First off I admire each of my 10man raiding team. If I wasn't confident that they were not the best at their particular role I wouldn't want to be there. There are a few others that stand out from my gaming career. From EQ there was Hile, Saloorn, Tigole, Sinnah, Zanira, and Maht. My entire company (guild) in Planetside. "Take out the spawn tubes!!"
I'm having a memory lapse this morning but I know there are a few others from EQ2 and a couple other stragglers but I can't recall them this morning.
As far as bloggers - I only know a few and those that I enjoy have a direct link here. So make of that what you will.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Day 12 - A Usual Day In Your Life/Online Time
I wake up 6-6:30 and am gone by 7:00.
Drive 37 miles to work at an environmental lab
Leave at 4:30 and drive home.
Feed the cats, clean on the house a bit, get a shower.
Do some things with the wife.
Go through previous nights logs for a 2nd time.
Raid time at 8:00-11:30
Post logs and examine for what I can do better next time/where I failed.
This is a "normal" day. That's why I try to get in anything to break the cycle on the weekends and sometimes the week. Hopefully usually it's something that I checked for raid conflicts first (sorry guys!) My wife and I enjoy music greatly so we frequent any concert we can. When there is something good playing we will catch a matinee on the weekends.
Drive 37 miles to work at an environmental lab
Leave at 4:30 and drive home.
Feed the cats, clean on the house a bit, get a shower.
Do some things with the wife.
Go through previous nights logs for a 2nd time.
Raid time at 8:00-11:30
Post logs and examine for what I can do better next time/where I failed.
This is a "normal" day. That's why I try to get in anything to break the cycle on the weekends and sometimes the week. Hopefully usually it's something that I checked for raid conflicts first (sorry guys!) My wife and I enjoy music greatly so we frequent any concert we can. When there is something good playing we will catch a matinee on the weekends.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Day 11 - Bad Habits & Flaws
I am somewhat of a neat freak at times. Or rather I should say very obsessive about things being just the way I want them. Very detail oriented. This may be partly because of my career as an analytical chemist. It's surprising if I click the "restack" option on arkinventory less than five times an hour. I have extremely little patience for stupidity and when things I pay for don't work the way they should or at all. I can be absent minded or forgetful often especially if my complete attention was not on the topic at the time of occurrence.
If it's not obvious from my posts I am also a poor writer as English and composition were never my thing. People tell me I can be overly critical, joke too often, and complain but I consider these to be good things.
If it's not obvious from my posts I am also a poor writer as English and composition were never my thing. People tell me I can be overly critical, joke too often, and complain but I consider these to be good things.
Day 10 - Blog/Website Favorites
Shadowpriest.com is the quintessential site for shadow dps and theory crafting as Elitist Jerks is very lacking in the shadow department. Still I do ready and study through the forums at EJ. I regularly checkMMOChampion for ptr info on my iphone. Mr. Robotis a nice site for gear & reforging suggestions.
I enjoy reading each of my guild mates blogs and their diversity of topics and style. I know if I want a good laugh I go to see what wombcrusher is up to. For general info and paladin things I can visit wrath of the lightbringer or divineplea.
Outside of WoW I am a member of Digital Blasphemy which is a website for a graphical artist. Woot is excellent for creative tshirts. I also frequent Ninjai and various shopping websites.
Day 9 - Your First Blog Post
No surprises here. My first blog post was Day 1 of the 20 day challenge. On this day I also announced the start of this blog and what my intentions were. With the exception of yesterday when Blogger was down I have yet to miss a day.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Day 8 - 10 Things We Don't Know About You
Some how I will struggle through these and come up with 10 notable post worthy facts.
1. I was once married to a demon or the daughter of the devil, whichever strikes your fancy.
2. In high school I unknowingly drove the vehicle in a drive by.
3. When I was born doctors told my parents I would never walk.
4. In college I once played guitar with Chris Thile not knowing who he was.
5. For my 21st birthday I turned down front row seats to Eric Clapton because I didn't want to go by myself.
6. In high school I was hit by a slab of blacktop from a moving car going 60mph. It crushed part of my chest and I believe I suffered a broken rib. I never went to the doctor or told my parents because I was partaking in questionable activities. To this day I think they still don't know.
7. My first car was a total death trap. The passenger wiper didn't work. The electrical wiring was bad in it and the lights would go out at random while driving home from work at night. The pin holding the steering wheel column to the front in once fell out and I couldn't turn the wheels. I had to keep a walmart 1 gallon ice cream bucket under the passenger side dash to catch water when it rained.
8. The above mentioned car while in dire need of restoration saved my life in a wreck where I drove into an embankment, bounced and flipped the car onto the roof over my head. Had I not ducked and been in an older built car I would not be here today.
9. I'm extremely detailed oriented. In WoW if arkinventory didn't have the "restack" and "refresh" buttons my head would probably explode. I have to hit these each time I hearth. This spills over into my work and how I can't clean at all without cleaning completely or everything in sight.
10. I was nearly arrested at 17 for insulting an officer that I had worked with previously at Arby's because I knew he was dishonorably discharged from the army and was fired from Arby's for "internal theft." How did that one get through the background check?
1. I was once married to a demon or the daughter of the devil, whichever strikes your fancy.
2. In high school I unknowingly drove the vehicle in a drive by.
3. When I was born doctors told my parents I would never walk.
4. In college I once played guitar with Chris Thile not knowing who he was.
5. For my 21st birthday I turned down front row seats to Eric Clapton because I didn't want to go by myself.
6. In high school I was hit by a slab of blacktop from a moving car going 60mph. It crushed part of my chest and I believe I suffered a broken rib. I never went to the doctor or told my parents because I was partaking in questionable activities. To this day I think they still don't know.
7. My first car was a total death trap. The passenger wiper didn't work. The electrical wiring was bad in it and the lights would go out at random while driving home from work at night. The pin holding the steering wheel column to the front in once fell out and I couldn't turn the wheels. I had to keep a walmart 1 gallon ice cream bucket under the passenger side dash to catch water when it rained.
8. The above mentioned car while in dire need of restoration saved my life in a wreck where I drove into an embankment, bounced and flipped the car onto the roof over my head. Had I not ducked and been in an older built car I would not be here today.
9. I'm extremely detailed oriented. In WoW if arkinventory didn't have the "restack" and "refresh" buttons my head would probably explode. I have to hit these each time I hearth. This spills over into my work and how I can't clean at all without cleaning completely or everything in sight.
10. I was nearly arrested at 17 for insulting an officer that I had worked with previously at Arby's because I knew he was dishonorably discharged from the army and was fired from Arby's for "internal theft." How did that one get through the background check?
Monday, May 9, 2011
New Legendary Stick
As I'm sure everyone is aware the new legendary for the Cataclysm expansion has been named and it is an offensive based staff. Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest
The blue posts have stated that it would have an offensive based proc. This left me wondering what could it be? Hopefully not another mastery joke but I would hardly define that as offensive since I know at least holy priests benefit nicely from mastery.
Of course for shadow priests stat priority is roughly Int > Haste > Crit >= Mastery, Hit. Before I'm flamed I am aware that crit is slightly better than mastery and both better than hit, but these values also vary with your overall item level. For more information seek out Shadowpriest.com.
I am sure the current information released on shadow T12 2-piece / 4-piece bonus will undoubtedly change five times or more before 4.2 is released. As it stands the 2 piece bonus is fairy huge in my opinion coupled with Sin and Punishment. I would even dare to say over powered. One thing for sure is with the current 2-piece bonus of Tier 12 shadow priests should have no problem with mana as many heroic fights now give.
So to end this rant of futility I'm hoping for some type of massive buff to dots, haste or even crit for the offensive proc of Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest.
The blue posts have stated that it would have an offensive based proc. This left me wondering what could it be? Hopefully not another mastery joke but I would hardly define that as offensive since I know at least holy priests benefit nicely from mastery.
Of course for shadow priests stat priority is roughly Int > Haste > Crit >= Mastery, Hit. Before I'm flamed I am aware that crit is slightly better than mastery and both better than hit, but these values also vary with your overall item level. For more information seek out Shadowpriest.com.
I am sure the current information released on shadow T12 2-piece / 4-piece bonus will undoubtedly change five times or more before 4.2 is released. As it stands the 2 piece bonus is fairy huge in my opinion coupled with Sin and Punishment. I would even dare to say over powered. One thing for sure is with the current 2-piece bonus of Tier 12 shadow priests should have no problem with mana as many heroic fights now give.
So to end this rant of futility I'm hoping for some type of massive buff to dots, haste or even crit for the offensive proc of Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest.
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