Theatre Rice Plays WoW

ah nubs

2008-04-18T00:15:00.000-07:00

grinding in w. plaguelands... 53 lock... noticed i couldn't see the soul link buff even thou she had a fel guard out (i should be able to see it, right?)... whatever, gank. waited a while, no soul stone, figured she didn't want to rez with me lurking... i finish a cauldron quest, she rezzes, continues grinding... when she gets to 0 mana... doesn't life tap (nearing 100% health at this point)... starts wanding... still hadn't tap'd by the time i killed her again a minute later...

later i'm in ab... get out to bs first, stealth before i'm in los of any allies... sure enuf, a lone mage comes along. he starts capping so i sap and cap... i'm a couple sec in when my pally teammate runs up... sees me capping, sees the mage... and whadda ya know, opens up on the mage. needless to say my cap was interrupted. -_-

gah.

glargh

2008-04-17T00:13:00.001-07:00

man i hate wsg. tried it again for the daily on kotonoha... long game that we lost 3-2, walked away with ~150 honor -_-. boo on that i say.

i've been uber retarded and didn't pick up the welfare rare pvp set from the rep vendors when it came out. today i finally did so, got a better chest and shoulders... up to 290 resilience too!

figures that as kotonoha is prepping to enter outland that i get the itch to heal... ugh... nayuki isn't even past 30 and lvling shadow of course... guess it'll be awhile before i go disc priest...

1 nub to pwn them all

2008-04-13T00:52:00.000-07:00

well, kotonoha just dinged 58, been working on her honor and ab marks to get a hw weapon at 60... think ima continue with my nub shs ambush ganker spec and get the dagger...

meef got his pants... speaking of arena, we need some games soon huh...

Under my nubrella, nub, nub, nub...

2008-04-10T13:36:00.001-07:00

Here's a funny post that my non-WoW friends wouldn't get.

A new kind of umbrella promises to keep you drier while you fiddle with your cell phone, handbag or briefcase.

The Nubrella is a big plastic dome that rests on your shoulders.

Yep. Nubrella is about right.

well that was a load of crap

2008-03-31T22:55:00.000-07:00

so yeah, i clicked on the npc to complete the quest... nothing happened... clicked a couple more times... gettin worried... clicked accept on arena queue... game locked up, puter locked up. had to force power off >_<

grrrr

oh well, at least we got 10.

Calling all cowchans

2008-03-14T22:10:00.000-07:00

K Meef and I are on right now. I think we can get our 7 games in. Lemme know if you'll be free any time between now and tuesday. Also, meef has to leave on Wednesday so I think I'll get 3 games in with him on Tuesday night .

Trust No One

2008-03-10T14:05:00.000-07:00

If you can't trust wowhead, who can you trust? Wowhead has some kind of trojan ad shit? Thank god I adblock, and run a mac, but even so this is scary shit.

Needless to say, I'm batshit paranoid. And without wowhead, I don't even think I could complete a cooking daily. If anyone needs me I'll be killing boars... I just have to find them first.

cowchaaaaan

2008-03-01T23:22:00.000-08:00

7 down, 3 to go. you gonna be on before tues?

zuru furakku

2008-02-29T14:25:00.000-08:00

Anyone really bored and want to run kotonoha thru zf? ^_^;

I have a billion quests and it'd be nice if i could get that wolf helm.

As always, lemme know if you need meef to run anythin for ya.

p.s. we haven't done any arena this week have we?

農民

2008-02-15T10:08:00.000-08:00

So I finally got my gloves, weapon, and cloak enchanted. Luckily I had shards in the bank for savagery... yeebus that shit is expensive.

'cuz of that i've gotten back into questin and bombing shits... which in turn got me thinking about getting that skyguard cross trinket... 10k rep to go ;_;

you guys seen the patch notes i assume? can't wait for frikkin real time honor gain! more pvp dailies! no diminishing returns on honor! gift of arthas stacks to 20! ... ... ... oh wait, alchemy still suxxors as a main's profession ;_; i wonder if there's anything worth switching to at this point... mebbe enchanting for ring 'chants? meh so 'spensive to lvl that shit...

anyhow, you fools gonna be on for arena sometime?

la la la

2008-02-11T19:29:00.000-08:00

Never know what you'll run into waiting to rez...

Most exciting end of an AV I've ever been in. We were actually losing 80 to 160 or so... started fighting over mines... it got down to like 20 to 40... then we slowly pecked them to death F T W.

And I got my new gloves recently! woo! I even enchanted them! (well not at the time of the ss...)

Now if Bendyr would just log on we could get this week's arena out of the way...

I'm coming back

2008-01-24T10:48:00.001-08:00

yes, I've said it before, but I'm leveling my lock again. I started grinding around in Nagrand with a felguard grinding build, it was good stuff, but I was getting a bit bored and frustrated with running around with my slow horse. So ... I decided to cheeze my way to to the top ... by killing boars!

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/mob.html?wmob=21195

There's an NPC there who will heal you ... so I specced destro / nightfall for ultimate grinding speed. I tried hellfire, but the NPC doesn't heal you quickly enough. I'm constantly life tapping, but hey I gained a pretty substantial amount of bars in under a couple of hours.

Also, I played some BG last night, got some rep for one of the daily quests, I was in the top 5 for damage!

Oh yeah, I'm also playing on my work computer, it's a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 gb RAM, with a GeForce 8600M GT with 256 MB of VRAM. Way better than my current set up. I don't end up

I'll put some screenies of my boar culling tonight.

Gold Farmer

2008-01-14T09:38:00.000-08:00

This one's so obvious I'm surprised it hadn't been done before:

Like so many other wow videos, the vocals suck, but the lyrics are amusing enough to keep me interested. Best lines:

If you ain't no nub holler "Master Loot Scrub"
"Master Loot Scrub, yeah!"
It's just something that you need to do
cause when she leaves your group, she's gonna leave with blues.

灼眼のシャナ

2008-01-11T10:12:00.000-08:00

How goes it folks? I haven't been on much lately... suxxors cuz i'm so close to getting a new belt and gloves.

You guys still on a lot? I forget... what times should I aim to be on for arena? For me I usually get home around 7:30 to 8... after work out and stuff it's usually around 9 to 10... so if i do log on, it's generally around then. i don't mind getting matches out of the way though, so just let me know if 7:30ish is a good arena time for either of ya.

Lack of play time has mostly been due to anime recently... the post title is the name of one of the many i'm currently following (shakugan no shana [plot description has some spoilers about half way through]... there's also a manga version i'm reading, and a light novel series (that the whole thing is based off of)... which i'm also reading ^^;;) ...anyone else still keepin' up with anime?

shakugan no shana openings and endings

Thottbot awesome

2008-01-07T08:41:00.000-08:00

Just thought I'd share this little bit of thottbot awesomeness I found while browsing:
http://thottbot.com/i13397

Anyway, I'm back in NYC now, so I'll be available for arena matches at more regular times. I finally got my pally (Calkulon) to level 40, so I think the really crazy AOE grinding can begin.

We do what we can because we must.

2007-12-06T12:55:00.000-08:00

So wowhead links just became a whole lot simpler! Wowhead just released a simple javascript package for blogs, so I've upgraded our template, and it will now create nice popup links for ANY outgoing wowhead item link automatically! If you want to be fancy, you can include the "class" attribute, which will color the links accordingly, and then you use "q1" for common, "q2" for greens, "q3" for blues, "q4" for purps, and "q5" for legendaries.

Non wowhead links are unaffected. It seems a lot faster and cleaner than the old allakhazam links, and it's certainly much easier for us to create. Here are some samples:


<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31109" class="q3" >[Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight]</a>

<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32044" class="q4">[Merciless Gladiator's Shanker]</a>

Becomes:
[Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight]

[Merciless Gladiator's Shanker]

This is also a good time to let you know that I bought my new S3 chestpiece! [Vengeful Gladiator's Leather Tunic]

Sweet Little Lies

2007-12-05T08:29:00.000-08:00

Not exactly a forum, but the comments on this item made me smile.

it's that time again

2007-12-04T23:14:00.000-08:00

screenshots!!!

sooooo sexay

sooooo laaaame

FINALLY! YEEEEEEBUS

Wherefore art thou Slotr...

2007-11-09T09:37:00.000-08:00

So... paid name changes are finally possible on Dragonmaw, and I have a problem. So most of my 70 toons and 29 twinks follow a consistent naming convention. They're all aliases of the Futurama character Bender, with some 'y's and phonetic mispellings thrown in.

Bendyr

Fleckso (another bending unit, who he impersonated on a few occassions)

Coylette (his name when he became a fembot)

Bloto (his alias when he was in the mob)

However the other toon that I play is a 49 druid right now. His name is "Slotr" and the idea was that I was going to earn him a "sergeant" rank before the old honor system went away. That never happened of course, and now he just doesn't fit into my naming scheme.

Obviously I'd like to retain the "Bender" related naming conventions, but I might have to expand the list to general "Futurama-robots". I'm thinking either:

Kalculon

Hedonismbot

TinnyTim

Rodriguez (Bender's last name)

Or I can abandon the robot angle entirely and go with just other Futurama characters/concepts that sound cool for a character:

Elzar

Slurm

Poppler

And I can misspell the names as necessary to get around existing character names. Any thoughts or other ideas?

Update: Thanks Cowchan! How could I have forgotten Superking! So the name change gui seems to hate any name with the word "King" in it, so I had to actually go with "Superklng" (that's a "L" instead of an "I"). I also had to share the "success" picture that they give you when you do a name change, because it's priceless:

dwightshroot, i avenge you!!!

2007-11-04T10:22:00.000-08:00

Couldn't have asked for a better setup. Priest and hunter grinding together, low 30s, finishing up a fight (although I think they were still both ~80%). Ganked both of them in about 2 gcd's. gyoooohohohoho

Got a mage later for good measure.

loot whoring ftw

2007-10-27T01:12:00.000-07:00

so the ubers have been rolling in at a nice rate lately...

new bootzors!

new bracer...zors!!!

and the zos mah gahr lewt of the year... hh helm!

ooo and also the ring! forgot to ss but you get the idea

gyoooooooooooooohohohohohohohohohohohoooooooooooo

now to level kotonoha and pwn bitches in the 40-49 bracket

Farewell, BBQ...

2007-10-21T21:49:00.000-07:00

So yes, after talking it over with Meef, Cowchan shall be taking a leave of absence from the BBQ. I've been sorta recruited into another guild, and the prospect of raiding and no longer having to do full PUGs has brought me over.

This isn't to say that I'm leaving you guys (cuz I'm still totally down with Chicken N ROFLs), but more of an opportunity to expand the BBQ's connections to the WoW universe. But yeah, other than that, nothing has changed, besides the little name that pops up next to my character tooltip when you see me in-game. But as I also don't want the presence of the BBQ to fully die, if you ever see a Pally named Skylaraa walking around, I'm sure she'd appreciate an invite to the guild.

Anyhoo, let's get our arena rankings up, and get us our epix! BBQftw!

wassap

2007-10-15T14:43:00.000-07:00

So what are youfs up to? Any particular ubers being worked on?

I've kinda made it goal to up Meef's pvp prowess and get a decent (i'm hoping 1600+) arena rating. To that end I'm working on a spreadsheet to plan my upgrades... either of you know of an "aep" type rating for warriors (pvp oriented of course)? Just for the hell of it I tried 2xsta, 2xres, 1.5xcrit, 1xap, 1xstr, .2xhit, .1xparry, .3xagi... pretty sure that's not balanced properly though -_-

Kotonoha, Nayuki and Mahanaxar are kinduv on hold for a bit, mostly because I've rolled a mage on a pve server a coworker is playing on (echo isles).

In other gaming news, I've been playing soul calibur 3, portal, halflife 2 (finally completed it!), hl2: ep 1, and geometry wars... so yeah... too many games, too little time...

joining the masses

2007-10-11T11:44:00.000-07:00

So given my reduced playing time and pvp focus, I've decided to respec arms for a while. given my lack of arms pvp experience i'm really sure what i'm doing, but hopefully it'll be an improvement. well... maybe. i have a really shitty sword. it's a green i bought off the ah since i didn't have a 2h sword ;_;

but yeah, some new goodies include ms, deathwish, improved intercept (-10s on cd), piercing howl and second wind... now i just need to gear up with some pvp equipment... and get used to using all these damn new skills. yeebus. smashing ms ever 6 seconds, overpower when i can... trying to remember to pop deathwish when it's up... grargh.... as prot i could just drum my fingers on shield block, revenge and shield slam with an occasional spell reflect or intimidating shout. ^^;

Finally...

2007-10-08T16:45:00.000-07:00

After a long few weeks of blowing my cash on Crystalhide Handwraps and a Vengeance Wrap, I timed it so that my cash flow and my rep with the Skyguard peaked at the same time...
Hells yes. It's about damn time.

Bendyr: DPSer, AFKer, Director!

2007-09-26T10:56:00.000-07:00

So when my Toshley Station transporter malfunctioned yesterday, I was unable to fight or mount up for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It seemed like the perfect time to try the new built-in video capture mechanic in the Mac client. Here is the result:

Toshley Station Transporter Malfunction from infomofo on Vimeo.

It was kinda cool, but the process slowed the framerate a ton. Also, I can't find a place to share the full resolution video. This site vimeo is slightly better than youtube in terms of quality, but it's still not great. In the original source video, you can even read my chat and combat logs.

UPDATE: Found a better site to upload to, and I triggered a cooler debuff this time!

The only problem is it doesn't play well with my firefox and I can't get the embed to size right...

Arena points ftl

2007-09-25T22:17:00.000-07:00

Sadly, after using the new arena point calculator, it'll still be the same amount of time to get my epic crossbow whether we drop to 1300 or jump up to 1500. Crazy, huh? Not to say I'll be slacking off in any arena, but it makes me feel better about having the worst win/loss record on the team.

BTW, has anyone tried the new voice chat yet?

Bendyr は貧乏です。

2007-09-24T09:01:00.000-07:00

With great drops come great expenses :/

I almost had to cry when [Gloves of Dexterous Manipulation] dropped in Kara yesterday. Sure, it was a huge improvement over my blue gloves, but TWO sockets, an enchant, and everything was already going to be a hit on my waning money supply.

Like I said before, whenever I get a certain amount of money, I start buying crap. I was up to 900 gold last week, when I decided for some reason that I needed a [Riding Crop]... Then I saw a [Relentless Earthstorm Diamond] for 100g on the auction house, which in my defense is a steal. And of course, I was buying flask mats and pots and healing potions and repair bills...

I'm down to 300g now... and tomorrow I'll have enough points for my [Merciless Gladiator's Bonecracker], which I know I should be really happy about, but all I can think about it how much those Mongoose mats are going to set me back...

If anyone needs me, I'll be at the Orgrimmar Blood Bank.

Fel mana potions...

2007-09-16T19:23:00.001-07:00

So the FelManaPots are not ftw, nor are they ftl. I've found out that indeed, they do not affect my Mend Pet, and the loss of damage on Arcane shot is fairly minimal. Indeed, it seems to be a good fit if you're a hunter going against someone and you know you're gonna run out of mana...like being overhealed, but only with mana.

It does, however, affect your global potion cooldown, so once you pop a FMP, you have to wait the usual cooldown if you wanna down a Super Mana Potion. FMP gives you more, but it's not all at once. So it's very conditionally cool, depending on the circumstances.

I also spent a crapload of my honor to get these lovely little boots, which I makes me feel more uber than before.

Other than that, I'm still holding out in Arena points for my XBow, and I can never (probably due to my strange student schedule) find a group to do the last Ogrila prereq I need or the crazy boss grind to get up to summoning Terokk. Alas, someday the epic flying mount shall be mine...

Stealthing IRL

2007-09-14T09:57:00.000-07:00

I often begrudge the fact that we didn't have cool technology like the internet, iPods, and what have you growing up. However, when I see videos like this I'm a little relieved, because... this would totally have been me 12 years ago, had Warcraft and YouTube been available.

Fel Mana Potions for Cowchan?

2007-09-14T07:35:00.001-07:00

I never really got the point of the "Fel" potions. The one for HP seemed like too big of a tradeoff for a dpser like myself, so I never got it. The Fel Mana Potion restores a ton of mana, but reduces spell dmg and +healing for 15 minutes. However, a really interesting thread on wowinsider pointed out that there's pretty much no downside for hunters using the Fel Mana Potion.

Most of the hunter's shots are barely affected by spell dmg anyway, and the -healing effect doesn't even affect Mend Pet! You basically get 2 mana pots on separate cooldown timers with pretty much no downside...

OP!

Battling the heat

2007-09-10T00:50:00.000-07:00

So you guys have been subject to my terrible video card's heat issues. On the bright side I think I may have found the problem -- for some reason or other, the power I was supplying to my new heat sink's fan was no good. I went back to pluggin the fan into a separate computer's mobo and my card has been acting a helluva lot better.

Here's what I've been goin thru... [click for full size versions]

nut so great.

bendyr saves my ass.

not a good way to start a match...

doh!

kotonoha has evolved to chocobo knight!

2007-09-07T00:25:00.000-07:00

woo! finally hit 40 with another character on this server. kotonoha has been birded.

the gut ripper is equipped.

eat dagger alliance bitches!

With great ubers comes great responsibility

2007-09-06T07:08:00.000-07:00

So I decided to try out a few Kara runs with a friend's raiding guild. Things were pretty tough the first day, but the second day I got the hang of it a little more and I even topped the dps charts on The Curator! I was rewarded for my efforts with [Garona's Signet Ring]

So, it's been pretty fun, and the guild I ran with was kind of in a good phase for me to get in; they've run Kara a few times, but they're still gearing up for the bigger raids, so they're cool with me not really being familiar with the encounters yet. I've decided I'm going to join up with them for the time being and see where that goes.

In the meantime, I've passed the mantle of guild leadership onto Meef. I'll still be around and available for 2v2 arenas (with better gear even), so make sure to free up a slot on your Friends List for me.

P.S. Oh, and since you're going to find out in-game anyway, my new guild's name is "Team Ramrod"... Please don't /point or /lol next time you run into me in Org...

P.P.S. My decision to drop Mutilate was totally validated by the Kara run too. Sooo many poison immune mobs and fights where I can't choose my position would have made me a sad Panda. A sad Panda with DPS below the tank, more than likely.

A dangerous new meme...

2007-08-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

Bel airing, Rickrolling, and facepalming are suddenly too on-the-nose... Is the new forum meme going to be South Carolining?

I personaly believe that the reason most combat rogues do not take blade twisting is because some rogues don't have weapons. I believe that these weapons such as warlock and the druid such as and I think the dagger rogues in wow should help the warlocks and the such as druids so we will be able to build up a better rogue comunnity.

Thank you for your candor.

A change of plans

2007-08-28T19:27:00.001-07:00

So I got my Main Hand Arena weapon! I also respec'd Combat Maces, which is a more PVP oriented spec, since i'm not instancing as much as I used to. Hopefully this will work out better!

Uh, what should I do, guys?

2007-08-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

So I've been planning on going towards 5/5 Beast Lord as we slowly rack up Arena points, but if I buy something soon, I'd say I'd get [Merciless Gladiator's Chain Gauntlets]

since they give the Multi-shot boost, and also since out of the three pieces of BL set, the gloves drop in SH, and I hate doing SH, while I actually like doing SV (where Kalithresh drops the other 2). So, that's if I wanna drop the points now.

But I'm also ignorant of all sorts of WoW stuff, including Arena ish. So assuming I get to carry my points over from S2 to S3, and assuming that there's a drop in price of S2 gear, and since there aren't a whole lot of weapon upgrades I can get from non-raid instances, I'd say maybe I'd save up and go for [Merciless Gladiator's Crossbow of the Phoenix]

So whadda you guys think?

merciless shield wall

2007-08-21T23:42:00.000-07:00

gyohoho!

[Merciless Gladiator's Shield Wall]

it is mine! now i just need an chant... think ima go for more shield block value for kicks...

i can now crit for ~1k with shield slam! gyohohohoho

Arena musings...

2007-08-21T13:37:00.000-07:00

The ROFL went 5-5 again this week, which makes me think we've hit a kind of equilibrium around 1350. This may be about as well as we can expect to do until we get some better gear, or maybe touch up our spec's a bit. That being said, the points from this week should put me at about 2500 something, so I'm definitely going to get my [Merciless Gladiator's Shanker] next week, which should definitely make me a little more dangerous.

However, after reading all these people qqing about warlocks in arenas on the forum, I have to wonder if we're a weird group, or if 2v2 is just that different. I don't really think Warlocks give us that much grief. As we usually single them out as our primary targets, and they're cloth, we usually take them out before they can get a full dot rotation off (not counting those crazy tier 6 epix warlocks we somehow get matched with on occasion). As a rule, I think my "most hated" classes in our 2v2 games are:

Paladins

Hunters

Mages

I wish that the arena would give us some breakdowns of the teams that we've lost against and their class makeups. Maybe I'll start jotting these down myself...

Wot, no Arena Points?

2007-08-11T12:47:00.000-07:00

So I'm flying to London today for work! I'll be there and in Edinburgh until next Sunday. Meef and I already got in our 5 games, so Cow, try to sync up with Meef and get the rest of the 10 games in before Tuesday. I am bringing my laptop to london, but i dunno how much I'll get to play, but in either case I'll be back next Sunday to get in my minimum 3 games for the following week. Woot!

QQ

2007-08-06T11:54:00.000-07:00

The word on the street is that Season 3 weapons will actually require a specific arena rating to purchase (the number being thrown around is 1900). This was supposedly confirmed at blizzcon, but I haven't found a blue post to back it up... Still, it seems like it's happening.

Oh well, I guess now I don't have to agonize over whether or not to purchase the s2 dagger this late in the season.

UPDATE: Here's the exact quote from the wowinsider blizzcon transcript:

4:33pm: Because weapons aren't as distingushed against raid gear (players were raiding, and just doing arenas for the weapons), there's going to be a rating requirement to buy a weapon-- can't just save points, have to do well to get the weapon.

Argh, I feel like this punishes melee classes more than casters. For casters, weapons are really just glorified armor pieces. For melee classes, the arena weps are a significant dps boost over anything else that's accessible without raiding.

/tar Other Blog; /cast Pickpocket; /cast Vanish

2007-08-02T10:43:00.000-07:00

So, I was browsing some other wow blogs at work, and I saw this blogspot had javascript and css that was pretty cool for having mouseoverable wowhead links. I thought I'd use my crazy Rogue skills and ninja the code, so here we go:

[Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight]

[Merciless Gladiator's Shanker]

Hoping this works, if you want to include wow-links like this in the future, use this code:


<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=31109" class="rare" onmouseover="showWowitem(event,31109);" onmouseout="hideWowitem();">[Stealther's Helmet of Second Sight]</a>

<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32044" class="epic" onmouseover="showWowitem(event,32044);" onmouseout="hideWowitem();"">[Merciless Gladiator's Shanker]</a>

Plug in a new link, item number, name, and class, and it should work!

And the award for "most improved" goes to...

2007-07-30T22:56:00.000-07:00

Chicken and ROFLs! We got a very respectable 7-3 record this week, pulling our rating up to 1401! That should net us a clean 236 points this week, which will put me with 1000 points of my uber daggerness!

Gentlemen, i think we're getting better at this... or they're getting worse.

grack

2007-07-18T22:15:00.000-07:00

well, so just some crap fyi

1) i've been in a seminar thing in sf all week so my schedule is all crap and don't really have much internet access during the day -_-
2) going home this weekend and next weekend since my sister got into davis med school and i need to get my dad's truck back.
3) epic mount roxxors and totally kicks ass for quests... of course... now i'm almost out of quests (well, prolly still 1-3 more weeks of netherstorm at my current rate). still, for dailies it just makes them that much faster.
4) netherdrake quests suck big ass.
5) got an awesome tenacious earthstorm diamond for my helm from the steamvaults completion quest

5) now that my income has been freed up, lemme know what kinda crap ya need. tomes, signets, diamonds, pots, etc.
6) should i get a gut ripper for kotonoha? eeeehehehehe

new rides

2007-07-14T16:44:00.000-07:00

at long last.....

epicccccc mouuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!

and another new mount...

much gold and real money ;_;

time to farm...

Improvements of all kinds

2007-06-18T21:39:00.000-07:00

After going 0-10 our first week, we got a 5-5 record for the week! BBQ FTW!

In PVE news, I finally got exalted with the Keepers of time, leading to this epic dagger! I had to drop all my gold to get Mongoose, but it is worth it, non? Don't ask about the glow, though...

Weeeeee!

2007-05-26T04:05:00.001-07:00

So after questing around Shadowmoon last night, and getting ganked twice by a stupid druid, Meef invited the new guy Steve into the guild, who then proceeded to follow me around to make sure the druid was backing off. When Meef logged, I was a mere 5 kills away from dinging. But fortunately Hallisy was around to help me out and rejoice in the moment.

Then tonight, after a delayed real-world event that kept me off the comp for nearly the entire day, I managed to scrounge up enough dough to go shopping. It was a tough decision to pick a color for the flying mount, but alas, one have to make tough decisions sometimes.

Weeeeeee!!!!!!!!! No more having to run all the way around stupid terrain anymore! The Cow is airborne!

WOOOT

2007-05-25T09:32:00.000-07:00

So, if you saw me on sometime in the last two days and I totally ignored you, don't take it personally. I've just been singlemindedly grinding engineering ever since the patch hit, and between last minute desperate mining runs and humiliating defeats at the Auction House, I finally scraped together all the mats to get [Deathblow X-11 Goggles], my first crafted epic!. It's kind of atrocious that I went through all that and wouldn't spring for the Blue gem... but after dropping over 400g on the mats for my helm, spending another 70 on the Jagged Talasite seemed too painful...

Here's a screenshot of how it looks on me, plus my new sexy ACE gui.

So, since that whole thing I need to do some quests to get my finances back in order. I'm out of the country for the long weekend (AMSTERDAM, BABY), but I definitely want to start doing the prereqs for Ogri'La and Shatari Skyguard, as I can get an awesome trinket and bracers from them. As always, Black Morass and Shadow Labs runs I need muchly. The new 70 lock can help a lot in both cases; Locks can Offtank in Black Morass and their CC will make clearing that nasty room in Shadow Labs a lot easier.

additions

2007-05-25T01:04:00.000-07:00

so you may notice a new 70 lock in the guild... he randomly wanted in because of our awesome name. not sure how long he's gonna stay or anything (he's been raiding, former guild downed magtherion recently, and his gear is pretty pimp) or if he seriously wants to remain with us, but i figured what the hell. he can be dwight's role model :D

screenshot dump

2007-05-21T23:31:00.000-07:00

just summore random bbq happenings...

cow took kotonoha on a quick tour of sfk and sm graveyard. no torturing poker, but i did score some watchman pauldrons!
cow also got kotonoha her poisons! woooo!
later i was goofing off in the sm graveyard also...
today i actually ran shadow labs twice. both times were with members of the strange box guild... though strangely enuf with different members each time. they're good folks and we mopped up the place. leggings of assassination dropped twice, but no bold in sight. oh well, completed the quests and got a fat wad of cash out of it.
my questing in shadowmoon has been slow but steady... unfortunately i'm again left with a huge chunk of group quests... where are you bbqers? :P
i hate fighting elementals so much. damn unmitigated damage. well, i guess in that respect earth elementals are ok... but lotsa them have other annoying abilities -_- knockdownsplitupondeath bastards...
also ran botanica a while back... again, no bold armor, but it was fun to get to know the instance.

slowly climbing toward my epic mount. at this rate maybe i'll have it by winter... ^^;;;

if you're looking for bbq activity:
--meef needs group questing help and/or any bc instance run. and be sure to lemme know if you need a run to gear up an alt or somethin.
--kotonoha could really use a new dagger. a torturing poker would be nice (boss in sm graveyard, 5% drop, but it will prolly take only about 3-5 minutes per attempt). swinetusk shank from rfk would also be a nice offhand upgrade.
--nayuki could use a couple runs thru sfk :D

Better Living Through Mediocrity

2007-05-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

So... First off, Meef and I created a 2v2 Arena team, with the epic name "Chicken and ROFLs"; Cow, Dwight, go see Meef and get added as alternates to the charter. Second off, we suck. We actually went 0-10 yesterday. Of course, we are both heavily PVE spec'd and geared, and we really just wanted to get our 10 games in to get our points. At our ranking of about 1345, we will still get about 250 arena points for this week. Coupled with the crappy 3v3 team i joined (about a 1400 ranking), I will get over 500 arena points for the week.

According to this point calculator here, if I were to join a similarly mediocre 5v5 team, and earn a fairly horrible 1300 rating each week, I would still rake in over 900 arena points a week. By maintaining a 1300 ranking in each bracket, I'll be able to afford the Gladiator's Shanker in just 3 weeks. Even if my teams get even worse and I only get an 1000 rating in each bracket, I still get the dagger in 4 weeks, according to the calculator.

I mean... sure, having a shitty arena ranking in 3 brackets will hurt the e-peen, and will make me more hesitant to link my armory profile in external forums, but hey, epix is epix. Why didn't I discover mediocrity sooner?

UPDATE: J has shattered my dreams. Apparently you can only get points for one bracket at a time, so my numbers are all off. If I was on a 5v5 team that maintained a 1300, I could get the shanker in 7 weeks. If i maintain a 1000, it goes up to 9 weeks. Blech. I'll stick with PVE i guess...

PASS THE EVADE BUG PLEASE

2007-05-06T21:54:00.000-07:00

YES I LIKE IT WHEN MOBS EVADE BUG

AND IF YOU LIKE MOBS THAT EVADE BUG THEN DO THIS QUEST, IT WILL BE YOUR FAVORITE EVER

source: comment on alla

heheh, thank goodness it didn't happen to me while i was doing that already insane quest.

As if My Wallet Wasn't Already a Dark Portal

2007-05-04T08:11:00.001-07:00

So, not satisfied with infiltrating my waking life, sleeping habits, and social life, Blizzard has now set its sights on invading my wallet. They're now offering a WoW Rewards Visa. The offer is pretty much:

1% cashback in the form of WoW playtime credit

1 month of WoW free upon your first purchase

0% APR balance transfer blah blah blah

Recycled box-art, lazily passed off as credit card design

The offer is pretty crappy, considering that you can get more than 1% cashback on some cards in ACTUAL CASH, and the balance transfer is the usual scam, but I may sign up just for the one free month of WoW... I would be less meh if the artwork was actually good, but most of it is just the same old crap from the boxes.

すっきりした！

2007-04-30T00:57:00.000-07:00

so i have roughly a billion screenshots... and some big (meef) news!

kinduva an old one from zangar... evidently this is how the world pvp tower capture battles go...
ahhh good 'ol... underbog? or wait slave pens? bah, whatever. damn crabs.i come for you bastard giant!Mennu betrays no more
i'm sooo glad no one frikkin fell off the platform. how do you recover from that anyway?

kinduva neato quest (well, mob at least) i duo'd with bendyr. guess that's the closest i'll ever get to tanking sapphiron. this is that one in the bone wastes...
always make sure to have a strat
more bbq questin :D spider huntin fun no you can't have a pit lord, i don't care if he followed you home. ... ... ... warlocks never listen.
sooo glad we got our caverns of time attunement quest out of the way. i love this place.cow took offense to the human jokes hahathrall is my hero.
you guys remember hindwes? i think that was the name of the 'cna i cmoe?' hunter. he invited me to a mana tombs group. then before they summoned me, the priest dropped and hindwes couldn't find another healer (after like 5 minutes) so he dropped. So we picked up two guys and rocked the place. man i was so happy when he dropped.
i think i like mana tombs. too bad i got no loot >_<
shadowmoon valley is rock. ok, sure it's all dark and burnt black, which would put it in the blasted lands/hellfire peninsula category, but man, all this shit's goin down and it actually feels like a war zone. it's great. and what the hell is this c'thun looking thing doing here.

this is an awesome area, right near the zone entrance. basically a holding area for the infernals.but they obviously didn't count on the bbq!
so yeah, i was running around shadowmoon since i was real close... eventually 28 xp close...one kill later... woooo!!!
and the best for last... *sob* take my money you bitchwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bel Air'd

2007-04-26T12:22:00.000-07:00

OK. THIS is my new favorite thread evar. For those of you unaware, there is a meme called "belairing" on the wow forums, where someone will make a post with an extremely controversial title (this one in particular has the incredible name of "Rogues shouldn't be able to restealth"), in which a poster will make some outlandish claim in a wall of text, and somewhere in that wall of text will be the lyrics to the "Fresh Prince" theme, verbatim. Most of the time it gets caught right away, but it is amazing when people fall for it, and start crying about the OP when it is clear that they didn't even read the whole thing.

The thread I've linked is particularly artful. The OP also manages to sneak in "rediculous", another good forum meme. The thread goes on for six or seven pages, and even after many people had complimented the OP on his successful trolling, many people added to the thread talking about what a bad idea it was. Some complainers went so far as to QUOTE the entire original post, which was particularly awesome. I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought "nah, forget it", yo homes to Bel-Air!

In conclusion, check it out.

UPDATE: Blue, in their infinite wisdom, have deleted fun... still, Google Cache FTW here.

Gank Frank

2007-04-23T10:32:00.000-07:00

OK, some sweet forum awesomeness here. Someone used some crazy modeling to make a pretty awesome shot by shot re-enactment of Kill Bill, with a WoW themage on it. Check it out. My favorite scene so far:

"What I'm talking about is...this council, which I love more than my own sweet epics..."

"IS MAKING A HALF-NINJA, HALF-PIRATE WHINEY EMO KID IT'S LEADER!!!"

"Just so you understand how serious I am, I will say this to you in Common."

Hehe. Also, some of the scenes look really cool, like they've been traced over or something. I'm not really sure how they achieved this effect, but it's pretty slick; I think some of them might be hand-drawn art mixed in with screencaps and modelviewer generated bluescreen stuff:

Check it out.

curse you sethekk halls!

2007-04-21T01:57:00.000-07:00

so i just had my first sethekk halls pug. ugh. well no, ya know, it was actually a good group. we had no problems with our pally, mage, lock and hunter. in fact, i think the group organizer purposely chose the group to have all ranged damage and maximum cc. the hunter was a bit of a tard, but hey, at least he was dpsing.

but anyhow, so yeah, no problems, we downed the first boss, make it to the 2nd and final boss with only 1 wipe (in fact, it was that last damn 5 elite pull). ...then we wipe. then we wipe again. then we wipe again... and again. and again? i forget. after like 4-6 wipes the pally was red and left. we get a 69... shadow priest. with no pure healing gear >_< well i lie, she had healing gloves... from bf i think. (those surgeon mitts, wherever they're from) but everything else was dmg crit gear. hell she still had her pvp trinket on. so we wipe the first time since she'd never been thru... then FINALLY down the boss.

ugh. lessons i learned:
1> pallies can main heal... except through boss aoe damage ;_;
2> Talon King Ikiss is a bitch
3> ikiss is a fucker
4> fucking RUN after ikiss blinks
5> everyone should run to the SAME pillar
6> ikiss casts his damn aoe arcane bolts after every blink, so make sure you can take 1-2k dmg
7> ikiss is an ass
8> a prot warrior and a holy pally can take ikiss down from 60% to 37% by themselves.
9> ikiss is a bitch

On the bright side i got a sexay plate belt (although not a tanking one ;_;) and finished the two quests outside, which netted me an awesome 93 dps polearm and a 40 sta, +def neck.

in other news a fucking dwarf shadow priest tried to gank me outside of the maghar city thing in nagrand. but i fuckin killed him!!! gyooohohohoho! prot ftw. i even missed a chance to spell reflect a mind blast.

Death to Alliance

2007-04-16T02:02:00.000-07:00

So I was doing a quest outside of Strattrath when a warp lizard attacked me ... not a big deal ... until a 69 human warrior decided to join the lizard ...

HAHA I was triumphant ... and the 3669 soulfire crit sure helped out too ...

State of the Meef

2007-04-02T12:06:00.000-07:00

Just a little update of my shits:

Meef - currently questing in Zangarmarsh. Mushroom swamp >>>>>>>>>> red boringness. Still haven't run any of the instances, although I haven't gotten any quests for them yet either.

Nayuki - my shadow priest is still running around without mindflay ;_; 2 more lvls i think? I think i have some sort of quest in ... deathholme or something? if someone wants to run me thru that lemme know.

Iroha - my combat rogue needs more talent points.

Kotonoha - she's gonna be my ambushing specialist for gank mastery. not even 10 yet ;_; needs ginvite.

I guess it's no mystery why my shit is progressing so slowly ^^;;; lvling 4 characters ftl

currently on hold:
Tsukikaji - moonfire!
Yamapikarya - hunter
Mahanaxar - warlock
Nyohoho - shaman

war stories

2007-03-29T12:45:00.000-07:00

although i was utterly ineffective in ab, there were some good moments in wsg...

once i actually ran the flag back and got a cap. man, being prot is actually kinda cool for pvp. generally i don't get to kill anything, but i can act as a tank of sorts... rushing in and wasting unsuspecting players' time as they try and whittle me down. improved shield bash is awesome cuz i can silence damn mages running around aoe'ing. 5s stun is also uber. oh and the rogues... i was really mean to one and popped shield wall, and then put up shield block and everything else... he was hitting me for 4-15. ^_^ but yeah, running the flag back and being able to take a beating is pretty awesome.

damn druids and wsg. they get to be uber flag carrying tanks if they want to or virtually snare immune cat rockets. plus heals, their own snares and moonfire. ok, so i threw in moonfire for no reason, but still.

another time we were on our last cap and i noticed no one was at our base, so i went and hid in the little cubby by the flag. sure enough, some pally came by to snatch the flag and my uber tanking skills delayed him for like a minute until finally a hunter showed up and we finished him off ftw. seriously though, staying alive for more than 5 seconds is awesome. my priest gets no such love. -_-

priest: (can_kill_target) ? (victoly : (fearWorked ? dieIn15seconds : dieIn5seconds))
warrior: (can_kill_target) ? ( victoly : (buddiesShowUpInAMinute ? victoly : doh))

yatta!!!

2007-03-29T01:20:00.000-07:00

ahh the gulch... i return with one goal... stupid tokens...

i see my skillz have not improved...

but i strive for victory!

at long last, i have saved enuf! i require a new vehicle!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!

so close!

2007-03-27T01:30:00.000-07:00

1 AB && 11 WSG trinkets away...

jyaaaan!

2007-03-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

well, so i wanted to add the labels list thingy to the side bar and to do that i needed to upgrade the template to the latest and greatest. in so doing the old changes to the blog template were lost, however i tried to put them back as best i could.

if anything's missing, go ahead and add it back or lemme know. you can look at the old template in the template tab i think.

in other news, i have enuf g for my mount! now i just need to pvp for some tokens. think ima get a red horse. gyohoho

Adventures in Outland

2007-03-26T00:29:00.000-07:00

Yes ... the outlands are great fun. Just a few pics from the adventures ...

Yes ... I now have Nightfall AND Backlash which means 4% chance for an insta shadow bolt on a Drain Life or Corruption tick and a 25% chance insta shadow bolt on getting hit by the enemy. I had some great encounters against allies trying to killing me and having backlash and nightfall proc at the same time. This lead to a huge chain of insta cast nastiness: Conflagrate + Nightfall Shadow Bolt + Backlash Shadow Bolt + Shadowburn + Death Coil ... they never knew what hit em ...

Me GUSTA La Armería (Dame mas Armería)

2007-03-25T20:03:00.000-07:00

Hola from Peru, and Muchos Grácias a Meef para keeping me updatado en los happenings. I would be going through la withdrawal de WoW right now, were it not for his frequent updates (and the abundance of Coca Tea in this beautiful country).

However, I'm disappointado to inform you that my attempts to stalk you all via the armory have been foiled by a massive language barrier:

Though I did at one point receive a "Cinco" in AP Spanish, that was a long time ago, and my vocab never included stuff like "Aguante" (Stamina) and "Escarcha" (Frost¿). I suppose I'll have to wait til I get back to properly check y'all out.

BTW, I'm about a half hour outside of Machu Piichu, and not only is the internet cafe I'm using to write this ALSO a Chifa (Chinese Restaurant), but they have Vista on every machine. Just weird.

my helm kicks your helm's ass

2007-03-25T18:36:00.000-07:00

yepyep, got me a mining helm. it's uber.

check me... uhh pick these flowers... -_-

this was my final hfp quest! wooooo! so long stupid red boringness!!!

ralax, lemme know if ya need me to finish this one, basically same as killing those giants (except this one has a huge knockback). gyooohohoho! meef has now surpassed my priest!

bffffft

2007-03-23T10:45:00.000-07:00

so last nite i made my first voyage to bf with meef... and tanked for the first time ^^;;

so yeah, things were going fine... until mutant jellyfish man... broggok is he? blegh. shoulda read up on the encounters more. first time we wiped on the last group of guys... restarted... then we got a group and 2 guys bugged out!!! we couldn't target them! it was utter crap. we figured it might have been because the shaman dropped his totems too close to the unopened gate... poop.

so we wipe a little more, the mage logs -- but to get his 67 priest! so now we're running with 2 shadow priests... and... we wipe again. -_- i woulda quit earlier except the perseverance of the group was refreshing. finally, on our second attempt with the higher lvl priest, we downed the bastard... and got a gun... poooo

well, thankfully after that cockblock we were able to finish the zone off

yay tanking trinkets!

in other news, wholy hell, look at the awesome buff you get *when you gather* dreamingglory!

so awesome. just gotta find more spawn points...

finally... gralax has an awesome hat.

newbers

2007-03-22T10:43:00.000-07:00

gyohoho! bc questing ftw. finaaaaaally got rid of some old shit!

so long woven ivy necklace!

no more white bone band and masons fraternity ring!

errr ok, so they're pally gloves. but they're still better than my sunscale gauntlets. <_<

>6k hp!!! now i just need to up all my other tanking stats. heh.

anyone want to run to the brd bar sometime? i want to turn in this damn quest. haha

Dreadsteed ... argh

2007-03-21T08:48:00.000-07:00

This is a bit of a pain to get now ... but hopefully it will be easy if I get a little help here are the mats I need:

10 Elixirs of Shadow Power (J do you have the recipe? If not I'll buy it for you and the mats)
35 black dragon scales (Is one of us a skinner?)
6 Large Brilliant Shards (I'll take care of this)
25 Dark Iron Ore
3 Arcanite Bars
Some time to do some instances and quests ...

Hoo boy this is gonna be a trip ...

wowemon

2007-03-20T18:14:00.000-07:00

hehehe

Re: Mysterious unhatched egg?

Detridinn: What am i suppose to do with this thing am i suppose to hatch it if so how if not and if its for a quest what one and also if its for cooking what do i need please help me!

Ningen: After you take 5000 steps with the egg in your backpack, it will hatch into a Togepi.

Detridinn: wtf ppl im serious what am i suppose to do

Raheven: Its actually a Netherdrake egg... These things are worth like 3000g on the AHs of some servers...

Ningen: Once you have Togepi, you just have to use it regularly in fights. Once it becomes content with its trainer, it will evolve into Togetic!

Congratulations on your new Pokemon!

Mom: Togetic sucks.

Ningen:
Your the kind of player who runs around with a Charizard and 4 Dragonites, right?

Go diaf you PokevPoke scrub.

Siebzehn, Säugling

2007-03-15T12:48:00.000-07:00

Hit 70 on Sunday after some crazy questing, but I was too lazy to post until now. I also picked up my epic riding mount; I felt like the only level 70 without one, so I felt like I had to get one. Of course, now I'm the only lv 70 without a flying mount, so I'll be saving my pennies for that now... sigh.

I also did a total revamp of my UI and addons. Cut my memory usage down by almost half, and it looks pretty slick. I'll add some screenshots when I get home.

So... Meef and Dwight still both need a Ramparts run. You guys wanna set something up for tonight or maybe Sunday? I'll probably be massively hungover Sunday, so an instance 10 levels below me will be about my speed.

NOTE: Also I was bored at work so I put labels on the last 50 posts of our blog or so. Yeah...

Update?

2007-03-04T10:09:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, I haven't seen anyone online or anything and was just wondering how everyone's doing. I haven't played a whole lot, but I did get my epic 60 mount, (kodos ftw!) and am now a hair away from 63. I know Bendyr has been leveling like crazy and is probably already 70 or some crap now, but yeah, what's up, BBQ?

I'm back!

2007-02-09T13:29:00.000-08:00

I know I've been absent for a while, but I'm back baby! Expect to see me online more often, usually in the evenings from 10pm - 1am.

I did some leveling this week and I'm up to 56 1/2 from 54! Hopefully I'll hit 57 by Monday.

In terms of my status:

I switched up my talent build from an Affliction build to a Burst Damage Destruction build.
My tailoring is at 297 ... so I'm very close to using all of Bendyr's spare netherweave. If you need anything let me know.
My enchanting is a bit weak ... it's in the mid 270s ... so if you have spare items ... send em my way!

Man, it feels good to play again. Oh yeah, I'm also friendly with Argent Dawn AND the Furbolgs ... w00t!

We've Upgraded!

2007-01-31T20:44:00.000-08:00

Thanks to our former captain, Julius, we have been able to upgrade! Blogger is out of Beta! Anyhoo, it seems like while I've managed to get the hang of avoiding Fel Reavers, the lovely Alliance has taken to flying around on their uber mounts then swooping down and ganking us Horde folk.

Also, I'm nearly 62 still without doing a full run of Ramparts. Frickin' PUGs... but the good news is that I'm almost ready to pick up my mount upgrade and all my greens are now on par with a lot of the old 60 blue gear. Whoop whoop!

On a side note, I'll be playing even less than I have been due to art school starting. Eh, so it goes.

zomg bc

2007-01-24T22:44:00.000-08:00

zounds, it's like playing a whole new game. can't believe i'm lvling my priest again.

frikkin fel reavers... not the one that killed me today, but still...
soooo yeah, i made a blelf priest. name is nayuki
finnnnally got to frikking shattrath or however it's spelled. aldor for me i guess.
it's khadgar! (my priest in on the khadgar server) ... <_<>_> ^_^;
now if i can just buy one of these frikkin birds...

gads, i think ima need a vegathon this weekend so i can get meef up to speed. my priest is only 25% to 61 ><

tuesday!!!

2007-01-22T00:36:00.000-08:00

bc is in the mail... should be here on tuesday at the latest! gyarrrr

BC Sweetness

2007-01-18T08:21:00.000-08:00

So I was able to get a semi-PUG into the Hellfire Ramparts last night, and now I'm almost level 61!. The bad news is my PUG was unable to defeat the final boss (who has a ridiculous fire AOE that we were not prepared for. The good news is I got crazy XP, rep, and some nice gear. I picked up the Shadowrend Longblade (pictured right), which is a disgustingly sick upgrade for me. I'm now at over 900 AP, which is amazing. Unfortunately, I think I'm gonna have to respec combat, so my AP will take a small hit, but still, this is a niice sword for me.

I've almost replaced all my gear, through light questing and one HFR run. The only items left are my Gloves, Neck, Boots and Rings (and once I get into a group that can beat the last boss of HFR, I'll get some nice Blue replacement boots).

Questing is pretty brutal in the Outlands, with both Alliance and Horde camping every spawn mob and node in sight, but the instance is very nice, and not that hard (until the end).

It's cold out tonight...

2007-01-15T23:41:00.000-08:00

Good luck to anyone who is currently out doing the pre-release event of the Burning Crusade. My lazy ass is waiting until after work tomorrow. For the BBQ!

Amusement

2006-12-23T13:02:00.000-08:00

So battlegrounds are a fine way to entertain yourself while waiting for the patch, but you know what pastime I really enjoy? Vigilante justice.

Mojito was complaining about a level 50 Hunter corpse camper in Shimmering Flats on /guild, so I fired up my Gadgetzan Transporter to help out. On my way to Shimmering Flats , I ran into "Jollygood", the aforementioned camper heading back to Gadgetzan. I was able to kill him twice before he got in the walls of Gadgetzan, but once there, the guards' nets were stopping me from playing with him. So, I decided to try out some of my new Subtlety talents. Specifically, I found that "Improved Sap" and "Cloak of Shadows" allow you to Chain-Sap pretty much anyone you want. The Cloak of Shadows gives you a 90% chance to avoid flares.

Hehe... this kept me entertained for about 15 minutes, even after Mojito had to log off himself. At one point the Hunter was able to mount, but I just waited 'til he stopped at the mailbox and sapped him on his mount. Good, good stuff.

So- if you guys ever need some Alliance justice, just send up the Bend-signal. I'll be there.

24" of ui

2006-12-20T20:38:00.000-08:00

gyooooohohoho!

still nut really happy with it, but i like this ui setup a lot better... oh, the possibilities with 1920x1200! gyoooooohohoho!!!! new monitors ftw

Teh Pain.

2006-12-18T07:52:00.000-08:00

Okay, well I haven't been on WoW much because of RL crap, but even when I do try to log on for a Battleground or four, I run into crazy lag and glitches. I'm hoping Blizz works this out soon... I have about 4k honor right now, and grinding that was crazy painful. We should group up for premade AB or something some time.

Also, who's gonna be around this weekend? Anyone up for a high-end instance run?

zomg 2.0

2006-12-06T01:12:00.000-08:00

wholy crap there's a buncha goodies to get now... i played 1 av, got like 200 bonus honor for the loss, prolly ~50 for kills... it's gonna be a long climb for those epic lewts. -_- anyhow, we should plan on our arena team. name ideas? team size?

i am still spec'd prot up the ass, so as soon as i get some time, we should run summore instances too :D

Gravy

2006-12-04T08:05:00.000-08:00

Dwight, Cowchan, and I continued the tradition of finding borderline psychotic PUGs, this time in the form of a Priest who refused to leave Shadowform, was apparently trying to pull AND tank, and was just generally trying his best to wipe us. We gave him the boot and picked up Wolfenstine, a 59 druid with some Cenarion gear, which was an obvious improvement.

Grats to Dwight and Cowchan on finishing your class quests! Let me know which rewards you end up opting for. BTW, that "Chained Essence of Eranikus" isn't a bad trinket, but if you like you can also turn it in for XP in and gold in SoS: Just find this dude, and talk to him (he won't have a mark over his head, but he's in a cave and you just start talking to him).

Return to the Sunken Temple

2006-11-27T08:10:00.000-08:00

After pwning a Turkey and its various fixing minions on Thursday, I now feel revitalized, and think we should organize an instance this weekend. Dwight and Cowchan still need their Sunken Temple goodies, and with three or four 60s in tow, it should be a piece of cake. In fact, what level is Ros? If he can hit 50 by this weekend, we can probably even bring him along...

Prior to this weekend, Dwight should complete the quests up to Trolls of a Feather and Cowchan should complete the quests up to The Green Drake in preparation. If either of you needs help with any of those prereq quests, just /holla.

Given that you guys are interested in some "Big Game" apparently, we can either do this early morning on Saturday or some time on Sunday. What time is good for you?

YATTAAA!!!

2006-11-17T08:37:00.000-08:00

YATTA!! Herrooo PTR! Bendyr wa PTR Test Realm ni terepo-to desita! Ore wa ima try new builds for my rogue and macros and crap dekimasu!!!

Yahooo!!

nani shiterunda

2006-11-16T09:53:00.000-08:00

blegh, haven't been on in awhile. what are y'all up to?

need more ubers...

Look at my sparkly butt

2006-11-09T00:29:00.000-08:00

..CuZ I'm 60, baby :D

Damn BRD conspiracy...

2006-11-06T09:28:00.000-08:00

Well, the zionist-conspiracy-controlled respawn times in the Lyceum prevented us from dethroning the emperor, but at least we got some good lewt! Meef came away with a blue and a BOE Purple O_o. Cowchan got some quests completed, and I learned to smelt Dark Iron!

Now if you don't mind, I have some more ethnic groups to defame and some dwarves to aggro.

...

Wait, where am i? Who just took over my blogger account? Did someone just post using my name? Why am I wearing all this lipstick? NO WIRE HANGERS... EVER!!!

it is done

2006-11-04T01:27:00.000-08:00

The Endgame calleth...

2006-11-02T22:27:00.000-08:00

So, I hit 60 on Wednesday Night! Wooot!!! Time to get some of that endgame content that everyone's always yammering about.

Meef and Cowchan both hit 59 too, so won't be long for them either. Whatsay we try to get one of the high level dungeons done this weekend? BRD? Strat? Scholo? Meef, I've never done any of these all the way through, so can you give us some estimate of what kind of content we could do that would be fun and possibly loot-inducing?

I spoke to Cowchan, and he said that he might be able to do Saturday afternoon or late Sunday afternoon, I think. Both of these times work for me. Meef?

I know Alex is out of town, but maybe Zala will have his account restored by then. Otherwise we'll have to pug a healer ;_;.

Oh well, still should be fun. Respond with times that you guys can meet. I'm gonna suggest 2PM EST for Saturday (that's 11AM for you guys) or sometime your Sunday afternoon.

Leather is not really that much better...

2006-10-23T23:22:00.000-07:00

So, I guess I shouldn't be making fun of Tsukikaji's Dresses. I spent a lot of time trying to put together my Embrace of the Viper set, just to find out that it makes me look like a bad, bovine Elvis Impersonator...

Ah well, at least they've been leaving these nice-apple scented baths in every Inn for me to use.

orly

2006-10-19T23:09:00.000-07:00

doh, don't mean to push that previous post down so quickly, but ya just reminded me i have a tonna screenshots i wanna upload ^^;

I highly recommend getting drunk. Then get drunk in the game.Looking for trouble in RFC...

ftl

Dig in the dust! +25% to sta, +25% health & mana regen for 2hrs! outside uc, on the way to silverpine

nothing like the freedom of the robe...

which reminds me... i might've posted this before, but it wasn't ringing a bell when i mentioned it to will... big blue dress (make sure to have sound on)

Ros dances with a beast

2006-10-19T17:01:00.000-07:00

Meet our new warrior. Lvl 41. w00t!

maybe it was just a long day...

2006-10-18T17:31:00.000-07:00

...but i lol'd:

Remove the C'thun trash scorpians/scarabs

[the thread title is in reference to (i think) the tons of time wasting trash you have to fight before the final aq40 boss, prolly a valid complaint... anyhow, 18 pages!!!]

zomg even better:
"Yeeeaaaahhh... I'm gonna need those DPS reports on my desk..."
"I told them....I told them if they told me to clear vent one more time I'd disband the raid."
" Sounds like somebody has a case of trying to raid on a tuesday."
"I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "kel'thuzad strats" in the wiki."
"'Looks like you've been missing a lot of raids lately...'
'I wouldn't say i've been missing it Bob...'"
"' Ladnil, we need to talk about your FR.'
'But I have 120 unbuffed FR, that's the minimum right?'
'Sure it's the minimum, but you don't like to only do the minimum, do you?'"
"'You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time so if you would, would you walk us through a typical raid, for you?'
'Yeah. Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, after that I sorta space out for an hour.'
'Da-uh? Space out?'
'Yeah, I just wand my target, but it looks like I'm DPSing. I do that for probably another hour after I DC for lunch too, I'd say in a given raid I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, DPSing.'"
"So you want me to wear more flarecore?"
"'Now Miltonadin, don't be greedy, let's pass it along and make sure everyone gets an epic piece.'
'Yes but, last raid I didn't receive a piece, and I was told that I could n---'
'Just Pass.'"
"... and if everything goes well tonight, I'll be showing her my o rly face. O rly. O rly. O rly...."
from the wow forums

BG, XP, ST

2006-10-10T09:16:00.000-07:00

I'm stalling Bendyr at 59 so we can do guild WSG and AB (if we want, I even have info for a vent server that we can use). We needs to grind our low 50s up so we can get some BBQ BGs. In fact, Meef has suggested that you grind levels on the mobs in AV. Not only do they give decent experience while you can do some minor AV objectives, but you will be getting free rep and honor the whole time AND you have no durability costs O_o. The AV trinkets just add more honor and xp. Other good XP at low 50s can be found in Un'goro where the quests are all overlapping and there are tons of quests with good xp you can complete just by running around (like the Zelda quest).

This weekend, I think we may want to do ST again for Dwight, since he needs to do his Warlock Scythe quest.

tsukikaji

2006-10-03T23:48:00.000-07:00

so I rolled a new character. he's a druid. his name is tsukikaji. tsuki = moon. kaji = fire. i'm so novel. anyhow, i'm sure you can see where this is going. before you read any further, you need to view/listen to this ytmnd (Bendyr's Edit: As with any YTMND link, DO NOT CLICK AT WORK UNLESS YOU HAVE HEADPHONES). bendyr also rolled a druid. his name is slotr. he's gonna get twinked out, so he'll end up with a pvp rank of... sergeant! BRILLIANT. here's a pair of screenshots from our adventures:

perhaps i'm just easily amused... but that was easily the most fun i've had with wow since... well actually running thru st was pretty cool... but still!!! BRILLIANT.

assty

2006-10-01T22:21:00.000-07:00

wow, what a day of wow. the princess fell quickly, i think we got thru there in under an hour. pressed on to st, snakes in a temple.

trolls fell and i collected their feathers, dragons fell, and we killed a giant flying snake. why stop there?! to BRD!

later in the day we headed to brd... and thus began the most terrible run ever. first we had a druid who couldn't heal me. so we wiped a bunch. i was rezzed during a boss wipe so i got to die twice. excellent. theeeen we had 4. we pressed on. we killed the boss... then we wiped in the areana. aaaand you can't reset the event. great. so we waited for a priest. we waited forever. priest finally comes when we're about to quit. we have a bad pull or somethin and i die... ...and my equipment is broken. so i try to run out... noope! respawn! i die. rezsickness at thorium point. pay 5g in repairs. ganked by 60 warrior. rez. ganked by 60 warrior. rez. run for my life. maaaake it baaack aaaand... we have to backclear so i can rejoin the group ><

in the end we managed to make it to the 7 dwarves, get mc attunement, and kill plugger. but frikkin a it was a terribality. thank goodness the priest was skilled.

damn you brd.

get your asses in here

2006-09-30T02:24:00.000-07:00

zomg av holiday weekend ftw. in three days of pvping, i already have 10k more honor than last week. and one of those days was spent in ab/wsg (much less honor). wait times are usually less than 30 seconds and games less than 30 minutes. nyooohohoho!

Cowchan, Bendyr, and Prometheus

2006-09-27T06:26:00.000-07:00

After this shot, Cowchan loaded me into his gun, and shot me at someone.

This was taken on the way to get Cowchan his trinket in Jintha'Alor, and to clear up a bunch of leftover quests (including Ancient Egg). Seems like our guild progression is still Maraudon->Sunken Temple. Meef and I are a little over-leveled, but it will make the instances go fast, and at the very least, we all need the reward from ST anyway. Anyone interested in doing one this weekend? After this whole extended downtime crap, I'm antsy for some heavy WoWing.

for the nyohohorde!

2006-09-20T23:32:00.000-07:00

Well i played like 5 games of AV just now and we finally won the 5th one... totally forgot about the quest reward for winning!!!

I went back to UC and respec'd so I'm now Arms/Fury for maximum polearm goodness. Can't wait to try this baby out!