tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051184029983825882024-03-18T19:43:33.869-07:00wow mogulMogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-72046450655553691282013-10-11T20:29:00.000-07:002013-10-11T20:31:22.039-07:00by any other name<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Names are
important to me - especially when it comes to hunters and their pets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fooddude was originally a food
mule back in the days where I had many gold-related alts and a couple of mains.
When I shifted from Thaurissan to Frostmourne I couldn't believe that the
name Fooddude was taken (true fact - there are 54 Fooddudes across Blizz
servers - go figure right?). What this did though was to finally open up
the opportunity for me to set up some great naming opportunities between my
hunter and his pets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Step 1
then - Hunter name... Sidetrack! Available - I c o u l d n o
t believe it. Snapped it up - Hi Sidetrack, nice gear, bit retro
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Step 2 - name appropriately. Below is a short listing of my rogues gallery. : )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid folks,</span></div>
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Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-32600961397608094302013-09-28T03:58:00.001-07:002013-09-28T03:58:50.040-07:00708,000G and DCDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All this conspicuous consumption has seen my fortune fall below 800K but honestly at between 2 and 8k a purchase I have a way to go before I'm destitute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I'm here can I put a vote in for DCDS? It was a crazy little idea put forth by <a href="http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/08/06/wow-6-0-a-case-for-dual-class-dual-spec/">Scott Andrews</a> in a piece for WoW Insider back in early August. In pondering this I can't help but travel back in time to tabletop days and a much loved dual-classed half-elf. I pretty certain that this idea is the LAST thing that'll be finding it's way into the next xpac but with Blizz sticking to it's decision to only allow limited numbers of toons on servers (except for those soon to be merged servers) the thought of taking my gnome lock and rerolling a baby warrior makes me think that should this be actioned it really would be one of the coolest things in the xpac.</span></div>
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Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-53206522542282418012013-09-16T04:33:00.000-07:002013-09-16T04:33:48.875-07:00timeless<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olla folks,</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been out on the Timeless Isle and can report that it's not that timeless... in fact, I have a very accurate way of telling the time whilst there. That being there's roughly 5 minutes between each ganking my lock receives from the horde.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not against the process (although that's not to say I find it fun) and were I on the isle with a friend I'd be right in there for some respectful ganking; I'm on a pvp server afterall. So fair warning, should you not wish your "game experience to change during online play" my suggestion at this stage is to play a stealthy toon. My durid and rouge are both sub 90 so for now I'll let this be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing though - the rumours are true, 496 gear does pretty much fall out of the sky. In just a couple of journeys to the isle I've got my hands on about 7 epics and once I'm carrying the appropriate slot item for my class I then tend to get items for other classes for that slot, all BOA. It's great should you be gearing an alt and once I've got my warrior to 90 this will be the first place I come.</span></div>
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Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-29641945358478111962013-05-28T00:55:00.000-07:002013-05-28T00:55:47.080-07:00clowning around<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a boomy post! Just pipped 87 and now have to find a spot for Symbiosis. I found a good</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monitoring eclipse state is getting better but I'm missing (eventhough I never used it) a clever addon that's no longer supported that would, in print, flash up helpful words under your toon indicating preciecely which spell you should be using, eg, WRATH. Tbh it could be that the better "monitoring" may be down to the crit build I'm now running proccing Starsurge more often and simply pushing me back and forth at a faster rate regardless of whether I'm pushing the right buttons. ; )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finding Displacer Beast to be a really great escape for PVP - gotta use it early before you get trained. At the first sign of trouble pop it in a random direction NOT along your opponents current direction of travel (ie, out of his sight line) then straight back to boomy for the damage reduction - sitting in cat for too long is a disaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've settled on a levelling process which is to complete all quests in Karasang Wilds whilst waiting for AV to pop. I did this on my DK with Kun-Lai Summit, it's a fun way to go.</span></div>
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Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-28519423513346292222013-05-23T09:22:00.000-07:002013-05-23T09:22:26.316-07:00tastes like laser chicken<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ollo folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Levelled Majestus 85 to 90. Got a kickass UI organised - I've enjoyed levelling on my original main so much that it was a near thing to start grinding honour once I got to 90. I transmogged him to Big Blue Dress standards and got a particularly natty black Fedora to finish his look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing special - little bits here and there. As I'm not willing to grind rep for Blizzard I'm gated as to the better recipes for tend to resort to flipping. Most recent flip was a 15K Skullflame shield for 22.5K. It's a living... I'm very slowly moving below 750K liquid gold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've decided to try my druid Stormbear on balance (so now stormy but not so bearish). Honestly I can't say that I'm ever going to get the eclipse state thing down. I'm firmly PVPing again and am almost always missing these buffs. I'm very happy with my chicken's survivability - Displacer Beast is great! - and I've certainly got the ergs when it counts (ie, I burn cooldowns) but even though raiding was a long time ago I still feel the urge to min/max and not using everything my chicken has is annoying me. I will persist. One answer possibly lies in my stacking of haste over crit (damn you Icy-Veins). I'll reverse this and see if critting dots proccing Starsurges makes me a more efficient killing machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Focussing on chickening atm (one thing at a time) but this is still a lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talking of time I have precious little of it to devote to this game. Work has caught up with me and I'm having to change my up-late ways to keep everything moving. I'm also focussing on levelling my fitness at the moment (ahh - bad analogies are bad) and have found <a href="http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/">this site</a> to be cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>5.3</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This 'will' be interesting. The PVP changes represent some of the biggest ones we've had for a while. The move to abolish resilience will supposedly open the playing field to PVE folk who want to get involved. Personally I think we'll get some day-trippers before things settle back to their original state. I'm more interesting in comments I've read (but not been able to substantiate) that the crap balancing Blizzard engaged for the levelling tiers which saw out-of-BG abilities savagely nerfed once you got in for a largely useless increase in hits will be turned around. I'll be keen to see just what happens to my level 85 laser chicken tonight - can I finally reduce my 28% out-of-BG hit to a reasonable level and put my stats into something else?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-52585810888961288002013-03-29T16:56:00.000-07:002013-03-29T16:56:00.864-07:00DKsSo easy to make friends...<br />
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Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-74530237500458082132013-02-10T20:43:00.000-08:002013-02-10T20:43:45.210-08:00patch 5.2<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olla folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a personal take on what stands out for me on the 5.2 patch notes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Players that have grown attached to working the land at Sunsong Ranch can now purchase the land from Farmer Yoon. Once the farm is owned by a player, it becomes a rest point like an Inn, where the player can bind and instantly log out. Work orders will pour into the farm from factions across Pandaria, and completing a work order will earn a reputation boost with the issuing faction.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is nice - I'm wondering how many dailies a work order will represent. Probably 2 - gotta say rep equal to 4 dailies is probably what it'll take to get me across the line as we're also talking about lost earnings (I assume one gives up the produce on the work order).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>A number of new pets can be found on the Isle of Lightning, including rare spawn drops, wild pets, and raid boss drops.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liking the sound of the isle - harking back in my memory to many a fun PVP experience on the previous isle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Elite Battle Pets have been added to the game world. These rare pets will spawn alone against an entire team. The Beasts of Fable taming quest will now become available from Gentle San or Sara Finkleswitch once Aki the Chosen has been defeated. Defeating all of the fabled beasts will award the new Red Panda pet, while completing the associated daily quest has a chance to award the rare brown, white, and orange variants.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New pet quest is win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The chance of getting personal loot in Raid Finder and the chance of a successful bonus roll in Raid Finder have been greatly increased for the 5.0 raids.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alts need the shinies - very good Blizzard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Mists of Pandaria Season 12 Malevolent Gladiator’s PvP gear can now be purchased with Honor Points instead of Conquest Points, including weapons.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm interested to see the new weapons rules. I couldn't get PVP weapons last season due to the points requirements (and the play style I prefer). It would be nice this season to equip something with resilience on it.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Two-handed axes, maces, and swords can be Transmogrified to each other.</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>One-handed axes, maces, and swords can be Transmogrified to each other.</em></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Excellent - I'm not sure about maces but I'm thinking a warlock with an axe would be boss! I'm hoping that tranmog won't be restricted to the normal class restrictions... warrior should not have more fun than locks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Seed bags have been added that allow planting of crops 4 plots at a time.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Kil'jaeden's Cunning is now a passive talent, and its activated ability has been removed.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This talent change has just made the tier 75s useful to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Dark Intent now increases Stamina in addition to Spell Power.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Win for the lock soloing old content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>New Level 60 Talent: Cloak and Dagger - Ambush, Garrote, and Cheap Shot now have a 30 yard range, and will cause the Rogue to teleport behind the target.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did my sub rogue just get her second shadowstep back?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-89379713962421976242013-01-22T01:24:00.000-08:002013-01-22T01:24:42.623-08:00a little social pressure please<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think Blizz is missing an opportunity with the way they're playing the LFR loot drops. There's fairly large amount of dissatisfaction over loot which I believe could be solved with a little <em>visibility</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't raid now, but when I did raid I did so with a competitive 10-man guild. An extreme minority of items were loot councilled as we were a progression guild but everything else was rolled on and later we used a points system which tbh I never truly understood but seemed to do quite nicely from. On the nights where I didn't win any rolls or simply no loot for my bear dropped I was able to come to terms with the process as I could still <em>see </em>the loot dropping. I got a certain amount of vicarious pleasure from seeing loot drop for my guildies as well as the reinforcement that loot <em>did in fact</em> drop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now in the current system, as described by Ghostcrawler, they've worked hard to remove <em><a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4736886/Dev_Watercooler_-_Mists_of_Pandaria_Looting_Explained-3_27_2012#blog">social pressure</a></em> from the conglomeration of strangers that is LFR. That is no one will beg you to pass them to loot you've just won. The boss dies, each player rolls their small chance to get loot, if they win Blizz selects an appropriate piece for them and they walk away anonymously happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Outcome: sunshine, lollipops, rainbows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only what if no loot drops for you? Or more to the point as the plethora of forum posts have been shouting: what if you've been at this for a while and you've not seen "any" loot drop. Might I present a hypothetical case in point: consider a highly charismatic gnomish warlock who, for argument's sake, let's call... Shortgame. Shortgame has run through 16 Cata bosses and used 6 bonus rolls and got precicely zero loot. I'm not saying that this is unfair to poor Shortgame (... although it certainly feels unfair) but rather that this run of unfortunate chance highlights Blizzard's approach to this issue - they're treating LFR rules as a <em>memoryless</em> process which raid loot in fact never was. People would slowly built their gear over time and if you missed out you knew that you'd get it eventually as others in the raid already ‘had’ that piece. Your raid contained the social memory upon which you relied to get loot in a fair (and timely) manner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we gain back the social memory that was lost as Blizzard dealt with their social pressure problem? Two ways:</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turn off the secrecy </span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those who nurse conspiracies feel that the secrecy about drops is purely a Blizzard tool to stop players from seeing what the actual percentage on drops really is (the view being that a lower drop percentage = longer playing time and longer subscriptions). Not our hypothetical warlock of course, he trusts Blizzard and their assertion (could not verify this – only forum traffic available) that the drop chance is 15%.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wouldn't argue for a reversion of the new process to pre-MoP LFR, the new process is good and it certainly minimises drama. What showing the drops does do is to lift the veil and folks who are putting their time into this pursuit can again see that items are dropping and though they personally are not having luck at least someone is.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give the process some memory</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simple - provide to players a low percentage chance but raise it by 10% for each unsuccessful boss kill, using tokens progresses the percentage by 10% as well. Reset it when they get a drop. Under this process players know that in 10 boss kills they will certainly get a drop, five boss kills and they’re over 50%. It’s a very small carrot to toss but the forums are reporting people seeing 30+ bosses without a drop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while the easier process for Blizzard would be to simply turn off the secrecy my preferred approach would be to add a layer to the process and sequentially increase the drop chance. No more complaints could be levelled knowing that running two three-boss raids would put you over the 50% chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.2 will see the existing raids have their percentages upped according to Blizzard. I’ll try LFR again then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-8980561991897558592013-01-18T22:49:00.000-08:002013-01-19T01:00:18.833-08:00pets and raids<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOj1KNNqFv9xdoqZ9UPwDUdNAr-e8UrYkRKdtm5pqJCB2EQVHxOZ42W6c4M-vYKfsIqiYF5ViS1fkKIB7MOgC2c_o3G9paqxmMbqbEdNcbicX98FrF70IKObv_P-zzQh22vZK3dqMwcDA/s1600/spank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOj1KNNqFv9xdoqZ9UPwDUdNAr-e8UrYkRKdtm5pqJCB2EQVHxOZ42W6c4M-vYKfsIqiYF5ViS1fkKIB7MOgC2c_o3G9paqxmMbqbEdNcbicX98FrF70IKObv_P-zzQh22vZK3dqMwcDA/s200/spank.jpg" width="140" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olla folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I'm back from the holidays with news from WoW.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PETS</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got back into Pets in a big way - I always had a thing for pets but still am surprised to tell you that I now have over 400 pets and have just steamed past 400 achievement points in pets (ahh <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=89686/jade-tentacle">tentacle</a>, now you are mine... ) What can I say - Blizz got this right. I'm working on some dailies for <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=89395">items</a> atm and on the way from here to there I'm levelling up a few pets as I go. It's fun, easy, and interesting and only very rarely feels like a grind, which is saying something in this game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>OLD RAIDS</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been moving on with my soloing of old world raids having recently got Vashj down in order to complete one of the best gnome warlock tier sets imo. You can see locks and other classes bringing her down on youtube and it does look a little tricky. In actuality I have to say I found it near impossible. Call it tenacity, call it RNG rage, call it sheer bloody mindedness but after getting to 1% somewhere around wipe seven or eight I finally screen shotted my warlock standing over a crumpled thing that smelt of old fish after 27 wipes. 27! After a wipe in the early 20s I crumpled myself and flew off to Area 52 to "buy" the honour helm only to find that it's colour was subtly different. Back to the grindstone. I am most pleased with the result though and now have a story to tell my grandchildren (who will likely assume it's the drugs talking).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not too worried about these but I've had a few tries and it was enjoyable after a fashion; locks are well set-up for self preservation. Which is to say that I can mitigate PUG healers and know not stand in fire which equals surviving to the end of the fight. On the loot side though I think something is wrong. I recieved no loot after about 16 boss kills and 6 extra rolls... nada... niente! Forums suggest I'm not alone. I've heard that in 5.2 drops will be increased in order to get people ready for the newer raids. Maybe I'll have another look then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>GOLD</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ha haa. What can I say spending comfortably and am still up around the 870K mark. Towards the end of this expansion I may have toons at cap with sufficiently levelled reps to get at some of the gated recipes. For now though I'm making a few things but mostly buy what I need. A part of me misses the thrill of opening a mailbox bulging with gold but the reward for effort is no longer sufficient to hold me to it... perhaps when I'm a little poorer. ; )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>ALTS</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No thanks. I definitely have a 'main' this expansion and that's my lock. I'll get to the other classes eventually but at this stage over three months' since launch I can advise that I still haven't levelled a panda monk or that shammy or pally that I thought I'd be working my way through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>PVP</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A slow down here. I know the next season is coming out and felt I'd gotten as far as I could without changing the way I played. I find it hard to schedule regular time so RBGs are out and am not interested in arena for any other reason apart from gear (which means I should steer clear). Also 1500 honour for a very minor upgrade to my existing pieces really annoyed me. The next season should be up soon - when it arrives I'll likely BG until I have a full kit of gear then go back to soloing raids with my stat increase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for the moment folks. I'm still enjoying the game for the mindless challenges it provides me (= Mogul downtime after a day at work) and hope you are too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-37060820823231901602012-11-29T21:14:00.000-08:002012-11-29T21:14:03.626-08:00old school<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi folks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick update before the month is out. Here's what I've been up to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm learning demo on my lock. One of my favourite solo locks, </span><a href="http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/burning-legion/Aventurka/advanced"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aventurka of Burning Legion</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, uses demo a lot for soloing old world bosses so I'm building my </span><a href="http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/powerauras-classic/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Power Auras</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> up, doing my reading at <a href="http://www.icy-veins.com/demonology-warlock-wow-pve-dps-guide">Icy-Veins</a> and getting keybinds sorted for burst (I'm looking at you Naj'entus).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have indeed been soloing the old raids, so far:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Molten Core 10/10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Serpentshrine Cavern 2/6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hyjal 5/5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Eye 4/4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunstrider was the hardest boss out of those - a lot to do with getting the right strat and understanding boss and sub-boss mechanics + for about three wipes I was standing in fire without realising it (classy... )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People who know locks will know the two sets of gear I'm trying to build. Hyjal rewarded me with possibly the best lock helm in game. Wings my friends, wings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next on the list is Black Temple and Naxx is definitely a go - especially now that Gluth has a chance to drop miniGluth!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly - I've been tilling. Revered and heading towards exhalted at some speed. The dailies are interesting and building the farm is strangely fun. I plant almost exclusively Songbell seeds for the motes as I'm angling for my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=87250/depleted-kyparium-rocket">Depleted-Kyparium Rocket</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Stay liquid folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-55514747789294893162012-10-29T21:24:00.000-07:002012-10-29T21:24:09.719-07:00gallery<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey folks - an update post today via screenshots. Here we go!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">got a yak - didn't look back</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">little fellah gets his mojo back with MoP</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">travelling companion - surly and blood thirsty, just the way my lock likes em</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wormhole generator you are the bomb! eventhough you mostly seem to drop me at Sra'vess O.O</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">note to self: change stylist</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-58953615765713329262012-10-04T20:18:00.000-07:002012-10-04T20:18:56.321-07:00MOP WORLD PVP<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is alive and well baby and blooming in the Valley of the Four Winds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tell ya it's a bloodbath out there - it's almost as if the Alliance and the Horde are at war. ; ) I'm loving the shared quest givers and the multiple small settlements throughout the valley. The terrain is sufficiently bumpy to provide cover in combat and other PVP opportunities (ie, sneaking up on folk). It's a lot of fun to simply be about your business in the valley and to not know whether when you hit town you'll be called out. "You and me dwarf - outside!" "Surely, just you and me... " (a chair falls over as an invisible crab shuffles past following the hunter out). <em>Heh heh heh</em>. There's something quite delightful about walking into a town to see the ground littered with Horde and Alliance skeletons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finding my hunter to be quite strong both for questing and PVP. I have a ready swag of defensive capabilities and (through picking fights with those horde I come across) am slowly learning where they go and at what time to use them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a pro tip - Readiness works <a href="http://www.icy-veins.com/beast-mastery-hunter-wow-pve-dps-buffs-debuffs-useful-abilities">on everything</a> in mop rather than just Rapid Fire. Especially useful for my talented heals but also great for other defensive PVP cool downs. It's the same experience that sub rogues have previously had.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also found a brilliant pet opener:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">#showtooltip Bestial Wrath</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/cancelaura Deterrence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/cancelaura Hand of Protection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/petattack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/use 14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/cast Bestial Wrath</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/cast Rabid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/cast Blink Strike (Kill Command if you're untalented)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with many many other great macros at the <a href="http://huntsmanslodge.com/macros/">Huntsmanslodge</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above opener usually gets me about 60K damage in the first couple of seconds of an encounter. Regardless of whether the class has self heals and can come back from that it must be a shock to see about a third of your hits suddenly disappear. A shock hopefully that gets them panicking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One more thing - <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=51753#comments">Camouflage</a>! Love it, love it, LOVE IT! I'm not sure quite how visible I am when on the move (ie, am I a glisteny hunter-shaped mass or am I a glisteny hunter-shaped mass with a red hit plate above my head) but I love the fact that when I stand still I'm basically stealthed. I also love the fact that I still cast a shadow. This makes me subject to my surroundings if I want to use this skill properly - which makes sense as I'm not invisible, I'm camouflaged. I think this skill, perhaps more than any other in world pvp, makes a hunter a hunter. Barring your opponent's use of camera angle you basically sneak up only moving when their back is to you before finally springing your trap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's all for now - stay liquid guys,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-13304132034625290652012-09-30T19:43:00.000-07:002012-09-30T21:52:10.583-07:00a meeting of the minds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I'm exalted with the </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/faction=1242/glassfin-jinyu"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fish guys</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I like em - nice characterisation, pleasant quests - some quite </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/quest=29906"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">amusingly named</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Getting to exalted was way quick though and was really just an aspect of completing the quests. No one here worked for it. Talking of amusing that woose</span><a href="http://www.wowpedia.org/Rell_Nightwind"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rell</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is starting to make nelfs look bad - the dwarf, human and fish guy just spend all their time carrying him around. I loved the sniper quest - took me back to my Counter Strike days.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm almost 86 and am very happy with the pace of levelling - not too fast and plenty to see and do. Even some time to hang with the locals...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">+ panda schmanda! Buggs is all over this!! ; )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid guys,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-57848719790928968532012-09-28T09:12:00.000-07:002012-09-28T09:12:33.669-07:00dwarf's best friend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There he is - look at him with his crazy blue eyes and teeny tiny little arms, who wouldn't love him!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recent activity</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BGs - full O bots! Almost whole teams (sometimes ours, sometimes horde) just standin' around looking at the clouds... sad really.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Questing - still in the starting zone. I like it - very pretty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got a new suite - check it out my man, I is purple!! I also gained over 20K hits and almost 15% crit - mwah ha ha haa!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First aid - levelled it in a matter of minutes. Astonishingly easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-46606867354285521982012-09-27T08:48:00.001-07:002012-09-27T08:48:59.033-07:00what a mess!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ollo folks! This is </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=87474/ennadees-twirling-longbow"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ennadee's Twirling Longbow</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - it's sleek and beautiful and due to the </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/spell=20595/crack-shot"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">changes to dwarven racials</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it's just as good for this dwarf as a hand cannon (which is nice as that constant <em>blam blam</em> really starts to shit me after a while).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could I resist calling a pet with tiny arms 'Sidekick'?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-70050820466113763362012-09-25T19:37:00.000-07:002012-09-25T19:37:22.881-07:00working as intended<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ha ha! Patch day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Syltaryn warned me against it and yet off I went anyway. Frostmourne was locked so after queuing for over 3 hours I was in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got on my hunter, Sidetrack, and checked spec (my MM was intact - not BM which I intend to get back into but I knew the MM buttons so I stayed with it for the moment) got my glyphs lined up, took levelling/PVP oriented talents and specced my fiery dog, Sideburns, as ferocity. The I caught a plane to Pandaria!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Potentially the first bombing-run quest is working as intended but with a million button presses all happening at the same time it got not pretty real quick. I had to off 60 horde and 8 something somethings which I managed by firing for targets waaay off in the distance (as the close ones were mown down in a Alliance rocket frenzy) but once we got to the boat at the end of the run there was a strange DNA-like strand of players in copters floating eerily whilst overlapping each other and all firing madly as they tried to break out of the loop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Few made it. I was not one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/1 in the zone was mad with everyone talking to each other and...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidetrack: anything you typed turned up four times!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidetrack: anything you typed turned up four times!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidetrack: anything you typed turned up four times!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidetrack: that's right, anything you typed turned up four times!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nerdrage and threats towards Blizzard flowed freely which was most amusing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopped out of my copter and got out of the zone and logged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't be back on until tomorrow night when I'll spend some time respeccing to BM and getting my dino out again - woohoo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-39935358363294239892012-09-15T02:44:00.000-07:002012-09-15T02:44:03.790-07:00freakin eyeballs<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right - freakin eyeballs man!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since I saw the </span><a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=31006"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gronnstalker shoulders</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I've wanted shoulders with freakin eyeballs in them. Now, <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=73656">here they are</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-13666351350616440182012-09-11T01:19:00.002-07:002012-09-11T01:19:38.428-07:00draen-nay!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's the choices for the rest of my <a href="http://wowmogul.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/on-whee.html">mogul-winz</a> week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warrior, <span id="goog_1827970454"></span><a href="http://www.icy-veins.com/protection-warrior-wow-pve-tank-guide">prot - of course<span id="goog_1827970455"></span></a>. Easiest to get back into - read: minimal UI changes required, new blocking concepts to get across but not too hard + I've levelled solely as prot through instances so there's some good muscle memory there ++ warrior tanking is fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lock - only when Power Auras is revised for 5.0.4 (I'm incapable of playing without it apparently). Locks do look sweet though - lots of interesting things happening, groovy new pets, fun changes to specs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paladin. Tried it last night with one of those giant blue monstrosities Blizzard calls a male Draenei. What were they thinking - teeny tiny legs at an angle sufficiently different to the females to look like they were badly set after a skiing accident, bull shoulders and comparatively tiny heads and so little expression in their faces that you'd swear they'd been the subject of some deranged plastic surgeon's Botox experiment. Then there's paladins which I assume eventually turn into an amazingly exciting class but unfortunately my initial levelling experience was so lacklustre that I have a feeling I'll never find out when this happens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Bankgrrl gets another run - I'm glad. Time for a quick review of the four or five random instances I might get then back into it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right folks, all it took was paying a monthly fee since BC and then not paying it for two and a half months for Blizzard to give me a free week, and whilst I would have preferred a free week and a sparkle pony (as I now consider them delightfully retro) I decided to take my win and convert it to hard playtime! I WINZ!!!1!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only guess what? I have no idea what to do and before I can do anything I have to learn a bunch of stuff about my toons in order to get them ready to play. I had to download the patch, reconfigure the install (apparently something that happens from time to time although I can't remember it happening ever before), update the addons and then finally get into game. Now I have to read up on all class changes and make a decision as to who gets the 85 to 90 gig. I find myself oddly drawn to my druid who was my second main and partially drawn to my lock who was third main.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there's starting at level 1. On this front I still have pally and shaman to go. I had thought that my next alt would be panda monk, closely followed by panda shaman so maybe pally?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add to all this that after a few months off it felt strangely aimless to be back in game. I have other projects that I like to do now and I feel unwilling to commit to placing a large store of time back into this endevour but I know that if I'm to play it even casually on a higher level toon then a large chunk of time is what I'll need to put aside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some time ago now I left my warrior at 74. Perhaps now is the time to get back into tanking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll have some more time tonight to muck around but do find myself bemused by this WoW ennui.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently read a <a href="http://thebigbearbutt.com/2012/08/09/blowing-off-a-lot-of-steam/">pretty vitriolic post</a> from Big Bear Butt blogger. First things first, BBB is a quality blog and I have no issues with the tone of the post: it was personal, it was full of drama and (sorry BBB) I skimmed through a fair amount as it was pretty long. It's okay, I can skim effectively - I used to be a checker for a verbatim court recording agency: I'm practiced. What I did get out of the post though and what BBB only mentioned at the end is that his young fellah (who's nine) had raided with the guild in question. That's when, for me, the pieces started to fall into place. IMO what we were seeing in the post was partly outrage at the treatment meted out to a fellow blogger but mostly protectiveness towards a child. I have kids and his response makes perfect sense to me. No one wants there to be any likelihood that whilst playing this game their children could be exposed to scumbags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But you know what? They can... and that's why the rating on the game is T for teen, not because kids younger than 13 wouldn't be able to play the game - I think we can all agree that Blizz has been successful in making the game as easy to play as is humanly possible - but that it's the interwebs where you'll meet a surprisingly large number of anonymous kerb crawlers and abusive trolls. On my server there are over 200,000 players. It seems likely that in addition to upright caring players the following groups will also be represented, especially the last. That is players who are: violent; abusive; pedophiles; mentally unstable; drug users; murderers; rapists; or simply antagonistic asshats. It's in this environment of potential exposure that people are letting their children play. This is not the local village where you know everyone and even an ostensibly 'safe' guild still houses people you only know via their avataric persona. You actually don't really know them at all - you can't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two things from this: firstly the rating symbols suggest age appropriateness - your under-13 year old could differ from other under-13 year olds. Fair enough - your house, your rules. Secondly though, the TEEN rating warns that your child could be exposed to <em>crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language</em>. It does this because there's no way you can effectively rule out all chance that this might happen. With all the firewalls in the world up against other players the game itself will expose young children to these things. There are cogent reasons why children shouldn't be playing the game at an age below the TEEN rating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than this though I'd argue that it's not only inappropriate exposure to scumbags who might be loose in the game that children need protection from but from the scumbag operant conditioning that is hardwired into the very processes of the game itself. Habitualisation and Institutionalisation are tools that the good folks at Blizzard (and many other MMOs of course) use liberally in order to remain financially viable and can be just a toxic as any encounter with a questionable player.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More on this in the next post in this series: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><em>why teenagers shouldn't play MMOs</em>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These days, with a small amount of effort people can sidle their way through a state-funded education to a beige but secure government job. With almost no input they can let their waistline expand and join the growing obesity epidemic and potentially even develop a little type 2 diabetes as they go. Voyeuristic virtual existences await us at every turn as television and cable foist shows upon us in which we watch others proactively moving through the world, so that we might not. If you're of a mind to evidence only the lightest and slightest influence upon your surroundings then this current stay-at-home high-tech world really is your oyster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in-game for some reason many are cut from a different cloth. We grind together, we achieve together, we learn, we seek excellence in pursuit of our goals. Sure Blizzard shifts the goalposts but we grind and achieve nonetheless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel I've done relatively well in various areas of my life but have I shown the same level of grinding application, levied the everyday focused effort it takes to be truly great at something in RL? Here and there sure - but consistently. I must honestly answer that I have not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I take a step back from an MMO that I've been playing for about 5 years, I wonder at the nature of gamers who develop leet skillz in games that in 6 or 12 months will likely cease to exist, whilst showing sizably less application to their own real lives. What drives us to pursue such excellence in our leisure time in such an active manner? Is there a line between the person who plays virtual games to relax and the person who is simply time and time again working to actively procrastinate away their RL opportunities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid folks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-2828063277983117202012-08-02T09:18:00.001-07:002012-08-02T09:18:50.486-07:0048 dailies...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...a day? Really?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crikey!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rumour is that there will be 48 MoP dailies available, worth an average of 20g each and, if they give rep, providing 250 for the respective faction. So an enterprising, but insane, player could garner 6720g a week. In round numbers. That means that a dedicated player who completes all dailies for a year could walk away with 350000g.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soo...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At 5 mins a daily that's about 4 hours per day or 1460 hours per year on dailies for 350000g. That's a 28 hour working week on dailies. Which is 240g/hr which, to be blunt, is an astonishingly crap way to earn your money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So will I be doing my dailies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As noted before, Mogul's rule of grinding applies: Grind if you think the grind is worth it. You might see me grinding for mounts or pets if the grind is fun and potentially for secondary skill levelling or widgets, especially if I'm not at level cap as I've tended towards levelling in BGs and supplementing with dailies while waiting for a queue to pop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bear in mind folks that dailies are yet another powerful weapon in the MMO arsenal of habituating activities used to cement you into feeling like you need to play WoW in a continuous manner (hence the name). You don't. Do what's fun - ditch the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stay liquid,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-505118402998382588.post-92093515879698444452012-07-31T01:53:00.000-07:002012-07-31T01:53:15.192-07:00nice guys<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I logged onto my old <a href="http://www.epsilonguild.net/">Thaurissan guild site</a> today and contributed to a couple of threads that've been running (shout out to Ellandria, Dudeman and Jameak!!). It was great hearing from these guys and there were a few wall-o-texts around as people caught each other up on news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's the thing - my old guild has not been active for over a year and a half but folks still log in and contribute. Only one of these guys is a friend from RL but I've spent a heap of time with the rest of the team raiding while on vent and I like em - they're nice guys. : )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's always talk on the WoW forums about how hardcore raiders (and I'd describe Epsilon as hardcore casual - we got a bunch of serious 10-man achieves and titles when they were still hard) are a self-centred, self-promoting, ruthless bunch but that was not my experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have the time to raid these days and suspect that the game has moved on in such a way that I wouldn't be too interested anyway. But I remember those times in Ulduar and ICC and they were a lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mogul.</span>Mogulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06259547414941401651noreply@blogger.com1