tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58598559737617854422009-12-27T04:39:41.813+09:00A blog about World of Warcraft based on my many experiences with various classes and play styles.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052750392687430444noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5859855973761785442.post-47026947928831507522009-11-24T13:03:00.003+09:002009-11-24T13:07:38.869+09:00

As I mentioned a couple posts back will be away from the game for the next 5 weeks or so. Enjoy your holidays, everyone!P.S. I really, really, really like pvping as a rogue, notably as a subtlety rogue. There are so many different satisfying things I can do, like kill clothies in 2-3 gcds, mess with people with sap and distract, wade into a crowd and use fan of knives with crippling poison, and

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So there was a big kerfuffle at the Greedy Goblin blog about him outing another blogger for being an overly-aggressive marketer. I felt kind of bad for the other blogger until he openly called Gevlon a 'twat' which is the kind of word that strips away any credibility your position may have. All of this arose around the idea of a 'gold-making guide' that you pay Real(tm) money for.Gold is in WOW

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Things are slowing down, as many other bloggers have mentioned. My guild has lost its top players to more advanced guilds. We still clear Ony10, VOA10, and ToC10 weekly without breaking a sweat. Ulduar10 is not worth our time anymore, even though we never killed General Vezzaxx or Yogg. My mage and druid have collected an impressive array of 10 man gear (Even though I accidentally vendored my

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Seen in guild chat:[Levelingguy]:Damnit!!!![Concerned guildie1]:what?[Concerend guildie2]:??[Concerned guildie3]:Something wrong?...moment of silence...[Levelingguy]:Dammit I just dinged all over myself!I was laughing for awhile on that.

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In case you haven't heard, Blizzard will start selling companion pets in the blizzard store for $10 apiece. The title is self explanatory,so I shall dive into it.1)I don't really care about pets. This is purely subjective, as of course some people enjoy collecting and displaying pets. I'm likely to pop 'em out when I get them for a little bit, then forget them forever. It's just not an engaging

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Yay, my blog is 1 year old. I am happy to have a place to share my WoW experiences, and I would like to thank the 200 or so people that stop by every week to take a look and sometimes share their comments. Its a very tiny corner of the wow blogosphere, and an incredibly small spec on the Web, but it's my spec, dammit!! I don't have much to reflect on, this blog is more a stream of conciousness

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I'm kind of surprised myself, but I found myself avoiding logging on to my main character yesterday. If I logged on, I felt, I would be dragged along to our weekly Onyxia and OS10 runs, and then we would go on to Ulduar, and I would have to heal or tank on my druid (because my guild is perpetually short on healers and tanks, what else is new), and not play my mage or priest as I would prefer. Its

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Adding Emblem of Conquest drops and Emblem of Triumph daily quests helped bring many people back to heroic dungeons, for better or worse. As nice as it was to have something to do between raids, it still feels a bit silly as we steamroll through instances to grab 3-5 emblems. Well, you can all stop, for now. The reason is in 3.3, these instances, designed for people with blue gear, will drop

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A short post-The guild I am in had a recent surge of new recruits, and we gathered our top players and took on TOC 10. Most of us had never seen the encounters, except maybe on a video, or had read about it. In 2.5 hours, we had cleared all five bosses. We wiped along the way, we developed strats for our group, had a lot fun. We especially enjoyed one-shotting the pvp-style encounter, with lots

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*Amateur math and statistics inside. Everyone is familiar with the 'gearing up' routine in WoW: Defeat encounters and get better gear from them. Use this better gear to tackle the next, harder encounter. Get new gear from this harder encounter and take on the next, harder encounter. Get new gear from this harder encounter and...you get the picture.There is no problem of gearing up, progressing,

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My Druid, ostensibly my 'main', has been, for the most part, a healer. I enjoy healing and especially healing as a druid. Of course I have dabbled in the many roles a druid can take. I have tried my hand at Boomkinning, and Cat-ting, and Bear-ing. But I always go back to the reliable old tree as my spec of choice. However, I had a great experience last night that may signal a shift in my druid's

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The Tree Healer Creed(Inspired by Big Bear Butt Blogger)I shall lay out all raid member's health bars upon my screen, so that I may observe their rise and fall, an undulation not unlike branches swaying in a gentle breeze.If I see a health bar decrease, I shall click on that bar and place a spell of Rejuvenation on them. If the decrease was large, they may get another spell cast on them. If that

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Most of my raiding experience and endgame play has been as a healer. From Molten Core through to AQ40, and during BC in the arenas, I was a resto druid. Now in Wrath I have the resto Druid and a Holy paladin, who were, up to recently, the most played and best geared of all my characters.Recently, the focus of my attention has been my Mage, and I am really enjoying the pure dps role.Don't get me

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My arm is getting better, and I have gotten back to playing WoW, just a little less nimbly. Can you imagine reaching to hit the esc or f1 key requiring undue effort? That is my reality for the time being.Every player has, at one time or another, has sought after an item that just wont drop, or when it does drop, they don't win the roll. A fair share of drama and emotion revolves around these

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I am recuperating from surgery on my arm. One plate and seven pins/screws are in me holding my repaired arm together as it heals. The worst of the pain is over, and now I have 3 weeks or so until I regain regular mobility, and then a couple months of physical therapy to follow. My left arm is pretty immobilized for now, but I can change/shower/eat/play WoW with a little effort and care.I haven't

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Short and sweet update:1. My mage Sterculius got totally pimped out with all kinds of nice gear from Heroic Trial of the Champion, including getting 2-piece T8 thanks to some incredibly lucky Vault runs...on the same day! I really enjoy going into battlegrounds and spamming living bombs on a crowd of folks. Working on getting a PvP set, from scratch for my mage. 2. I got some Emblem of Conquest

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A couple posts back I wrote "I actually like dailies for once", as I got involved in the Argent Tournament Grind-o-rama. Well surprise surprise, now they are the bane of my existence. When I started I didn't quite get that you had to repeat 5 days of dailies 5 times, and get exalted repuation with every city faction to 'finish'. That was more than I expected. But it was a nice project to get into

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As a WoW geek, I actually enjoy reading through patch notes and seeing all the changes in store for the game. However, all the changes are stated in a very matter-of-fact way; almost nothing is said about how the patch changes will affect your day-to-day play or even your play style. You have to actually think about it for awhile (bleah, thinking). After reading some forums and going over the

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I've added a new member to my ranks of alts - Bloodshiv, the Orc Rogue!First I'd like to pat myself on the back for the awesome name, which I was able to come up with all by myself. Second, some of you may be scratching your heads saying, "But I see you have a level 71 rogue already!" True, true, but that means little to an Alt Fanatic. That rogue was a project with a friend from Florida (I was

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After a brief spell of Bloggus Interruptus, I am back with another update:On my main Msmoo, I have been getting more and more involved in the Argent Tournament. Their design for it has roped me in. I can run the two levels of quests (kill 10 scourge/kill 15 scourge, etc) at the same time as the shadow vaults dailys (kill 15 scourge and plant flags on them, etc) - I can do about 12 daily quests

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I admit it - I'm a loot hoarderOne of the most disapraging things you can accuse a fellow raider of being is a loot whore. It implies they are only there for the loot, and that they are so grabby for loot they take upgrades for others when its a sidegrade or offset piece for them, or they just roll on a piece because they can, even if they don't need it at all!I can remember running Zul'gurub

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I know its an inflammatory topic and I am being totally flippant when I say it, but I think 10-man raiding is a lot more intense than 25-man. And I have come to this conclusion because one of our healers could not get his computer to cooperate last night. He kept disconnecting randomly in our fights. Now in most standard encounters in a 25 man, unless you are the main tank or in a critical role,

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Living in Japan kind of constricts your access to Western culture. Sure we get Transformers movies and Harry Potter and anything else with worldwide appeal. But I just got wind of the Flight of the Conchords, which I understand has been around for a couple years now. Funny, funny stuff. If you haven't heard 'Business Time' yet, look it up on youtube. Anyways, it was Business Time in Ulduar as we

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According to the new patch notes, when 3.2 hits, all Heroic Dungeons and T7 content (Naxx, EoE, OS, Vaults of Archavon) will drop Emblems of Conquest! This is a huge change especially for me. For those not familiar:Emblems of Heroism=ilvl200 gear (baseline, starter epic items)Emblems of Valor=ilvl213 gear (Equal to 25-man Naxx drops)Emblems of Conquest=ilvl226 gear (Equal to 25-man Ulduar drops)

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In my last post, I lamented the downturn my guild was facing as our progress slowed more and more in the face of 'guild death'. There has been no progress since my last post. We didn't even attempt Ignis this week because we don't have a reliable ranged dps to burst down brittle golems. I've seen some guides to healing in Ulduar, and I think the reason such guides have come up is that raid damage

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