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To recreate the dramatic open space around the shrine, urban planners reviving Karbala's old city will increase plaza space outside the site's gates, said Mohammed al-Assam of Dewan Architects.
Shiite officials are also renovating the shrine of al-Abbas next to Hussein's, that of Imam Ali in neighboring Najaf, and the shrine of his descendants in Baghdad.
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The rush to improve the shrines became more determined after al-Qaeda militants in 2006 blew up the golden dome of a shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad. The destruction of the al-Askari shrine — now rebuilt — underscored to Shiite officials the need to rebuild and glorify their shrines to demonstrate their growing power.
"Shiite areas are now in the hands of Shiites. What is happening is natural and it shows their control," said analyst Hadi Jalo.
In contrast to the architects, worshippers aid the changes to the once-neglected shrine should have been even grander.
"All these changes are but a little for the Imam Hussein," said Ahmad Ali, who just arrived in Karbala from Baghdad. "But thank God it's better than before: there's air conditioning, protection from the sun and rain," he said.
Speaking before walking from Baghdad to Karbala, Abdullah Ashraf, 25, said worrying about changes to the shrine misses the point.
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Who has a Fall/Winter Baby?
I am thinking Aug-Nov. (maybe as late as Jan.?) would be the ideal time to deliver so I can enjoy the baby's first holidays during my 6-month maternity leave. Everyone says May/June is ideal because it is warm enough to take the baby out, you can enjoy your maternity leave during summer, etc., but being off during the holiday season would mean more I think. I do have concerns about factors such as "flu season" and having to combine birthday & holiday celebrations. Who has a Fall/Winter baby and can give your input on the weather/sharing their birthday with holidays, etc.? If you don't mind sharing when you were ttc that would be great too!
In the end, I know the best things aren't planned!
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Yong Green Food is by far my favourite restaurant in Melbourne! The dishes are amazing, the staff very friendly and accommodating, and the interior looks great! Nearly the whole menu is vegan and the meals are brought out quickly and efficiently. The raw tiramisu is one of the best raw cakes you could get so if you're a fan of tiramisu, do not miss the chance to try it!! The food is inexpensive for what you get, and you really get the feeling that you're welcome there, even when it gets very busy. There is plenty of seating and they also offer takeaway! I'd definitely recommend giving Yong Green Food a visit!Pros: Amazing food, Well priced, Good atmosphere
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@i09 chose a creation of @paulazaceta and mine as one of their Top 10 Most Insane Alternate Reality Versions of Popular Superheroes. It's Peter Parker from What If Spider-Man Killed Kraven the Hunter? From io9's piece:
"If you kill the beast, you must become him. And since you don't want to be alone in your big empty hall with your tiki torches and your tooth necklace, you then have to collar and leash a bunch of your friends. And also a lion. There are a lot of stories that predict dire consequences if the hero has a moral lapse, but this is one of my favorites. The tame lion, the rhino-skull shoulder pad, the absolute erasure of identity, and that indefinable hint of the dork that always sticks to Spider-Man. It's delicious."
Just wanted to let you know I'll be at #NYCC this weeekend sharing an artist's alley table (BB2) with paulazaceta (who has a pretty huge announcement about his new book with the Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman, OUTCAST, which you can read about here http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48340.)
When I'm not at my artist's alley table, I'll be at The School of Visual Arts Visual Narrative MFA program table. I've been teaching there this semester and it's been a blast.
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Next up, horror. Really looking forward to this and I'll be at NYCC to talk about it (finally!). Check out this article http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=48340
Also, my schedule for the con is:
3:30pm-4:30pm Outcast signing w/ Robert (Skybound booth #1444)
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Skybound Panel (Location: 1A08)
I'll be at table BB2 in artist alley when not signing or paneling. I'll have some Graveyad of Empire trades and my sketchbook if anyone is interested.
See you there!
Congrats to GROUNDED, GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES (and UNTHINKABLE cover) artist Paul Azaceta on a book that will undoubtably take him to the next level. I'll be able to say I knew him when…and it truly couldn't happen to a more talented collaborator or nicer guy.
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@PaulAzaceta and I will be Heroes Con (@HeroesOnline) this weekend, from Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM through Sunday, June 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM.
We'll be sharing table AA-828 in an Artist's Alley packed with talent. This is my first con of 2013, and my first time at Heroes Con ever. I've heard that, along with Emerald City it's the most creator-friendly convention in the U.S. and I'm excited to see if it lives up to its reputation.
Please stop by if you're around, and let me know if there's any particular books you'd like me to bring.
Here's the info in case you're in the area:
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"THE DAILY DEAD: Is there any feedback in particular that surprised you? What have you found that readers are taking away from this story?
MARK SABLE: San Diego has a large military community, and when we debuted the book at Comic-Con we had a lot of veterans and active duty service members come up to us. If there's one thing members of the military and comic fans have in common it's that they aren't afraid to speak their mind, so I braced myself for the worst. I could have imagined them pissed at us for trivializing their experiences.
Instead, they thanked us for calling attention to the fact there's a war going on, something you might not know from walking around the U.S. right now. And they shared their stories, which were heartbreaking.
For me, the most moving reaction was a request from a vet who wanted to use Paul's cover from the first issue – a helmeted skull with a poppy plant running through it – as a tattoo. He wanted to ink the names of his fallen comrades in the roots. To this day that remains the best interaction I've ever had with a reader.
So it's been particularly rewarding that people who served in Iraq or Afghanistan were not only okay with what we were doing but felt we did a good job of capturing what they'd experienced.
No word from the zombies yet, though.""
- from Tamika Jones' THE DAILY DEAD interview with myself and Paul Azaceta about the GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES TPB, which is available in stores now.
The collections not only features tons of exclusive extras, but a brand new story written and drawn by Paul (his comics writing debut). And if you want to check out the first issue/chapter, you can can do so for free at Comixology here.
"…It's cliche to say something like, "this is not your classic zombie story," especially in the post-Walking Dead world we inhabit. However, very much like Kirkman's opus, this does feel different. Much of that has to do with Graveyard's treatment of characters and the messy politics of war; in this case, both with the undead and, more terrifyingly, with ideas….Azaceta's art accomplishes the admirable task of being expressive without being overly detailed, and pairs gorgeously with the story."
-from Steven E. Paugh's review of THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES TPB on ComicBastards.com"
An excerpt from @StevilEmpire's @ComicBastards AMAZING review of GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, which you can (and should) read in its entirety here. It's maybe my favorite review of anything I've written ever, not just because it was given a perfect score, but because it's incredibly informed, thoughtful and well written. That someone even took the time to engage with the comic I'm most proud of this deeply means a tremendous amount.
(Edited to include a working link and a quote about Paul's art).
GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, my Marines and Taliban vs. Zombies comic with @PaulAzaceta is finally collected in it's entirety as a trade paperback this Wednesday, May 1st. In addition to all 4 oversized issues, the collection will include a new short story by Paul, representing his comic book writing debut. If you haven't read it yet, check out the first issue FREE on Comixology.
Speaking of free, I've got not one but TWO signings scheduled this month in conjunction with FREE COMIC BOOK DAY:
SIGNING #1 : SATURDAY MAY 11th at Collector's Paradise Pasadena
Start Time: 12:00PM End Time: 3:00PM
Meet "Graveyard of Empires" writer Mark Sable as he signs copies of the horrific modern warfare meets zombies TPB from Image Comics, 12pm-3pm at Collector's Paradise Pasadena.
Plus, enjoy FREE COMICS all day long from 11am-7pm as our store celebrates Free Comic Book May!
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And on Saturday, May 11th, from 12-3, I'll be signing at Collector's Paradise original store in Winnetka, CA.
Since both signings will be during FREE COMIC BOOK DAY month, I'll have free issues of some of my books in addition to copies of my trade to sign.
And here's the press release for the GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES trade:
From Alexander the Great's Macedonian army to Genghis Khan's Mongol horde to the British Imperial machine of the nineteenth to the Soviet Union to the twenty-first century United States of America, no occupying force has ever been able to control Afghanistan — the very reason it's known as the Graveyard of Empires. Mark Sable and Paul Azaceta drew upon that history in their Image Comics series GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, set in present-day Afghanistan, where American troops are caught in a seemingly unending conflict with the Taliban. That is, until a new enemy enters the field: the undead. The only way to defeat them is for the Americans and Taliban to unite forces, and as former enemies become uneasy allies, tension will rise on all sides.
All four issues of the critically acclaimed, controversial GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES will be collected into a new trade paperback, set to be in stores on May 1.
"Zombies are the perfect metaphor for modern insurgents," said writer Sable. "A seemingly endless foe with inscrutable motives that comes in unstoppable waves. In counter-insurgency theory, there's something we came across in our research called 'insurgent math.' It's the idea that by killing one terrorist, you can create ten more because you've inspired their friends and family. Similarly, in a world where the dead are coming back to life, anyone you kill can return to infect your comrades and turn them against you."
"It was a challenge to do the book because I wanted to get it right," said artist Azaceta. "Not just the uniforms and the guns but Afghan culture and its wonderful landscape. While digging around for reference the things that surprised me most was the beauty of the country."
Part of the research was aided by photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who co-directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary Restrepo and who was killed in a mortar attack in Mistrata in 2011 by Libyan government forces while covering the Libyan civil war. Sable and Azaceta dedicated GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES to his memory.
Meticulously detailed and boldly drawn, GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES can be pre-ordered now (Diamond Comics code MAR130502, ISBN 978-1-60706-739-9). A 128-page full-color graphic novel, its retail price $14.99. The first issue is available digitally for free from comiXology and the Image Comics iOS app.
@paulazaceta's pin-up for my DRACULA: SON OF THE DRAGON @Kickstarter with @Salgood Sam. Want to own a postcard with this and other guest art? Please pledge here:
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if WHEN we broke $9,000 last night, but wanted this to debut in the morning and save the night for Drink & Draw related stuff. As of this writing we need a little over $4,000 to reach our goal. Doable, but we really need your help.
Paul and I did a little book together called GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES which should be out April 24th in TPB form, with a story he wrote as well as drew. He's got some Conan stuff coming up if you want to see him go all medieval again. I didn't think he could wow me after seeing his latest GRAVEYARD stuff, but this DRACULA piece…DAMN.


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Make sure your Haiti donation goes to quake aid
Best option is to give cash to a reputable organization that has a track record of working in Haiti.
A tragedy of the magnitude of the earthquake that hit Haiti makes us want to help, but we also want to make sure that our donations get to the people in need. Scams diverted much-needed aid sent to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The best strategy is to give to an established charity that is already working in Haiti. Haiti is an extraordinarily complex country, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere even before this disaster. It is not an easy place to work.
What is needed most now is money.
"The fastest way to get food to the people in the affected areas is to bring food in from the countryside," Marleine Bastien, executive director of Haitian Women of Miami, told The New York Times.
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The Red Cross estimated that some 3 million people will require aid, ranging from shelter to food and clean water, and many Haitians could need help for a full year.
Though it is wise to be skeptical of appeals posted on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter, the widely circulated "text HAITI to the number 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross" campaign is real, and those donations will go to the Red Cross. The $10 will be added to your phone bill. The campaign to text YELE to 501501 to donate $5 to Haitian musician Wyclef Jean's charity, Yéle Haiti, also is real.
The Red Cross is not accepting volunteers to help in Haiti. It has teams of volunteers who are trained for disaster relief. Some blood is also being sent from Florida.
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While many organizations are collecting clothing, food and other items, the difficulty and expense of sending items to Haiti make those donations impractical in many cases. Some organizations in South Florida, which has a large Haitian community, are collecting food, clothing and other items, but those organizations send goods to Haiti all the time and have mechanisms in place for transport. The rumor that UPS is offering free shipping to Haiti is not true, though the company has pledged to donate $1 million in cash and shipping aid to major charities.
Rumors that American Airlines is flying doctors and nurses to Haiti for free also are not true, the company told CNN. The airline has suspended service to Haiti, though its planes are bringing in relief supplies. The airline is offering frequent-flier miles for donations of $50 or more to the Red Cross.
Spirit Airlines is offering 5,000 miles, enough for a free flight, to the first 200,000 members of its frequent-flier program who donate at least $5 to UNICEF, the Red Cross or Yéle Haiti.
Some employers are matching donations.
These are some established charities on the ground in Haiti providing earthquake relief. All have donation links on their Web sites:
- The American Red Cross has pledged $10 million in aid to Haiti. Its Haitian volunteers are already working, and disaster relief teams from the U.S., Peru and Mexico are on the way. The International Red Cross is sending engineers and medical aid.
- CARE has 133 staff members in Haiti and is sending more to help with distribution of food and emergency medical help.
- Catholic Relief Services, which runs a variety of programs in Haiti including micro-lending and agricultural assistance, has a staff of 313 in the country, according to The Miami Herald. The organization has pledged $5 million in emergency aid and is providing emergency supplies such as food, plastic sheeting and water purification tables.
- Doctors Without Borders has treated more than 1,000 people and is sending an inflatable hospital to provide additional medical treatment.
- Partners in Health, an organization founded by Dr. Paul Farmer in 1983 and one of the largest medical providers in Haiti, is seeking volunteer medical personnel. Its 120 doctors and 500 nurses and assistants are providing emergency medical care.
- Save the Children, which has been working in Haiti since 1985, has about 100 staff members based in the country. Its staffers are blogging from Haiti about their efforts.
- The Salvation Army operates schools, clinics, hospital, feeding programs, children's homes and church-related activities across Haiti, where it has been working since 1950. The organization is preparing to send 44,000 pounds of emergency rations from the U.S. You can read reports from its staffers in Haiti on its blog.
- UNICEF has ongoing relief efforts to help children in Haiti.
- World Vision, a worldwide Christian nonprofit that has 370 staff members in Haiti and has been working in the country for 30 years, is sending 18 metric tons of supplies from its warehouse in Denver.
- The Clinton Foundation, run by the former president, is collecting donations and includes links to other aid organizations on its Web site.
All the major media organizations have lists of additional charities. A good one to check is CNN, which has a list of charities vetted by its correspondents. The Miami Herald also has an extensive list of groups helping Haiti.
To check out a charity, go to Charity Navigator, an independent, nonprofit organization that evaluates philanthropic groups for effectiveness and financial stability.
Major international organizations are working together to coordinate relief efforts, CNN.com reported. The organizations created a system of working together after problems with uncoordinated efforts following the 2004 tsunami.
The FBI offered these tips for avoiding Internet donation scams:
- Do not respond to any unsolicited (spam) e-mails, including clicking links within those messages.
- Be skeptical of individuals representing themselves as survivors or officials asking for donations via e-mail or social-networking sites.
- Verify the legitimacy of nonprofit organizations using Internet resources that may assist in confirming a group's existence and its nonprofit status rather than following a purported link to the site.
- Be cautious of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files because the files may contain viruses. Only open attachments from known senders.
- Make contributions directly to known organizations rather than relying on others to make the donation on your behalf to ensure contributions are received and used for intended purposes.
- Do not give your personal or financial information to anyone who solicits contributions: Providing such information may compromise your identity and make you vulnerable to identity theft.
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As the Falcons and Football dead zone reaches a zenith in the midst of summer, almost any topics related to the Falcons in some regard are on the table. Since there's not much of anything going on with the Falcons or the NFL, it's a good time to take a look at some peripheral items. One of the most spirited topics and debates is the Falcons uniform choices. Most fans seem to prefer the older looks as opposed to the "nouveau" type of unis that some describe as looking like the now defunct XFL or an Arena League team. Here's a look at all the uniforms the Falcons have donned at some point in their franchise history.
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FLIM FLAM ALERT! The Jerry Springer Show is evidently looking for bronies to appear on their broadcast. DON'T FALL FOR IT. They aren't trying to give positive exposure to fans of My Little Pony. They're trying to mock us.
If Jerry Springer, or Howard Stern, or any similar broadcaster contacts you or a friend, asking you to appear on a show about bronies, say NO and don't let them persuade you. They're just out to make us all look bad.
Please Share the heck out of this public service announcement; it's important!
Almost makes me want to go on the show just to troll the douche.
As the mod of blog that can get a little insane sometimes, I feel like it's my job, nay, my duty to tell you not to do this. I mean I'm not your boss, but bronies already get a really bad name, and whether or not you agree with some of the the things in the fandom, whether it's your love/hate relationship with Trixie or a hatred for Rule 34, we need to stick together. Let's face it, we're really not that bad, and I think it's so cool that bronies have helped take away the idea that some cartoons are for a certain age or gender.
If there is one thing this show has taught me, it's the importance of friendship and family. I don't know about you guys, but bronies are my family and I'm not going to sit back and watch my family be ridiculed by a bunch of assholes who don't understand.
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Not a lot, it turns out. I thought about it when I watched one candidate refuse to shake another's hand after a debate in Kentucky this week. I thought about it again when I saw what spurred the snub – a particularly toxic campaign ad.
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MattKrotzer said...
Eh... that's like saying "Hey, I don't want to kill Nefarian and Cho'gall. Give me my Tier helm and shoulders anyway.
Do the work, get the reward.
The problem with this analogy is that it is not possible for some people to role a tank without leveling a toon they have no interest in playing/gearing for heroics (that's a HUGE time commitment). For example, I have a friend that only plays rogues and only one of them is maxed.
I really have to agree with OP here. I play tanks almost exclusively. I am very annoyed with the DPS whining about not getting access to this extra loot. If you want access to the loot, then roll a tank or a healer. If enough people start doing this, then guess what? DPS will get the call to arms, and then they can get the satchel.
The entire reason we're in this situation is because there are too many DPS classes, however, all the whiny rants I've seen boil down to the same thing - I want the extra loot, but I don't want to work for it. There is this sense of entitlement that players seem to have, where they want everything, but are not willing to change what role they play in order to get it. If you want to experience dungeons with a shorter queue time, then play a tank or a healer. If you want shorter queue times as a DPS, well you're sh!t out of luck then.
If DPS are going to complain about long queue times, but not play as a tank or a healer, then STFU and GTFO. I'm sick of hearing about people complaining about the problem, but not doing anything to help solve it.
I now view DPS as a necessary evil, but I would totally cut them out of my groups if I could be successful without them.
Any complaints I may have had on this new system are now alleviated. I may even re-instate my shadow priest's disco spec, my mage isn't left out despite her Onyxia-tanking prowess, and gearing my little prot pally ought to be more exciting now.
I have a question of the nature of the Bind-on-Account-ness, though! Is the SATCHEL BoA, or are the rewards inside BoA? And is it a matter of: I just received so-and-so pet, now I choose who gets it, or is bound to everyone like the wyvern hatchling pet? I'd imagine there's some amount of choice, due to the flasks being randomly chosen.
@adamjgp I have to disagree about there being too many dps classes. You have mages, warlocks, rogues, hunters. It is a lot, but it's not too many when a dungeon group needs 3 dps and only 1 healer and 1 tank. The issue is that people just don't want to tank and to a lesser extent don't want to heal. I healed my way from level 1 to 85, but to be honest my first toon was a lock, which I picked for role play reasons more than anything else, back when that mattered to me. Now I love LOVE healing, and I like tanking, but I don't currently have the will to get to 85 on my tank toons. Leveling I do not enjoy, at all. Think about the number of DPS warriors and DKs you see for every tank warrior or DK.
The only class I see primarily tank are pallys. I don't know what it is, but Pally's like their support roles. It might be because Ret is kind of a pain right now, who knows. At the end of the day it's about the role not the classes. Every time I see a tank capable class in the an LFG dungeon dpsing I am befuddled. I would never waste my time DPSing with a class that can tank. It just makes no sense to me, but the world is a crazy place.
"The entire reason we're in this situation is because there are too many DPS classes, however, all the whiny rants I've seen boil down to the same thing - I want the extra loot, but I don't want to work for it. There is this sense of entitlement that players seem to have, where they want everything, but are not willing to change what role they play in order to get it. If you want to experience dungeons with a shorter queue time, then play a tank or a healer. If you want shorter queue times as a DPS, well you're sh!t out of luck then."
Sounds to me like YOU are the one with the entitlement issues. This whole paragraph seems to indicate that you feel tanks and healers work harder, therefore they are entitled to bonus rewards and shorter queues.
"If DPS are going to complain about long queue times, but not play as a tank or a healer, then STFU and GTFO. I'm sick of hearing about people complaining about the problem, but not doing anything to help solve it."
This is a somewhat reasonable statement when directed at 'hybrids' as they simply need to respec and collect new gear (and learn to play the new role, obviously). But that's an unfair statement to make to 'pures'. You're telling them that the solution to their complaints is to abandon the character with the name and race/class combo they want, as well as all the titles, mounts, gear, and achievements they have earned, so they can start a new character, spend a potentially long time leveling it up (depending on how many hours they can play per day and how many days they can play per week), gear it up, and learn to play a role with which they may not necessarily be comfortable or find any enjoyment. Congratulations, there is one fewer DPS complaining about their queue times. But now there is one more Tank complaining that they don't get to DPS.
"I now view DPS as a necessary evil, but I would totally cut them out of my groups if I could be successful without them."
I think you just showed your true colors here. This is just about you feeling like you, as a Tank, are better than DPS. But you did touch on a great point: "...if I could be successful without them." Dungeons are a group effort. Remember that. As much as you may hate the DPS, you need them, they need you, you all need the healer, and the healer needs you all.
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Adamjgp is actually correct when he says there are too many DPS classes when compared to tanks and healers especially considering their relative size in a 5 man group.
There are 3 specs, 1 sub-spec (kitty/bear druids) and 10 classes, meaning 31 unique playstlyes altogether. Of those 31 there are 4 tanking specs (Blood DKs, Bear Druids, Prot Paladins, and Prot Warriors) representing 12.9% of possible playstlyes (4/31) and 5 healing specs (holy priests, discipline priests, holy paladins, resto druids and resto shamans) representing 16.13% of possible playstlyes (5/31).
In a 5 man group there are always 3 DPS, 1 healer and 1 tank so both tanks and healers make up 20% of any given groups composition (1/5). If every player in WoW were to miraculously queue for a dungeon, and if the population of WoW specs followed the above statistics then DPS would still have longer queue times than tanks or healers. These are pretty far fetched assumptions and are not indicative of the actual behaviors and gaming habits of the WoW community at large exacerbating the issue of tank+healing specs/ DPS specs (9/31 or 29.03%).
These DESIGN features of WoW cause inherent issues when looking for groups because of the increased relative importance of tanks and healers as well as the limited number of tanking and healing roles in the game.
Combine this with player burnout from abuse, steeper learning curves for tanking/healing, and (possibly) a lower interest in tanking/healing specs in general and it is easy to see why the queues for DPS are so outrageous.
With that being said I believe the 'Call to Arms' mechanic actually does provide an excellent incentive for tanks and healers to queue more often and will encourage people to cope with the community based issues with using the LFD tool. However it does not solve the problem of tanks and healers COMBINED making up only 29% of available specs in the game. If Blizzard wishes to create greater parity among game play roles then they simply need to add more tank and healing specs into the game. Period.
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A comment on your numbers, as I've seen this argument a lot lately.
I don't think Blizzard categorizes the roles as you have (out of 31 available specs). As you've pointed out, the numbers/percentages clearly don't work when you use these as a baseline.
I don't work for Blizzard, so I can't say with authority that this is what they're thinking, but it seems more than coincidental (especially since they've added Death Knights specifically to fill role "holes") that this works...
Number of Classes capable of Tanking: 4 (Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, and Warrior)
Number of Classes capable of Healing: 4 (Druid, Paladin, Priest, and Shaman)
Number of Classes capable of Melee DPS: 6 (Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Rogue, Shaman, and Warrior)
Number of Classes capable of Ranged DPS: 6 (Druid, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Shaman, and Warlock)
Total Class/Role combinations: 20
4/20 Tank = 1/5 = 20%
4/20 Healer = 1/5 = 20%
12/20 Total DPS = 3/5 = 60% (Equally divided between Melee and Ranged)
This seems to be a more logical way to divide the Class/Role combinations, plus it works with the percentages needed for Dungeons (and to a lesser extent Raids).
My two cents...
@DBMN, Longtime Lurker
The only flaw within either one of your calculations is that you assume 100% even play across all classes. The calculations for either of your arguments are reliant on the fact that each class is played equally. From all the data I've ever seen, this is not the case. From the census data from warcraftrealms.com (which is pulled from the Armory), here's the current class distribution of level 85 characters: DK 11%, Druid 12%, Hunter 11%, Mage 11%, Pally 14%, Priest 10%, Rogue 7%, Shaman 9%, Warlock 7%, Warrior 10%.
Assuming that each class is distributed evenly across the roles in CAN fill by spec gives us what's below. This, by my own admission, is a HUGE assumption, but at least we'd be getting closer to solid numbers. If anyone knows of a site that breaks the census info down by spec (which is also available on the Armory, so I'm sure it's out there somewhere), I'd love to get a link to it.
DK Tank: 3.7%
Druid Tank: 3%
Druid DPS: 6%
Druid Heal: 3%
Hunter DPS: 11%
Mage DPS: 11%
Paladin Tank: 4.7%
Paladin DPS: 4.7%
Paladin Heals: 4.7%
Priest DPS: 3.3%
Priest Heals: 6.7%
Rogue DPS: 7%
Shaman DPS: 6%
Shaman Heals: 3%
Warlock DPS: 7%
Warrior Tank: 3.3%
Warrior DPS: 6.7%
Total Tanks: 14.7%
Total DPS: 70.0%
Total Healers: 17.4%
(Yea that total comes to 100.1%, rounding ftl)
Personally, I've got 3 tanks (no DK tank), 3 healers (no disc priest, he stays holy) and a boatload of dps toons (every class but warlock and hunter, me and pets don't work, apparently). I know each role and play each equally well. The true tank shortage isn't from the lack of tanking specs. It's from the lack of people's desire to play a tanking spec. From my own personal experience in Cataclysm, solo-queuing in the Dungeon Finder as a tank is like walking down the street while having someone constantly pushing you in the back (GOGOGOGOGO!), telling you you're walking the wrong way (CC is for losers) while telling you that you're fat and ugly (You suck at tanking).
Until the DPS (and I admit I'm guilty of it myself at times) decide to check their epeen at the door and stop treating their tanks like dirt, the tank shortage will continue, no matter what sort of incentives Blizz throws at them.
Longtime Lurker said...
Just to be clear: I'm not arguing that the percentages of Tanks/Healers/DPS in my post above are indicative of the actual breakdown in World of Warcraft (our collective experiences with the LFD tool have demonstrated a disproportionate number of DPS to Tanks/Healers), rather that Blizzard has designed a system of Class/Role combinations that enables the playerbase to more easily match the requirements for play.
If they had a Class/Role combination with 100 DPS, 2 Healers, and 1 Tank, while still expecting a group to be formed with 3 DPS, 1 Healer, and 1 Tank, then they would have designed a system that could only fail. They haven't done this.
The problem is that far more players (at least in the population that uses the LFD tool) have chosen to play DPS, than Tank (or even Healer). The only way to solve this problem is to:
a) Provide a disincentive (punishment) for playing DPS (or over-represented Class/Role); or
b) Provide an incentive (reward) for playing a Tank or Healer (or under-represented Class/Role).
I think we can agree (or I hope so at least) that option "a" is unacceptable. This leaves us with option "b," which is exactly what they've done.
In short, the Class/Roles, Specs, or whatever you want to call them are already designed to meet the LFD tool requirements; they just need to convince the playerbase to be more equally represented across the existing Class/Role combinations...
You could have 100 Tank/Healer classes, but if everyone prefers to play the single, awesome, fun DPS class, you can't build a team...


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The God Complex
Since my glowing review of Day of the Moon, I've had much cause to wonder whether my gushing exclamation of 'Doctor Who is brilliant right now' could actually apply to subsequent episodes. And I've repressed these feelings, these dark opinions, because I don't want to sound like Jan Vincent-Rudzki reviewing The Deadly Assassin or DWB in the 1980s. I've never been a ranty fan; I've always sought the positive in my favourite waste of time (and shelf space) when others have stuck the boot in and twisted the knife. I've loved Doctor Who (and always will) since 1973, but Series 6 has tested that love more than any other. But maybe long-term fans like me are just too old for this sort of thing now; maybe Doctor Who isn't being made for us anymore.
Yeah, right.
If I'm not the licence fee paying audience for this show, then I don't know who is. And there are others like me (you, probably) who'll follow this wonderful idea across media and through long and changing years to cheer it on even when it's not as thrilling or as focussed as it once was.
Now, I'm not saying Series 6 has been bad, far from it; it features perhaps the best Doctor bar none (the endlessly brilliant Matt Smith); it features one of the series' greatest companions (Arthur Darvill's delightful Rory Williams); and it's the best-looking programme on TV (beautifully designed and gorgeously photographed). But after Day of the Moon things really slumped: that pirate story was one of the dullest in the series' history; Neil Gaiman's TARDIS love story was ambitious but stifled, nay, sterile; and don't let's dwell on the tedious ineptitude of that clone story.
Fortunately, things picked up mid-season with the 'finale' (great ideas, wonderful characters) and the re-launch (fast, furious and confident, if convoluted). OK, so Night Terrors was a little limp, no matter how sumptuous it looked, but The Two Amy's took us in a bolder and more philosophically challenging direction, whilst showcasing Karen Gillan's excellent acting abilities.
So I turned on The God Complex hoping it might retain the previous week's ambition, but fearing it would offer the now worryingly usual ingredients: an annoying kid, an eerie mystery revealed to be a malfunctioning bit of mundane space-kit, a wise-cracking Amy, arch whispers about the Doctor's fate, someone dying but not really (probably Rory), death being treated as something you can resolve with a glass of Berocca, and time and reality being bent and rewound all over the place until – you know what? – nothing actually matters any more.
And I've had to ask these questions quite a lot just lately. If none of this is 'real', then why are we still watching? If people can die but not be dead after all, then what value can stories have? If events happen but are then erased and so didn't happen, then what are we investing in here?
The current production team can big-up these stories up all they want on Confidential, telling us this is the best one yet and asking us what's not to love, but sooner or later worlds without internal logic will unravel and cease to have meaning for those who have invested in them. It's not that the stories we've been given should never have made it to our screens, it's just that some of them really needed to be much more specific about the story they were trying to tell.
This kind of criticism is frowned upon by the current team, I think. There is a general sense that if we don't like a story, then we're ungrateful or, if we're not making TV shows of our own, we should shut up and get over our own inadequacy; which is a shame, because I'd love, just once, to hear RTD or The Grand Moff tell us not how great everything is, but how crap something might have turned out. Until they do, as one who loves Doctor Who, I'll always feel nervous being critical of it out loud, on record.
So, there's the context to my viewing of The God Complex, to which I came to with no prior knowledge, no 'Next Week' trailer, nothing. Apart from knowing David Walliams was in it. And I'm more than happy to say that it wrong-footed my jaded expectations more than once. For that I am extremely grateful.
For the first third, I worried about the forced surrealism (another mainstay of the Smith era). Some will say that the room full of ventriloquist dummies was scary, but although they presented a lovely image, they offered no real chills because, well, they didn't actually do anything. If you want a truly scary ventriloquist dummy let me point you in the direction of Talons of Weng-Chiang; that one's a swine and it'll stab you in the heart. The presence of these dummies seems designed to suggest that we were in a kind of Celestial Toymaker / Mind Robber 'sideways' adventure where reality was bent and twisted to serve the whims of some 'exterior' being. To some extent this was, of course, true.
Soon though, with a small cast assembled in one closed location, I began to think 'base under siege', which was also partly true. But what a cast: Amara Karan (as Rita) and Dimitri Leonida (as Howie) proved to be brilliantly realised companions to the regular team, offering performances of such focus that it was both a shame and a shock to have them die (although you knew Rita's fate was sealed as soon as the Doctor took a shine to her). And it would have been easy to cast David Walliams as a lead character, a villain perhaps; but instead of chewing up the scenery and filling the screen with his celebrity, Walliams came in as the perfect team player, as equal as the other cast members and as brilliantly believable (my favourite moment of his being the simple 'port-hole' moment: 'See that green planet there…').
So 'sideways' and 'base under siege': two classic Doctor Who story types eliding to give us something claustrophobic and mysterious, and even though I thought I had the measure of it, I could never have expected it to have been so tightly directed. The vision-mixes during the 'Praise him' sequences were new and frantic, as were the eerie juxtapositions when characters faced the camera showing terror that quickly made a jump-cut to laughter. Also particularly effective were the full-screen sequences taken from the black and white monitors, which provided fractured sense of voyeurism.
So far, so very efficient and technically precise, but the real turning point in Toby Whithouse's story came when we realised that the whole scenario had been created by a 'false god', a simple but effective idea kicked heartily up the backside by Doctor Who's long-running secular philosophy. Here, I was taken fully by surprise and found myself once again thrilled by the series' forward-thinking empiricist approach to the numinous. The most delightful moment of this story strand had to be the Doctor's 'that's enough of that' / pull the plug approach to Howie's blindly rapturous paean to an unseen deity whose sole aim was to prey upon his lack of 'advancement'.
Oh, and once it was clear that everyone 'had a room', all we really wanted to know was 'What's in the Doctor's?' That this answer held the key to the story's resolution was made all the more intriguing because we were never shown what it was. Sure, we heard the tolling of the TARDIS cloister bell, which had me quite unconsciously imagining the Master, but on reflection I'm not sure that he didn't see Adric here.
It seems like an odd thing to suggest, but having glimpsed his nightmare, the Doctor goes to great lengths to destroy Amy's faith in him (there's a similar scene in The Curse of Fenric). The Doctor must surely have glimpsed some failure that resulted in the death of a companion? But I could be wrong. It's quite possible he simply saw himself, and the cloister bell was what he heard as he drew upon his own faith. The ambiguity of this is what makes it all the more tantalising. And this, perversely, is where The God Complex restored my own faith in Doctor Who's ability to truly surprise me.
The death of Rita was a powerful and difficult moment for the Doctor, who had to suddenly come to terms with the very new notion that there might be others willing to do the saving, others who do not wish for his interference in their affairs and those who do not desire to be saved.
This alone would have been enough to give us one of Doctor Who's best-ever moments, but then the fear / faith revelation and its climactic enactment in Amy's room was one of the most tender and heart-rending in this series or any other. That the whole thing led to the sudden and painful departure of Amy and Rory Williams was something that came right out of left field…
Now, I'm assuming Amy and Rory have really left? This could be like Martha's departure at the end of Series 2, and the Williams' could well return next year – or even the week after next… I'd heard Amy would be back next year – and maybe she will – or was that just sleight of hand? It was a sudden and, consequently, shocking way to have them go (think Ben and Polly or Jamie and Zoe), but the more it appeared to be really happening, the more sense it seemed to make. The Doctor chose well here; refusing to stand over their dead bodies. Not that he hasn't done so already; most recently with poor Old Amy last week.
What had she done to warrant having her life erased just so Rory and the Doc could have a more nubile version to hang out with? In the light of this week's sudden (properly) 'game-changing' climax, the choice not to leave with Old Amy seems odd now. Maybe something that daring and brilliant would be too icky for some viewers? I really don't know any more. But even though the Doctor opted to 'save' Amy and Rory by sending them off on a new and bigger adventure, it seemed that such a moving decision came at an odd place in the overall narrative arc.
Sure, Gillan got a corker of an episode to herself last week, but is the Amy story really over? Is one of the best TARDIS teams in the series' history now gone, before we've even had the chance to take it all in? Although I've not been the biggest fan of Amy, I don't feel entirely satisfied that her story went anywhere after the mid-season break. But part of me likes that (even if she still doesn't seem that fussed about losing her baby).
And then part of me wonders if the production team wants part of me to like that, and then that part of me doubts it and another, more jaded, part of me thinks there's no plan here at all and the production team are still failing to find any specificity with what this meandering season might be trying to achieve. But I just don't know, do I? How could I? And who am I to second-guess them, when they're able to surprise me with something as beautifully affecting as The God Complex?
After all, Series 6 isn't over yet. To quote the first Doctor's last (-ish) words: 'It's far from being over…' And given our Nimon-cousin's final elegiac words to the Eleventh Doctor – which seem to place us in the kind of territory the Tenth Doctor found himself in with a single ghostly Ood – will there be yet bigger, even more shocking, surprises before this season draws to a close?
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4 Responses to The God Complex
"…once again thrilled by the series' forward-thinking empiricist approach to the numinous."
Beautifully said. I felt exactly the same way. In fact I found quite a bit of shared feeling all through this article regarding the episode.
Sadly I disagree with Amy/Rory being the best TARDIS team in the series. By the end of last year I was bored to tears with them. In part because I've grown nothing if not apathy for the whole Amy storyline (for exactly your same reasons and then the character herself for a few of my own), leaving me significantly pleased to 'hope' she/they won't return for long. For me as a viewer, it was absolutely the perfect time with no self-conjecture.
Regardless of the permanency, I think the episode itself was a perfect platform for their departure. Very well written for the cause while keeping the plot in check. An example of this is how brilliant it was to be so caught up in a good story that you missed all the cues for the end departure until after the fact.
Anyway, yes, great episode. But an even better article! Sometimes I feel too much fluff about Who these days and it's great to read someone whose thoughts and internalization echoes my own. Cheers!
As one who has been given to expressing very strong opinions on more than one occasion, I do appreciate having such a forum to do so, as well as that very forum being available to anyone who wishes to express their own points of view. Everyone is, after all, entitled to their opinions. I'm also glad that these sometimes vast differences of opinion are reflected in such a thoughtful manner, as in the above article, as opposed to the "Well, I thought it was rubbish, so therefore it does objectively suck" approach that some of our less mature Who brethren sometimes employ. This show will never be perfect; but this has never caused me to doubt Moffat's overall vision. I might have had such questions for some of RTD's judgement, but I still love the show under his run as well. Nothing is perfect, and with 45 minutes a week to explore story arcs, and plot threads, we might not always be immediately privy to "the bigger picture" And if any of us really can't seem to "grasp" it all, we can always go back and watch "Ghostlight" if we really want to be confused, or "Time and the Rani" if we want "questionable" writing to mull over. This is, let us never forget, "New Who" made for now, and it's scope is much larger than anything we have encountered in the "classic" show. I say this, being fully aware of Moffatt's statement recently that next season will not be so "arc" oriented. Let's delight in what we have, even if as individuals we all favour some episodes over others. Who is still here, right now, and I'd hate to lose it again. The universe of Who is "odd"; if it was overly tidy there might be some of us entertaining reservations about that. Steven Moffat is the Showrunner now, and the show's direction is his and his teams brainchild. We are all going to miss him when he's gone. Right now it's his show and he is running it, and that is ours to take, leave, or be indifferent enough about to just watch something else. I for one, have enjoyed his stunning and endearingly imperfect work, and intend to continue watching. Anyone else is perfectly free not to.
And as to the opinion the "The Doctor's Wife" was "ambitious", but "stifled, nay,"sterile", well, with all due respect to a differing opinion, that's just nuts, completely and totally off and bonkers……….. Sorry….
At last, a reviewer who echoes my own views completely, or at least 90% of them anyway.
Your opinions are so closely allied to mine that for a second I thought I must have written the above prose myself.
The only point on which we differ is dear old Amy Pond. I don't like her, I never have and I doubt I ever will. Rory on the other hand is fabulous and just gets better and better week by week. I will be sorry to see him leave the show.
I was just about to start a rant highlighting all the reasons why Amy Pond's departure, when it finally happens, will be celebrated by me…
but then I decided against it.
I don't like her (for many, many reasons), but there are plenty who do, so I'll just leave it for now and conclude by saying, once again,
Mr Jones that was a very welcome read. I agree with virtually everything you wrote. Well done sir!


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The chairman of the Portage County Republican Party says that allies of Gov. John Kasich offered him special influence over gubernatorial appointments if he agreed not to run for the state GOP central committee, which Kasich has been trying to take over.
Andrew Manning sent a notarized affidavit to state and federal law-enforcement officers yesterday, asking them to investigate whether laws were broken in the alleged effort to get him to drop out of the committee race.
Manning provided a copy of the sworn statement to The Dispatch and said in an interview that he felt uncomfortable with what he perceived as the offer of a quid pro quo and "relentless" pressure from friends of Kasich.
"In my opinion, I felt it was unethical and it crossed the line, but I don't know about it being against the law," said Manning, who has been on the 66-member central committee, the state party's governing body, since 2008.
…Kasich and his allies mounted an all-out campaign to wrest control of the Ohio Republican Party and oust its chairman, Kevin DeWine, in Tuesday's primary election. Kasich fielded a slate of central committee candidates in his attempt to place at least 34 of his loyalists on the committee, the number needed to overthrow DeWine, whose current two-year term expires in January.
The move against DeWine has caused a civil war in the state party, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent in the central committee races. Kasich and his lieutenant governor, Mary Taylor, made robocalls on behalf of their slate.
…In the affidavit, Manning said he met on Feb. 4 at the Portage Country Club in Akron with Bryan Williams, a Kasich appointee to the Ohio Board of Education, and Summit County GOP Chairman Alex Arshinkoff to discuss his candidacy.
The purpose of the meeting, Manning said, "was to get me to withdraw as a candidate because it was perceived by … Kasich and his advisers that I was supporting" DeWine.
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"After the meeting," Manning added in the affidavit, "I felt somewhat uncomfortable. I have always tried to conduct myself ethically, and this did not sit well with me."
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Pike County Jail Escapee Arrested In Dickenson County Hospital
Date of News Release: 05/17/2009
(Pikeville, Ky.) -- Billy Roark, 26, year old male inmate that escaped while on work release from the Pike County Detention Center was arrested tonight in the Dickenson County Community Hospital by Dickenson County Sheriff's Office Deputies. Mr. Roark is lodged in the Dickenson County Detention Center. Kentucky State Police Trp. Kevin Thacker is investigating the escape and obtained arrest warrants for escape 2nd degree yesterday.
The case is still under investigation pending extradition from Virginia.