tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71504469992762957342011-12-11T20:39:09.214+02:00Tank ffs, I can't nuke all day!SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.comBlogger2391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-14727876917052351062010-04-16T00:18:00.003+03:002010-04-16T00:27:49.759+03:00

It's been a great 5 years. I've had fantastic experiences which I'll never forget, made many friends and perhaps touched some lives.Raiding, my main activity (together with leveling alts :)) has always been fun and continued to be fun right up till the moment I decided to quit. From the shouts of joy on TeamSpeak when Ragnaros (40-man raid!) was defeated to the same shouts on Ventrilo when Lich

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-36015395556980631912010-04-01T17:19:00.004+03:002010-04-01T17:36:25.982+03:00

Last night (as is almost always the case on Wednesday) we had more than enough people for ICC-25, so we had our usual ICC-25 clearing run.What was different about last night was that it was the first time with the all-new +10% ICC buff, a 5% increase over the previous weeks' buff.To make a long story short, there were some noticeable differences but they didn't make much difference in terms of

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-53994960363603239242010-03-31T16:24:00.003+03:002010-03-31T16:51:24.464+03:00

Last night being a Tuesday we had less than 25 raiders online as is usually the case for us lately (officers are currently busy recruiting so hopefully this sad situation should change in the near future).After a while the GL asked if we all wanted to go Ulduar-25 hardmodes, I guess the officers also wanted a break from ICC. Since people agreed (we all want the drake :)) the invites were sent out

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-32156798845111430052010-03-29T11:44:00.001+03:002010-03-29T11:46:16.634+03:00

About a week ago Stylish Corpse put up this nice post about PQs and Grouping in MMOs in particular. As I haven't played WAR I cannot comment on PQs.However I do disagree with some of the blanket assertions used by Stylish Corpse regarding Grouping and leveling and I can comment specifically about WoW."if you do want to group you have to put up with getting less xp, taking longer to complete

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-46509742019958555072010-03-28T15:57:00.003+03:002010-03-28T17:51:55.913+03:00

I wanted to put down on paper, err virtual in this case, my thoughts and impressions of ICC-10 man heroic boss fights. This won't be a strategy guide as the information on the normal websites (wowwiki, wowhead, tankspot) is already pretty good, but I will highlight some things I think are important, especially from my point of view as a healer.For all(?) bosses one of the main differences

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-76542149461762609142010-03-28T15:35:00.002+03:002010-03-28T15:53:50.040+03:00

Been a while since I posted, as I've been writing short updates on Buzz which was enough for me. But I hear I may actually have a couple of readers so perhaps I should update here too ;pSolidfaith and his guild have been advancing nicely, downing several bosses in Heroic ICC-10 since downing LK-10 opened the way. LK-25 alas remains an elusive target as the guild struggles with people not showing

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-55744733413461509762010-02-14T16:14:00.002+02:002010-02-14T16:19:55.854+02:00

Where have I gone to these last few days? Well I've been trying out Google Buzz and liking what I saw :)Sure it's not a replacement for Blogger (yet!) but it is very easy/fast to use and really that's what I always wanted, a place to make short small posts about my WoW experiences. I don't really have the time (or inclination) for long/in-depth articles.For my style of blogging, once Google add

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-10050445357066826432010-02-07T14:23:00.004+02:002010-02-07T15:25:31.004+02:00

Last night I went for a scheduled 10-man raid. Actually we were supposed to have 2 teams running but we were short on both an off-spec tank and a healer, so in the end the officers decided to put one strong 10-man team up and have the other deferred to another evening when hopefully there would be all the mains needed.Obviously not something all the people who got left out were happy about, but

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-19357514869776762032010-02-02T17:11:00.002+02:002010-02-02T17:28:29.665+02:00

Last night ICC was accessible, which means of course we didn't have enough people in the guild for a 25man raid. Murphy's Law and all that...So instead we got together a 10man raid. As I've written before we only have main tanks in the guild which means for this 2nd group, one tank was an off-spec (warrior). In addition we were missing a healer so a DPS paladin went on his off-spec.In-spite of

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-77272623178118106332010-01-31T14:29:00.003+02:002010-01-31T15:07:07.544+02:00

I haven't reported on progress for a while, for the simple reason there really hasn't been any. At least, not significant (in my eyes).Sure, the guild cleared ICC-25 of all but Putricide and Blood Queen but really, those are the two bosses that I would like to report as taken down since taking them down means we can advance, but so far no luck. We have not even tried Blood Queen 25 yet and

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-71343571456379001512010-01-24T18:09:00.002+02:002010-01-24T18:34:46.783+02:00

Not if you judge by my recent random heroics - AN on Solidfaith and Zul'Drak on Solidstar.By the way the trigger for this post is an excellent post by PvD about what the Death Penalty really means. Go read it :)However at the end PvD talks about how in WoW 5-man PuGs frequently kick a person who is under-performing or under-geared. Or easily leave group (especially if they are the tank) if they

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-65522436219003374992010-01-21T12:07:00.003+02:002010-01-21T13:58:46.278+02:00

Last night after clearing the first wing in ICC-25 our officers decided it would be better to give the new wing a try instead of doing Fester/Rot/Putri.So off we went.The trash before the blood council hits hard and the first pull nearly wiped the raid. We cleared the other packs more carefully (CC-ing one mob) but in general our DPS is high enough so that trash thankfully is not a problem.Once

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-553972875769585442010-01-18T14:56:00.003+02:002010-01-18T15:07:27.765+02:00

Last night, which was Sunday, the guild continued our ICC-25 raid from last week.Last Wednesday we had 3 groups doing 10-man ICC with some slots filled by off-specs and this actually went well (all 3 groups made it up to Putricide).Thursday we cleared the first wing in IC-25 but couldn't continue due to massive server lag. So today we continued.Festergut was as usual 2-shot, no idea why we always

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-30432774222111334442010-01-13T15:17:00.002+02:002010-01-13T15:31:28.204+02:00

Been a while since I've posted, really mostly been too busy. But WoW business has been as usual, since the new wing opened we've cleared both Festergut and Rotface in 10-man and 25-man. Rotface-25 only last night since the guild missed a couple of raiding days due to missing people (including myself one day).Speaking of last night, on 10-man we have already had 2 groups try out Putricide, one

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-87302842938853064612009-12-29T13:24:00.002+02:002009-12-29T15:16:09.317+02:00

There seems to be more than the usual amount of negative posts on various blogs lately about pugging since patch 3.3 was released.The latest I read was this rant by BBB, who is usually much more calm in his posts. But I've read other negative posts from other bloggers about the quality of PuGs since 3.3.This has me a bit puzzled since I must admit I haven't run into nearly as many bad PuGs as BBB

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-70616638384585912022009-12-22T17:13:00.004+02:002009-12-22T17:49:49.659+02:00

There's a good post over at Honor's Code about the new LFD system and wait times. In a nutshell, wait times are short now because many raiding tanks are doing one daily heroic for the Frost Emblems and once the need for those drops, so will the number of tanks.It's a good point but I'm not quite so pessimistic. Certainly I don't think we'll be back to the wait times of pre-3.3 for the simple

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-10959233293598861492009-12-21T15:15:00.002+02:002009-12-21T15:29:42.795+02:00

First of all there is a nice post up at Dreambound about healing ICC-10 as a Resto Druid. Actually it was posted Dec. 9 so I'm a bit behind the times but better late than never :)The guide is a bit too focused on general fight mechanics for my taste but is otherwise very good. I disagreed with some points, e.g. the need to run away from Marrowgar's whirlwind - there is no need, it can be easily

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-12225280870141207102009-12-20T12:06:00.005+02:002009-12-20T14:11:08.702+02:00

This is a post about healing the first wing of ICC, hopefully I'll remember to do followups for additional wings as they open up. I'm not going over boss tactics, except as they relate specifically to healer, as there are enough good sources of information for general tactics. The first boss is rather healing intensive but don't expect to top healing meters here. Paladins and Shamans assigned to

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-46959788006126079772009-12-17T17:40:00.002+02:002009-12-17T18:50:37.003+02:00

Well it has been a week since 3.3 came out and I continue to be pleased with it, especially the new LFG tool.I've been doing a lot of random heroics, mainly on Solidd but also one per day with Solidfaith (for the Frost Emblems). Although the teams I have been grouped with have varied in ability and success, the new system is an enormous improvement over the previous system in all cases,

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1600040222668046152009-12-11T02:10:00.002+02:002009-12-11T02:24:54.788+02:00

Well nothing went wrong tonight thankfully, and I managed to login without a problem and join the raid. Well, addons will take a bit more configuring to go back to normal state but otherwise the game was fine, not even much server lag (only once or twice the whole evening and not very bad then).Lady Deathwhisper went down on the first attempt, of course the guild had already wiped on her several

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-23940181743316907542009-12-10T10:05:00.003+02:002009-12-10T10:25:18.196+02:00

Alas, I had problems with the new patch and couldn't login (only finally got it sorted this morning), but at least my guild raided and they downed the 1st boss in ICC (25man) and got the 2nd boss down to 3% or so, so I'm sure we (assuming I have no further problems and can get a raid spot) will get it down tonight.Pre-patch 3.3 the guild also progressed very nicely, clearing Faction Champions on

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-58311977741478190812009-11-28T11:06:00.003+02:002009-12-05T02:11:39.468+02:00

Well it's been a month since I last mentioned Solidd. I've been busy raiding of course with Solidfaith but Solidd has not been neglected. Over the past month I've been busy doing heroics with him and even the very rare 10man raid. Although I haven't done the heroics every day I still got enough emblems to gear up my resto spec rather nicely.However I was not really enjoying my Moonkin spec much,

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-61545142985522293532009-11-20T16:32:00.003+02:002009-11-20T17:26:51.573+02:00

Although my guild raids 25man ToC and so has good gear and although we had a team who already downed Anub'arak in Heroic 10-man ToC, I have, until last night, failed to take him down. Nor has any team of the guild managed to do a wipe-free ToC-10 heroic till last night.Every time, a combination of slightly weak DPS, bad tanking, not enough healing (this was usually the cause) or just bad luck

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-25778085556117978932009-11-15T11:20:00.003+02:002009-11-15T13:33:58.150+02:00

4.5 months ago I blogged about Ulduar-10 hard modes, how we tried to get a few of them down and met with limited success.My-my, how times have changed :)This weekend, with much better gear I entered Ulduar-10 and very much nuked the place. Well, almost...On Friday evening we took a friend of one of the guildies, a holy priest who was pretty well geared but not quite as much as we were. So we were

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-74461287916740927182009-11-11T15:24:00.002+02:002009-11-11T16:26:09.616+02:00

It's been a while since I last blogged, and the reason is due to the "Other Stuff" part of the headline - you see, I've started playing Torchlight :)What happened was, I was disappointed with lack of heroic ToC-25 attempts by our guild, every time we were missing a tank or just not enough people. Tank shortage meant trying to do heroics with my new level-80 Druid was mostly pointless, so I was

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-58024605224982744412009-10-24T19:42:00.002+02:002009-10-24T20:39:30.310+02:00

I actually dinged a few days ago but haven't had time to blog about it :)Leveling was quite fun and fast, very profitable too - I probably made around a couple of thousand gold. In fact even after I dinged 80 I continued doing a bit of questing, just for the gold.The main spec I chose was Restoration while for off-spec I chose Moonkin (a.k.a. Balance). Having played both a mage and a warlock I

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-69842095119553673252009-10-17T00:32:00.003+02:002009-10-17T00:57:37.570+02:00

I've been a bit quiet but not due to lack of playing, more due to lack of time to update here what with work pressure on the one hand and constant raiding or leveling taking up my little spare time.Solidfaith continues to raid as a Disc priest mostly, although one exception is worth a mention. A group of guild-mates had cleared most of 10man ToC heroic and were stuck on the last boss, Anub'arak.

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-18292403074273078002009-10-01T12:04:00.002+02:002009-10-01T13:26:53.817+02:00

When I joined Nightmare-EU I was asked to come as Shadow, as they had enough priest healers at the time.Although I have never played as a raiding Shadow Priest I was willing to give it a try and gave it my best effort. I read blogs, forums and various sites, worked on my gear and rotation and generally tried to output the best DPS that I could.Results were... frustrating, to say the least. On

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-38391669560849406872009-09-27T01:14:00.002+03:002009-09-27T01:24:48.916+02:00

I haven't had a lot of time to level Locksolid, hence the slow leveling. Thankfully leveling is now so fast that even with the little bit that I played I still managed to hit 67, only 1 level shy now of going to Northrend.I dinged 65 still in HFP, amazingly. I did manage to get the HFP achievement for quests which is nice. 66 happened after a few quests in Zangramarsh. I could have stayed and

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-52044649602936543402009-09-21T17:48:00.002+03:002009-09-21T18:03:35.753+03:00

Been a while since I've updated on our raiding status. Haven't really felt the need since we are neither bleeding-edge hardcore, nor are we struggling. Surprisingly, we're doing just fine, so situation as usual, nothing to report. No news is good news, right?Last night we took down Yogg-Saron in 25man Ulduar, I think this has been something like 3rd or 4th takedown. A few wipes but people are

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-24640324636790833772009-09-20T15:57:00.003+03:002009-09-20T16:22:12.416+03:00

I missed Pirates Day.I was away from my computer due to RL reasons and so missed out on getting the achievement.The same thing happened to me on the AQ gates opening event which wasn't even an all-day event but rather one that took place only during a few hours.That kind of sucks. I much prefer events which take place over several days so that if you miss playing on one day you at least have the

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-22566305984067323192009-09-14T14:41:00.002+03:002009-09-14T14:43:59.661+03:00

In only a day I dinged 2 more levels, one from questing and one level from more Blood Furnace followed by several Slave Pens + Underbog boosts with my friend, who seems to have decided to take my leveling under his wing :)So I just thought to mention that since I don't want to lose track of my levels :)

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-55381564165780569572009-09-12T18:00:00.002+03:002009-09-12T18:12:16.857+03:00

I should have posted when Locksolid hit 60, but RL kept me away from having enough free time to both blog and play and I preferred to play.I actually dinged 60 only 2 days ago. However a level 80 friend decided to help me out yesterday and took me through 5 Ramparts+BF runs (I think it was 2 Ramparts and 3 BF), and the XP from mobs + quests inside those instances saw me through from level 60 to

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-58736687829044235132009-09-07T14:33:00.002+03:002009-09-07T14:49:25.109+03:00

Still very busy with work so not much time to blog...Solidfaith still raiding, guild doing well, although I missed the Toc-25 normal clear, at least I got to clear ToC-10. Also got some Ulduar achievements such as FL+4 towers in 25man which is nice for the guild (but I'm not too excited about it, as it doesn't look like achievements are ever going to mean anything).My warlock hasn't seen a lot of

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-87917921129932702132009-08-24T02:22:00.002+03:002009-08-24T02:30:45.272+03:00

I'm working hard and don't have much time to post updates, but I continue to raid and play with my new guild and we've taken down the 3rd Coliseum boss encounter, Faction Champions in 25man (and 10man but that was easy :)).Today we also did a part of Ulduar-25, we spent a couple of hours trying FL + 4 Towers. It's a hard, complex fight, and while the people doing the hard stuff are well practiced

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-30064392238053709042009-08-17T14:19:00.002+03:002009-08-17T15:47:15.411+03:00

I haven't posted in a while, not due to lack of playing in WoW but basically due to work pressure and also because I wanted things in WoW to settle down a bit before I wrote about them.You see, I've left my guild and joined a new one.I don't want to criticize the previous guild too much - they did after all accept me, gave me a place in raids and let me win loot. However raiding with them felt

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-45598912188803923442009-08-10T10:29:00.002+03:002009-08-10T10:43:39.709+03:00

Last night I finally decided to do the Dalaran Orphan quest. I picked up the little Oracle orphan Roo, as I chose the Oracles faction in Sholazar and thought I might as well stick by my faction :)I thought the chain would be painful and annoying but as it turns out it wasn't too bad - just fly around Northrend a bit. With a 280% flying mount that was not so bad. It was fairly good gold, although

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-73047204854293961152009-08-06T01:48:00.003+03:002009-08-06T02:01:46.612+03:00

I'm liking it :)Mind you, that's not a totally positive thing - it means I don't love the patch, as I feel the new instance/raid leaves much to be desired. I've covered this previously but I'll summarize my feelings - it's nice to have a new instance, but I just don't feel an instance composed of nothing more than a round room is worthy of the title of a "raid instance". Not when compared against

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-27951111378795935912009-08-03T15:53:00.003+03:002009-08-03T16:13:03.391+03:00

So many updates, hence the strange subject :)First of all my efforts with Solidfaith doing low-level quests and grinding the daily Argent Tournament finally paid-off - he's now dinged exalted with all the city factions. He's also exalted with the Silver Hand and champion of all the factions except Gnomergan (holding off on turning that in till the patch, for extra dailies = more cash). This means

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-49053666253610060842009-07-29T18:07:00.002+03:002009-07-29T18:09:48.398+03:00

The following Peanuts cartoon describes exactly what happens to Alliance in BGs:It would be funny if it weren't so sad and true...

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-89732302537487321172009-07-27T17:21:00.004+03:002009-07-27T17:51:26.151+03:00

This post I'd like to rant a bit about WoW's addon system and multiple play styles/chars.Let's say that you have a player who likes to do both PvP and PvE. Furthermore, she also likes to play multiple characters, some are low level and need to level and some are high and raid. No problem, I hear you say. With duel-specs and a built-in equipment manager she can respec to a PvP spec when she wants,

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-51197330489356626632009-07-26T01:12:00.002+03:002009-07-26T01:14:32.926+03:00

I've been working hard on my Warlock's engineering, and am now a level 200 engineer. This means that I can specialize in either Goblin or Gnomish engineering.From what I read, there is not really a huge difference, hence I tend to go with Gnomish, just because I am a Gnome :)But, anyone have any specific recommendation?Oh, and ding 43, yey :)

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-1434142082250901532009-07-25T00:53:00.002+03:002009-07-25T00:57:13.495+03:00

Well I dinged 40, but it seems wow.com's Alex did the same thing (at nearly the same time) and his experiences mirror mine - his warlock is specced Affliction for leveling, he dinged 40 at Dustwallow Marsh and it the number wasn't as "magical" as it was the back in Vanilla WoW. That 60% mount sure looks sweet compared to running all over the place :)So nothing much to report, except as before,

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-84789516023429093912009-07-19T13:01:00.003+03:002009-07-19T13:24:20.616+03:00

For the record, I don't really believe that Goblins and Worgens will both be playable races in the upcoming expansion. But just as a "what if", let's say that is going to happen - why do I think it is fail?Well very simply:Blizzard have resisted adding more character slots per server. Assuming they continue with this policy, this means for many players either deleting an existing char or rolling

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One nice thing about writing a blog, I can see stuff I would not have remembered otherwise. So I can see that 6 days ago I was level 28, and now I'm level 35, so slightly better than a level a day. Considering I didn't play every day, that's pretty good!Of course it could have been faster, for example if I followed a leveling guide. However I enjoy questing and the process of leveling and while

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-53058865840108266922009-07-13T16:06:00.002+03:002009-07-13T16:32:57.341+03:00

Since I have not raided last few days I have some free time when I finally login to WoW late at night. Last night for example I only logged in when the raid was actually almost done, so I guess on second thought it's not so much free time, it's more that I'm not worn out from raiding and want to go to sleep but I login and want to play even if it is pretty late.Doing dailies for rep and gold is

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Keen has an interesting post about Bringing the Social Game Back. I had some comments but they became too long, hence this post :)There are two main ways for players to interact with each other in an MMO: either by competing or by cooperating. Note that these don't map directly to PvP and PvE since you still have cooperation in PvP (your side's team) and competition in PvE (no direct example

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Raiding has been very good since joining the new guild, just yesterday we cleared Ulduar25 up to and including Thorim and I won a very nice pair of boots, finally replacing my very old Naxx10 boots. We've gotten Yogg in 2nd phase down to 60% so only another 30% to go and we will be able to enter 3rd phase.However, due to work pressure I have decided I don't have any choice but to put in some

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Now here's a nice list of useful WoW sites:http://wiki.twistednether.net/index.php?title=WOWUtilsIt's a wiki too, so anyone can help edit it and add more sites. Very handy.

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There are so many 3.2 news items right now, it seems almost a shame not to write about them.On the other hand, I hate writing about PTR changes. Here one week, gone the next... so much for the buckets of words you spent on them :)But I will say this, so far, I like the gem and profession changes (although I wish the Alchemy perk had been beefier). I like the token changes, badge changes and the

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Apart from the regular Ulduar-25 runs during weekdays, my new guild also does Ulduar-10 runs during the weekend. Sometimes it is 2 groups, usually a strong "A" group (who have cleared Ulduar-10) and a much weaker "B" group.Last weekend there were not enough people for 2 such groups so there was only one group, a mix of people from both groups. Since there was pretty good firepower and healing, we

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-42843148771191818392009-06-24T11:11:00.003+03:002009-06-24T11:58:15.712+03:00

Last night there was no raid scheduled and I decided to pursue an old dream of mine, try to get the legendary Thunderfury for my DK. What set it off was a friend telling me he wanted to work on his reputations and mentioned a few names, including Hydraxian Waterlords.So my friend (on his rogue) and myself (on my DK) started out to Molten Core. Neither of us had the required object to douse the

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Here are some impressions from the few runs I've done so far with my new guild:* Raid setup is fast - while typically in my older guild, even though we were doing only 10-man raids, it took us a long time to get started. According to guild rules we were supposed to start invites at 19:45 server time, in reality we would still be missing people at 20:00. Many times our raids would start only at 20

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-90898453879525761002009-06-14T09:54:00.002+03:002009-06-14T10:22:03.130+03:00

Sometimes, love just ain't enough...I remember a song in the 90s with those words, or something similar. Somehow it was the first thing that jumped to my mind when I thought about why I had to leave my current guild.Sometimes people leave their guild because they don't love it, or they don't fit in somehow. Last night I left Phalanx on my main, Solidfaith. I did this together with 4 other people,

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Last night we setup an alt/social run to Naxx.On the plus side, it was nice to play a little with my DK, I got his some loot, got to use him a bit and remember why I had so much fun leveling him. During the run I got to do both a little tanking and mostly DPS and I think I did good on both. My tanking spec felt good to me, I had plenty of "emergency" buttons and I think my health regen as blood

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I haven't updated in a while but not due to lack of things to write about, just lack of time :)For one thing, I got a new computer (yey :)). It's a very nice gaming machine, built to be a good combination of bang-for-buck plus as quiet as practical. The important components - an E8400 Core 2 Duo Intel CPU, HD4870 based graphics card from Sapphire, Sileo 500 case from coolermaster and a Silent Pro

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-82429345031136531752009-05-13T13:39:00.004+03:002009-05-13T13:57:32.450+03:00

Last night we were going for another evening of tries on the Assembly of Iron encounter in Ulduar. Problem was, both our Resto Shaman and Holy Priest were not present, we only had 2 paladins and myself as healers. Since the encounter has a lot of AoE damage, I decided to respec to Holy.Actually I had been thinking of respeccing from Disc to Holy for a while now, both due to recent Disc nerfs but

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-17839328215149571982009-05-10T10:42:00.004+03:002009-05-10T10:54:03.586+03:00

Solidfaith got to 350 fishing, only 100 points left till the cap :)After I got to 350 I pushed on to 375, most of it done in Wintergrasp. WG fishing yields all of the fish needed for the Fish Feast, which I have been cooking and using on guild raids.I also took some time to continue leveling Supersolid, my hunter. It is really amazing how easy it is to level a hunter. Sure if you want to level

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-82699406049393921422009-05-05T11:03:00.002+03:002009-05-05T11:18:02.329+03:00

My guild, in spite of having raid attendance problems and therefore a low number of raids over the last few weeks, managed to clear the first Ulduar wing.Ignis was the last boss to die (last night) and the toughest fight, although I expect this will get easier as people get used to the fight, which is very dynamic.Actually we had 1 person from outside the guild come and join us (one person had to

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-35555709017601050632009-04-26T10:43:00.002+03:002009-04-26T11:02:52.460+03:00

I've been very busy on Solidfaith for the last week, partially because of the Argent Tournament dailies but also because of fishing.I've always liked fishing in WoW, starting from when I started playing my first character, Solidstate. I can still remember trying out the small pools in Elwyn Forest and the first time I stood on the dock in Tanaris, fishing with the setting sun glowing in the sky

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-14668770646275556822009-04-17T12:58:00.003+03:002009-04-17T15:50:55.472+03:00

First of all when you go into Ulduar you'll see a big area with vehicles around it. You need to talk to the big NPC in the middle in order to activate them.You jump on and the fight starts when you go down to the big area where the Storm Pillars and trash mobs are. You need to attack the pillars and the big mobs, pretty much ignore the dwarfs (your bikes can take care of them). Make sure to

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-12010726386352096552009-04-16T11:10:00.002+03:002009-04-16T11:48:15.119+03:00

I love the UI changes. The quest tracking is still primitive but any improvement is good.Wish I had a better computer to see the prettier graphics :(The fishing improvements (being able to fish anywhere at any level fishing) are great. You still won't be able to catch higher-level fish but at least it doesn't matter where you skill-up.The new fishing daily quest is lots of fun.Speaking of the new

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-73964321564689913772009-04-15T14:10:00.003+03:002009-04-15T14:25:01.361+03:00

Thinking about my priest builds, I've come up with this 55/16/0 Discipline build and this 13/0/58 Shadow spec. Will be interesting to test it :)

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-18619523856431019392009-04-15T10:45:00.002+03:002009-04-15T10:48:09.165+03:00

I need a DPS build for my DK, but I'm not sure what will be a good one. Maybe this Unholy based build: 11/0/60.Doesn't really matter at the moment as I don't have the gear to do proper DPS yet :(Oh and the new WoWHead talent calculator is really nice, especially the glyphs feature :)

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-85244626077534249262009-04-12T22:40:00.003+03:002009-04-12T23:11:05.413+03:00

Death Knight talent trees are taking a massive change after patch 3.1. For this reason and due to the new duel-spec system I need to take a look at the new talent trees and think about where to put my points and which spec to use for tanking.Looking at the latest PTR talent trees on wowhead, it looks to me that neither full Frost nor full Unholy offer any compelling benefits in terms of tanking,

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-8751370408468015432009-03-26T00:48:00.002+02:002009-03-26T01:05:00.303+02:00

Until now my guild has only taken down Sartharion + Tenebron. However we are planning to try for Sarth+2D and in preparation we went today to try and down Sartharion+Shadron, as Shadron is considered the harder add.The fight was indeed hard, however after several wipes we managed to fine-tune our strategy and down Shadron, after which taking down Sartharion is a walk in the park :)The final

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-84123395654634588902009-03-25T11:22:00.003+02:002009-03-25T12:54:31.200+02:00

A combination of RL keeping me busy and slowdown in WoW have kept me from blogging much. My guild has slowed down raiding although we hope to start some OS+2 tries soon, if we get enough guild mates online and interested.I've spent the time leveling up Faith's Hodir rep, doing the daily quests on every day that I could. Between that, the odd heroic run (still not exalted with Ebon Blade) and the

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-79511425676697855112009-03-15T22:01:00.002+02:002009-03-15T22:26:10.156+02:00

Last night I finally dinged 80 on Solidstar, having taken my time about it since I played so much on my priest :)I did it while still questing in Zul'Drak and in fact Solidstar is close to the 100 quests achievement there. Unlike my priest who found it difficult in Zul'Drak, none of the trolls there could even slow down Solidstar, who with his blood spec had zero downtime while questing and if

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-89244041462622089002009-03-12T11:39:00.004+02:002009-03-12T15:13:17.464+02:00

Pugnacious Priest has an interesting post up about Enchanters and DE (Dis-Enchanting) BoP drops from 5-man runs. The question is, should enchanters stop doing DE for free (or at all) in 5-man runs? The usual example given is that miners/herbalists/skinners don't share items they loot inside an instance run.For the first 2-3 years my main has been my mage and one of his professions is Enchanting

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-10270972593347940362009-03-04T01:55:00.003+02:002009-03-04T02:11:59.845+02:00

Tonight some guild mates were asking for a healer for heroic Nexus while I was playing on Solidstar (who is level 77 BTW and now can fly again - forgot to post about that :)). So I said "sure" and logged Solidfaith.When we started the tank asked if we would mind doing achievements and since none of us minded we went for it :)First up was Split Personality, we simply bunched up the images and

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-54727552566307271232009-02-24T13:39:00.002+02:002009-02-24T14:31:46.563+02:00

Last evening I went to OS with my guild in order to try Sartharion with one drake up. The last time my guild managed to do OS+1, I was not in the raid and they had a tank from outside the guild tank for them.This time it was an all guild run and after a few learning wipes we managed to do it and I got the achievement :)At first we had some tries where we tried to clear the whelps from each portal

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-53187408187318019522009-02-18T17:07:00.002+02:002009-02-18T17:09:38.998+02:00

Last evening my guild downed Malygos again and this time I was there. Finally I can remove that silly Jenkins title and use the much better Champion of the Frozen Wastes one :)

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Wow, I haven't blogged in a long time have I? :)Well TBH nothing much has been going on. I've slowed down leveling Solidstar and instead have been busy doing heroics and daily quests with Solidfaith in order to get his reputation with the various factions us. It's a slow process and there's nothing much to tell about. I usually do the heroics with a paladin tank from my guild who is a really good

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So Solidstar dinged 74 a few days ago, following a few quests in Dragonblight.Leveling as blood vs. frost feels significantly easier and since I've learned the trick to use Dancing Rune Weapon and follow it up with Death & Decay I can down groups of mobs insanely fast as 2x(D&D) on mobs takes down their health like you wouldn't believe :)Malygos 10-man has been downed by my guild, again I missed

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Well it's been an interesting week. Solidstar has dinged 73, still in Borean Tundra. I've actually gotten the achievement for doing N-quests there (can't post link atm :( ) so I'm done with BT - time to move to Dragonblight. I'm still leveling Frost and it's not bad, can kill mobs and my damage-in vs. self-healing from Death Strike ratio is low enough so that I don't have downtime (or rarely do).

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I haven't blogged for a week so I'm starting to feel I should write about something, but there really isn't anything solid (hehe ;)) to write about. Sure I've managed to level Solidstar's alchemy a bit but he's still not at 450 so nothing to brag about. In addition he's still level 72, I've had little time to play him (or WoW at all) in the last few days.It's interesting though and I actually

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-10850950939311839252009-01-12T23:34:00.003+02:002009-01-12T23:52:45.427+02:00

In between raiding and playing on my main I've managed to also get some play time on Solidstar and he is now level 72. I've been leveling in Borean Tundra but also doing instances as a tank.I've had (surprisingly) mostly positive experiences with the PuGs I've done. Not perfect by far but I've managed to tank most of Nexus, all of Utgarde Keep and most of Azjul-Nerub. The Nexus run I had to leave

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I've been a bit too busy in RL to update this blog but there are various updates as I have been playing:Solidstar has dinged 70, yey :) Of course I've been playing in Northrend since level 68 so nothing much changed.Actually one thing did change for him, I went already and got the epic flying skill and the DK flying mount. It pretty much pushed me down to a big fat ZERO gold on all my chars but

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-66718574914777346192008-12-29T13:26:00.002+02:002008-12-29T13:48:46.631+02:00

Well I promised an update on running heroic with disc spec and here it is.The verdict? Pretty damn good :)I managed to find a PuG for heroic UP. The PuG was between reasonable and good, out of 3 DPS one (a boomkin) had a bit of lower personal DPS but made up for it with a nice party buff and decent AoE. The tank has 25k health unbuffed which is good for a PuG.Basically the run went very smoothly,

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-56360172747092923772008-12-28T17:16:00.002+02:002008-12-28T17:31:10.658+02:00

Well my last post had a little mistake, I linked the wrong build when I wrote about the Disc build I was considering. But that's okay because I've settled on a slightly different one which is this 57/14/0 build.Basically the main issue was taking 2/2 Renewed Hope so that I had only 1 point to spend on Improved Renew. With my current gear every shred of crit counts and because crit is so central

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I've now officially added Solidstar to this site, his picture-signature is now added to my other chars. It's true he's only level 68 but he's already in Northrend and I've had so much fun leveling him so far, I don't see myself stopping till he's level 80.Blood spec has worked great for me so far and I intend to continue leveling with it till 80, at which point I'll respec to a Frost-tanking

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-48794649856268879812008-12-24T10:31:00.002+02:002008-12-24T12:04:22.783+02:00

It's been a while since my last post, mostly due to RL issues (work pressure) keeping me busy. However my guild has continued to progress in 10man-Naxx and I'm happy I was there for most raids since it was a lot of fun.So finally 2 nights ago we got to Kel'thuzad and started attempts on him, at first we wiped some due to not understanding tactics 100% and later due to some player errors. However

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For the last few weeks I've been playing very few hours each day, logging in late and managing at most one instance run, usually with a PuG, or leveling my alts a bit more (Solidstate hit 71 and Solidstar is almost 65). Because I logged in late each day I missed the chance to raid with my guild.Last night however I managed to login before raid start time and as it happened they were missing a

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Well the title pretty much says it all. I got a guild group, tank and 3 decent DPS with me healing and we went to heroic Utgarde Keep which I was told was the easier heroic. Indeed the run went very smoothly (no wipes) although the spikiness of the damage on the tank surprised me, I'm used to him having a huge amount of mitigation at 70 and suddenly even though he's got 27k life his gear isn't so

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It took several hours of questing in Sholazar Basin, including doing the Nesingwary chain quests, but Solidfaith finally dinged 80. I actually dinged just as I returned the quest Post-partum Aggression which ends the quest line so I got both the level 80 achievement as well as The Snows of Northrend achievement.I actually could have leveled faster but Sholazar is such a heaven for herbalists, I

SolidStatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05872179337759398145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7150446999276295734.post-44517680309606090192008-12-06T16:11:00.002+02:002008-12-06T16:42:07.957+02:00

Level 78 came and went in storm of questing. Along the way, thanks to my flying mount, I managed to pick a lot of plants, resulting in being able to level my Alchemy to 400. I haven't been in a hurry to level my Alchemy and so I'm pleased with my progress so far :)Among other things I also dinged exalted with the Valiance Expedition, which means exactly squat as this faction doesn't have any

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Yep, I finally dinged a couple of nights ago and immediately hearthed to Dalaran and got rid of a tidy 1k gold :)It's a great feeling to be able to fly again, and a good thing I have an epic flying mount since Northrend is so large.The day after I dinged 77 I started the Sons of Hodir reputation chain. This is one of the most fun series of quests I've done in WoW, involving (among other things)

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I pushed myself this weekend and managed to get from 74 to three-quarters of the way to level 77. Only 25% left till a flying mount! :)I leveled almost entirely in Dragonblight and Grizzly Hills and I enjoyed it a lot. The daily quest which involves riding a dragon and doing aerial combat with enemy NPC dragons was a blast and I will definitely be returning to that and not just because of the rep

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Solidfaith dinged 74 last night after a furious evening of questing. I started out with a couple of daily quests, for the rep. I then continued questing in Dragonblight, having finished all of my quests in Howling Fjord.In Dragonblight I started doing quests along the shore for the Tuskarr, earning Kalu'ak reputation. Soon though I moved inland to Wintergarde Keep and spend the rest of the

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Solidfaith "ding-ed" level 73 last night, an event which I promptly celebrated by going to bed :)I'm still only questing in HF and still have a lot of quests there so plenty left to do. However I am not sure if they turn green what I will do since I don't want to level even more slowly, I'm behind most of my guild as it is.Solidstar got to level 62 a couple of days ago, still doing Zangramarsh

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First of all, this EJ thread on DKs DPS is a fantastic must-read resource for anyone serious about their DK. Every section there is pure gold, explanations about hit rating (which is complex for a DK as they use both melee and spell hit ratings), rotations, explanations per spec. Seriously good stuff there, if you rolled a DK and are not heading over there right now to read it, shame on you :)

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I've broken down and decided I just can't do it. As much as I wanted to level as Holy, I have to give up on the idea. DPS too low, downtime too big.The difference, once I specced to this 9/0/53 build, was night-and-day (fitting metaphore :)). I didn't manage a lot of quests as Shadow before going to sleep but in the ones I did do, the mobs dropped like flies.

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Like many other people I've been keeping busy the last few days, getting to know the new continent of Northrend. In a nutshell, the quests are fun and well written, the instances are well designed and leveling is something I've always enjoyed - I love that "level ding" :)But I should start with how I got to Northrend. On midnight between Wednesday Nov 12th and Thursday Nov 13th, a store about one

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This evening people will probably be getting ready with final preparations for WotLK and I doubt anyone will be in the mood to raid. Knowing this in advance, when someone suggested last night to go to a final Karazhan run we quickly got the required 10 people, all ready to blow a final /kiss to the Kara bosses.We had 2 tanks (one of which was me on Solidd), 1 holy paladin as healer and 7 DPS.

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If you've been thinking like I have of leveling a Death Knight, WoW Insider now has a nice article on possible DK leveling builds.As is usually the case with this things I tend to take the advice as a set of helpful guidelines and not an exact guide to how to play. So from looking at the talent descriptions and after reading the article, I think I'll start my level 55 DK with this spec, continue

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Relmstein has a post from a couple of days ago where he talks about the Blizzard forums, player QQ and trolling and the effect of this on Blizzard. He raises some points which I frankly disagree with. As background, I visit the forums almost ever day, including the class forums for all 4 of my classes, so I'm well aware of the content of posts there and of the occasional Blue feedback.The number

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Too bad raiding MH and BT no longer qualifies you as a hard-core raider, since we are now a BT raiding guild :)Last night my guild joined with our another guild and we went to tackle the 4th boss in MH, Azgalor (I mentioned taking down the first 3 bosses in a previous post). The waves in my opinion were more challenging than the boss, as the nerf meant the "race" against his Doom ability was very

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So why am I currently happy as frost, caps and all?Well over at Critical QQ, Euripedes made a very nice post about the state of the Arcane tree (and I agree with most of the points). However, I was struck by this sentence:Frost is easily the most boring spec right nowI'm not sure this is as true as it used to be before 3.0.2. Sure, you're still nuking with Frostbolts, however you now have (in

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A post over at Hudson's Hidout led me to think about what would make the Blizzard forums better. Hudson wrote (about the addition of the 3 new forums):This still dilutes the conversations, as it adds another place to check for information, thereby causing one of the boards to die I am sure. I still don’t like it either way.I think it kinda depends on the players but if for example general healing

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Just a quick post, I finally managed to find the time to gring CC rep with Solidd. I managed to grind 10k rep in about 3 hours which is pretty good I think (especially as there was competition) and got to exalted. So now Solidd has the Guardian of Cenarius title which is good because (a) it's good title for a druid and (b) he finally has a title floating over his head (poor alt :)).I would have

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