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No, the Dragonlance novels use the D&D spell system due to that they"re based on a D&D game setting. D&D itself got the whole memorization system from Jack Vance"s Dying Earth novels. There, wizards do pretty much say "oh shit guys, I forgot to mem fireball", although obviously not in those words.

The explaination that WoW CMs have given (other than the obvious technical one) is that they don"t want you to spend an hour or so running around picking up every quest in your level range, then just wandering around killing stuff until you have a huge pile of completed quests. By limiting the...

It perhaps isn"t enough of a deterrent, but it is one. Even in BGs, where dying sometimes leaves you better off than surviving I"ve seen people run away in fights, and the entire phenomenon of bubble-hearthing shows that there are people who would rather not die even if surviving possibly means...

I can"t think of a single time in WoW where people switched en masse to a different role because the old main role became worthless. The closest thing would be druids going from resto to feral as the "default" spec, but you never really wanted more than 1-2 resto druids in the raid pre-TBC...

Choices are good, but I"d definitely agree that classes should stick to one role, if just to avoid Makata-like idiots from whining about offspecs. Instead of just giving up and giving tanks/healers dps specs, find some way to make soloing as a healer or tank fun and efficient. Or just steal...

I really don"t see what the problem with letting players change classes at any time is. Personally, I think being able to take 25 players and having the optimal raid balance for every fight in the game sounds pretty fucking awesome. How is getting rid of people sitting outside of the instance...

Thottbot World of Warcraft: opening There"s several spells there which could easily be the "open normal door" spell. The fact that you can"t open doors when the server dies indicates that it hits the server for something in the process. If you look at the spell lists on Thottbot, a huge...

How does casting "Summon Black War Kodo" have nothing to do with player abilities? The bug could easily have been as simple as entering the spellid for Rank 3 JotC wrong. While it"s something that really should have been caught by QA, it"s not something that points to a critical flaw anywhere...

Engruk? Seems like the obvious way to me.

I"d say the real problem is the binary range limits. IRL I can"t look at an object and tell you that it"s exactly 32.174 yards away, but it doesn"t matter because my "Throw Rock" ability doesn"t have a magical range limit of 30 yards. Instead, there"s a fairly smooth reduction in my ability to...

That stuff is all quite thoroughly broken now. While in combat, the closest a mod can come to choosing a target for a spell or what spell to cast is doing something different based on whether your target is hostile or friendly. Auto fear-breaking was killed a while ago, and TBC killed Decursive/etc.

++! One of the biggest deterants to grouping while leveling in WoW is that unless you"re in a permagroup, it"s almost impossible to find someone who needs the same quests as you do. If you"re on step 5 of a quest and want to group with someone on step 2, you either have to redo the last few...

I hope you aren"t paying any money to this "university".

What MMO are the 3-4 million past WoW"s subscribers playing?

In general, it doesn"t matter because the merits of a package will generally be wiped out by the modifications made by the people making the game (such as Vanguard managing to make the unreal engine perform awfully), and plenty of new flaws will be introduced. Havok is pretty much the only...