to survive many a Steam sale, for a fair price.
Optical Drive
LG WH12LS30 12x BD-R
$80
While you can definitely get away with a $20 optical drive, it’s hard to call a system a monster without a fast Blu-ray burner.
Video card
Here’s where we’ll leave the most room for customization, providing high- and mid-priced Nvidia and AMD cards to suit your tastes and budget.
Nvidia:
2x GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB in SLI
$445 ($890)
2x GeForce GTX 460 1 GB in SLI
$160 ($320)
If you’re willing to spend nearly $1000 on video cards alone, two GTX 580s in SLI will blow you away. For about a third of the price, you can pick up two GTX 460s, which can rival a single 580 in power for $125 less. If you’re not a fan of SLI, you can get by with just one GTX 580.
AMD:
2x Radeon HD 6970 2 GB in CrossFireX
$340 ($680)
2x Radeon HD 6850 1 GB in CrossFireX
$150 ($300)
At 75% the cost of dual GTX 580s, two HD 6970s in CrossFireX will pack less of a punch, but are a step down in price from “astronomical” to “stratospheric.” Descend another step and we arrive at twin HD 6850s.
Total Cost
Without video cards: $967
With 2x Radeon HD 6850 1 GB: $1267
With 2x GeForce GTX 460 1 GB: $1287
With 2x Radeon HD 6970 2 GB: $1647
With 2x GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB: $1859
Not a powerful enough rig for you? Tell us your specs and cost in the comments below!
Note: All prices were derived from NewEgg. Monitor and peripherals were not included in this build due to the variety in permutations based on personal taste: multi-monitor setups, wired or wireless peripherals, headphones or speakers, etcWhile investing in a long-term, moderately powerful computer makes the most sense... more
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In a low key tweet over Labor Day weekend, BioWare’s Casey Hudson responded to a fan question and confirmed what has long been suspected ever since author Drew Karpyshyn moved to Austin to work on BioWare’s upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic. Yes Virginia, Drew isn’t the lead writer for Mass Effect 3.
So is this a big deal? It’s no secret Karpyshyn is taking lead for The Old Republic. But Mass Effect is kind of his baby; He has written all the tie-in novels and as lead writer for Mass Effect and Co-lead writer wow gold www.bookwowgold.com for ME2, he is largely responsible for having created the universe and the story. Hudson’s tweet doesn’t really specify his role in Mass Effect 3 but the vagueness kind of indicates ‘minimal’. Then again, the BioWare forum members are of the opinion that Drew mapped out the entire storyline from day one. If so, then his departure from lead duties wouldn’t be the earth shattering event it sounds like.
We’ve reached out to BioWare for further comment, and as soon as we get an answer we’ll pass it along to you. But what do y’all think? Does Drew’s absence bode well or ill for Mass Effect 3? Do you care?In a low key tweet over Labor Day weekend, BioWare’s Casey Hudson responded to a... more
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