Meme for Me November 11, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Musings.Tags: meme, World of Warcraft, WoW
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Started over at http://dkdeathgoddess.blogspot.com/ and I was tagged by Millea over at DoTs & HoTs.
The DPS Meme
What is the name, class, and spec of your primary dps?
Arioch; mage; ARCANE, BABY!
What is your primary dpsing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)
The world. I really want to be doing more 10 mans and getting into 25s, but I’ll kill whatever you point me in the direction of. You tank it, I will kill it for you.
What is your favorite dps spell/ability for your class and why?
I suppose I can’t say all of them? (more…)
The Victorian Effect in WoW November 10, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Musings.Tags: gear, World of Warcraft, WoW
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Before I even get started – yes I know that the perception of the Victorian age to be the dark ages of sexuality/sensuality/what-have-you is wildly inaccurate. However, the perception exists and the term “Victorian” is often used for this connotation.
Or… “How Shoulders Are Like Ankles”
When you look at another character in WoW, what’s the first piece of gear used to make a visual assessment of the character?
Note that I’m not saying “inspect,” I’m saying “look.”
Here, try it out: (more…)
I’m a Moron November 9, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Musings.Tags: vanity pet, World of Warcraft, WoW
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A Slacker too, I believe.
I am an M&S.
And I’m proud of it.
I’m also a happiness ninja. More on that at the end.
If you are aware of Gevlon over at the Greedy Goblin (no link love here) then you are probably aware of his views on the majority of the WoW population.
Basically, if you’ve ever spent gold on an item because it looked neat, made you smile, or amused you in any way but didn’t turn around and sell it for a profit then you have an issue with keeping up with the Joneses or are an attention whore.
Or at least, that’s what his posts (and his rabid supporters in the comments) come off as.
The focus of his recent drivel was vanity pets. (more…)
The Edge of Fail November 6, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Instances, Raid.Tags: achievement, gear, Onyxia, ToCr, Trial of the Crusader, World of Warcraft, WoW
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I stand on the rim.
Teetering.
An unanticipated breeze could send me over the edge.
Or at least that’s how most of last night felt.
…
We raid Wednesdays and Thursdays.
According to the calendar, anyway.
Something came up for our MT and two of our core healers on Wednesday. And some DPS was missing.
No problem, we’ll just scrape up some guild mates and do VoA and Ony as neither of those raids are really “progression” anymore. (more…)
Translating Vanilla to Wrath November 5, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Musings.Tags: priest, World of Warcraft, WoW
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I mentioned in my post the other day that I was avoiding boosting runs on my priest because I am forcing myself to learn how to heal as I level.
This garnered a comment from Fish that basically said, per his experiences, the abilities and experiences from early in the game don’t translate to end game so he doesn’t bother – just zip through vanilla, start to pay attention in TBC and really bring it together in Wrath content.
And then smart001 goes and agrees with him.
Well, way to make me feel stupid, guys!
/cry (more…)
WTF Search #1 November 4, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Random.Tags: search, World of Warcraft, WoW
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What.
The.
Fuck.
cast with bar in the middle pants
Can anyone shed some light on what this guy was looking for?
Because it led to me and I have no idea why.
Should my pants have a cast bar?
Specifically, in the middle?
I mean, I know I’ve had a lot of problems with my pants, but this is new territory, even for me. (more…)
This is not the post you are looking for November 3, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Uncategorized.Tags: paladin, World of Warcraft, WoW
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So I was up entirely too late, but my pally hit 50.
My hubby had quests in Scholomance and Stratholme so agreed to drag me through. mostly I think to act as a mule for all the shit that drops in there. Oh and for the weak-ass heals I can throw out – crit for 1500 (I’m prot spec, gimmie a break).
Wish I were on a clothie. The cloth drops were outrageous. Plate? Weapons? Not so much.
I felt totally useless. I don’t know where anything is on my pally or how anything works. About all I could do was aggro everything in the instance just by zoning in.
And this is why I’m refusing to get my priest boosted at all. I will know how to heal by the time I hit end game on him. Might not be good at it, but I won’t be able to use lack of experience as my excuse. Maybe I’ll just be a sucky healer. I’m talented like that.
Anyway, hitting 50 means that I now get to power level through the next batch of inscription. And it’s about time, too. I think I have 2 bank pages full of herbs ready to burn.
…
Too tired to say anything else.
More tomorrow.
Blah.
Worst Holiday EVER November 2, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Holidays.Tags: achievement, Day of the Dead, World of Warcraft, WoW
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So I was looking forward to the Day of the Dead holiday, I mean it comes with a pet!
I happen to be in Undercity so dance with Catrina there and purchase one of each of the goodies – mask, 1-use marigolds, a candle, the recipe for the bread, the offhand equipped marigolds, and the candy.
I equip the marigolds and have fun talking to all the dead people until I realize they are all saying the same thing.
I learn the recipe and hit the cooking vendor and innkeeper for the flour and milk needed to make the bread. (more…)
Update your bookmarks! November 2, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Web Comics.Tags: web comic
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Locus has moved to a new home: http://www.needcomics.com/Locus/
Don’t know what I’m talking about?
Read this: http://clearcasting.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/locus/
And because I wasn’t emphatic enough about it the first time…
The comic is NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
(my review of the comic is just fine, it’s the comic itself that has naughty bits)
THERE ARE BOOBIES!
THERE IS SEX! (well, 1 sex scene so far, but lots of BOOBIES!)
AND DEMONS!
AND HELL!
AND WEREWOLVES!
AND STUFF!
NSFW!
I told you so October 30, 2009
Posted by Arioch in Musings.Tags: achievement, security, World of Warcraft, WoW
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First, breaking news!
BAM!
(I completed both on 10/29/09 local time but apparently not on server time.)
The sad part is… there are some awesome quests that I want to finish up, so I can’t stop.
Even before the whole achievement thing started I had a personal goal to see every quest conceivable on at least one character.
So I’ll finish up this quest chain that I think will take me through the Dark Portal to hunt demons. And I’ll finish the quest chain that I’m doing for Tirion Fordring out in Eastern Plaguelands. And the quests from Chromie are amusing as I really am (in a way) from the future doing quests in the past for her.
But at least now I feel like some of the pressure has been lifted and I can bounce around as I wish. (more…)
