Out DPS Archive

  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: The Hunting Party Podcast and WoW Insider have each brought up the idea of getting rid of pure dps classes and making everyone a hybrid.  While taming a pet...

    What a Hunter Tanking Tree Would Have to (and Could) Look Like

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: The Hunting Party Podcast and WoW Insider have each brought up the idea of getting rid of pure dps classes and making everyone a hybrid.  While taming a pet...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: I haven’t seen any “state of hunter dps” posts in a while so I thought I’d throw one together. This post takes its data from DPS Bot...

    A Quick State of Hunter DPS

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: I haven’t seen any “state of hunter dps” posts in a while so I thought I’d throw one together. This post takes its data from DPS Bot...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: Class distinctiveness makes the game more diverse, strengthens class identities and increases replay value.  We might therefore suppose that class homogenization is something to always be avoided.  Yet, as we’ve seen...

    Homogenization That Could Help

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: Class distinctiveness makes the game more diverse, strengthens class identities and increases replay value.  We might therefore suppose that class homogenization is something to always be avoided.  Yet, as we’ve seen...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: I see a lot of comments here and in other places like the Arena Junkies forums accusing these feedback threads of being deeply cynical placations of the playerbase. ...

    A Note on the Request for Feedback

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: I see a lot of comments here and in other places like the Arena Junkies forums accusing these feedback threads of being deeply cynical placations of the playerbase. ...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: This is a follow-up to a piece I wrote earlier on maintaining the WoW playerbase.  This post focuses on something largely left out of discussions so far:...

    Narrative in Cataclysm

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: This is a follow-up to a piece I wrote earlier on maintaining the WoW playerbase.  This post focuses on something largely left out of discussions so far:...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: Transmogrification is likely to breath some new life into extreme soloing for hunters as they venture into old dungeons and raids in search of snazzy duds.  However, extreme soloing for its...

    Resources for Extreme Soloing

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: Transmogrification is likely to breath some new life into extreme soloing for hunters as they venture into old dungeons and raids in search of snazzy duds.  However, extreme soloing for its...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: The maintenance of the WoW playerbase has been a popular topic of late with the release of figures relating to the decline of subscriptions since Cataclysm’s launch and the publication of two...

    Competing interests in the WoW player base

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: The maintenance of the WoW playerbase has been a popular topic of late with the release of figures relating to the decline of subscriptions since Cataclysm’s launch and the publication of two...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: Early on in the expansion I wrote a pair of posts that were aimed at how to work well with tanks and healers.  Several major content patches later, and with the final...

    Working with Tanks and Healers Revisited

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: Early on in the expansion I wrote a pair of posts that were aimed at how to work well with tanks and healers.  Several major content patches later, and with the final...

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  • Eidotrope at OutDPS: We know that developers attempt to balance around all sorts of mathematical factors like itemization, target hit points, burst vs. sustained dps, etc.  However, they evaluate non-mathematical factors as...

    Class Identity as a Constraint on Class Balance

    Eidotrope at OutDPS: We know that developers attempt to balance around all sorts of mathematical factors like itemization, target hit points, burst vs. sustained dps, etc.  However, they evaluate non-mathematical factors as...

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