Last Friday we recorded the 80th episode of the Twisted Nether Blogcast. We had a round table.. it was fantastically fun.
On the round table we had:
Tristan from The Elitist Podcast
Typhoon Andrew from Eye of the Storm
Daewin from The Hunting Lodge
Stop from The Stoppable Force
Kim Dowd from World of Warcraft Wanderings
We covered: Masteries in cataclysm, Progressive “nerfication” of Raids (the buff that is being rolled out monthly), The Purpose of a Guild – extend that into cataclysm and changes making and how does that evolve.., Your Perfect Random Dungeon group and Addons
(I know it doesn’t look like much.. but we talked these topics to death 
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I highly recommend you give it a listen.
The WoW Gods hate us.
Blow #1:
We’ve been trying to do ToGC for a while. Every time we put it up we don’t have enough signups. When asked people said it was just an inconvenient time/night/something came up. So we rescheduled it to Tuesday (a normally convenient time) and said we won’t be raiding ICC until we finish ToGC.
Blow #2:
It’s the third Tuesday of the month. I’m supposed to go to a RL meeting. I skipped the meeting because I wanted to make sure our raid went off.
Blow #3:
We only had one tank signed up for the run. We have 4 tanks in the guild. Two have gone mysteriously AFK for the last couple weeks and one doesn’t normally run on Tuesdays. After much kerfuffle the raid leader decided to delay the raid for one hour and see if we had someone log in.
Blow #4:
An hour later we got someone to come on their alt to tank it and reformed. One of the raiders was afk (licking pretzels or something like that) and didn’t return for ~5 minutes.
Blow #5:
We all zoned in and buffed and DRANK OUR FLASKS and then suddenly the heal lead stopped talking as he was handing out raiding assignments. About 3 minutes later he hopped back on and told us his wife had noticed that their chihuahua had a gnarly nail and had touched their chihuahua’s foot to trim it.. and the dog snapped at her and bit her lip. He then popped off of vent.
My fiance joked that he was going to have to take her to the hospital for stitches. Five minutes later the heal lead popped back on vent and said he was going to have to go take his wife to the hospital for stitches.
Killing Blow:
The only healer we could possibly pull into the run.. was attending that RL meeting I mentioned in Blow #2. She didn’t skip it. /facepalm
Ok so we’re working on the Blood Princes. The fight itself seems pretty easy. Avoid the bad stuff and hit whoever has a health bar until they all die. The thing is.. there’s ALOT of other stuff going on all at the same time to avoid. Some forces you to move away.. some stuff you to move towards.. you do the hokey-pokey.. just a lot of sensory overload.
My job Sunday night was to pop the beachballs up into the air.
Continue reading Kinetic Bombs Suck
Teksloot is another Tekkhub addon. It slims down the loot window and adds information about who rolled what.
In the example, 4 people rolled disenchant. Mousing over the option shows you who rolled what.
<Caffeine> was stuck on Rotface for 6 weeks. That’s six weeks of death by goo. That’s a lot of time to faceplant on the same boss. Gave me a lot of time to read a lot of strategies.. and a lot of different things to try.
So here you go.. here’s what we learned and what’s working for us. I’m totally going to steal Fulguralis’ picture and repurpose it to my own usage.
Continue reading Rotface Strategy Notes
We had too many ranged DPS sign up for ICC this week. I volunteered to sit out. I’ve gone on most of the guild runs and it’s only fair. The group did great even without me. They burned through all of the lower spire, festergut and rotface in a little less than 2 hours. Then they got really good attempts in on the Blood Princes. I’m very proud.
While my guild was running ICC I ran off and did VoA. I picked up the Sanctified Dark Coven Gloves from VoA-25 and the Furious Gladiator’s Pendant of Dominance from VoA-10. This meant I had to fiddle around both my “Boss 14%” clothes and my “High Stamina” set. When I get new gear I fiddle my gear around to get the highest pawn score and yet still keep at my hit cap. This “fiddling” can take upwards of 2-3 hours depending on whether I’m doing a quick gear swap.. or if I’m doing a full gear audit to make sure I have the best gear set for each of my sets (14% hit, 17% hit, High Stamina, etc). This is kind of a PITA and not terribly interesting.. just kind of manual. While I was working on these sets I found myself thinking “Gosh, it’s too bad that Outfitter can’t just read my Pawn settings to make these gear sets automatically”. Amazingly enough somebody already thought of that. Hidden deep in the menus of Outfitter is the option to have outfitter rebuild your gearset based on a Pawn scale.**
Continue reading Outfitter + Pawn
I had a /facepalm moment.
To set the stage.. last week (and frankly ever since the 3.3.3 change to Frozen Orbs were announced) I’ve dutifully ran my daily heroic. At the end of every heroic I hesitated over the Frozen Orb. Do I greed and hope that no one else has already needed it.. do I wait until everyone else has chosen and THEN make my choice. It was maddening. If I hit greed and then someone else needed I thought they were an asshat. I RAGED at them being an asshat. If I waited.. and then 1 out of the four other people hit Need.. and THEN hit Need.. well then I felt like an asshat. I don’t like that.. I don’t want to be an asshat.. and I dispise being under the influence of asshats.
So last night I finally hit on the answer. At the beginning of the run I type out in party:
/p Hi all! To avoid confusion, everyone please roll need on the orb.
Ta da. Suddenly I’m not worried about it. I roll need.. and the others roll need..and it’s all fair and nifty. In fact last night someone rolled greed.. and for like a split second I felt bad.. like OMG maybe he missed when I put that into the party chat.. but almost immediately he typed “Oops, I forgot.”
So there. My stress level is lowered. All is good in my world again. It was so freaking easy I’m amazed I didn’t think of it sooner.
