The Devil’s Panties

Not satanic porn!

Sorry to disappoint.

There is more to my life than playing WoW, not much, but there is more.

I’m going to expose you all to one of my other hobbies – reading an absurd amount of web comics. I figure spreading the word about them is one of the little things I can do to show my appreciation for the hard work that these artists put into their creations.

I wish I could draw.

Anyway, first up in the Web Comic installment is…

• Author: Jennie Breeden
• Artist: Jennie Breeden
• Rating: PG-13
• Updates: just about daily
• URL: http://devilspanties.keenspot.com/

This comic captures many facets of Jennie’s life from her day-to-day activities, scans of her art, not being able to buy sex toys where she lives, running amok at conventions with a battery-operated leaf blower attacking men with kilts to get Marilyn Monroe-esque photos, cleavage, boiling babies in a turkey boiler, and a steadfast refusal to grow up that I completely identify with. There’s something for everyone!

TDP is a comic you can pick up anywhere in the archives, there are chunks of related strips, but nothing that requires you to get involved in a plot.

Jennie also participates in a LARP (live action role play) game called SOLAR. She runs a second comic that updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday called Geebas on Parade that chronicles the bizarreness that happens in the woods when a bunch of people run around with padded swords beating on each other. And rum. There’s rum there.

Enjoy!

Level Up!

 

1000 Hits!

Wowee guys! As of today I have 1000 hits and over 100 of them just today!

Thanks again to everyone that comes by and reads my ramblings. Many more thanks to those of you that have linked me in your blog rolls and/or commented.

I now feel like I’m part of a bizarre little family. /cheer

If I’m on your blog roll but haven’t commented on your stuff yet it’s because I’m going through archives. Back to that odd compulsion of mine. Rest assured that I will eventually read them all and become a regular commenter. You have been warned.

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Did not get much done last night in terms of productivity.

What I did do was tear apart my UI and make a huge mess as well as change up a couple of keybindings to be a little more PvP-friendly. I will eventually post the final results.

A friend then invited me into a H VH with a DK tank friend of hers that she’s helping get geared.

I warned them that I was breaking in a new UI… had to do an emergency UI reload twice right after we got started because my mouse flipped out while I was trying to drag my cooldown bars over a bit. No one died because of it, so it’s all good.

The mascot pally from the Naxx 25 run the other night was in there; I think there was a completely different person behind the keyboard; it was bizarre. The guy in Naxx was shy and polite, and really didn’t have a clue what was going on. I felt kinda sorry for the little guy.

Last night, he was still in prot gear but at least in ret spec this time… but can’t break 800 DPS still and was complaining about being too broke to get gear but dailies being too boring and only giving 5 gold.

5 gold my ass, I’m getting 10-13 gold for each one. I told him to do the level 80 dailies instead of the level 70 ones.

How do you die so fast?

 

–quote from my arena partner.

And that pretty well sums up our first week of Arena for Season 6.

Let’s just say that when a rogue and a boomkin decide they want a mage dead fast they get it done.

Yes, I have resilience, almost 800. And armor made of tissue paper.

13 games, won 2. I went in with the expectation of winning 1 in 10 and being happy.

I’m in the same arcane mage/frost mage comp as last season, no Flavor of the Month DK/Pally comps for us; when we win there really can’t be any accusations of face rolling, we fight hard for our wins.

I had to lock down my action bars for the first time. In one match I managed to swap abilities on my bars not once, but twice! I don’t click much so to fuck up like that made me feel really stupid. Like, more stupid than normal.

There will be some tweaking with my keybinds, I found myself thinking, “Wow, if I had mapped this to that then I would have gotten that Frost Nova off…”

I completely forgot about the fact I made a mouse-over polymorph macro. Granted, it’s original intended use was for CC on party members when fighting KT on 25-man Naxx… but I shouldn’t have forgotten about it. Durrrrrrrr…

Dual-stealth teams fuck us HARD. No dinner, no movie, no flowers, no lube. And they never call the next day.

Noblegarden

Arioch the Noble, in the garden.

While I doubt that I was the first on the server with the title, I was certainly the first in my guild to get it.

I’ll even let you in on how!

The Noblegarden seasonal event has two ways to be completed: the “just give me my frickin’ meta achievement” and the “I’m an achievement whore, give it all to me” methods.

I’m an achievement whore, but I’ll show you where to cut corners if you just want the meta.

Basic Premise

It wouldn’t be Noblegarden without finding eggs and eggs are the key to the achievements. Eggs contain chocolate and chocolate is the currency of choice for the Noblegarden Merchant. Items needed to complete the meta achievement can be purchased with chocolate and found in eggs. Smart bet for meta-only achievers is collect eggs until you have enough chocolate to buy what you need and hope you also got some goodies along the way. Every egg will give you either a piece of chocolate or an event item. If you have the egg shell quest every egg will drop a shell in addition to chocolate or item.

Looting eggs also has the random chance to cast a bunny buff on you, turning you into a pink rabbit. You can remove the buff by right-clicking on it. When you are in rabbit form you also will periodically lay a very tiny colored egg.

 

Game designers are on too much acid

While the guild’s away…

the mage will play!

Log on this weekend and I am the only soul from my guild on. Not even the souless people were on.

Know what this means?

I can get stuff done!

I can do my dailies (that I am sooo far behind on), I can quest (and not have everyone telling me to hurry up, who reads quests anyways?), I can cruise the AH, calculate a few gems to swap out, all sorts of stuff.

Started out snagging the daily fishing and cooking out of Dalaran and popped over to Shatt to check the fishing daily there. I still need all 4 of the damn crocolisk vanity pets from the Crocolisks in the City quest. No dice on crocolisks so it’s off to Silvermoon to peruse the AH. Got myself a Captured Firefly; think I’m at 68 pets now.

Started flying up to the new Tournament area in Icecrown to finish up the quests I started up there last night, and was distracted by flying over the blue-chick village. I remembered that they have a daily that has a chance to drop the polar bear mount. Alas, no mount. But I got some cheese! Yuck.

While I’m out this way, I might as well fly over to the perv camp and see how I can please them today. The other night I had just hit honored and last night a guildie walked me through Thrusting the Spear. I’m pretty proud to say I did it on the first try and only fucked up once when I went back to it today. I must be a natural at spear thrusting, if ya know what I mean. /wink

Party Parity

…or the functional equality of the GCD in a group setting.

There is something wrong with me. Probably many things, but in particular I succumb to an odd compulsion – when I start reading a blog, I eventually go back and read the archives.

All of them.

From day 1.

I need help. Or more time in the day.

Blogs on tape? Read by Scott McNeil. Yummy. /tangent off

I’ve been perusing back copies of Megan’s Out of Mana and in some of the older posts the idea of parity comes up in relation to PvP. She makes wonderful equations out of priests battling each other and which ones make the better use of their GCD, the ones that break parity and come out on top.

The thought occurred to me, if you can break parity offensively in PvP, could you do so supportively in PvE? It’s really just a different way of looking at resource management at a group level.

What follows is probably common sense to you all and you’ll hopefully agree or flame me as appropriate.

Take a task that needs to be completed and two players of the same class have the option ability to perform the task.

Two mages and a curse to be removed, two hunters and a mob to be kited, two warlocks and an elemental to be banished. Apples to apples comparison.

Do I look like a hunter to you?

 

Can't... move... arms... Shoulders... too... heavy...

 

 

The above image serves three purposes:

1. It illustrates that I look nothing like a hunter.
2. It is a not-so-subtle indicator that I now have my T7 shoulders.
3. It’s a reminder of how much of a stud he is.

Sshould have kept my T7 gloves for photo opportunities. They may have been ugly, but at least they matched the rest of the set. I’m committing fashion suicide with those purple gloves.

Decided to go into Naxx early this week. We’re losing the DK tank this weekend to some RL™ obligations and felt that picking up 2 random tanks instead of just 1 would be scary.

WTB Shadow Sheep

 

BAM!

And just like that, KT is my bitch.

Or something.

Got back into the same group, plus and minus a few people, and we took the rest of Naxx 25 by storm.

Opened up with a wipe on Patchwerk to get warmed up and then proceeded to lay the smack down – we were 15 seconds away from getting the Make Quick Werk of Him achievement. My raid was bipolar, suck ass one minute and kick it the next.

Our other moment of “oops” was against Thaddius, here’s what I’ve learned about that fight so far:

• The tanks have to keep Fuegen and Stalagg close to where they start or the Tesla Coils go nuts and will wipe the raid.
• If you can’t make the jump, beg a mage for Slow Fall or a priest for Levitate. (I’ve been secretly casting Slow Fall on our druid every guild run, he was with me in this raid but got put on the opposite side and I forgot to whisper the other mage to cast it on him… he missed the jump.)
• After the jump, stack in front of Thadd, don’t pick a side yet. We wiped because people had picked sides before they got their polarity and fucked up getting to the correct side because they were too far away.
• Use Deadly Boss Mods to keep an eye on the polarity shifts. This does 2 things: First, it helps keep you from being in the middle of a long cast when the shift happens. Second, it pops a big blue warning on your screen when your polarity changes. No big blue words and loud noise, you’re cool to chill out.
• Casters should stack on the melee, who should all be at maximum melee distance. Big damage buffs the more stacks you’ve got.
• When a shift happens, make sure you know which way AROUND Thaddius to go. Mages can blink through, but the rest of ya’ll got to hoof it. Every raid I’ve done so far says to pass on the right.
• If you’re like me and panic as soon as you’re assigned a polarity, “OMG which side is which again?” even though the raid leader has spammed his cute little “— Thadd +++” macro a gabillion times: make use of stickies. I’ve got a big “-” on the left of my monitor and a “+” on the right. I ran with a hunter that wrote them on her hands, whatever works for you.

Only two deaths for all of Construct, Sapph, and KT. I actually came out ahead by almost 10 gold after repairs. Making some serious dough now! I’ll be rocking that Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth in no time flat at this rate! /sarcasm off

Adventures in Naxx

And now for Naxx…

Did the guild run of Naxx 10 on Friday and then through a new friend from that, promptly was invited to a Naxx 25 Saturday night.

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For the guild run, we did not get our warrior/shaman duo back, our warlock called in sick, and the rogue was looking at 2 more hours of patching WoW after reformatting his hard drive.

We snagged a DK OT and disc priest pair, a new warlock and rogue, and I found a hunter that had never completed Naxx on that toon but knew all the fights. The warlock ended up having to leave after the first fight so we got another hunter. That hunter went afk on us right before Sapph so we booted him, grabbed a resto shaman that we knew and our holy pally made use of dual spec to go ret.

Stepping into Naxx 10 this week, we had 3 goals:

• Complete it in under the 5.5 hours it took us last week
• Get the achievement Momma Said Knock You Out
• Get the achievement Arachnophobia

Epic Hair!

OK, I know I said that I would talk about our Naxx run, but some things are just more important in life.

Warning: This post is unusually girly for me.

Waaaaay back in November, I ran across this copy of Heavy Metal magazine.

 

WTB her sword and her hips

Our eyes met from across the Barnes & Noble and the purchase was made.

Yes, I actually read Heavy Metal. When I want to learn I read National Geographic or Smithsonian. When I want to think, I read Heavy Metal. Or when I want to ogle gratuitous nudity and violence. It’s really the perfect publication for me.

So that has been my haistyle since November, dark brown with red in the front. I’m not quite brave/crazy enough to do that with the make up. Yet.

Got my hair done yesterday and decided to kick it up a notch this time: