Friday, November 20, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Now I Don't Have To Write Anything
Real the whole unvarnished truth here: A Single Set of Rules On How To Raid ANYTHING. Read it. Learn it. Live it.
Thank you to Amber for finding this; I'm just trying to make sure everybody sees it.
Thank you to Amber for finding this; I'm just trying to make sure everybody sees it.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Epic x2
We ran Naxx25 this weekend (there's a whole long rage-filled rant there ... poke me later and watch the bile ooze out), and I managed to live through two (2) epic battles.
First, I broke my heretofore perfect record of finishing Heigan face down on the floor. That's right ... I survived the dance, finally. I even managed to get some DPS in the process because Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Pain both work even when I'm in holy spec. I forget how long it took, but we had at least five people up at the end.
Second, we downed Instructor Razuvious in what was nearly a wipe, and got down to the last understudy with maybe five people up and him at 20%. Razuvious broke loose a time or two during the fight, but most of the people that died ate it from the fan of knives AOE thing he does. I do need to holla at Bearbehind, though. He tanked one of the understudies all by his lonesome for a long time. I also had no idea bears could get that much HP; he had like 50K when raid-buffed, which is just an insane amount of health.
First, I broke my heretofore perfect record of finishing Heigan face down on the floor. That's right ... I survived the dance, finally. I even managed to get some DPS in the process because Devouring Plague and Shadow Word: Pain both work even when I'm in holy spec. I forget how long it took, but we had at least five people up at the end.
Second, we downed Instructor Razuvious in what was nearly a wipe, and got down to the last understudy with maybe five people up and him at 20%. Razuvious broke loose a time or two during the fight, but most of the people that died ate it from the fan of knives AOE thing he does. I do need to holla at Bearbehind, though. He tanked one of the understudies all by his lonesome for a long time. I also had no idea bears could get that much HP; he had like 50K when raid-buffed, which is just an insane amount of health.
Monday, October 12, 2009
More World of Warcraft stuff
When you start playing "World of Warcraft", you roll up a brand new toon and start at level 1. You click on the guy in front of you, he gives you a quest to go kill something or other, and you do it and get some experience. Repeat this and you go up a level, and now you're faster/stronger/deadlier. After a while, you get to thinking that that's what the game is: leveling. You also start to think about getting to the level cap and wonder what you're going to do afterwards.
Kathy and I have actual real-life friends (Hi Dan and Leigha!) who also play WoW. They're leveling up pretty quickly now, and are in the low 70s rolling through the Howling Fjord. Kathy and I are excited because soon they'll be able to go do stuff with us, as opposed to having us run them through things.
But Dan said something with regard to the level cap (I don't recall precisely what it was now) that reminded me of how much my thinking about the game has changed. Specifically: I'm amazed at how much game there is still left after you hit the level cap. In some ways, it's an entirely different experience when you're not leveling, but it's just as rich and just as overwhelming and just as time-consuming ... it just isn't concerned with your XP bar anymore. Weird.
So anyway, I have five toons at the level cap with four more in the 70s and I do not have time to play more than two of them. What with the working and sleeping and doing stuff outside the game and all. And of the two toons I'm actually playing, only one of them is geared at the level of my guild; the other one is still trying to gear up in heroics so I can run him in the second set of 10-mans.
I still recall what it was like questing for level, and I really enjoyed it and fully intend to resume doing it with the rest of my toons (gotta get one of each to level cap, of course). I just thought that I'd be done seriously working them once they dinged 80; now, of course, I realize the depth of my previous error in thinking.
Kathy and I have actual real-life friends (Hi Dan and Leigha!) who also play WoW. They're leveling up pretty quickly now, and are in the low 70s rolling through the Howling Fjord. Kathy and I are excited because soon they'll be able to go do stuff with us, as opposed to having us run them through things.
But Dan said something with regard to the level cap (I don't recall precisely what it was now) that reminded me of how much my thinking about the game has changed. Specifically: I'm amazed at how much game there is still left after you hit the level cap. In some ways, it's an entirely different experience when you're not leveling, but it's just as rich and just as overwhelming and just as time-consuming ... it just isn't concerned with your XP bar anymore. Weird.
So anyway, I have five toons at the level cap with four more in the 70s and I do not have time to play more than two of them. What with the working and sleeping and doing stuff outside the game and all. And of the two toons I'm actually playing, only one of them is geared at the level of my guild; the other one is still trying to gear up in heroics so I can run him in the second set of 10-mans.
I still recall what it was like questing for level, and I really enjoyed it and fully intend to resume doing it with the rest of my toons (gotta get one of each to level cap, of course). I just thought that I'd be done seriously working them once they dinged 80; now, of course, I realize the depth of my previous error in thinking.
Monday, October 05, 2009
I hate being sick
So now I'm sick. Started on Friday, and I really thought it was just allergies but I can be stupid that way. My poor baby girl (11 years old, now, so not so much really a baby) was running a fever and, when we checked her throat we saw white spots on it. So Saturday morning we trooped on down to the pediatrician's office.
Hooray! She doesn't have strep throat.
Boo! She does have mono.
I'm pretty sure I don't have mono, or at least I hope to diety I don't have mono. I do have a lovely cough and a slight fever and a head full of mucus. Bleah.
So now I'm "enjoying" a self-imposed exile to the bed and/or the couch with a belly full of faux-Sudafed (thanks, legislators and meth-heads!) in the hopes that I'll get my insides back in order enough to go back to work.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Shazam Is Awesome!
Shazam, the iPhone app, is completely made of awesome. The promo for the new season of "House" has a cool song that I didn't know, but Kathy and I wanted to buy it. In the bad old pre-Shazam days, we'd have just been screwed. Instead, fire up Shazam, hit the "tag now" button, and let the commercial play. Not only did it identify the song, but makes it easy to purchase from the iTunes Music Store. Yay Shazam!
Interestingly enough, that version pegged out the "relevance" meter when searching for the title. Apparently lots of other people are also Shazam-ing commercials too. We're a meme.
Now go download it for your iPhone and use it. A lot.
P.S. The song is "Grounds for Divorce" by Elbow.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
A Universal Attribute
The Greedy Goblin went to Warsong Gulch. What he found there is people acting like people act: stupid. I recently farmed up enough marks to get my main (and Kathy’s main too, so you know how much of a beta provider I can be when I put my mind to it) the black war mount, and I found that (a) Warsong Gulch was the most frustrating of the three required battlegrounds, (2) PuGs all fought in the middle of the damned field for no damned reason, and (iii) I racked up several PvP achievements by standing in the flag room defending all by my lonesome.
What makes (iii) so surprising is that I did it on a 77 priest and again on a 76 hunter. Solo, in both cases, in a bracket that included plenty of 79 and 80 players. I expected it to just be a time sink, but I actually managed to get achievements in the process precisely the same way that GG observed.
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