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This'll stay with you for awhile

Arzozah — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:23:52 -0400

Totally off-topic but this just killed me when I saw it just now. May be NSFW

Honey Badgers v2.0

Leonid — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:19:56 -0400

So as of this instant it is looking like we are down for a Tuesday evening raid, beginning at: _________TBD________.

Tank 1:
Tank 2:

Heals 1: Leomane (Druid)
Heals 2: Chicca (Priest)
Heals 3: Dilemma (Druid)

DPS 1: Ariannrhod (Mage)
DPS 2: Miyazaki (Death Knight)
DPS 3: Casstiel (Paladin)
DPS 4: Frickle (Rogue)
DPS 5: Castang (Priest)
(this list is in no way concrete, just a roll check)

This will be updated as we get more responses. Please check back. Once we are a little closer on Tanks I will put up the raid up on the calendar! Thanks!!!

**Update**

WE NEED TANKS!

Godsmack, I know you are really wanting to come, but I think we are only going to have tanking spots atm, we have lots of MDPS and very little RDPS, which makes me nervous!

If there is anyone else interested please let me know!

Nightshift

Tealin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:15:19 -0500

Hey Nightshifters, where are we at, in terms of raiding readiness? Who's available? Baird and I are two or three weeks out I'd say, gear wise, maybe a little longer. But I've puttered so much I'm starting to consider leveling an alt (the rogue doesn't count), and that's never a good sign. Time to get into dungeons, again.

Before we start, though, I'd like to propose a change in our normal schedule; would anyone be opposed to midnight-2am/two nights a week, rather than midnight-3am?

As for the roster -- everyone's welcome. The only requirements are to be ready for the content, ready to raid, and able to stay awake until the end.

Sassy Cats Raiding Fun

Jexii — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:00:32 -0500

Thought I'd start a new thread for Sassy Cats!

Don't forget to sign up for the raids in January.

Team Rocket (Rated BG Team) - Mondays at 9pm Server

Valisa — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:50:39 -0400

Blast off at the speed of light!

9pm server. If you're on my list, be there. If you fail to show up, I will PuG up to 2 members.

Lets do it.

Hello Kitty Bridal Shower

Zurena — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:30:48 -0400

Because this is one of the few places where I've seen Hello Kitty mentioned, I thought it only proper to share this find from @gamingangel: Hello Kitty Bridal Shower (From the blog: When Geeks Wed)

Personally I find other things on the blog more my style, like the Dalek centerpieces.

This article is outstanding!

Leonid — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:26:18 -0400

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-dorky-hobbies-taken-to-badass-extremes/?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module

Pandaria Beta Begins

Leonid — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:15:21 -0400

Looks like they are beginning the "Mists" beta! Annual pass holders aren't invite yet but looks like will be in the "near" future!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4664620/World_of_Warcraft_Mists_of_Pandaria_Beta_is_Live-3_21_2012#blog

Free Diablo III for WoW Subscribers!

Lurzmog — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:24:08 -0400

In case you're not watching the Blizzcon opening ceremony, he just announced that WoW users who sign up for a yearly subscription will receive Diablo III for free and guaranteed access to the next WoW xpac beta and a crazy mount. It's supposedly available now, but you can only see it on your Battle.net account page, and I can't seem to get the link to work.

For Harpin

Sandrice — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:55:45 -0400

Click me!

=)

60 Minutes on Dungeons and Dragons from 1985

Lurzmog — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:35:30 -0400

Ah, the good ol' days! I'd love to see them do a follow up to this now. I wonder what some of these people think of WoW.

Early Cata healing experiences as a holy priest

Jurace — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:48:43 -0500

Here's some info I've been collecting about healing in Cata. First, I've been having fun following the blog LFM, and although she's a resto druid, she's written two useful pieces describing her early experiences (even though not a priest).

In this post she has some good comments:

The first few dungeons on the way up healed like Wrath dungeons, IMO. People took big hits and had to be healed up all the way or the next big hit would kill them

and

Around 84 the health pools suddenly got big enough to take a hit or two, but at the same time my mana regen went through the floor. I had thought it was bad before; now, some of my spells were using 5% of my mana, or more. I was ending every fight OOM

She finally makes some adjustments:
We hit 85. I started getting gear and tweaking performance. I’d already trained myself that pre-hotting was bad, that using hots on slightly damaged people was bad,

I'm not to 85 yet, but have had a similar sort of change of style that is working better as holy priest. The first time I ran TBC I was level 81 and was lucky enough to heal Ninen at 85 with 120k HP. My GS was up significantly from WoTLK and combat regen was at an (amazing or so I thought) 850. Even so, healing was pretty white knuckle. I did my usual rotation, pre-loading a PoM, being pretty liberal with renew when non-tanks took damage and making free use of Gheal when Ninen started dropping in health. My mana was low at the end of most trash pulls and I was having to use my fiend and mana pots on boss fights and ending them either OOM or almost OOM. It was a real eye opener.

Fast forward 5 days, I dinged 83 while doing two different runs with non-guild tanks last night (all guild DPS though which helped!). I was nervous going in, these tanks had like 50 - 60k health, a level 82 DK and then a level 81 Paladin. I.e much less than Ninen, and since I had trouble keeping Ninen up I was worried. Mitigating my anxiety was that in the meantime I had focused on getting spirit gear (just quest drops plus a honor-level piece from the Hyjal quartermaster), had leveled Alchemy a bit and had a good stock of Ghost Elixir (+225 spirit), and also had spirit food (Blood Shrimp Gumbo). Fully fed, elixiried, and buffed my combat regen had jumped from mid 800s to 1200(!). Still, I found careless use of spells meant fast trouble on the mana front.

So last night I made a determined effort to master at least one chakra state. I had been trying to learn these in WoTLK, but they weren't really needed so I played around with them but didn't really get good at it. For one, they're a bit problematic in my grid+clique GUI, and they're also complex enough that you have to really spend some time with it. So last night my goal was low, start using "heal" vs "gheal" more and use the associated Chakra state. What a difference! My new rotation went like this -- PoM on tank, when starts taking damage drop a renew (to give you time to setup the chakra), then Chakra plus regular heal. I like the renew first because heal takes awhile and doesn't deliver a huge punch, it prevents you from dipping too far down in the tanks health. Then the cool thing is that every time you land a direct heal (heal, flash, or gheal), it refreshes the renew interval. I found I could go complete fights (sometimes two complete pulls), refreshing my renew via a heal. If there was splash damage and I was healing DPS and the tank was OK I'd just keep an eye on his renew bar, when it got to 5 or so secs I'd drop a fresh heal on him. This turned out to be a really big win for 3 reasons. 1. Fewer renew casts saves mana, time and attention. 2. No renew downtime on tank (if you are busy when the renew times out) means better overall health profile for the tank meaning less need for big saves. 3. Using heals is drastically less mana than gheal or (of course) flash heal. Now, my spellpower is up a bit from last week (around 3500 now), so the regular heal is hitting for more (and the +10 crit chance in Chakra: Heal state helps). I found in many fights I could start this rotation and then either spam heal or even leave some intervals between heal and keep the tank in good shape. The Twiglight Evocators with the big shadow hits were an exception, I had to hit Gheal there. With this technique I now found instead of ending fights LOM I was actually ending them full up! It was tremendous. In fact it was a tad disappointing not to have send in my fiend on some of the boss fights -- didn't need the mana.

I've got a few things still to master. For one, I don't have a keybinding that works with the Holy Word:Chastise morphs. I don't quite know what's wrong, but I have a binding for Holy Word: Chastise on my button bar and mapped to a click. But when the Holy Word morphs with the Chakra and becomes Holy Word: Serenity, the keybinding doesn't work anymore. Maybe I need a hovercast macro, or maybe I need to config a special click for each of the Holy Word variants (which would be a bummer), but they're not in the spellbook and Clique doesn't see them. More work is needed, and the Chakra state will be even more powerful once I get this config'd and get the new Holy Word: Serenity instant heal into daily use.

Anyway, hope this is interesting for some of you holy priests out there. My plan for now is to perfect this one Chakra state, get the Holy Word: Serenity working, learn the conditions needed to keep the Chakra alive, etc. Once I get this Chakra state mastered I plan to move to the Chakra: Renew state, and then when we get to raiding I want to master the group heal Chakra state. I think that being fluent with each Chakra state will be an absolute necessity for raiders and heroics.

So, my bottom line learnings so far are:
- Have lots of spirit elixir and spirit food
- Have lots of mana pots
- Use Chakra state always
- Avoid high mana cost spells unless necessary

Lindsey Stirling

Valisa — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:01:57 -0400

Enjoy!

Limitless View Distance

Lurzmog — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:15:40 -0400

This was on Reddit and I thought it was kind of neat.

If anyone has played WoW and wanted to see what it looks like with limitless view distance, here ya go.

Murloc RPG

Zurena — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:31:34 -0400

This is a little flash game inspired by WoW where you get to play a Murloc. I thought it was pretty cute and worth sharing.

(Yes, I know flash is evil - the link goes to Kongregate, your call on whether to click.)

The Honey Badgers!

Leonhart — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:18:58 -0400

Honey Badgers updated info/rules of raiding:
Loot rules: boss drops will always go Need on Main spec, greed for off spec otherwise pass and it will get sharded. ALL BOE's will be rolled for MS then OS if nobody needs for either we will /random roll to sell or do whatever you wish.
Living Embers: If people have a request to get something crafted with embers let me know. I will handle the embers and give them out accordingly. please make sure you have a crafter and mats ready when asking for them.
Alynn is currently working on Eternal Embers so make sure he is the only one rolling need on those as they are not tradable if accidently rolled on.

Invites will go out at 7:45, we begin pulling at 8:00
Please bring food and flasks in case something happens and we dont have a cauldron or feasts.
And yeah Honey Badger don't care! but Drama will not be tolerated. if you have a problem with someone or something in the raid come to me ill take care of it ASAP.
Also: If any of you have mats to contribute to feasts send them to Dilemma and Jamie takes care of the cauldrons so keep that in mind.

other than that plan on pwning face!
thanks,
Leon

Darth Vader, In Kilt, Riding a Uncycle, Playing Bagpipes

Zurena — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:05:40 -0400

Really.

In case anyone needed some cooking ideas

swirly — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:28:22 -0400

Or managed to score a hot date with someone who would appreciate such things (spouses included).

Thankfully, no deep fried clam bar.

Rec's for Items with On-Use Teleportation

Lurzmog — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:06:30 -0500

In the process of working on an achievement recently, I picked up [item]Boots of the Bay[/item] and realized very quickly the benefits of having items like this to cut my travel time while I'm working on achievements and archaeology. Thing is, I don't know that many. Off the top of my head, I know of the aforementioned boots, the [item]Argent Crusader's Tabard[/item] and the Kirin Tor rings (which are out of my price range). Anyone know what else I'm missing?

(...and item linking seems to be broken, or I'm doing it wrong. Sorry.)

Happy Leap Year Day!

swirly — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:17:21 -0500

Your musical interlude

(Omitted, Frederic discovers that his indenture to the Pirate King ends on his 21st birthday.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance
Now playing at the Berkeley Playhouse. The ad says it's "not for purists" because it's been updated for a different era, but that just means that whoever wrote the ad doesn't know that there are notes in the script with suggested places to update the text to be modern. Noobs.

Rejected Star Wars Merchandising Concepts

Bourree — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:31:01 -0500

For more of the AWESOME and AWESOMELY BAD - check THIS out

Balaclava win.

swirly — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:53:23 -0500

In case being a male Dwarf in WoW isnt quite good enough.

I Loves Me Some Archaeology...

Lurzmog — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:16:35 -0500

...but damn, Blizzard really needs to work on the RNG they're using to generate dig sites and artifacts:

Immediately after this screen capture, I cleared one of those Troll dig sites in EK and guess what my next dig site was? Give yourself a hand if you guessed Night Elf! And at the same time, I got a Lizard Foot Charm for THREE out of four Troll artifacts in a row.

I'm really looking forward to some changes in archaeology come MoP.

WTB Something NOT Adobe Acrobat Pro - Suggestions?

Harpin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:56:20 -0500

I'm looking for a low cost/no cost alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro. I need the editing compatibilities but not the $400 price tag. Also looking for OCR functionality. Thanks!

I'm going to be published!

Maloch — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:12:14 -0500

A friend who was proofreading a chapter for me sent it off to her publisher, who now is waiting to hand me a contract as soon as I've finished the book.

I'VE GOT A CONTRACT!

Wheeeeee!

I'm seriously so jazzed right now it's criminal :)

How we roll in NOLA...

Bourree — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:33:46 -0500

Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus: here and here

Bounty Hunters

Valisa — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:16:44 -0500

This needs to be modded into the game asap.

Bounty Hunter = Ryu from Street Fighter.

Stumbleupon!

Jello — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:10 -0500

I can't believe I've never used this website/app before. I am loving it.

Pity the Lurzmog

Lurzmog — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:44:34 -0500

I only have to complete I Pitied the Fool to finish off Long Strange Trip. w00T! Problem is, I need at least one other person to make a raid group in order do the Naxxramas one and it's been quiet as cupcakes on the WN side of the fence lately. Strangely, I can't seem to get anyone in /1 or /2 to party up with me to do it either. So, if any of you on Team Whitebread have a spare moment during the holiday and can log into a Horde alt long enough to form a party and wait for me to hearth to Dal, fly to Naxx and /pity a stupid puppet I would be eternally grateful. If I'm not on when you log in, ping me on the forums or via email (spencer -at- spencercross.com) and I can be on in a heartbeat.