Friday night, I tried the raid finder one more time. Happily, I popped right into a raid, no bugs ('cept for I fell to my death ) and they weren't finishing the last boss fight. I found them busy clearing the trash mobs before the slime boss.
Slime boss is basically a game of follow-the-leader. Attack boss, kill slime add (usually first on DBM list), follow prompts from DBM, repeat. Token for tier shoulders drops, I lost. Last boss, Hagara, kill everything, don't stand in frost, run from the bad looking things, kill the pilars, kill adds near little towers that popup, zap all of them with lightning (exactly opposite of what the boss yells at you "you can never charge all my towers!! buwahaha"). Token for pants drop, I lost again. OK, I wasn't expecting much, but the frustrating part, even though I lost both rolls, I can't roll again on these bosses again this week.
I'll try again tonight and hopefully get to see the first three bosses.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
RL Congressional PVP
Establishes a system for taking down websites that the Justice Department determines to be "dedicated to infringing activities." The DoJ or the copyright owner would be able to commence a legal action against the alleged infringer and the DoJ would be allowed to demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain name services block access to the targeted site. In some cases, action could be taken to block sites without first allowing the alleged infringer to defend themselves in court.Unfortunately for a blogger like myself, this could be rather painful and detrimental to my blog. My blog could permanently disappear off the face of the earth.
See, despite my unique URL, I am actually hosted on blogger.com. Google is an international company, with an indeterminate number of blogs hosted on their service. Potentially if only one of these bloggers posts something controversial/copy-protected, the DOJ has the option to block that server (and all sites hosted by blogger.com). Sure, this is a last resort, assuming the client does not take down the offensive material, but this is a slippery slope..
Needless, this is the wrong way to do it. This is the Internet. We still haven't been able to permanently block spammers, and this legislation thinks they can fix piracy by blocking individual sites? Block this? I move to another host, move my domain to a UK blog provider. Block my domain, and I'll change from .info, to a .com, .tv or ?? who knows, what's on sale on GoDaddy? (have you ever looked at the expired domains list?) It only costs me money and you get to suffer in trying to find me.
Today, FelConcentration has links to more info and methods to contact US representatives. I suggest reading the full text at OpenCongress under "Read the Rest" on the Official Summary, it may help answer questions.
Great Reference for Traveling around Azeroth
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Raid Finder #2
The fates are conspiring against me.. Tonight, I tried my second run at the Raid Finder tool. Tonight, I had to accept that 0 of the bosses were down, then ported in. When I got there, 3 seconds pop by and I am back in Orgrimmar. Teleport to dungeon again, "you are not in a raid, please port home, or you will be sent to closest graveyard.". Happily that graveyard was back at the AH in Orgrimmar.
After 2 minutes of this, and requeueing to fill blank spots, I gave up and went to run the dungeons 3 times. Valor - no gear.
By the time I actually get in there, I won't remember the fights!!
After 2 minutes of this, and requeueing to fill blank spots, I gave up and went to run the dungeons 3 times. Valor - no gear.
By the time I actually get in there, I won't remember the fights!!
Friday, January 13, 2012
Raid Finder Attempt 1
Today I decided to try my first run at the Look for Raid finder. I click on the button, queue up. Walk away from my desk "13 minutes: 1 DPS, 0 Healer 0 Tank".
I come back 5 minutes later, and I see I am now in a raid. Ok, let's get in there...
Followed by in 1 minute.
I finally zone in, and they've just killed Hagara the Stormbinder.
Woot! I win! But since I wasn't there, no loot.. :(
Now, does this mean someone zoned out in the middle of the fight of the last boss?
I come back 5 minutes later, and I see I am now in a raid. Ok, let's get in there...
Followed by in 1 minute.
I finally zone in, and they've just killed Hagara the Stormbinder.
Woot! I win! But since I wasn't there, no loot.. :(
Now, does this mean someone zoned out in the middle of the fight of the last boss?
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Resource Site: L2PTV.com
OK, so I am finally ready to run the Dragon Soul LFR raid. Gear iLevel 378, enchanted with as many cheap enchants as affordable and fitted gems in all slots. To prepare myself (and not look like a total raid noob in front of a bunch of strangers), I like to read strat guides, or watch a video revealing the fight mechanics.
One site that's just come up is L2PTV.com. L2Ptv or Learn 2 Play's main focus is to provide new and learning players guides and videos on how to play their class, guides for various zones, and even raid boss mechanics. The part I took advantage of, was, the raid bosses. The videos, each about 2 minutes long, provide a quick over view of the boss, visuals of the mechanic plus a nice how to deal with each mechanic. Morchok = run to crystals to decrease damage, stand back for stomp, stand behind pillars to avoid aoe when he throws them off him.
As a subscription service, there is a lot of content they've marked premium and has some interesting potential. I really look forward to checking out the PoV videos for each boss, for each class type. Where on searching Youtube, you can find a few boss videos, but you're not likely going to find (a good) video specifically highlighting your class. Yeah, not a lot of warlocks making raid videos out there.. (Still not). L2P has the groundwork down to provide this, with their Balance Druid videos starting to come on line.
For subscribers they provide one additional service that really sounds intriguing. If you're having major issues with your game play and just can't seem to reach the DPS that you should be, l2p, will take your video and review it. Providing you with details on how to improve play, review your armory for gearing suggestions. Sort of like having that guild member that always knows how to help out and is willing to provide you more pointers.
If you're interested, I highly suggest checking it out further. L2Ptv has drawing for the first 1000 people who subscribe to their site. That's like a 0.1% drop rate of L2PTV swag. That's a better drop rate than the trinket I am trying for..
One site that's just come up is L2PTV.com. L2Ptv or Learn 2 Play's main focus is to provide new and learning players guides and videos on how to play their class, guides for various zones, and even raid boss mechanics. The part I took advantage of, was, the raid bosses. The videos, each about 2 minutes long, provide a quick over view of the boss, visuals of the mechanic plus a nice how to deal with each mechanic. Morchok = run to crystals to decrease damage, stand back for stomp, stand behind pillars to avoid aoe when he throws them off him.
As a subscription service, there is a lot of content they've marked premium and has some interesting potential. I really look forward to checking out the PoV videos for each boss, for each class type. Where on searching Youtube, you can find a few boss videos, but you're not likely going to find (a good) video specifically highlighting your class. Yeah, not a lot of warlocks making raid videos out there.. (Still not). L2P has the groundwork down to provide this, with their Balance Druid videos starting to come on line.
For subscribers they provide one additional service that really sounds intriguing. If you're having major issues with your game play and just can't seem to reach the DPS that you should be, l2p, will take your video and review it. Providing you with details on how to improve play, review your armory for gearing suggestions. Sort of like having that guild member that always knows how to help out and is willing to provide you more pointers.
If you're interested, I highly suggest checking it out further. L2Ptv has drawing for the first 1000 people who subscribe to their site. That's like a 0.1% drop rate of L2PTV swag. That's a better drop rate than the trinket I am trying for..
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Who said I wanted to date my add-ons?
With the 4.3 patch, a number of my favorite add-ons have quit working "Out of Date". While I can simply work around the error pop-ups (or even suppress them), I'd rather not have that overhead, especially while in the middle of a battleground or dungeon. Nothing more irritating, than having that 'inspect' dialogue box popup while in the middle of a fight, over and over again. Unfortunately, as minor addons, I don't expect any updates on them very soon.
TBag by Shefki
Way back in BC, I had an issue with my install of Warcraft where my bags would not display correctly. Instead of simply reinstalling the software (it was on 4+ cds, plus all the patches up to BC and my internets were not very fast), I went with an addon. TBag is my absolute favorite for this purpose. It's biggest strength is that it SORTS. Yeah, sorts your bag view into areas. Food, drink, bandages and pots are at bottom, quest items at top, gear is along the right, and other miscellany around that. Hearthstone is always in the bottom right hand corner. I've been looking for a replacement, but they show all-in-one, or they sort, but they don't do both. My fix? Hack the code of TBag so it no longer reports it is out of date. Looking at the LUA code it was just a matter of commenting out the code (from 408 beta) surrounding the version info. I can post more details, if you're interested.
Minimalist
Now, Minimalist had a number of minor functions that were nice to have. I liked having the rep-counter, where it posted in chat my current rep score with various factions, "20999 until exalted with Cenarion Expedition". It was nice to have it auto-repair when I went to a vendor (except now I am using Guild funds instead of my own!), it was nice to have it auto-accept resurrection requests. The biggest item I wanted was to auto-sell my gray items. I am happy to say that I love BagSaver now. Not only does it sell grey items when I visit vendors, but it also makes suggestions when my bags are full. My bank toon went to grab everything from the mailbox, and repost it. During that process my bags hit 0 space free. BagSaver popped up and suggested items to dump. "These two items are your least value items" I dragged one directly from the popup window and trashed it. It is also configurable to auto-sell non-usable items (plate on my warlock?) second or old soulbound items (vicious instead of ruthless). I haven't tried either out yet.
If you're interested, here's my current add-on line-up for ...
All profiles:
Raiding and PVP:
Way back in BC, I had an issue with my install of Warcraft where my bags would not display correctly. Instead of simply reinstalling the software (it was on 4+ cds, plus all the patches up to BC and my internets were not very fast), I went with an addon. TBag is my absolute favorite for this purpose. It's biggest strength is that it SORTS. Yeah, sorts your bag view into areas. Food, drink, bandages and pots are at bottom, quest items at top, gear is along the right, and other miscellany around that. Hearthstone is always in the bottom right hand corner. I've been looking for a replacement, but they show all-in-one, or they sort, but they don't do both. My fix? Hack the code of TBag so it no longer reports it is out of date. Looking at the LUA code it was just a matter of commenting out the code (from 408 beta) surrounding the version info. I can post more details, if you're interested.
Minimalist
Now, Minimalist had a number of minor functions that were nice to have. I liked having the rep-counter, where it posted in chat my current rep score with various factions, "20999 until exalted with Cenarion Expedition". It was nice to have it auto-repair when I went to a vendor (except now I am using Guild funds instead of my own!), it was nice to have it auto-accept resurrection requests. The biggest item I wanted was to auto-sell my gray items. I am happy to say that I love BagSaver now. Not only does it sell grey items when I visit vendors, but it also makes suggestions when my bags are full. My bank toon went to grab everything from the mailbox, and repost it. During that process my bags hit 0 space free. BagSaver popped up and suggested items to dump. "These two items are your least value items" I dragged one directly from the popup window and trashed it. It is also configurable to auto-sell non-usable items (plate on my warlock?) second or old soulbound items (vicious instead of ruthless). I haven't tried either out yet.
If you're interested, here's my current add-on line-up for ...
All profiles:
- Addon Control Panel - ACP lets me setup profiles for each of my toons, plus the roles they may play. Change to priest, set to AH view, reload, queue for PVP, when it pops, reloadui quickly and battle.
- Outfitter - Quickly change and define various gear sets. Also adds info to tool-tip to see what set it belongs to.
- FishingBuddy - Change to FishingBuddy outfit (gaudy pole, jaunty fishing hat), then double-click to cast, uses hat lure, drinks fishing buff beer and even summons a fishing buddy.
- TBag and BagSaver - as mentioned above.
Raiding and PVP:
- X-Perl and Bartender4 - Allows me to move the user view and re-allign my buttons on the bottom.
- Skada - might go back to Recount as it reports me having higher DPS!?!?
- Vuhdu - Disc priest primarily, but also works nicely as the raid viewer.
- Omen - not that I need to worry about threat much any more.
- BigWigs and DBM - love those 'get out of the ___ ' alerts.
Auction House:
- Auctionator and Auctioneer - Both play slightly different roles. Main differene is Auctionator is great for posting single items, where I still rely on the Batch Post function in Auctioneer.
- AuctionFilterPlus - Don't want to see items you can't afford?
- GoingPrice - Aggregated prices of items off Wowhead.
- Lil Sparky's Workshop - Price to buy pats vs price to sell on AH
- Postal - Quickly open and process all your mail items.
- Swindler Preventer - Tell you if that pet/recipe that you are consdiering to buy on the AH is sold by a vendor.
I'd love to get back to a fully supported all-in-one bag replacement. Maybe it's time to start self-publishing the addon myself. Coding isn't that far from what I do in RL. On the other hand, I am not sure I want to take on that much work.. :)
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
A-Caroling We Will Go - PVP FREE method.
I logged on earlier this afternoon to be greeted by one of OOT's resident altaholics, Taurohtar, finishing off the Winter Veil achievement A-Caroling We Will Go. This achievement has you fly around to each of your enemy's capitol cities and sing a little festive song. Intrigued, I joined her along on one instance of completeing this achievement. Funny enough on her warlock. Gratefully, Taur went through it one more time for me and sent along these instructions and screenies.
So, here's Taurohtar un-edited.
1. Take the portal to Dragonmaw port (Equip your sweater!) (Don't leave it in the bank as I did).
2. Travel in an almost straight western direction
3. Towards Ironforge
4. When you pass through the wetlands, you’ll know you’re on the right track if you see these hills.
5. You’ll fly past the front of IF by way of the eastern side.
6. Hopefully you’ve been smart enough to fly high enough to avoid trouble, you’ll see the tops of the gate.
7. Here’s a nice squarish spot – use it.
8. Quickly mount and fly southwest-ish, keeping more south than west.
9. I make this ugly sweater look good.
10. In the northern area of Stormwind, there are many unoccupied towers,
11. find one (this one is near the dock area)
12. Head towards the furthest dock, all the way south. You’ll catch a boat called “The Bravery” (We mounted the boat sitting up on the boom of the sail. Just to avoid any drive-by alliance.)
13. Disembark once you’re no longer in ‘open water’ (fatigue) so as to avoid detection.
14. head towards the city
15. Find this landmark
16. Land once the zone text turns red
17. Down down down
18. fly back to the docks, but stop at the first (eastern most) dock. Again.. fly high enough to avoid attention.
19. Get on the boat to Exodar – flying mounts won’t work here, so be cautious…
20. jump off and there is the back door to the Exodar!
21. use the shirt for the last time and hearth the hell outta here lol (Make sure you use while on the bricks. I clicked a little too early and had to wait for the 20s cooldown)
Win like Charlie sheen
So, here's Taurohtar un-edited.
1. Take the portal to Dragonmaw port (Equip your sweater!) (Don't leave it in the bank as I did).
2. Travel in an almost straight western direction
3. Towards Ironforge
4. When you pass through the wetlands, you’ll know you’re on the right track if you see these hills.
5. You’ll fly past the front of IF by way of the eastern side.
6. Hopefully you’ve been smart enough to fly high enough to avoid trouble, you’ll see the tops of the gate.
7. Here’s a nice squarish spot – use it.
8. Quickly mount and fly southwest-ish, keeping more south than west.
9. I make this ugly sweater look good.
10. In the northern area of Stormwind, there are many unoccupied towers,
11. find one (this one is near the dock area)
12. Head towards the furthest dock, all the way south. You’ll catch a boat called “The Bravery” (We mounted the boat sitting up on the boom of the sail. Just to avoid any drive-by alliance.)
13. Disembark once you’re no longer in ‘open water’ (fatigue) so as to avoid detection.
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| Flying up up up up up |
15. Find this landmark
16. Land once the zone text turns red
17. Down down down
18. fly back to the docks, but stop at the first (eastern most) dock. Again.. fly high enough to avoid attention.
19. Get on the boat to Exodar – flying mounts won’t work here, so be cautious…
20. jump off and there is the back door to the Exodar!
21. use the shirt for the last time and hearth the hell outta here lol (Make sure you use while on the bricks. I clicked a little too early and had to wait for the 20s cooldown)
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Win like Charlie sheen
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
SSOTD:Shirt.Woot Derby 229
Shirt.Woot, the clothier of this blogger in humorous T-shirts, just closed their latest derby "Roleplaying in everyday life". A number of their shirts tugged closely on my "i want" factor. Evidently roleplaying means wearing dull-armor grey. ??
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Now that you have it, what are you transmogrifying?
I have been excitedly running dungeons again. No more troll-fail-roics in my queues. Over the last few days, I believe I've hit each of the 3 dungeons about 3 times a piece. This has mean some wonderful upgrades and a good amount of valor points (~1500). I have slowly managed to upgrade all of my basic gear with i378 something-or-other. I currently have 2 items with spirit, but the the rest is all dps. Down to the trinkets, weapons and rings. Next adventure, LFR?
On my disc priest I am still avoiding the new dungeons. Healing is much more demanding than PVP. She's at a gear score of 377 PVP gear. Tonight we are planning our first jump into Season 11 arena, I am hoping for the best, but considering she hasn't maxed out on Ruthless gear yet, I imagine she'll take a beating until we get adjusted for the right match-making index.
So, are you morg-ing anything?
For Elk, I went with a skull-cap, everything else is running the default model. I thought it matched the mostly browns and blacks coming across with the new gear. I am trying to place that quilted look. I keep thinking I've seen this style before in RL. Even if he upgrades to the Tier helm, I think'll be replacing it with this model. Much less freaky. I am sort of glad to finally get rid of those deepholm theme'd shoulders.
For Eride, she'll headed into the Arena tonight in her close approximation of a cloth ninja outfit. She's gone for as much black as possible, including a black cloak. Last weekend, I had a guild mate craft the Shadoweave Mask and then changed her top to something more color appropriate (less red than before). Then she went and upgraded her PVP Pants from Vicious to Ruthless, so need to go re-transmogrify. Looking at the recently changed WowHead, I found these pants which are a better 'black', and only 770 JP (in dalaran). I am not sure the shoulders look PVP though. I have been looking for something different, maybe these? Less 'magey?'
Maybe I should be putting more of my gold into gems and enchants and less into making the outfits look nice together. I should be almost done, assuming nothing crazy drops in the next few days. Mr Robot says I am almost BIS (pre-LFR).
On my disc priest I am still avoiding the new dungeons. Healing is much more demanding than PVP. She's at a gear score of 377 PVP gear. Tonight we are planning our first jump into Season 11 arena, I am hoping for the best, but considering she hasn't maxed out on Ruthless gear yet, I imagine she'll take a beating until we get adjusted for the right match-making index.
So, are you morg-ing anything?
For Eride, she'll headed into the Arena tonight in her close approximation of a cloth ninja outfit. She's gone for as much black as possible, including a black cloak. Last weekend, I had a guild mate craft the Shadoweave Mask and then changed her top to something more color appropriate (less red than before). Then she went and upgraded her PVP Pants from Vicious to Ruthless, so need to go re-transmogrify. Looking at the recently changed WowHead, I found these pants which are a better 'black', and only 770 JP (in dalaran). I am not sure the shoulders look PVP though. I have been looking for something different, maybe these? Less 'magey?'Maybe I should be putting more of my gold into gems and enchants and less into making the outfits look nice together. I should be almost done, assuming nothing crazy drops in the next few days. Mr Robot says I am almost BIS (pre-LFR).
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Vote for MrRobot - 1 hr left to vote...
Mr. Robot is trying to get nominated for the "Best Bootstrapped Startup" on the Crunchies (an award program run by TechCrunch). All you have to do is follow this link and nominate Team Robot! http://askmrrobot.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=21d8a1f2ca860f0ce081e26d5&id=36f521e9b5&e=d5835fab56
Voting ends tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:59pm. Also, if you share this link with friends, on your guild forum, Twitter or Facebook, it will help Mr. Robot's quest to unlock the Crunchie achievement!
So Mr. Robot... what is a "bootstrapped startup"?
This basically means that we didn't get a ton of money from rich people to run our company. The three founders (Yellowfive, Zoopercat, and Revulva) now run Team Robot as a full-time job, trying to make it entirely on profits from the website and services that we provide. We really like video games and helping people improve and have more fun, so we hope to continue making enough money to keep the servers running! And... pay rent and buy food. We're still working on that part.
Sincerely (we really mean that),
Team Robot
Voting ends tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:59pm. Also, if you share this link with friends, on your guild forum, Twitter or Facebook, it will help Mr. Robot's quest to unlock the Crunchie achievement!
So Mr. Robot... what is a "bootstrapped startup"?
This basically means that we didn't get a ton of money from rich people to run our company. The three founders (Yellowfive, Zoopercat, and Revulva) now run Team Robot as a full-time job, trying to make it entirely on profits from the website and services that we provide. We really like video games and helping people improve and have more fun, so we hope to continue making enough money to keep the servers running! And... pay rent and buy food. We're still working on that part.
Sincerely (we really mean that),
Team Robot
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