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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Irritants

A couple of things are mildly irritating me at the moment, not badly, more in a scratchy wool jumper kind of way. Please forgive me for a whinge post, it’s just how I’m feeling at the moment. Ninjas, there’s a fair bit of ninjaing going on in WoW at the moment, tagging mobs, “stealing” quest [...]

Overcooked

Flowersz has been questing in Howling Fjord and is not only 3% off level 71. I spent far far too many hours playing WoW this weekend. Far far far too many hours. Almost all of that time has been spent solo questing except for a couple of groups doing the daily pirate bombing exercise. Blizzard [...]

Dissapointing

Got the new expansion, went to Howling Fjord. Quested, vendored all the quest rewards, wearing better than that (well after the enchants anyway). Don’t think I’ve died once. Flogged all the gems from prospecting the Cobalt for a decent sum. Sunday evening I got invited into the Nexus, pulled aggro a bit too much, wiped [...]

Gone Fishing

I’ve been fishing a lot lately with Flowersz, an awful lot. She’s now fishing at somewhere around 290 and can actually do the Fishing Dailys. Unfortunately there’s absolutely no way she’ll be able to fish in Northrend at this level.

Well wouldja believe it!

Some peeps really are sad enough to inspect your gear in the towns, I’ve not got any screenies, just a ChatLog, so you’ll have to trust me. Flowersz is in Shatt on her HH Mount, doing nothing much, I’m looking something up on the web probably… When I get back to the ‘puter. I see [...]

Recovery Room

OK, here’s the macro I’m building to recover quickly from an emergency Reincarnate. Remember this is that Oh Shit moment you’ve been saving all those cooldowns that you never end up using for. I’ve got my macro’s bound to two keys, 1. use all the trinkets and immediate spells 2. to execute a cast sequence [...]

Oops

Not the first oops post, this one is because I’ve noticed a couple of problemettes with the macros in my fortcoming “recovery room” post. Good Job I tested them. I’ve had another couple of ideas since this weekend, so I’ll be jumping off the Aldor Terrace at least once more The things I do for [...]

Monday

Monday morning post, traditional roundup of a boring weekend. Whee! Flowersz ran her first successful heroic. Yeah, I know it’s a bit late in the day to celebrate running the easiest heroic there is, but there you go – she’s never completed a heroic. We did wipe a couple of times on trash, but the [...]

What to do when you’re given a second chance at life.

Nice title! Actually I’m thinking about my post-reincarnate raid recovery program. You know how it is, a nasty piece of AOE catches you with low health and suddenly you’re flat on your back looking at two buttons: Release and Reincarnate Rule 1: don’t press Release just yet. OK, so we’ve completed that bit successfully (and [...]

Earth Shield, Hex Lord Malacrass and why thinking is better than bad statistics.

Here’s the results of a Chain Heal cast time analysis from a Hex Lord Malacrass fight where I cast Earth Shield on myself during the Spirit Bolt phase. average cast times: no damage:2.475 taking damage with ES:2.733 extra time taken to cast: 0.258 %age extra cast time during damage: 10-13% %age extra cast time during [...]