Ted Atchley

Ted Atchley @honorshammer — I'm a 10 year veteran of World of Warcraft with the overwhelming majority of that time as a Protection Paladin. I started my tanking career at the end of Vanilla, and I've played every expansion since. I'm now a Retribution Paladin, but I'm hoping to pick up the shield again in Shadowlands. In addition to WoW, I play Hearthstone and Overwatch. I used to blog about my gaming life at http://honorscode.blogspot.com/. Whenever I pull a boss, I have a macro that yells "HEY [bossName], it's Hammer time!". It's supposed to be sort of like The Thing's "its clobbering time" but most people think MC Hammer. Outside of gaming, I enjoy spending time with my beautiful bride and our two kids, watching the NFL, reading, and writing fiction.

Hearthstone

Revel in randomness and get ready to win Valeera’s Bag of Burgled Spells Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

by Ted Atchley on August 5, 2020 at 7:25pm @honorshammer

Jesters, dreamers, and thieves are out this week in the Valeera’s Bag of Burgled Spells Tavern Brawl.

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Hearthstone

Scholomance Academy’s six Studies cards add a new spin to the old Discover mechanic

by Ted Atchley on August 5, 2020 at 6:00pm @honorshammer

Hearthstone's latest expansion is set during Scholomance's time as a burgeoning magic school: Scholomance Academy.

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Hearthstone

All of the Spellburst cards from Hearthstone’s Scholomance Academy expansion

by Ted Atchley on August 5, 2020 at 4:00pm @honorshammer

Hearthstone's next expansion is Scholomance Academy, and it comes with some exciting new features that focus the spellcasting skills you would learn at this school of magic.

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Hearthstone

We bought a zoo in the Just Macaws Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

by Ted Atchley on July 30, 2020 at 10:00am @honorshammer

After letting Rogues take center stage in last week's Just a Hallucination Tavern Brawl, Hunters take over this week with the Just Macaws Tavern Brawl.

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Hearthstone

What are you hiding? How to win Hearthstone’s Just a Hallucination Tavern Brawl

by Ted Atchley on July 22, 2020 at 7:36pm @honorshammer

As we prepare to enter Scholomance Academy, magic has gone wild in Hearthstone's Just a Hallucination Tavern Brawl.

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WoW

Balancing player power around Covenant abilities is impossible. Here’s one way it could be better.

by Ted Atchley on July 22, 2020 at 4:15pm @honorshammer

Choices are fundamental to the gaming experience and you’ve got a big one coming up in Shadowlands.

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Hearthstone

The decks you need to win A Peek to the Past Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

by Ted Atchley on July 15, 2020 at 8:20pm @honorshammer

Get your Pym particles ready and check the oil in the DeLorean.

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Discussion

How would you fix WoW’s intra-expansion scaling problem?

by Ted Atchley on July 15, 2020 at 8:00am @honorshammer

World of Warcraft has a problem with how much we scale during an expansion.

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WoW

Soulbind Conduits show that Blizzard has learned from the mistakes of Azerite Armor

by Ted Atchley on July 10, 2020 at 4:00pm @honorshammer

After getting a first look at the Soulbind and Conduit system in Shadowlands, I had some apprehensions, because it shares many of the same mechanics that plagued Battle for Azeroth's Azerite Armor.

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Hearthstone