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By Scott Hillis SAN FRANCISCO, May 13 (Reuters) - Top video game publisherElectronic Arts Inc (ERTS.O) issued an annual profit outlook onTuesday that fell short of Wall Street forecasts as a drive toimprove quality jacked up costs. Its shares fell 3.7 percent. The quality drive has been a centerpiece of Chief ExecutiveJohn Riccitiello's strategy to bring growth back to EA afteryears of stagnation and increasingly tepid responses by gamersto its products. Riccitiello, who has also sought to drive growth throughacquisitions, reiterated his view that EA's $2 billion bid forTake-Two Interactive Software Inc (TTWO.O) fully accounted forthe strong debut of that company's "Grand Theft Auto 4". Although EA posted higher-than-expected profit and revenuefor its fourth fiscal quarter ended in March, analysts voicedconcern with their first glimpse of management's forecasts forits 2009 fiscal year. "EA for a few years was choosing the timing of the gameover the quality of the game. Now EA's shifting to a modelwhere quality is more important," said Evan Wil...

Take a hike, Disneyland. Move over, Universal Studios. Blizzard is asking fans to design the "Blizzard Entertainment theme park of [their] dreams," and the winners will be given two coveted StarCraft II beta keys. First, it was a convention that only increased in scope every year. Now, could this be indicative of Blizzard seeking to continue its relentless drive to conquer the real world as it has the Internet with - of all things - a theme park?! I can already imagine it: After waiting to enter the park via the Server Queue, you grab a delicious frosty snack of Warlock Dippin' DOTs and head on over to the Diablo area. The line for the Diablo III Pretty Pretty Unicorn ride is long, but boy is it ever worth it - you've never seen so many rainbows and sparkles in your entire life! Afterwards, you decide to check out the Warcraft area - when you get in, the park staff makes you wear either an Alliance or Hord...

Lately the MMO world has been buzzing with interest about a new offering from NCSoft called Aion. I purchased the Collectors Edition in order to get access to the paid preview otherwise known as the closed beta which is only available on select “beta weekends”. Kudos to the NCSoft marketing department for this clever ploy.I’d just like to share a few of my thoughts regarding Aion while they are still fresh. This is going to be a rapid-fire guerrilla blog post. By no means is this a complete analysis or review of this MMO. It’s just what I saw and remembered after playing a few nights.The SettingAion takes place in an all too familiar setting of a war torn world that has been split into two factions which are pitted against each other鈩? This time the world is named Etrea and the good guys are the angel-like Elyos and the bad guys are the demon-like Asmodians. In the middle is the Abyss which was formed by the Cataclysm which destroyed the Tower of Eternity that used to join both of the worlds.Both sides also face “an ancient evil” called the Balaur that threatens the very fabric of their world and which serves as convenient PVE villains much like the Burning Crusade or the Scourge from WoW. Of course, all of this is standard fantasy MMO stuff.Class SelectionThe interactive screen that the player is presented with is the class creation screen. You have 4 choices that fill the traditional fantasy RPG roles:warriorscoutmagepriestWhat I find interesting is that these classes are displayed in their full regalia — obviously high level gear. This is important because NCSoft is trying to tantalize the player and sell them the future power and prestige of each class. It’s very hard to resist this MMO with such impressive demonstrations of each class. Select one and they come to life with animation and speech.Also worth noting, at around level 9 when you complete the main campaign quest line you qualify to “ascend” and become a Daeva which is an immortal with wings (eventually flying is a major part of PVP combat in an area known as the Abyss). At this point you get to choose between 2 classes. So a mage would be able to become a sorcerer or a spiritmaster. I thought they handled this quite well.Character CreationAfter you select your class and gender it’s time to customize your avatar. Creating a character is a joy to behold in Aion. The artwork is outstanding with very few Uncanny Valleys. The developers have wisely created an extensive number of attractive/handsome preset appearances that enables the player to quickly choose one without having to fuss over details of choosing the right nose, face, ears, etc. This lets the player get right into the game.For players that like to create their characters from scratch NCSoft offers players an ingenious system that let’s you change any feature in a basic way then gets even more detailed with advanced customized features. The key here is that the player can decide how much they want to customize their avatars.Since Aion was purportedly developed in Korea there is a distinctive Asian feeling to many of the faces which is understandable. Many of them are done in the anime style.One issue that I’m concerned about is that there is only one race that players can play in Aion: humans. For most fantasy MMO enthusiasts who delight in being able to choose from a wide variety of races this may be limiting and as Tobold aptly noted will affect replayability. Another thing I’m worried about is that it could lead to a very boring and homogeneous world where everyone is the same.User InterfaceState of the art. Still a bit buggy dragging icons from your ability panel on to your hot bar. I loved the transparent map feature that comes on the screen when you press N.CombatI found the mage class to be a bit laggy while I was casting spells. On the other hand the melee classes were very fast and exciting to play. Lots of sound effects and visual effects.Each time you level your existing spells get upgraded to the next level which is convenient. However you still have to visit your class trainer to learn new spells and abilities which is a good thing. The more reasons that players have to visit towns and cities the better. Other MMOs like EQ2 have made class trainers all but obsolete by giving the player almost no reason to ever visit them which I find perplexing.One feature I really fell in love with is the concept of “chains”. Each chain requires that you know 2 spells: the spell which triggers the chain and the chain spell itself. Once you select the trigger spell/ability on your hot bar if your chain spell is available it will replace the trigger icon on your hot bar and it starts to flash.This is brilliant because it saves you time and due to the onscreen visual cue which has been placed in an easy to view place on the screen, you can watch combat instead of having to focus on your hot bar.Another reason I like chains is that it saves you valuable real estate on your hot bar. Instead of having both the trigger ability and the chain ability you only need the trigger ability situated on your hotbar. This is pure genius.There is nothing worse then having a MMO that is so complex that you can&#...

The best way to level herbalism in World of Warcraft is while leveling your toon from square one, but many people decide to pick up herbalism in later stages of WoW in order to save gold on the base mats required for flasks, potions, and elixirs. This guide is intended for higher level Alliance toons who have the Burning Crusade and Wrath of Lich King installed and want a way to level herbalism fast. I've tested this method and have found that that is the best way to level herbalism quickly in WoW.Choosing Your HerbalistIf you have multiple high level toons and one of them is a druid, use the druid as your herbalist. Druids can level herbalism faster than any other WoW class because they don't need to dismount in flight form to pick flo...

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7 minutes and 3 fel mana pots into Gruul and I go OOM. It's normal. Sometimes you'll just have to stop shooting for a while. 20 sonds of noasting and I'm around 1500 mana again. That's enough mana to get bk to normal long enough for the next potion. Try to beg a paladin to judge wisdom, or to get put in a shadow priest's group, or a resto shaman's group and ask him for mana tide. Edit: I run Ver the whole fight bause I'm spced SV without IAotH. I plan tohange to IAotH-SV now that I'm done in BGs andan feel safe without Wyvern and atter. Be sure to go 72034, FF is more useful than TotH.I don't see how people manage to goompletely OoM all the time. Groundrules to keep up Steady: 1.hug the pot as soon as youan get the full efft of it....

ItsaGaAs wrote:In order to maximize the benefits of the fel mana potions, swiht to aspt of the ver and stop doing anything that uses mana for five sonds beforehugging one. I typally just use autoshot. That'll get your spirit regeneration to kk in. ontinue not using mana until the mana rharge from the fel mana pot wears off. When I do this, Ian go from 20% mana to a full mana bar. Afterwards I'll swih bk to aspt of the hawk and full DPSing. I've not needed more than one fel mana pot per boss fight using that thnique with dual mana oils on my weapons. Please explain how that is a benefit. Whether your spirit-based mana regen kks in doesn't efft the potion at all. You'll get 3200 Mana no matter what (eeption being ahemy trinket). It's pointless to stopasting while the effts of fel mana pots are up. The whole point of using pots is AVOIDING any wasted time. Just use your first potion as soon as you're 2500 mana down, and pop one everyooldow...

The DrgnFlyDrft of Doom wrote:I'm going to have to go with the ft that you srife 7 attk power (basing this using rating buster andomparing them with therap im wearing now) for more resiliee, health, andrit. And higher end damage (I think) bause of the minor strength irease. That's the part he's probablyalling you out on. To a rogue, Strength gives 1 AP, Agility gives 1 AP, AP gives 1 AP (obviously). 14 AP ireases base damage by 1. The way you said that "minor strength (as in, spifally that) ireases top end damage" doesn't really follow, though it's thnally true. You are right in saying that you get a bit more out of the druid brers stat-wise than you do with the rogue brers.The DrgnFlyDrft of Doom wrote:So, I managed to be wrong despite those are the only reasons Ian see aside from a whopping 100 extra armor? When your done talkingrap, feel free to answer the OP's question ...

The DrgnFlyDrft of Doom wrote:Edit: I forgot say I was sorry for making myself a target for you to insult behind a monitor. But thanks for all the information you provide on here, I'm working on boming a better rogue all the time thanks to the info. Although I am a littleonfused as to why you say any rogue not using swords sie 2.3.2 is a dumbass, but all Ian see when I armory you (whh is often sie I like to see where I want to be in regards to pvp geargemsehants) is mes. Edit 2: How freaking iron is that, I armory one more time tohk something and boom, swords. It's alright, you didn't know you were making yourself a target. To tell the truth I'm bored of playing AV all day ...

RodStorm; Okay... what you *really* ought to do is not worry about the lvl 70 stuff yet if you just started your lk. Just go level him and troll around here and read stuff. You'll pk it up. No need to get all the wisdom of our lks in 1 thread, then it'd have to get stkied. ;-) Happy leveling!Thanks for the reply mate. The reason I'am asking now with a bit of time up my slleve is it takes time to save gold and get mats. If I know what I want now Ian make a start on it and bankroll it with my other 2 70's. A wrong disionould be aostly one :) Then if the pvp wear is suitable for instae runs then all of a suddenost doesntome into it, its more of a budgeting of time down the trk to go to the bg's to earn enough honour toover it all. So then the gold andmats side dont bome that important. I agree though, my biggestoern right now is getting to 50 for my next demon, level 58 for Outlands and then 60 for my ep mount. So still playing for today but keeping an eye on the big p...