Lil' Murky

He sings and dances.

I wonder what its like at Blizzcon...

Seriously, do we even know if Gavin made it down there in one piece?

Meanwhile, here's the many faces of Al Kindi:

expansion

the expansion better have a secret cow king level.

WSG and WoW webcomics

SO I'm thinking about going into War Song Gulch this Saturday and wanted to know if any of you have tips or want to join me in the lowbie bracket.


Also, I found a WoW webcomic here on blogger: http://play-wow.blogspot.com/2005/10/vol-4-shepherds-episode-2.html
It's pretty funny. Do you guys know of any other good ones?

Contributing to the group

Hey I was wanting to make a healer charcter that can really help out the group, but my studies have shown that clothies die real fast in PVP. Do we have any heal focused shamans in the clan? Do you guys do battlegrounds often? I might make a shammie instead of a priest as they are much more likely to survive long enough to get a few more heals out.

If I were going to Blizzcon...

(hint, hint)

First, I'd blog the whole thing (posting on specific booths seen and thoughts on the demos, etc) and I'd be sure to go to as many events (panels, tournaments, keynote speeches, etc.) as possible.

Second, I'd try to catch these events:
Friday:

• Blizzard Art Design (3pm)
• World of Warcraft Dungeon Creation (4pm)

Of course, Friday night I'd get completely smashed and I'd staple forks to my shoulders...

Saturday:

• Careers in Gaming (11am)
• World of Warcraft Lore and Quest Design (3pm)
• Comic Panel (5pm)

I didn't mention the expansion demo because you'll be castrated if you don't go that's an obvious one.

Did I mention the blogging? Yeah, I'd definitely be blogging the whole time I was there. I would imagine I could produce a dozen or so posts, at least.

Cute:

How Do We Know They Love Us?

Some may wonder how the Old Gods and their minions can love us. Do they not kill us? Do they not cause pain and suffering to all? How could beings so bent on malevolence know love in their hearts?

There is a simple answer to this quesiton. So simple, it needs not be uttered.

Faith. Faith is the wellspring from which the joy of servitude showers us. Faith will keep us warm on the coldest Silithus nights. Faith will keep us in our Lords' good graces when the Ending Days arrive.

Faith will save us.

From a Decoded Twilight Text sent to me by Ortell.

LFM [62] Mount Doom (elite)

keke

Farming

Neato article about WoW farming... Here's something that I caught in the article.

According to a commonly held opinion, farmers contribute to in-game inflation, letting their insatiable appetite for gold drive prices up as they demand higher and higher payment for their merchandise. As far as I can tell, the opposite is true.

Nobody really believes that increasing the supply of items for sell would increase the price of items in general, do they? Do THEY?!!? :-)

(BTW, I don't remember who was talking 'bout it (Jek?), but I've heard complaints that prices are going down. Now, we might be able to blame farmers for that!)

Level Cap

Psst, buddy. Wanna buy a watch?
*flashes open trench coat*
Oh yah, and word on the street is, the level cap will be raised to 70 for the expansion. But you just keep that to yourself, now.
*wink*

Addons

I've abandoned cosmos, but I still use a whole mess of addons. My newest one is AF_Tooltip Mini. It binds the tooltip to the mouse, and is really great in PvP. Since leaving Cosmos, I've had to do a little more work to keep adons updated, but on the flip side far fewer of them break when we get a patch. The best way I've found to keep track of what's new is to create an account (free) over at Curse Gaming. Once this is done, you can keep your own list of favorite addons (look for the Add This Addon To My Favorites link,) and it will highlight new versions at the top of the list.

Mods I Use:
Perl Classic Interface (Updated and improved over the original abandoned project.)
myReloadUI (Reloads the UI. Simple!)
AF_Tooltip Mini (My newest mod. Love it!)
Sea (Library necessary for a couple of the other mods to work)
MarsQuestLevel (Adds the numeric quest level to the quest, and nothing else. Simple!)
MarsMailHelper (Auto-fills the last player name you mailed to, and nothing else. Simple!)
CT_RaidAssist (Not just convenient, a must have for any raid.)
CastOptions (Allows me to hold the ALT key to self-cast)
KarlGustav's Gryphons Remover (Removes the gryphon art from the toolbar, and nothing else. Simple!)
Atlas (Maps for instances.)
Gatherer (Tracks where I find maraj-- erm, oregano. yah.)
Reagent Info (Tracks what professions and recipes mats are used for. Newest version not yet on the curse-gaming site. Read user comments to find author's site with latest version.)
TotemTimers (Warns me when a totem is about to expire. Critical in raids when my FR tot must always be up. Convenient all other times.)
DPSCount (Very small window tracks my dps. Averaged over the whole fight.)
CooldownCount (Counts down seconds before an ability is useable again. Latest version on author's site. read comments for link.)
LootLink (This is how folks link items in chat that they don't have. check comments for link to latest version.)
QuickMountEquip (Puts on my carrot when I mount up, and takes it off when I dismount. Some folks report trouble w/ 1.8, but mine is working fine.)
Auctioneer (Tracks prices in the AH. Works out of the box, but it's up to you to scan the AH to populate it with data. Better than Allakhazam, because the prices are specific to your AH on your server, but takes a little more work. Check comments for links to latest version.)
TargetDistance (An abandoned project that no longer works. If anyone knows another mod that will do the same thing, I'd love to know about it.)
MapCoord (Shows my player and pointer coordinates below the map)

New AB term...

Nobu (verb)- To intermittently attack a peripheral resource node controlled by the enemy in order to require garrison of defensive players at that node. "You often see rogues Nobing in Arathi Basin," "Hey Calhoun, Nobu the Stable," or "Damn Tat, come back and help me defend the LM... There's a goddamn Druid sneaking around Nobing it." The word is a contraction of the name of a world war II Japanese pilot, Nobuo Fujita, who ran bombing raids on Oregon in order to require the US armed forces to produce heavier defenses of the Pacific sea board, thus distracting those forces from offensive operations further west.

Ragnaros - Oh My!

http://pacifistguild.org/library/ragnaros/

Priest Quest

Not sure if you saw this priests, but there was a class specific quest added for you in 1.7. The trinket and ring might be nice items.

http://www.thottbot.com/?q=41113

Mar's first MC run

Okay, so it was only 1 hour, 1 boss, 1 wipe, and a lot of fun.... here are some pics, see if you can figure out what the heck is going on ^.^


This was about 10 min after i got in, we saw this dude's fro.

More imporantly, WTF is going on w/ my screen!


Its good to be the healer!



I see Jesse, Jim, Bill, Lisa, Lorri, and all my other wonderful Friends....



My first 37+ group



*drums please*


Left big... current target is... MT1.. its my job to keep him alive, I was glad tatariuchi was there to help me, I had forgoten to make the healer chat visable, and missed the assignment.

Thanks Tat!

But with a little help from the Old farts in the balcony, and lots of help from Cakeeater (my aid w/ healing)
We kept him alive, even when we both had under 8% mana. Go spi/ Mana/time gear.

Weee~ btw, of the 2 mini's we didn't lose our tank ^.^ although, the other parties did a great job of picking up aggro and re tanking him.

I'm so glad i'm not in pick up raids anymore...


For those of you new to TOC.... MC is one of the tougher areas in the game... (MC = Molten Core, a 40 man raid area)

Anywho, night!

To all you fellow warriors:

Hey remember how some of you had an extra talent point? Well apparently that was a bug and in order to fix it we all get to respec for free!

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=5268790&p=1&tmp=1#post5268790

It's dangerous for tax preparers to play this game.

Ok so as I side job I do taxes, and lately I've been taking my continuing education classes on the weekends to keep my license, so I've got money on the brain. My charcter has been mining copper like crazy and selling it for a bit on the AH, but last night I found out I can but tin for 10S and smelt it with the copper I find and sell it for ~ 90S!! Man, I haven't left Orgrimmar since! I keep logging in at random times to see if i can get any more cheap bars of tin for sale, then seeing when bronze is in demand, it's great! I swear I need to make an alt. and just leave it next to the AH this is too much fun! I almost have 2G and I'm only level 13! (I think that's a lot, is it?) Man I wish I was this good at making money in the real world.

1.8 Is Here!

Dang, I wish I'd known while at work. I would have put up a mirror! Is anyone having trouble downloading?

[Edit: Mirror Up! WoW-1.7.1.4695-to-1.8.0-enUS-patch.exe]

Tuesday 10/11

Any thoughts on what to do tonight?

Our baby's all growed up...

MC Attunement

Mar needs to do Attunement to the Core. Who else needs it?

Whats down tonight?

Are people playing?

*suggests* Sholo ^.^ guess i need shadow skin now. ... I also like my Devout crown... makes me look like Star Scream from transformers... only dead.

Newbie porking in Durotar

Hi to all those guys I heard last night when I logged on as Hidoi. I spent my first while running in circles trying desperatly to figure out how to respond to you guys so I never said anything back to most of you, and I wanted to do that now. Once I got my bearings and a friend logged on to show me around, I spent the rest of my time acting out what seemed to be a terrible Lord of the Flies remake, killing piggies, slitting their throats, making them squeal... and then I even threw in my first wipe, just for the heck of it. I was one hit away from killing the creep and thought it was great fun, but I don't know what my Shaman friend thought about having a scorpid 4 levels higher than him check his prostate with a pincer. Anyhoo, I'm Hidoi, I'm the new guy, good to hear from some of you last night and I'll see you this weekend!

Guenter is still broken

3 days now, and Guenter is still stuck in Searing Gorge. I keep getting punted back and forth between the GMs and tech support. I probably won't be able to go to Blackrock on any character until a patch fixes this.

Can't Play Tonight

Sorry folks, I'm committed to attending Yuji's* "last supper" before he permanently returns to Japan tomorrow. I'll think of y'all while downing sake and sushi. かんぱい!

*Yuji is Akiki's love toy.

Oh yah, and if Will remembers he's invited, this message should apply to him as well.