We do what we can because we must.

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

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

it's that time again

screenshots!!!

sooooo sexay


sooooo laaaame



FINALLY! YEEEEEEBUS

Wherefore art thou Slotr...

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!!!

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

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...

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

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

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...

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!

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

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。

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...

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

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?

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

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!

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

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...

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.