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Addon Spotlight focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond — your addons folder will never be the same. This week, holy crap! There’s a bear.

Have I got awesome news for you, dear Addon Spotlight readers. Today, I’ve enlisted the help of a good friend of mine to come and discuss some miscellaneous management addons that are designed to take all that information and parse it into something useful. I would like to introduce everyone to Mongor the bear accountant. Mongor is a bear that is also an accountant, and he’s my good friend. It’s time to get your life managed.

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Addon Spotlight: Management addons originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rich Maloy lives and loves enhancement. Enhance is his main spec, his off spec, and his off-off spec. The other trees are there purely for his amusement. Whatever your shaman’s spec, get your questions ready for the Totem Recall shaman roundtable on Raid Warning coming July 13. Send your questions in now to be answered by the top shaman from around Azeroth.

Last week we covered the Lower Spire of ICC and how enhancement shaman (or any damage-dealing class, for that matter) can maximize their cooldown usage. This week we’ll use the 25% buff and power-clear the rest of the instance.

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Regular and Heroic Another fight where Heroism off the start is the best way to go. The oozes come out faster the lower his health gets, so my theory is to get as much damage on target early on. At the end, things are hectic and too much damage is lost as too many people are running around or dead. You can pre-pot here to have another Potion of Speed available to use later on in combat. An early Hero makes cooldown management easy; use at the beginning and then again at every opportunity.

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Totem Talk: Cooldown management in ICC part 2 originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost, wolves, and best of all, Windfury. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance at Big Hit Box, pens the enhance side of Totem Talk, and leads the guild/reality-show Big Crits as the enhancement shaman Stoneybaby. (pic: grats Saltycracker on Big Crits’ first Shadowmourne!)

This article originally started as an enhancement shaman’s guide to cooldown usage in ICC but given that cooldown management is universal to all damage dealers I’ve expanded the scope of the article. Actually, “expanded the scope” is a bit grandiose; it’s more accurate to say I just changed the wording from enhance-specific spells to using the generic 3-min, 2-min and 1-min cooldowns.

In some cases I kept the enhancement abilities because they bring other abilities in addition to just straight damage. Here’s a quick rundown of our major cooldowns for the unenhanced:

• 10 min – Bloodlust/Heroism – you know it and love it
• 10 min – Fire Ele (5 min with glyph) – yeah he’s dumb but what do you expect, his brains are on fire
• 3 min – Berserk & Bloodfury – Troll & Orc racials, respectively
• 3 min – Feral Spirit – two wolves who do damage and heal you simultaneously. Rad.
• 2 min – on-use Trinkets – Currently my trinkets are not on-use but I take them into account in case yours are
• 1 min – Shamanistic Rage with t10 2pc – normally this is a mana-regeneration and damage-reduction spell but with 2pc t10 it increases damage.

I still talk about using Bloodlust/Heroism, Fire Ele, and Shammy Rage because they have their own unique aspects to deal with in raid. Namely, BL/Hero helps everyone, the Fire Ele is dumb as hell, and Shammy Rage mitigates damage.

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Totem Talk: Cooldown management in the Lower Spire originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has plans to “shake up” the executive management at their Entertainment and Devices division, with an announcement of “major organizational changes” possibly coming as soon as this week.

The Entertainment and Devices division is where Microsoft’s Xbox business is housed, as well as the Zune and mobile operating systems. But by the sound of it, this shake up may be less due to how the Xbox 360 is fairing than with the “devices” part of Entertainment and Devices: The WSJ report states the changes are coming “in the wake of increasingly bruising competition from Apple Inc. and Google Inc. in the market for consumer devices,” according to people “familiar with the matter.”

There are no details about exactly what changes could be made, but this report comes only days after a rumor that J Allard — one of the influential shapers of the Xbox — may be leaving the company over a disagreement with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer regarding the cancelation of the Courier Tablet project. Microsoft refused to comment on that rumor, but the WSJ report says the actual executive shake-up will be broader than simply replacing J Allard’s position of chief experience officer and chief technology officer.

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An article from the LA Times reports that Activision Blizzard Inc. has quietly made some internal changes to senior management and internal organization. The company has apparently split itself into four units, one focused on the military game Call of Duty, another handling internally owned properties like Guitar Hero and the Tony Hawk series, and a third handling licensed properties.

Why these changes weren’t relayed to investors or the press is still unknown, but it’s likely due to the fact that they could be interpreted as a sign of weakness. Activision has seen flagging sales for two of its former cash-cow franchises, Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero, and a recent very public scuffle with Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampanella following their ejection from their positions as heads of Activision’s Infinity Ward studio painted the studio in a negative light with gamers. This kind of restructuring could point to turmoil within the company, an image that an industry juggernaut like Activision would want to avoid.

So, what do these changes mean for Blizzard, and for World of Warcraft? Apparently nothing, from what can be gathered — this is Activision’s first major change since they merged with Vivendi in 2008 to create Activision Blizzard. While the new departments are interesting developments, Activision states that the fourth unit, Blizzard Entertainment, remains an independent unit, and as such, these changes don’t really affect them directly.

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