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I've done a lot of playing around on low level Warlocks over the last couple of months, and it's been hard to find one that really felt right in all the ways that low level alts need to in order for me to keep playing them rather than simply deleting them before I really have a chance to see what they have to offer. Having played a Warlock off and on over the last couple of expansions, I was surprised by how much things felt…off at low levels across the different specs. We'll get into that a bit later on in the article. I did eventually find a spec that really felt right to me, and we'll discus that as well.
For now, let's take a look at the Affliction Warlock, what makes them (and their DoT's) tick, and how you can become a successful soul-sucking, DoT'chucking overlord of death.
Playing an Affliction Warlock
Before we get into details on spells and specs and all that business, I wanted to take a minute to talk a bit about some of the things that separates Warlocks from the other cloth-wearing caster classes, and also take a look at what's so special about Affliction in particular.
The first thing that distinguishes the Warlock from all other casters is their demons. Frost Mages get to pretend to be cool, but when you get right down to it the Warlock is where it's at. Warlocks get access to four permanent demons, though only one can be active at a time. They also get access to two temporary demons, but I won't be covering those in detail in this post because you won't have access to either one of them in the 1-30 level range. However, you do get access to all four of the permanent pets so we'll take a look at those now:
|Ranged DPS
|Provides a Stamina buff to your party.
|Melee Tank
|Mid-Ranged DPS
|Can Seduce (stun) targets.
|Melee DPS
|Dispels beneficial magic from enemies.
Imp: The demon you start with provides some nice DPS to help you get started, and he's ranged so he doesn't take much damage (most of the time). His Firebolt attack provides a bit of burst damage which you're otherwise lacking at low levels. In the long run, you won't use this little guy all that often in any of the three Warlock specs, but he is useful early on if you're looking for more damage. The main advantage to using the Imp is that he's ranged, so he can more easily deal damage to multiple enemies that are spread out as opposed to any of the other demons who are mostly melee which have to run all over the place if the mobs are clustered together.
Voidwalker: Your second demon exists primarily to save your life. He's a tanking demon, and he typically does a really good job of keeping your enemies focused on him rather than you. He can get a little squishy at times if you're pulling too many mobs, but you have the tools you need to keep him alive. The Voidwalker is the default pet to use while leveling in PvE content because of his tanking abilities. In PvP he's not all that useful, though his Disarm ability can save your life in PvP. While in dungeons, you should check with your tank and healer to see if they want to you use a different pet or if they're fine with the Voidwalker. Until you get the Felhunter at level 30, this should probably be the demon that you focus on using outside of dungeons and PvP.
Succubus: The least used demon overall, the Succubus is a bit of a niche pet. She has great utility in PvP, and she does some decent damage as well. If you're just looking at damage, the succubus is not for you. If you're looking at PvP utility then she very well could be. Overall, she'll be your least-used pet unless you just use her because you enjoy having her around.
Felhunter: Your final permanent demon is your strongest DPS option. The Felhunter is the default demon of choice for both Affliction and Destruction Warlocks. Demonology Warlocks get a special pet that deals more damage, but since you don't have that luxury you'll just have to settle for the coolest pet out there. You won't have access to his special abilities in this level range since you get him right at the end of it, but he'll still do solid damage for you. The one drawback that the Felhunter has is that he's melee which means sometimes he'll spend a lot of time running around from one target to another.
Killing Them Slowly: Affliction
There are two primary ways that you deal damage in WoW. The first and most common is direct damage, spells that deal their damage as soon as they hit. The second is damage over timer spells, or DoT's, which hit the target and may or may not do damage right away but will deal damage at various time intervals throughout the duration of the spell. Affliction is the master of the second kind, focusing primarily on DoT's to deal their damage.
DoT's also come in two varieties: debuffs and channels. Debuffs are spells that hit the target and then apply a harmful debuff on them which will deal damage to them for however long the duration of the debuff is. Channeled spells deal damage in the same way, but instead of applying a debuff they instead deal their damage for the amount of time you're able to channel it before the channel's duration ends or your channeling is interrupted.
As an Affliction Warlock, you will be putting both of these types of DoT's to good use. Your primary source of damage comes from debuffs, but you'll be channeling plenty of spells as well. For the level 1-30 range, Corruption and Unstable Affliction are your main debuff DoT's, while Drain Soul and Drain Life (Harvest Life) are your main channeled spells.
Affliction Mechanic: Soulburn & Soul Shards
Each Warlock spec has a special mechanic now that makes it stand out from the other two. For Affliction, this is called Soulburn, which allows you to burn a Soul Shard in order to boost the effect of certain spells. Soul Shards are generated by Drain Soul (1 Shard every second time it deals damage, or 3 Shards if the target dies while Drain Soul is active) and Corruption (5% chance for 1 Shard every time it deals damage). By default you can only have 3 Shards at once, and you can increase it to 4 with a glyph (see Talents and Glyphs below). When you want to use Soulburn you simply cast the Soulburn spell which triggers a buff, and then you cast the spell that you want to enhance and that's it.
In this level range, Soulburn is kind of boring and fairly limited in usefulness because you don't have access to all of the spells that it impacts. Here is a table of which spells are effected by your Soulburn at this level, and what benefit you gain from using it.
|Summon (Any Permanent Demon)
|Instant cast.
|Drain Life
|Healing increased by 50%.
|Harvest Life
|Healing increased by 33.3%.
|Curse of Enfeeblement
|Applies the Curse to all enemies w/i 15 yards of the target.
|Health Funnel
|Instantly restores 36% health and reduces damage taken by 30% for 10 seconds.
|Unending Breath
|Allows you to walk on water.
In this level range I most often use Soulburn for instant demon summons, and for increased healing from Drain Life/Harvest Life. Using it to make your Curse hit an area is cool too, especially if there are casters flinging big spells at you, but I tend to use that more in PvP than PvE. Health Funnel can go a long way towards keeping your pets alive if you get into a bind, though typically I just summon a new pet instead, but that's just me.
Important Spells & Abilities
Here we'll take a look at all of the spells that you have available to you, and talk a little bit about which ones you should really focus on (or avoid) and what they're used for.
Spells for Levels 1-10
- Shadow Bolt (1): Sends a shadowy bolt at the enemy, causing Shadow damage.
- Summon Imp (1): Summons and Imp under the command of the Warlock. Imps cast ranged Firebolts. [Soulburn: Instant cast.]
- Corruption (3): Corrupts the target, causing Shadow damage over 18 seconds.
- Drain Life (6): Drains the life from the target, causing Shadow damage and restoring 2% of the caster's total health ever 1 second. Lasts 6 seconds. [Soulburn: Healing increased by 50%.]
- Summon Voidwalker (8): Summons a Voidwalker under the command of the Warlock. Voidwalkers can withstand heavy punishment. [Soulburn: Instant cast.]
- Create Healthstone (9): Creates a Healthstone that can be used to instantly restore 20% of your maximum health. has 3 charges.
- Unstable Affliction (10): Shadow energy slowly destroys the target, causing Shadow damage over 14 seconds. If the Unstable Affliction is dispelled it will cause damage to the dispeller and silences them for 4 seconds.
Shadow Bolt is your only form of burst DPS right now as all of your other spells deal their damage over a period of time rather than up front. Shadow Bolt has a bit of a long cast time, but it hits really hard and is an excellent choice of spell for pulling new mobs into combat. For most mobs while you're questing, your DoT's are more than enough to deal with them so you won't need to cast Shadow Bolt very often, but once you get into dungeons and PvP this becomes your primary filler spell unless you have a reason to substitute one of your channeled spells instead. Summon Imp is your first demon and he's a decent source of DPS. Imp isn't the best source of DPS, but he's the one that I prefer for low levels because things tend to die quickly enough that using one of the others loses you DPS because of the time they spend running around from one target to another where the Imp just shoots off fireballs all day long. He'll provide your party members with a Stamina buff while he's active, too.
Corruption is your first DoT spell, and one that you'll want to cast on every mob you ever have any intention whatsoever of killing. Drain Life is your first channeled spell, and it does a fair amount of damage while also restoring some life to you. This spell is replaced by the Harvest Life talent if you happen to take it at level 15, which is an AoE version of the same thing. This is your other primary option for a "filler spell" once you've already got your DoT's established if you would rather do more immediate damage with this instead of waiting for the cast time of Shadow Bolt.
Summon Voidwalker is your second demon, and this is the one you'll probably want to use most often while you're questing. In dungeons you should probably switch to one of the other demons for DPS since Voidwalkers tend to piss off your tank by constantly taunting mobs. Create Healthstone gives you an item with 3 charges that can be used to heal yourself. You can also hand these out to party members, though doing so is a pain in the butt early on when you have to cast the spell to summon one, then initiate a trade, then cast to create another one and trade it to another person and so on. Generally, I don't bother making these for other people unless they ask me to because it's so tedious to make > trade > make > trade back and forth.
Unstable Affliction is your spec-specific DoT spell which has a cast time. You want to apply this to most of the enemies you face as well. Cast this and follow it up with an immediate Corruption cast and you can bet the target is going to be hurting. If you're in heirlooms then this combination will be enough to kill most things on it's own, but you can speed the process up by either adding a Shadow Bolt to the mix or utilizing one of your channeled draining spells like Drain Soul or Drain Life (Harvest Life) which we'll talk about later.
Spells for Levels 11-20
- Health Funnel (12): Sacrifices 2% of your maximum health to restore 6% of your summoned demon[s maximum health every 1 second for 6 seconds. [Soulburn: Instantly restore 36% health and reduces damage taken by 30% for 10 seconds.]
- Fear (14): Strikes fear into the enemy, causing it to flee for up to 20 seconds.
- Life Tap (16): Sacrifices health to restore mana.
- Curse of Enfeeblement (17): Binds the target in demonic energy, reducing physical damage by 20% and increasing casting time of all spells by 50% (25% on player targets) for 30 seconds. Less effective on dungeon and raid bosses. you can have only one Curse active per target. [Soulburn: Your Curse of Enfeeblement will affect all enemies in a 15 yard radius around your target.]
- Soulstone (18): When cast on a living party or raid member, the soul of the target is stored and they will be able to resurrect upon death. If cast on a dead target, they are instantly resurrected. Targets resurrect with 60% health and 20% mana.
- Rain of Fire (18): Calls down a fiery rain to burn enemies in the area of effect for Fire damage over 8 seconds.
- Drain Soul (19): Drains the soul of the target, causing Shadow damage every 2 seconds and energizing one Soul Shard after it deals damage twice. If the target dies, three Soul Shards are energized. Lasts 12 seconds. If the target is at or below 20% health when Drain Soul deals damage, it deals 10% additional damage and causes all of your other periodic Affliction damage effects to instantly deal 100% of their normal periodic damage.
- Soulburn (19): Consumes a Soul Shard, unlocking the hidden power of your spells. Affects Summon Demon, Drain Life, Soul Swap, Seed of Corruption, Health Funnel, Curses and Demonic Circle: Teleport.
- Summon Succubus (20): Summons a Succubus under the command of the Warlock. Succubi are dangerous, close-range spellcasters. They seduce Humanoid creatures, preventing them from attacking. [Soulburn: Instant cast.]
- Summon Felsteed (20): Summons a Felsteed, which serves as a mount.
Health Funnel is for keeping your pet alive, and depending on how well you're geared and how quickly you can kill things you'll either rarely use this spell or use it all the time. In my experience, it's usually easier to just summon a new demon than bother trying to heal one. Fear is your crowd control spell and one that you'll want to be familiar with casting. By default, Fear causes the target to run away which can get you in trouble sometimes if they are "social mobs" meaning that if they get near other unfriendly targets they will pull them into the fight. You can use a glyph to make them tremble in place instead of running away if you'd like, but I prefer my fear targets to run because it's more helpful in PvP.
Life Tap sacrifices a portion of your life to return mana. You shouldn't have too much trouble with mana at this level, but in case you do find yourself running low then this is how you get it back. Just remember that your healer's mana is more important than your own in most cases, so don't expect your healer to constantly spend their mana to heal you just because you ran out of mana. Curse of Enfeeblement is your first curse, and the only one you'll have for quite a while. It's not a bad spell, but dungeon bosses and PvP are the only time you should bother using it since everything else should be dead before it matters. I wouldn't have even included it in this list if there had been any other curse to choose from in this level range because it's so unnecessary at this level.
Soulstone gives the target a free resurrection if they die during the duration. When you're playing solo you might as well always cast this on yourself. If you're in a dungeon then it's best to use it the healer or maybe the tank first, but if you have the Mass Resurrection guild perk then you can keep it on yourself there as well. Rain of Fire is your first AoE spell and the damage it deals is pretty good. It can be expensive on the mana side, so keep that in mind before you go spamming this thing all over the place, but don't be afraid to use it if you have more than 3 things that you can hit at the same time.
Drain Soul is another channeled spell, and it has an execute component to it which means it deals increased damage if the target is down to 20% or less of their health, and it generates Soul Shards. Soul Burn is how you consume those Soul Shards, as we discussed in the previous section.
Summon Succubus is your third demon, and one that you'll probably use the least. She's good for PvP, but not especially thrilling for PvE. I mention her only for the PvP aspect, honestly, as she's otherwise not all that useful to you. Summon Felsteed is a mount rather than a normal spell, and in my opinion it's one of the coolest looking mounts in the entire game. Since you get a mount at level 20, you also get your first level of riding skill for free, so you'll save a couple of gold over other classes (except Paladins who also get a mount).
Spells for Levels 21-30
- Soul Harvest (27): You and your demon absorb nearby wandering souls, regenerating 2% health every second while out of combat. This effect is disabled in arenas.
- Summon Felhunter (30): Summons a Felhunter under the command of the Warlock. Felhunters are drawn to magic and heal themselves by consuming beneficial magic effects from enemies.
You get more than just two spells in this bracket, but most of the others aren't worth mentioning.
Soul Harvest is a passive effect rather than an actual spell, which allows you to regenerate your health more quickly while you're out of combat. I mention it here mostly because it means you're going to have less downtime overall so it deserves to be noted that it's there. Also, this was a spell during Cataclysm that restored health outside of combat when you channeled it, so if you've taken a break from playing a Warlock for a while and are just now getting back into it you might be wandering what happened to this spell.
Summon Felhunter gives you your final permanent demon, who also happens to be your most effective DPS demon. If you don't need the extra protection offered by your Voidwalker, the Felhunter is the demon you should use by default. I covered the demons in a bit more detail in the previous section if you want to go back and reference that.
Leveling an Affliction Warlock
The Affliction spec is all about spreading DoT's on all of your targets, and then using direct damage or utility spells to fill in the gaps until you need to reapply your DoT's (assuming everything isn't already dead). Let's take a look at how a Warlock weaves the nether, shall we?
- Single Target: Shadow Bolt, Unstable Affliction, Corruption, {Filler Spell, see below}, Drain Soul
- Multi-Target: Unstable Affliction & Corruption on ALL TARGETS, Rain of Fire or Harvest Life (Talent)
Single Target If you're facing mobs one at a time, whether they be questing mobs or dungeon bosses, you want to take advantage of the situation that you're in. To do that you want to pull the mob with Shadow Bolt so that its cast time isn't "wasted" time during combat. Follow that up by applying both of your DoT's. I prefer to cast UA before Corr because the cast time is at least partially absorbed by the take it takes Shadow Bolt to travel from you to the target. There are two options for your Filler Spell: Drain Life and Shadow Bolt. If you're wearing heirloom gear, then I suggest you use Drain Life because chances are you're dealing enough damage with everything else that the target's going to be dead before a Shadow Bolt could finish casting (unless it's a boss fight). If you're just wearing quest rewards, then I suggest you use Shadow Bolt as your filler instead so that you can get bigger bursts of damage in to help bring down the mobs.
Multi-Target For killing multiple targets, you want to establish your DoT's on as many targets as possible and then utilize an AoE. Rain of Fire is a class spell so you'll have access to it as long as you're high enough level, while Harvest Life is a level 15 talent spell so you'll only have access to it if that's what you take as your first talent. I really like Harvest Life, so I take it in all of my Warlock specs at the moment; the damage is good, the healing is decent, and the mana cost is cheap. If you get into a bind and those multiple mobs are trying to eat your face, just Soul Burn and then Harvest Life and watch those healing numbers start flying by.
Talent Points
- Harvest Life: Drains the life from all enemies within 15 yards of the target, causing Shadow damage and restoring 3-4.5% of the caster's total health every 1 sec for 6 seconds. [Soulburn: Healing increased by 33.3%.]
- Mortal Coil: Causes the enemy target to run in horror for 3 sec. The caster restores 15% of their maximum health.
Harvest Life replaces Drain Life when you take it, but it's an AoE version of the spell. I most often use this as my filler spell when I've already got DoT's established on my targets and I'm just waiting for them to get down to 20% health so that I can Drain Soul and finish them off. It only heals you for 33.3% instead of Drain Life's 50%, but keep in mind you're hitting multiple targets with it now too. If you prefer to level by facing single targets, then this probably isn't the talent for you and I would recommend Dark Regeneration instead as Drain Life would be the more effective spell.
Mortal Coil is an instant Fear that also heals you for 15% of your max health making this a great tool both offensively and defensively. Personally, I actually use Shadowfury instead, because I'm real big on AoE as I've said before, and I also like to PvP so being able to stun multiple targets at once and do it instantly is more appealing to me. Which one you use is up to you, Mortal Coil is technically the "better" choice between the two, I just prefer to use Shadowfury myself.
Oddly, Affliction doesn't have a whole lot of glyph choices that really thrill me. They don't do much to help your damage output, at least not at this level, but they do at least offer a bit more survivability.
Major Glyphs
- Glyph of Siphon Life: Your Corruption spell will heal you for 20% of the damage dealt.
- Glyph of Demon Training: Improves your demon's special abilities: Your Imp's Firebolt cast time is reduced by 50% and fires in bursts of three. Increases your Voidwalker's total armor by 10%. Your Succubus's Seduction ability also removes all damage over time effects from the target. When your Felhunter uses Devour Magic, you will also be healed for that amount. Increases your Felguard's total health by 20%.
- Glyph of Soul Shards: Increases your maximum Soul Shards by 1.
The first major glyph that I suggest is Siphon Life which will cause your primary DoT to also heal you for 20% of its damage. That might not seem like much if you're fighting one target at a time, but get Corruption up on 5-10 mobs at once and watch that healing roll in.
Demon Training makes your pets a bit more effective. Your Voidwalker will be able to tank better, your Succubus will be able to use her Seduction without having to worry about DoT's breaking the target out early, and your Felhunter will be able to heal himself every time he eats an opponent's buff.
Soul Shards increases your maximum Soul Shard count from 3 to 4. At this level you probably aren't using Soulburn enough to justify having the three you get by default, but in case you just love burning those souls then this is the glyph for you.
Minor Glyphs
- Glyph of Nightmares: Your Felsteed and Dreadsteed can cross water while running and leave a trail of flames.
- Glyph of Health Funnel: Your Health Funnel instantly restores 15% of your demon's health, but has a 10 sec. cooldown.
- Glyph of Unending Breath: Increases the swim speed of targets affected by your Unending Breath spell by 20%.
As usual in MoP, minor glyphs don't really do a whole lot for you. Nightmares in my favorite since there actually are some times that being able to walk on water will save you time. You do have to be riding your Felsteed/Dreadsteed in order for it to work, but considering those are two of the coolest mounts in the game that's not really a drawback.
Health Funnel is one you might consider if you do find that your demons are always taking a lot of damage. You can probably get more useful healing out of using Soulburn: Health Funnel than just this glyph, but the two together can put out a lot of healing in a short amount of time as well.
Unending Breath makes you swim faster, which is kind of cool. Most of the times that you'll need to go underwater in today's Azeroth though will provide you with a way to breath underwater by default and most of them also include an increase to movement speed. Not all of them do though, so it does still serve some purpose even if it's small.
Gearing Up Your Affliction Warlock
Since you're playing a caster, you'll shoot for typical caster related stats. However, since your damage is based on DoT's rather than direct damage, you'll prioritize Haste as your secondary stat.
Intellect >= Spell Power > Haste > Crit
Since it's something I'm known for, let me also give you a link to Cloth section of my Heirlooms Guide.


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In the past, Merrill placed an emphasis on hiring people with sales experience. No longer. "Often sales experience does not correlate to future sales success," observes Mathis. "Often when they were looking for work, it was because they weren't very good at sales." Instead, the firm is reaching out to "high achievers" such as decorated military veterans, athletes, successful attorneys and accountants, and college students at the top of their class. And, for the first time, Merrill has made the certified financial planner designation a requirement of the curriculum.
The firm has also identified three "derailers" it doesn't want: difficulty coping with rejection, a shaky work ethic and poor appetite for risk.
With new content still being added this year, it's too early to give the overhauled program a grade. But preliminary results are promising. Last year, an unprecedented 68% of advisor trainees hit their production goals, resulting in record high revenue.
"What we're trying to build is the most professional, client-focused sales and investment training program in the industry. If you're part of that program, it's going to be hard. We don't apologize for the standards," says Mathis.
"Still, we have a responsibility to these PMDers when we hire them to help them grow and graduate. One of the things that disturbs me in this industry is when you hear people talk about throwing new hires against the wall and seeing if they stick. If someone is not successful, I feel it's our fault as an organization. We have to build a structure and process that is so good the outcome is much more predictable."
Adults learn differently than children, a factor that Corey Rewis, head of PMD learning and development, has incorporated into the new curriculum.
"Kids will learn something because they don't know not to. Adults distill what they learn through previous experience," he says. "When you teach introductory sales training, they'll say 'I've been through training like this before and it didn't help.' You have to overcome previous experience, good or negative."
Timing—the point at which a concept is introduced—is also key to adult learning. Two years ago, the PMD program launched what was expected to be a first-rate sales training initiative. It was a bust.
"Every single trainee said 'I don't need this.' Motivation to engage was very low. Three months later, when we placed it in a training cycle after they had had the opportunity to do some sales, they were now saying 'Help me.' Adults always have to know how what they are going to learn will benefit them," notes Rewis. "At the end of the day, they retain some piece of information because of how you structure it."
Merrill has also added customized "learning paths." As an example, a trainee with some advisory experience receives targeted material about licensing that differs from that directed to a trainee with no investment experience. And, in a nod to "less is more," the training program dramatically reduced the amount of content it delivers from over 500 discrete activities to 275.
"We're constantly refining," Rewis adds. "It's the Disney approach. It's always a case of better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow."
What do breathing breaks, correct posture, hydration, exercise and a spoonful of cod liver oil a day have to do with creating a successful financial advisor? Everything, according to Matthew Cross, who designed the new third-year curriculum to help the trainee make the transition to full-fledged advisor.
"Everyone is a wealth champion but they must first be a health champion," says Cross, president of Leadership Alliance, a consulting firm in Stamford, Conn. "What we do is help advisors define key levers of success and key barriers that might trip them up. In many cases, it's health. If you're healthier, you are happier, and the odds of you being a long-term committed member of an organization go through the roof."
The curriculum, based on the Japanese hoshin kanri strategic priority alignment process, helps the trainee prioritize. "They get very clear on the right things to do in the right order at the right time," Cross says. One key concept of the training is the "First 15%" rule, which says that 85% of the results you will enjoy in a day lie in the first 15% of that process.
The central component of the third year of training, called the PMD Passport program, comes with a "peak performance" passport that advisors use to track their progress and happiness.
"PMD Passport is a year-long deep development program that helps third year PMD FAs master strategic intent, mental awareness and nutritional alignment," says Mathis. "We believe that the skills developed in this program are the passport to a productive and sustainable career as a financial advisor."
Cross amplifies: "These are the most invested advisors. It takes a tremendous amount of energy and focus to get to this point. Now they are making that leap to a new frontier. They are at a very vulnerable point but a huge opportunity point. This supports them strategically and tactically. It gives them extra confidence and another way to connect the dots."
Merrill is making a big push to hire veterans—and no wonder.
As advisor Lewis Runnion, director of the firm's year-old Military Affairs Advisor Group, observes: "They come with some key components—integrity, leadership, teamwork, an accelerated learning curve, entrepreneurship and, given a task, the ability to figure out a solution. They know how to assess risk and make a decision. All of these qualities are important in the advisory business."
Last year, Merrill hired 200 veterans, the majority of them into the PMD program. Runnion, a former Army captain, says the biggest challenge veterans face is managing expectations and navigating the corporate culture.
"I had a new hire call me 'Sir' three times. I told him 'I was a Sir in the military. Now I'm Lewis.' They also want to know the chain of command," adds Runnion. "What's the relationship between the complex director and the PMD training director? In the military it's very clear. When you transition from active duty to the private sector there is a bit of the unknown in terms of what my career looks like. In the military, we don't always know where but we know what our next job will be."
Chris Wilkins, 32, is a former Marine captain who is in his second year of the program. He currently manages $14 million and is part of a team in New York City.
"The most important thing is a perspective check. I lived in some rough environments in the Corps. No matter how bad a day is here, everyone still goes home at night. No one lost a leg today," says Wilkins, who did duty in Iraq. "Also, it's nice to try something new. I don't have to be worried about 150 Marines. It's nice to just be responsible for myself."
Last year, Merrill launched a formal mentorship program for trainees—a strategy that has led to teaming, an industry best practice.
"I do it because I had people who took interest in my career early on," says senior advisor David Lund, who currently mentors four trainees at his offices in Grand Rapids, Mich. A PMD graduate recently joined the practice as a partner. "I've taught them some things but they've taught me too."
Lund, who manages $1.5 billion in assets, says he pushes over-preparation, clear and confident communication, accountability and a strong work ethic. What have his mentees taught Lund? First, to text. And, in feedback sessions, trainees have told Lund that he can be too technical when talking with clients. He's tried to correct that behavior.
A few of Lund's clients have been especially receptive to the trainees.
"I have one retired executive who knows what we are trying to build and that's the next generation of advisors," says Lund, 38. "On almost every call with this client, one of them is in the room participating in the discussion. We've gotten to the point where we've built a lot of trust—where we can address issues without attacking the individual. I ask them for feedback and I take it. It also gives me the opportunity to say 'Hey, you did really well on that call but there are one or two things you probably need to work on and here's why.'"
The 1,800 mentors in the program are compensated, sharing a portion of the assets that the trainees bring in. "I need to focus on my clients and there's an awful lot of business I can't get to that I can do together with these guys and gals," Lund says. "Everybody wins."
In his PMD passport, Harvard graduate Christopher Beavers has jotted down a few lines that resonate with him: Worry causes destruction in learning. Peak performance is achieved only when happiness is achieved. If you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything.
Trained as a classical pianist, Beavers, 26, says: "I knew very well coming into it that this is one of those businesses where five make it and the other 95 don't. I've always been one of those people who like to defy the odds, to do whatever it is I can do best. I thrive on challenges."
With $53 million in assets under management, Beavers, who is based in Fort Worth, Texas, is set to graduate this year. He calls himself a "social prospector" who sits on a half-dozen community boards he is passionate about. He says he has worked with great mentors who have been generous with their time. And he believes he has built a practice that will be sustainable going forward.
His goal: to be the fastest million dollar producer based on length of service that his complex of 100 advisors has ever seen. The current record is seven years.
"This is an incredibly difficult job, an emotional roller coaster," Beavers says. "Every day you've got to wake up with a positive attitude and tell yourself: 'This is the day something big is going to happen.'"
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How many gold medals will the U.S. win? Sizing up the odds of the Sochi Olympics
The Olympics are here, and with them come thousands of opportunities for friendly wagers amongst friends. How many medals will the United States win? Will the Jamaican bobsled team crash? Bovada has crafted odds for almost every conceivable scenario, and we've got a few of them right here. (All lines are for entertainment purposes only, unless you win big, in which case we'll expect a cut.)
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Strong KDE Presence at LinuxWorld NYC
The preparations for the KDE presence at the upcoming LinuxWorld NYC are now complete. It should be a blast! We have ten KDE volunteers staffing the booth, some great demo hardware (generously provided by SUSE), a seven-foot banner, Kolab Server/KDE Groupware demos on a 21" LCD (provided by Ian Reinhart Geiser), and a laptop we will give away to one lucky booth visitor. It is also worth a mention that KDE has been named finalist in two categories of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards: Best Open Source Project and Best Development Tool (KDevelop).
The North American PR momentum continues to grow!
On the technical side, in addition to the two SUSE machines running KDE 3.2, Ian Reinhart Geiser will have a minicube with Debian unstable and XFree 4.3 and have demos for:
All this in addition to general Q&A on KDE deployment and development in companies.
Sticking with the KJSEmbed theme, on Thursday George Staikos will present a talk on desktop scripting (KJSEmbed, DCOP, and other fun stuff) that is only available to people with conference passes.
In addition to the technical demos, we also have a bit of press relations set up. George will be doing a 15 minute SysCon radio show on "What's New in 3.2" and Brian Proffitt (managing editor at Linux Today) will stop by on Wednesday to get an update on progress on the Conquering the Enterprise Desktop initiative.
A final note of thanks to Nathan Krause at NALeKRA. He approached the KDE e.V. with an offer of thanks for all the great work done on KDE, and as a token of his appreciation he donated a laptop to KDE that we will give away at the booth. Thanks Nathan!
If you are going to the show, be sure to stop by and say hello!
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Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved !
By domi at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
In the Linux World Product Excellence Awards KDE has a pretty strong presence. In the Front Office Award Ximian is no where to be seen. I have to say, Xandros is an truly excellent distribution, and it should get a heck of a lot more press - as should all KDE distributions.
By David at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
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Everytime a new Xandros release is reviewed everyone gets all gooey about how nice and easy it is to use and that it is based on KDE. Who cares ? What has Xandros done to improve KDE ? And I do not mean "improve" to benefit only themselves. I have yet to see a single stuff Xandros has contributed. Can someone please enlighten me why I as a developer and user of KDE should care about this distro ? At least Lindows tries to sponsor somethings here and there. Where and what has Xandros done ???? Oh well....
By DA at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Wow!
quite a *lot* if you consider when Xandros was essentially Corel's Linux division.
By anon at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Wow!
So, what did Corel do then?
By Rik Hemsley at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Wow!
Complained a lot about us getting pissed at them for never feeding patches back upstream ;)
ah well im sure they are happy selling shoes or what ever they do now ;)
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Wow!
Xandros does sponsor KDE as well. They have funded KDE presence at conferences for instance.
By George Staikos at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Wow!
Well, the last time that Kurt Granroth was seen in KDE circles he was working for Xandros... (Kurt used to be really active in KDE but in the 3.x era has mostly disappeared.)
By ac at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Wow!
By anon at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Best Of Show
We'll be up for Best Of Show too! Hey... nothing wrong with thinking big ;)
"Best of Show" will be awarded to the product deemed by the judges to be an important advancement in the state of the art, and a major step forward for Linux in the market place.
It looks like it's up to KDE and Gentoo for the Best Open Source Project. I just can't see Sun's JXTA or Real's Helix Player (bllleeeccckkkkk) competing with all of KDE. Hell, I can't see much competing with all of KDE ;)
Oh and KDevelop should win hands down over the other tools. Now, if they had put up Quanta then maybe we'd have some competition...
By manyoso at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: Best Of Show
Actually, although I agree that Real's Helix Player has nothing on KDE, I think it's still surprisingly good (I've tested a late December snapshot). Unlike prior Real (and Adobe, and Corel, and...) products for Linux, this one actually seems to work as advertised, with few if any ill effects. So regarding big-name proprietary end-user software companies, it's actually quite a milestone in the Linux world.
And if they used Qt or switched around the button order, I'd even use it! ;)
By ac at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Best Of Show
I would love to see a QT widget as part of the player project. Personally, it would be great to use it on my gentoo/kde box. The project is architected to make it easy to build a QT widget as well. Why not come help us do it? :) I would love to see someone be the QT player maintainer. We have a lot of people dropping by the site, and there shouldn't be many problems with a QT widget development taking off.
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By Vikram Dendi at Wed, 2004/01/28 - 6:00am
Presenting Kolab in a mixed Unix-Windows client setup is great stuff.
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: Kolab
Windows? uhmmm... can't Wine do the job? Just try avoiding it, Put a blue screen as background... nobody will notice anyway! :)
By Unai at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: Kolab
no it cannot. wine still dosent implement enough mapi for us to show off our service provider. then again figure a demo of outlook working with kolab might be more impressive if done via windows...
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Kolab
Whats the status of kolab now. Where can I get binaries for redhat/fedora? I checked the site and... its been the same for the past 6 months. no rpms. do we have to wait for the kde-debian distro?
By muleli at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Kolab
Do you mean binaries for the client? Those will be on cAos (www.caosity.org), and you might just ask the kde-redhat team (http://kde-redhat.sf.net) to make an extra kdenetwork and pim rpm for kolab, as its rather easy..
By datadevil at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: Kolab
Geiseri, is there any info on your connector on the web, I've not seen anything and i'm really looking forward to it...
By datadevil at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
SOunds GREAT!
PR really is very important, especially with all the FUD that has been spread about KDE and the great PR GNOME is doing too.
Can't wait to hear how the conference will go~
By Alex at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
I'm torn between Gentoo and KDE in the best product award. Oh well, I'll be happy if either win. :)
By anon at Thu, 2004/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
I think DE is more important than Gentoo to desktop linux. What computer newbie uses Gentoo anyway! I want this show to award projects that bring linux closer to the desktop.
By Alex at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
Why is it important if newbies use Gentoo? Is the newbie the standard to which all is measured nowadays?
By André Somers at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
Oh trust me they do. They may become more productive with their tools, but they will still expect everything with a nice easy to sue GUI.
Have you people any idea how computer illiterate most users are. I often get asked how to make an e-mail account in AOL or how to play a DVD.
By Alex at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
Well, I am about as experienced a user as you gonna find, and I have not heard a single reason for using Gentoo that makes sense.
Or at least, not one that makes sense *and* offsets taking a day to install KDE.
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
I'll give you one. And if anyone knows of an alternative, please say so.
Gentoo allows a person to have a stable (say kde3.1.x) and cvs versions accessible and working and selectable from the kdm menus. And the cvs ebuilds make it very easy to keep an up to date cvs snapshot on my machine.
I've been running like that for most of the year. CVS versions changed from stable and nice to flakey and dangerous probably 5 or 6 times last year. My wife and daughter weren't subjected to the instability because they were running 3.1. I reverted to the stable version from time to time because I needed to get some work done. Not complaining, that's to be expected using bleeding edge developer versions.
I agree otherwise with your point. I actually bought a faster machine so I could compile in the background and still have reasonable speed. I need to be using current CVS so I can at least fake it that I know what I am talking about.
By Derek Kite at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
Well, if you had to buy a faster machine, youcould probably just have bought ANOTHER machine instead for about the same money, and have CVS in it?
By Roberto Alsina at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
Indeed, that would be an option. Or just use Gentoo, enjoy it's features, put up with the long builds.
By Derek Kite at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
>> I have not heard a single reason for using Gentoo that makes sense.
I have one : Portage. There's no such thing like Portage hell.
>> ...taking a day to install KDE.
For me it takes only a night. I can start a compilation before going to bed and wake up with a shiny new KDE desktop optimized for my computer :-)
By Dominic at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
>I have one : Portage. There's no such thing like Portage hell.
Hahahha. Have you heard that somebody is trying to replace it? ;)
By Unai at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
"There´s no such thing as portage hell".. Oh yeah?
Seriously, portage is not magic. If the guy writing the build script makes a mistake, his stuff is broken, just as if a rpm maker does.
BTW: last time I tried to build KDE at my office desktop, it took 4 (four!) days. I find any distro that demands a 1Ghz box so that it "only" takes a night to install a package... of limited appeal.
By Roberto Alsina at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
"BTW: last time I tried to build KDE at my office desktop, it took 4 (four!) days. I find any distro that demands a 1Ghz box so that it "only" takes a night to install a package... of limited appeal."
How much time would you lose during that night, since you would be sleeping regardless? I run Gentoo on a 300Mhz laptop. I installed it from stage 1 (meaning: EVERYTHING is compiled) with ZERO problems. How did I manage that? Simple: I left it compiling GCC, Glibc etc. when I went to bed. It was finished in the morning. Then I started compiling X, Fluxbox etc. and went to work. When I came back, it had finished. I had a usable system with ZERO time lost. And of course, I can use the laptop while it compiles (you know, Linux IS a multitasking OS). It's not like I have to stare at the screen and watch while it compiles.
Of course, if you need to have the app installed NOW, you can always install a binary instead of compiling from source. I fail to see the problem here
By Janne at Sun, 2004/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
My computers work. They are mail servers, web servers, app servers, and most of them do their work 24/7. They are not hobby toys. They are tools.
I simply can´t say "the upgrade will take place sometime in the next 24 hours", or assume that performance will hold.
I need deterministic downtime for software upgrades, and gentoo´s portage doesn´t give that. Yes, I can install binaries. But then gentoo loses the only thing that is different from other distros!
If I install binaries, what´s the point in using gentoo? It´s like using Debian and install everything through alien.
You know, I will stop replying now, because this is boring.
By Roberto Ramos Corona at Mon, 2004/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
Point of Gentoo is not "yay, we compile everything!". You are extremely superficial if you think that Gentoo is just about compiling. Gentoo-users who use it because "everything is compiled and optimized for my system" are in the minority. Most use it for other reasons (cutting-edge apps, Portage (there's more to Portage than just compiling you know), the community, startup-scripts etc. etc.). The fact that you can compile and optimize the apps is just a nice addition to everything else.
By Janne at Mon, 2004/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
If you think how often you actually install software, compiling time really isn't that big a problem.
I mean, it takes me a couple of days to get a new version of KDE with all of the packages installed, because I can't just leave it running overnight, but then considering that I could download and start compiling KDE the day it is released, and have it churning away in the background while I work, it's probably installed faster than RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian et al come out with their precompiled patched packages.
By Tom at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
So you say it´s not worse? That´s not precisely a compelling reason to switch ;-)
a) I don´t know what box you have, but here compiling KDE takes a fair chunk of this computer´s wits (Duron 1Ghz). So, while you build it, everything becomes much slower.
b) I manage some 70 boxes. They range from PI/75 to P4/2Ghz. The larger ones are busy. The smaller ones are small. Compiling huge stuff is out of the question in both.
c) I install lots of software. I like trying stuff. When I find RPMs, it´s faster than gentoo. When I don´t, I just use checkinstall and it´s about the same as gentoo.
Really, how long woulkd it take to reproduce my 3.2beta2 with X 4.3 installation? The box is a PII/233, 128MB of RAM. Oh, and it has a 20GB HD, with about 1GB free ;-)
I had that puppy working as I wanted in 2 hours with apt.
I already did all that compiling-everything-from-source stuff back in 1997, and it was no fun then, either.
By Roberto Alsina at Sat, 2004/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
You're very correct, but minor point of detail I'd like to point out is that you can create a binary package after compiling KDE to Gentoo and then distribute that to your remote machines. Granted, you have to compile it to work on the architecture it will be distributed to, but for someone like me who maintains a large bank of very similiar machines, this feature works very well.
When compiling, Gentoo makes good use of distcc, so if you have 70 machines available I would think a compilation of KDE would be rather quick. :)
By Caleb Tennis at Sun, 2004/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
They are not mine, I just keep them running :-)
By Roberto Alsina at Sun, 2004/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
"a) I don´t know what box you have, but here compiling KDE takes a fair chunk of this computer´s wits (Duron 1Ghz). So, while you build it, everything becomes much slower."
Uh, you did know that you can renice portage so it doesn't get in the way of doing other stuff??? If you didn't, then I just have to assume that you don't know what you are talking about.
"b) I manage some 70 boxes. They range from PI/75 to P4/2Ghz. The larger ones are busy. The smaller ones are small. Compiling huge stuff is out of the question in both."
Use tools like distcc where the compiling is spread to the machines on the network.
"c) I install lots of software. I like trying stuff. When I find RPMs, it´s faster than gentoo."
You did know that you can install binaries on Gentoo as well, did you?
By Janne at Sun, 2004/01/18 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
* If I renice it, it takes even longer.
* If I use distcc over the computers (which I can´t because they are not in the same place), and build for each one, I gain no time (simple math :-). OTOH, if I use distcc but only once and then install binaries, how is it better than installing a RPM?
After all, one of the alleged advantages of portage is that the build is optimized for each box?
By Roberto Ramos Corona at Mon, 2004/01/19 - 6:00am
Re: aweww
"If I renice it, it takes even longer."
Maybe, but it's not that bad. You you could use the sytem just fine while it compiles. I fail to see why you are in a such a hurry.
You can use distcc and optimize for each box (ever heard of cross-compiling?). But that is NOT the sole reason to use Gentoo. You seem to think that Gentoo is only about "compiling and optimizing" when nothing could be farther from the truth! Yes, optimizations are ONE of the advantages, but it's NOT the biggest advantage!
By Janne at Mon, 2004/01/19 - 6:00am
LinuxWorld show
I want to go :)))
By JC at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
KDE on OSX
I will be walking around on Thursday & Friday with my Apple Laptop for those who wish to see KDE on it :)
-Benjamin Meyer
By Benjamin Meyer at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: KDE on OSX
By David at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am
Re: KDE on OSX
Walk around? Will you walk all the way over here to Sherman Oaks CA and up to Kalispell MT to show my old friends too? :-) Or how about a link to where I can find out how to install it on my own :-) Thanks in advance.
By William Janoch at Thu, 2004/01/22 - 6:00am
Re: KDE on OSX
How did you install KDE on your Apple laptop? I've ben looking for a way to do this for a while.
By Richard Bonomo at Thu, 2005/07/21 - 5:00am
I don't know whether it is good to have development based in the USA. DMCA, Software patents, export regulations .... So I guess it is better to remain a Europe-centered DE before the US make trouble with their crude law.
By Gerd Brückner at Fri, 2004/01/16 - 6:00am


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Addresses and Nodes: Two Ways To Get Around
Last week, I noted that programs that avoid address arithmetic can also avoid moving data. The reason is that it is only arithmetic that really cares about where in memory an object is; in other circumstances, having a pointer to that memory is enough. Therefore, if we refer to memory only through a pointer to that memory, we don't actually care about the contents of that pointer. In particular, avoiding address arithmetic gives us a completely different way of thinking of one object as being "next to" another — instead of the two objects occupying adjacent memory locations, one of them is located in a place that is easy to reach from the other by following a pointer.
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These alternatives — nodes and arrays — go back to the dawn of programming languages. Four of the earliest programming languages were Cobol, Fortran, Algol, and Lisp. Cobol, Fortran, and Algol all used data structures based on arrays; Lisp used data structures based on nodes that were connected by pointers.
Notice that of these four early languages, three were array-based. To varying degrees, all three of them were also based on a desire to make computer hardware facilities easier for people to use. Lisp's philosophy was distinctly different: Its purpose was to use a computer to implement a particular mathematical abstraction. As a result, the people who designed Lisp didn't care nearly as much about how closely their language mirrored an actual computer's behavior.
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Nobunaga wrote:Hey! Thanks for the PM! That map looks very nice!
... I'd be gratified if you wanted to do the revamp. However, while the territory names can be changed to more appropriate titles, there seems to be a consensus to keep the shapes and borders lined up where they are. (otherwise it's not a revamp, it's just a new map).
... But I'm not stubborn on that last point.
... I'm going to post in the thread I started on this that you are taking command of the project, OK?
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But then he started writing a third story, Problem Sleuth, and he used a little more discretion in deciding which suggestions he would use to advance the plot. The story exploded into a year-long epic and MSPA has been going strong ever since. The plot follows a detective, Problem Sleuth (really his title but functionally his name) and his two compatriots, Ace Dick and Pickle Inspector, as they attempt to leave their office building. Jumping in and out of "reality," acquiring new weapons and skills, duplicating themselves, dying, going back and forward in time, and dealing with all sorts of Weird Puzzle Shit, the story is complex, to say the least. It takes the form of a text-based adventure game, with a command for a character at the bottom of each panel. Online, the reader clicks the command and the next page shows the consequence of that action, with a new command underneath that. Repeat 1700 times.
There are, of course, two ways to read the story online: In real time, a panel or two a day, stretched over a year, or all at once. The two are quite different, as I am realizing - I personally jumped on the MSPA bandwagon after PS was over, and I've been reading the current story, Homestuck, more or less in real time for the last year. PS, though, I went back and read all at once.
The main difference, I think, is that these stories are full of incredible detail. If you are reading a particularly long scene, for example, it may stretch over several weeks (remember that the final boss fight of PS is the entire second half of the story). If reading the story is something that you do a few minutes a day for months, you are liable to forget some of the details as large chunks of the rest of your life happen in between installments. Reading all at once, with only a few breaks, that's less likely to happen. Hundreds of panels ago may only be an hour or so back.
About a year ago, I spent a while looking around online for some site that had all of Problem Sleuth in one long, long page. I wanted to be able to load it all up and then read it over a long train ride, not knowing what else to do with that time. It occurred to me then - before I had read it - that a book might be the perfect format for this story. All the panels are about the same size, and you could just put a panel on each page. Yes, it would be a 1,700 page book, but it could be done. No? But then I started reading the thing, and I realized that putting it to the page would be a formidable task, not just for length reasons.
But PS's popularity remained strong enough that people decided a book would be a good idea, though not all in one installment as I had amusingly imagined. Volume I, "Compensation: Adequate" takes its name from the first chapter of the story and includes chapters 1-5 (there are a total of 22 chapters in the story). That gives you the introduction, where we get to know the world and the mechanics (as well as the main characters) and a few early boss fights. The book ends just as PS and AD reach some surly mobsters, just before the whole story does a high dive into the pool of crazy.
So how does the story work after it makes the jump from screen to page? For the most part, quite well. I'll talk about the positives first, since there are more of them. As I wrote above, this is a story that benefits from reading all at once. Say what you will about ebooks and reading online, I think most people will have a more pleasant time reading a long story on a printed page, all other factors aside. It's also faster to read this way, since you never have to scroll around for the next command to move ahead and wait for it to load. No internet connection is as fast as just looking a few inches over. In short, it feels less like a text-based game, the genre it is emulating, and more like a graphic novel. I think it does the story more justice this way and makes for a better read.
One thing I had just assumed they would do is print all the panels equally sized - as they are online. But I was wrong, luckily. As I said above, most pages have four panels, and that's good: the pace is kept brisk that way, since most of the panels are just barely advancing the plot. The panels that are important - the ones that deserve more emphasis in the rhythm of the storytelling - they get a full page. Like this one, or this one. Occasionally a large block of text means that a page only gets two or three panels, but it is always done intelligently. Like any good breaking up of rhythmic elements, the fact that you don't notice it means that it's been done well.
Unlike online, the chapters are noted in the text, with each one getting its own title page. I like this, and not only because the title pages have cool drawings that are a sort of more advanced take on an image from that section. Dividing them up explicitly gives the book a better sense of structure. You can feel closure at certain points, and know at others that a climactic moment is coming up.
Lastly, the book is printed nicely. The colors look good, the commands are in gray so they still feel different, and the panels are legible while still retaining the faux-MS Paint charm that the original had. In addition to the main text, there are a few pages extra Obnoxious Notes (a la this) in the back, and Ryan North wrote as fawning and toady a forward as we were all expecting (not a bad thing) (except, I usually love everything Ryan North does and quite frankly I didn't like this as much. I wonder if he really does love MSPA too much to write a good forward? think about this later).
Most pages (maybe 3/4) also have short notes by Andrew Hussie at the bottom about those panels. These I didn't like as much. Most felt unnecessary and pointless; the vast majority just make fun of the logical or artistic flaws in the story. Quite frankly, most of them felt forced into the book to give it some extra content. There are some interesting ones - a lot - that give insight into the story and the process of creating it, and I wish Hussie could have added more of these.
As an aside, a lot of the expository author's notes remind me of those from the Achewood book, in that they are the author, speaking seriously about the work we're reading. They are sort of the textual equivalent of a director's commentary on a DVD. They are interesting, but I can't help but think that there's something lost when the reading of a work is constantly being interrupted by the author telling you about it. You never get to experience the work, alone. On a DVD, of course, you just turn the commentary off, but you can't do that with a book, and skipping the comments altogether seems like a shame. Something to think about.
ALRIGHT, this review has gone on long enough already. Let's get to the serious problems and we can all go home.
As expected, a major loss in the book is the lack of animations. This is, of course, inevitable, but there are certain ways to get around it. The way Hussie chose was to either ignore the animation in some cases (where it was minor and not particularly interesting) but in the important ones, he splits up the frames and shows you all of them. So here's a comparison of one panel online and its print equivalent.
And how it looks in the book (with a little lens flare from my camera in the lower right corner):
Another one:
The fact that the notes below these sections always apologize profusely for the stacity of the image (i made that word up but it's good so whatever) only makes it more irritating to think that you are missing something. Luckily for now, the animations aren't too critical in chapters 1-5. But who knows what later chapters will need? I assume Hussie &co understand what they have to do and have a good plan.
One might wonder what the author could reasonably be expected to do, short of not produce a book at all. I think the best thing, though it would have been much more work, would have been to rework the story slightly and not hew so strongly to the original animations. Change the dancing, for example, to a new panel showing the same thing. If the art is created to be still, you can add details you wouldn't need if it was made to be animated. It would have made the story a little different from the one online, yes, and some purists (I assume there are MSPA purists) would have been annoyed. But the reader would benefit.
Other small notes: I was surprised that there were no page numbers. I was hoping for panel numbers, so that one can more easily cross reference the book with the online edition. Short of that though, I figured the pages would at least be numbered so you can remember where you left off (given that so many images are so similar). Not happening though. Also there are some typos and other small mistakes, that is unfortunate. I am sure the second edition can take care of these.
My final recommendation would have been to make one of the front pages a map of the Problem Sleuth world, like many fantasy books have. It could have been a nice place for some new art (not that there isn't plenty of new art spread throughout) but more importantly, it could have made a complex story far easier to follow.
(update: People point out that there is a map, thought it's not part of the story, but a more polished version of that is very close to what I meant)
"Problem Sleuth Volume I: Compensation, Adequate" is fun for the same reasons the online version of Problem Sleuth is fun. The story is good and told with humor, and the art adds to the strange tone of the whole thing. It's an easier story to follow on paper too, though some animated details are lost. There are those people who will love MSPA no matter what, and I don't think they will be disappointed by this. But the people who will be best served by this are those who tried to read the story online and didn't have the stamina for it. It goes faster and makes more sense in print. If you've been trying to get into MSPA, this is the easiest way to start. I look forward to seeing how the rest of the story works in book form.


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