Apparently on the 3.2 PTR you will be able to extend the lockout period for raids. Find more over at wow.com.
My first thought is...
Our 10 man progression group runs once a week for three hours. That is it. Even then we take weeks off. Currently we are in our fourth week of "break" from progression.
In Ulduar we have killed Flame Leviathan, Ignis, Razorscale, XT-002, Assembly of Iron, Kologarn, Auriaya, and Thorim. Before our current break we got a good look at Freya.
Killing those eight bosses takes up most of our one night of progression. Eight bosses in three hours is quite good I feel. But it would be great to get a full night with Freya and Hodir.
This change is something for raid leaders to look into and use.
Thank you Ratter for pointing this out to me.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
*cast cast* Turtle MINE
Fishing, as you know, is one of my favorite past times. I fish to calm myself when I get annoyed. I fish when I am bored. I fish when I am busy. I fish listening to podcasts. I fish while chatting with friends. I fish when I just need something to clear my head.
I do a lot of fishing.
But so do my guildies!!! Congrats to one of my Pallies on winning the fishing contest in a little over 17 minutes.
He mentioned Mr. Pinchy. I still needed that mini pet. All the fishing in BC I never got the chance. I did a few months ago get one. But no pet the the three chances. This time I headed over there and my first wish gave me the Magical Crawdad Box!
I enjoy doing the fishing dailies. I am still doing the Crocolisk in the City. I only have one of the three croco pets available.
All the random items that you get in your Bag of Fishing Treasures from the Dalaran fishing daily is great. Quite a bit of gold too, here are some of my favorites.
Deviate Fish is cooked to Savory Deviate Delight or made into Elixir of Giant Growth.
Pygmy Oil is made into Guru's Elixir.
Elixir of Water Walking is posted in AH just before Sunday’s Fishing Extravaganza.
The must read is dropped in the fishing bag too, A Steamy Romance Novel: Northern Exposure. MUST READ!!! *giggle fits*
My newest favorite is the Tiny Titanium Lockbox. Here is what I got in my first one.
Beyond all else I fish for mats for the Fish Feast for raiding. I help provide the mats to Husband for them so he doesn’t have to do it all. Lookie what I got!! (Oh and please note the T8 shoulders. I tend to not do lookie gear posts.)
When you stand still on the Sea Turtle and jump the turtle mount tucks in his feet and head. It is a great addition to this great looking mount. *rides around in glee*
I do a lot of fishing.
But so do my guildies!!! Congrats to one of my Pallies on winning the fishing contest in a little over 17 minutes.
He mentioned Mr. Pinchy. I still needed that mini pet. All the fishing in BC I never got the chance. I did a few months ago get one. But no pet the the three chances. This time I headed over there and my first wish gave me the Magical Crawdad Box!I enjoy doing the fishing dailies. I am still doing the Crocolisk in the City. I only have one of the three croco pets available.
All the random items that you get in your Bag of Fishing Treasures from the Dalaran fishing daily is great. Quite a bit of gold too, here are some of my favorites.
Deviate Fish is cooked to Savory Deviate Delight or made into Elixir of Giant Growth.
Pygmy Oil is made into Guru's Elixir.
Elixir of Water Walking is posted in AH just before Sunday’s Fishing Extravaganza.
The must read is dropped in the fishing bag too, A Steamy Romance Novel: Northern Exposure. MUST READ!!! *giggle fits*
My newest favorite is the Tiny Titanium Lockbox. Here is what I got in my first one.
Beyond all else I fish for mats for the Fish Feast for raiding. I help provide the mats to Husband for them so he doesn’t have to do it all. Lookie what I got!! (Oh and please note the T8 shoulders. I tend to not do lookie gear posts.)
When you stand still on the Sea Turtle and jump the turtle mount tucks in his feet and head. It is a great addition to this great looking mount. *rides around in glee*
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Locks Do Blush
Selenium of guild Almost Evil was hanging out in IF. Doing some banking when she was randomly /poke-d. 
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Twink Experience /vanish
From the Initial 3.2 Patch notes:
Battleground experience has arrived!
* Players will now be awarded experience for completing objectives and actions that yield honor in Battlegrounds (honorable kills not included).
* Players who do not wish to gain experience through PvP can visit Behsten in Stormwind or Slahtz in Orgrimmar - both located near the Battlemasters in either city - and turn off all experience accumulation for the cost of 10 gold.
* Disabling experience gains will prevent a player from gaining experience through any means available in the game.
* Players with experience gains turned off who compete in Battlegrounds will face off only against other players with experience gains turned off.
* Behsten and Slahtz can reinstate experience gains for players, for a 10 gold fee of course. Any experience that would’ve been accumulated if experience gains were not turned off cannot be recovered.
This is fantastic! This patch will bring us a lot of change to our games.
First, for 10G you can now grind instances for drops for no experience. You can also explore while waiting for queues with no experience.
I still question if no experience will also go for quests. Doing the STV quests to finish the quest Big Game Hunter for the bow/gun for 29 Hunters is a challenge. If you don't get any experience for quests this will make it EXTREMELY easy for 29s to complete. (Then there is Holiday quests, BG daily quests, and Reputation quests! Lots of options would come for bored twinks.)
Then, separating those who are twinks from those who just want to level, we will have to see. My first reaction is "YES! GET THE FODDER OUT OF MY WSG." I look for the twink vs. twink battles and this will ensure that it happens. It will be much easier to have premade groups match up.
I actually see this as bad for the person leveling. Your queues will now depend on 9 of your faction and 10 of the opposite to queue for your bracket. Currently on a bad day the queue can be 20-30 minutes in the Emberstorm battlegroup. We can only hope that the lure of experience in the BGs will make more people queue.
I initially thought you are now separating those who know the game objective and don't. I can hope that there are enough people leveling alts that this will not be true. Sadly you will also not get a chance to be exposed to twinks in both good and bad scenarios. Not realizing there is a difference.
Overall, I do think separating the twinks vs those that are leveling is a good thing.
Last, those that do like to battleground can level. I actually have a friend who hates leveling with hot poker in the eyes. Now he can go dawdle in WSG, AB, EOTS, AV, and the new battleground. Just maybe he will make it to 80 by the time a new expansion comes out.
I will recommend that anyone who does have twinks wait to run battlegrounds after the patch. I will take a low level alt out into the BG with experience turned off. Testing this on the LIVE realms once launched is a must. The idea that one of my twinks gets leveled because something was wrong with the new system would be so very depressing. So be warned.
Battleground experience has arrived!
* Players will now be awarded experience for completing objectives and actions that yield honor in Battlegrounds (honorable kills not included).
* Players who do not wish to gain experience through PvP can visit Behsten in Stormwind or Slahtz in Orgrimmar - both located near the Battlemasters in either city - and turn off all experience accumulation for the cost of 10 gold.
* Disabling experience gains will prevent a player from gaining experience through any means available in the game.
* Players with experience gains turned off who compete in Battlegrounds will face off only against other players with experience gains turned off.
* Behsten and Slahtz can reinstate experience gains for players, for a 10 gold fee of course. Any experience that would’ve been accumulated if experience gains were not turned off cannot be recovered.
This is fantastic! This patch will bring us a lot of change to our games.
First, for 10G you can now grind instances for drops for no experience. You can also explore while waiting for queues with no experience.
I still question if no experience will also go for quests. Doing the STV quests to finish the quest Big Game Hunter for the bow/gun for 29 Hunters is a challenge. If you don't get any experience for quests this will make it EXTREMELY easy for 29s to complete. (Then there is Holiday quests, BG daily quests, and Reputation quests! Lots of options would come for bored twinks.)
Then, separating those who are twinks from those who just want to level, we will have to see. My first reaction is "YES! GET THE FODDER OUT OF MY WSG." I look for the twink vs. twink battles and this will ensure that it happens. It will be much easier to have premade groups match up.
I actually see this as bad for the person leveling. Your queues will now depend on 9 of your faction and 10 of the opposite to queue for your bracket. Currently on a bad day the queue can be 20-30 minutes in the Emberstorm battlegroup. We can only hope that the lure of experience in the BGs will make more people queue.
I initially thought you are now separating those who know the game objective and don't. I can hope that there are enough people leveling alts that this will not be true. Sadly you will also not get a chance to be exposed to twinks in both good and bad scenarios. Not realizing there is a difference.
Overall, I do think separating the twinks vs those that are leveling is a good thing.
Last, those that do like to battleground can level. I actually have a friend who hates leveling with hot poker in the eyes. Now he can go dawdle in WSG, AB, EOTS, AV, and the new battleground. Just maybe he will make it to 80 by the time a new expansion comes out.
I will recommend that anyone who does have twinks wait to run battlegrounds after the patch. I will take a low level alt out into the BG with experience turned off. Testing this on the LIVE realms once launched is a must. The idea that one of my twinks gets leveled because something was wrong with the new system would be so very depressing. So be warned.
Friday, June 19, 2009
DPS Killer
Getting turned into a turtle.
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There is nothing that kills my dps more. Silly mages should just let me pew pew them to death.
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There is nothing that kills my dps more. Silly mages should just let me pew pew them to death.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Coming Through
Husband and I went to Las Vegas for our 10th wedding anniversary. It was fun. I have wanted to see Penn & Teller for a while now and we finally did. Teller is as fantastic as I knew he would be.
In-game I used 15,500 gold plus mats for Husband’s gift.
In-game I used 15,500 gold plus mats for Husband’s gift.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
DoTimer Self-Tip
Removing raid wide buffs in DoTimer addon. For lock and druid I only have a few items on my do not show list or blocked list.
Open up the Addon menu under Interface. Under DoTimer Filters add to the Blocked Types field anything you want to never show. Press enter once you are done typing in the name accurately. For me the spelling and typing challenged, it may take a moment to get correct.
For me I want to keep the list short. The current items are:
Open up the Addon menu under Interface. Under DoTimer Filters add to the Blocked Types field anything you want to never show. Press enter once you are done typing in the name accurately. For me the spelling and typing challenged, it may take a moment to get correct.For me I want to keep the list short. The current items are:
- replenishment
- detect invisibility
- unending breath
- mark of the wild
- gift of the wild
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