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The Light and How to Swing It: Gearing a new holy paladin at 80, part 2
Every Sunday, Chase Christian of The Light and How to Swing It 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 guilds in level 70 gear cleared it on their first night in. Even considering how simple raiding was at that point, loot drama could still occur. A guild on my server, one of the larger and more successful guilds too, disbanded over a loot dispute. It wasn't about whether or not hunters should be allowed to roll on one-handed items (they shouldn't), but rather about whether an item with spellpower, mana per 5, and haste should be given to a healer. The item in question is 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 focusing on gearing their tanks first and everyone else second is not that uncommon, the idea of DPS superiority over healing was divisive enough to rip this group apart. Healers were arguing for their fellow brethren, while DPS derided them for being selfish. Paladins were particularly focused on, since critical strike rating was far more desirable back then and we were rolling on sp/haste/crit gear along with every other caster DPS class. Luckily for us, things have changed a lot since those early Wrath months.
Seether Game with Fame next Thursday
More Game with Fame will be going down next Thursday when Seether jumps online to kick some bum in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. From 9:00PM through midnight eastern on November 15th, Seether members Shaun Morgan (SeetherShaun) , Dale Stewart (SeetherDale), and John Humphrey (SeetherJohn) will be online playing CoD4. Send them a friend request or two (or three), be online next week and maybe you'll be lucky enough to play against them and discuss music. We're sure they'll be up for anything.
It's beautiful, Seether claims Artist of the Month
We're going to preface this post by saying we aren't trying to come across as bitter or jaded, but when we're underwhelmed then that's how things go down.Coming off the release of Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces, rock band Seether is this month's Xbox Artist of the Month (streamers and confetti cannons explode!) But we're sad to report that the label "Artist of the Month" doesn't seem to carry much weight anymore. There is no music, no music videos, no making-of shorts, no anything Seether based to be found on the XBLM. We miss the glory days of downloading multiple music videos and making-of documentaries when an Artist of the Month was announced. Lately, it has been nothing but making-of shorts and well ... that's about it. Come on content masters over at Xbox Live, give us a reason to care about Xbox Artist of the Month bands ... we're giving up and falling asleep.
Seether's Shaun Morgan loves getting Infected on his PSP
Earlier, we told you about Seether's PSP love: they were offering downloadable content to your PSP and a contest to win a custom PSP, loaded with all sorts of Seether goodness. The Hollywood Bite found some time to talk to Shaun Morgan, lead singer and guitarist of Seether. When speaking of the PSP, he had this to say: "All of my friends have PSPs... We can sit around and play games on them. Those are powerful little machines. There are so many out there. If you provide downloadable content that's free, people will probably find it sooner or later."Surprisingly, the band's favorite game is the generally well-received PSP-exclusive Infected. While he loves his PSP, Shaun isn't afraid to take a pretty non-fanboy-ish stance in the world of gaming and get a DS Lite in addition to keeping his PSP. "I'm going to get a Nintendo DS Lite because I love those Japanese games, which tend to be more bizarre and freaky," said Shaun. "They have those new train-your-brain things. I'm really into games that challenge you. Brain Age Academy. I'm 27. I feel like it's necessary at my age. If I can find a game that can teach me something, that's even better. They seem to have come a long way with the technology of the Nintendo DS Lite."The article ends with Shaun's hope for more music to video game tie-ins. "You've reached someone who might not have heard of your band, because they only watch MTV. This is a great way for rock bands that don't have a place on the TV channels."
Rock out with your PSP out
It appears the band Seether is not without love for the PSP (or rather their managers and label execs) as they've got a whole cornucopia of content available for the handheld powerhouse. The content, which are a handful of music videos, are available at the official site. Also, there you can enter to win a custom PSP pre-loaded with all kinds of cool Seether content. Whether you like the band or not, this is a great idea to help promote Sony's handheld. Get more bands to offer videos or even road diaries, pre-formatted for the PSP, and you've got a powerful marketing tool for both sides. The custom PSP, we assume, will closely resemble the one pictured, with a grey finish and Seether logo stamped on the unit. The contest runs until August 4th and is only open to residents of the U.S. age 13 and older.[Via QJ]
