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It was just another Sunday when so fickle?

I love tanks. Likewise, there have been many tanks who have loved me.

There is nothing more beautiful than the love between a tank and a healer. It’s actually a little known fact that every great love song ever written was written about a tank and healer. Heroes by David Bowie; it was actually originally written as a tank x healer duet. Just look at the lyrics:

“And you, you can be mean,
And I, I’ll drink all the time.”

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Every Sunday, invites you to discuss the finer side of the paladin class: the holy specialization. This week, we discuss the most efficient way to use your emblems of triumph to pick up great holy gear.

Do any of you remember raiding Naxxramas, back at the start of Wrath? What now seems so trivial today was actually pretty easy back then too, considering that the Torch of Holy Fire, which today, we would clearly state is a healer weapon: MP5 means that a healer should be using it.

However, one of the guild’s elemental shamans contested that it was also best-in-slot for him, and that DPS classes deserved gear before healers did. His argument was that letting the DPS gear up was more important than giving items to healers, because more DPS meant quicker boss fights. Once an encounter was beaten, additional healing did nothing to push progression. While the idea of a guild Comments

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puppy. Promise.

One of the questions I’m asked most often in regards to roleplaying has nothing to do with lore, or story development, or character concept. Instead, it revolves around one of the first things you do when you create a new character — naming it. RP servers run a little differently than your typical PvE or PvP server, and have their own set of unique guidelines for naming in addition to the policies that already exist. These additional naming guidelines are:

Non-Medieval/Fantasy Character Names

This category includes:

• Any Non-Medieval or Non-Fantasy names (i.e. Slipnslide, Robotman, Technotron).
  
• All normal naming rules (which can be found at http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=20368).

If a player is found to have such a name, he/she may:

• Be assigned a randomly generated name
  
• Be given the appropriate additional penalty if the name violates standard naming rules.

Generally speaking, most people playing on an RP server will report a name that does not fall under these guidelines — and if a case is made, your name can be changed. So how do you create a name that fits? Luckily, all of the races in World of Warcraft have a few particular naming conventions — traits are common to the NPCs already existing in game. Today we’re going to go over these conventions and suggest some ideas and resources you can use to get a name that is unique, and won’t get you reported.

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This article has been brought to you by Seed, the Aol guest writer program that puts your words on WoW.com.

Burning with desire to slip into the Cataclysm beta test, grab a goblin or worgen and run wild? Not these players. We asked readers to tell us why they do or do not want to participate in Cataclysm beta testing — and while plenty affirmed their beta aspirations with desperately ardent pleas, we found ourselves more intrigued by the reasoning of those who said they weren’t interested. Why would they pass up this opportunity of a gaming lifetime? What could they possibly hope to be doing for fun, instead? Read on to hear the opinions of three players on why, when it comes to Cataclysm beta testing, they will be opting out.

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That’s right, hopeful writers — we’re back again for what’s becoming a weekly call for article submissions. We’re enjoying your articles so much that we’re opening up a slot each week for an outstanding submission via Seed, Aol’s guest writer program that brings your words to WoW.com.

This week, we’re looking for your top 10 tips for tanks. What’s your spin on this topic — can you tell us the most important things to that tanks should know, or perhaps the handiest little-known tricks used by experienced tanks? Maybe you have tricks and tips to calm the nervous first-time tank, or perhaps you’ve collected some obscure strategies applicable only to the hardest of the hardcore. Whatever your angle is, it should provide a top 10 list worthy of bookmarking; we’ll only be accepting the very best article.

Submissions should be between 500 and 1,000 words. Art work is not mandatory, but should you choose to include a screenshot, please make sure that it is your own work or from creative commons; images should be 580 pixels wide and between 175 and 350 pixels high.

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