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	<title>Blade Barrier</title>
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	<description>Artie gets his face smashed as a Death Knight tank</description>
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		<title>What do you do when your raid is canceled?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Shared Topic over at Blog Azeroth comes from Deyndor of Swift Retribution who wonders:
So I was talking with Eda on twitter tonight and she mentioned that she&#8217;s  had 4 raids in the last 2 weeks get canceled.  And that got me  wondering, what do people do when their raid is canceled?
I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/28/what-do-you-do-when-your-raid-is-canceled/</link>
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		<title>Threat Management Tools &#8211; AddOns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked recently how I manage threat in my instance runs.  Not by an ability or rotation scheme, but rather from a informational system. Your UI and what you do within it are the major factors impacting the information you have at your fingertips. But, it&#8217;s not enough to slap a few AddOns in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/26/threat-management-tools-addons/</link>
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		<title>A Reality Check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really thought I was hot stuff. I mean the healer was barely dipping below 90% mana, and I was constantly near full health. There were absolutely zero aggro issues, and any day that I don&#8217;t get mobs peeling out of the poo I&#8217;ve laid down to chase down a ranged dps or healer I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/21/a-reality-check/</link>
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		<title>Just when I thought I was out&#8230; they pull me back in.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to those that got the movie reference!
WTF am I blabbing about?  Artie earned the Sword in the Skull achievement and picked up his Quel&#8217;Delar, Might of the Faithful yesterday. I&#8217;ve applied a Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle to it for the defense boost. Tooltip readers will recall that Icebound Fortitude scales with Defense. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/20/just-when-i-thought-i-was-out-they-pull-me-back-in/</link>
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		<title>Dual Spec: Frost &amp; Frost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had some time to run a few random instances this weekend, and I had been holding onto the secondary spec as a DPS spec. But, my DPS on Artie blows chunks now.  I&#8217;m so out of that game with the unholy rotation or the blood rotation that I was only pulling 2K DPS&#8230;  Rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/17/dual-spec-frost-frost/</link>
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		<title>Your inner child&#8230;. literally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son has been begging me to let him play WoW. A few times, I&#8217;ve let him sit with me and we&#8217;ve gone through the character creation (he really digs checking out all of the options on the races and faces and beards).  We&#8217;ve created level 1 &#8220;Wicked Green Dudes&#8221;, &#8220;Big Fat Cow-people&#8221;, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/15/your-inner-child-literally/</link>
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		<title>WoW Penis Size</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate WoW-Heroes. I hate Gearscore. Well&#8230; strike that.  I really have a problem with how players use these otherwise useful tools for perversion within the game.  C&#8217;mon, you know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230; &#8220;WTF N00bcakes, you can&#8217;t tank a heroic because your GS too low!&#8221;
Nothing can make me so angry, so quickly as hearing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/14/wow-penis-size/</link>
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		<title>Do reader comments make me a better blogger?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Anea (@_anea) from Oh look, an Alt! posed the question:
One of the things that can make us happiest as bloggers is seeing e-mails notifying us of comments on our blogs. However, if we took that away &#8211; and the influence it may have over our writing &#8211; would we become better bloggers?
Would writing what it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/13/do-reader-comments-make-me-a-better-blogger/</link>
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		<title>PUG Inspired Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love me some haiku&#8230;
Ode to HoR
Oh Random Dungeon,
Please not Halls of Reflection&#8230;
Aw crap, mass disband!
Hunter Request?
Beast Master Hunter:
Young core hounds are pretty cute.
Get out of my group!
You can do better?  Prove it!

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		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/11/pug-inspired-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Tanking in Cataclysm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promised myself I&#8217;d never spend time blogging about upcoming patch changes or game changes.  For this one, I&#8217;ll make an exception.
Straight from the Crab&#8217;s mouth:
In Cataclysm, death knights will have a dedicated  tanking tree, much like the other three tank classes. That tree will be  Blood.
Hmmm&#8230;.
Now, I&#8217;m not gonna freak out.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bladebarrier.com/2010/04/10/tanking-in-cataclysm/</link>
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