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It isn't officially an Spoilerwhy does "an" seem right there? MMO until someone has billions of gold and plays fun games with the economy anyway.

But hey it's a launch. As long as they fix the bugs before the game gets cheap enough for me to give it a whirl I'll be happy. I still have faith they'll do that.

Edited, Apr 18th 2014 8:24am by someproteinguy

Grammatically, both are correct, because it depends on whether or not the acronym is being vocalized as written, if it's actually being treated as shorthand for a longer term or phrase, or if it's being treated as its own word.

But the generally accepted rule is to go with the sound you expect the reader to make when they encounter it.

So you'd write "a scuba tank" but "an SAT question."

But if you worked for the SAT company, and knew that everyone internally called it the "Sat" (as in past tense of sit), then you'd write "a sat question."

English

Nobody says Mmo though, it's always M M O.

Meh, that distinction has more-or-less broken down now, with more and more dictionaries using acronym as the blanket term for abbreviations that are treated as words, regardless of if they're pronounced as words.

Mirriam-Webster uses this definition now. Oxford still uses the old one (stuck up Brits). Dictionary.com uses the new one, for whatever that's worth.

It's really a more-useful system, because now acronyms are a subset of abbreviations and initialisms are a subset of acronyms.

It was also becoming necessary to make the change, because if you follow the English system there are words without a home (like "jpeg," "LSAT," etc. which are partially spelled out, and partially treated as words). This system lets you treat all of them as acronyms, but then you can narrow the field down to initialisms if you need to.

I'm not so much really, but it's more fun that way. The wife knows enough to do some decent stuff with it anyway. Falls in the general tasty salty meat category.

I like it every once in a while. It reminds me of when I was a kid and my brother and I would go to my grandparents' house to do chores (yardwork, etc.). My grandpa would cook spam and eggs for us. Good stuff.

Becuase my bow NB can solo non caster world bosses.(soloed Nubgrub at level 24 even, so not just first island easy ones)

Stealth>Heavy attack>Shadowy Disguise(90% crit from stealth)>Silvershards>Siphon Swallow soul(only if needed for health)>Draining shot(knockback+snare)>repeat until mob/boss at 30% health then BLAM>Impale (300% damage ranged execute)

It has real nice balance between stam and mag use plus synergies for regen to both coming in and out of stealth. And gives armor and spell resist on stealth plus 90% crit on Disguise at will. Along with great control and kiting.

I have 2 DK's though and that's probally my next class to push far they are super fun as well.

God save the Wilderqueen!

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(AD people will get it. Eventually when they are 26 ish) (Also I go something in my eye on that quest line. Totally was not being emo)

My dragonknight is 22, but after talking big last week about how that's the only class that anyone should play ever, I'm having trouble getting her to work well with some of the ranged weapons I want to mess around with (as you might expect, since she has no ranged spells). Plus she's so expensive to respec now - I did a bunch of experimenting with builds over the weekend and now I don't even have enough gold to put her back how she was.

This is what I'm talking about with it being too expensive to respec; if starting over is a worthwhile consideration versus going broke or having to dig out of a hole, I think that's a flaw for a game that sells itself on play how you want, any class can do anything any time. Resepeccing should be relatively trivial cost-wise, IMO. Or keep it at 100 gold per point, but let us pay per point we want to change instead of having to wipe it all - it's kind of silly to have to spend several thousand gold just because you regret one morph decision.

So anyway, I'm going to park her for a short break while I play my nightblade a bit instead. NB will be a good choice for bow/resto staff which is the next thing I want to try. It's the only other class I played much during beta and I liked its versatility. There's a lot of different ways you can go with those skill lines.

Incidentally my husband has been playing a nightblade as something a little like a WoW DK, with heavy armor and life leeching type themes, and he's been liking that a lot.