Saturday Links and Blogroll
Some links for a lovely Saturday. 
Tobold was cracking me up Thursday when he wondered where the standard Tank, Heal and 3 DPS group makeup came from.
Imagine you and 4 friends want to go out in the woods to hunt a bear. […] One of you is wearing his best quarterback armor, one of you has a medical degree and a first aid kit, and the other three are armed with swords and bows. The guy in the armor is telling dirty bear jokes to the bear to taunt him, the guy with the first aid kit heals him, and the other three are trying to deal maximum damage to the bear.
If you picture it you’ll immediately realize that this would never work in the real world. You can’t “taunt” a bear, he’d probably attack the person closest to him trying to stick a sword into him. You can’t heal somebody during combat either. The bear will not just hurt one of you after the other, but thrash around and all of you that are close. It’ll be difficult enough to use a sword without hitting the others in the group that are close by, and firing an arrow into the melee combat is more likely to hit one of your own guys than the bear. The whole tank, heal, dps system is completely unrealistic.
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Lassirra had a great post on the Lament of the Casual Raid Guild.
The particular situation to which I am referring involves allowing a member of a casual raiding guild to sign up and participate in “progression” raids (content not necessarily on farm-status, or just barely so), against the leadership’s better judgment and contrary to reasonable expectations for successfully clearing progression content…
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Monique from Girls Don’t Game had an excellent post up on gaming addiction that I think all WoW players should read. Having gotten burned out on WoW once before from playing too much, I can tell you it’s remarkably easy to start caring more about this game than real life. And that’s bad, mmkay?
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Blogroll
I’m adding a couple of new WoW sites to my Blogroll.
Lootables has a WoW item database similar to Wowhead, but what I use it for the most are the great Profession powerleveling guides they have. Links are down on the bottom left of the front page.
Warcraft Mounts has an extensive database of every single mount available in the game. It’s great for checking out what your potential mounts will look like before you buy one.
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