Archive for July, 2008
07.17.08
Posted in Lilac at 2:18 pm by Nibuca
With the new world order (ie West Kingdom recruiting) we decided we needed more.. administration 
We named a Grand Council for helping to make/iron out the rules and Class Leads so that people know who to talk to for help with their toon.
I got invited to the Grand Council and asked to be the Warlock class lead. I’m tickled on both counts.
Then we started recruiting. We’ve gotten 4 new players so far. One of them is even a warlock.
Last week we took him into Kara with us. For that night overall he averaged 425 DPS.
Last night we took him back into Kara. For that he averaged 747 DPS.
That’s almost 100% improvement. I’m tickled pink.
I believe the only thing we changed was to advise him to sacrifice his Succubus, keep fel armor up.. and to use a Shadow Bolt rotation. We helped him to upgrade to Spellfire hood and pants and we also helped him (through the use of be.imba.hu) to re-evalutate his gems and enchants.
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07.16.08
Posted in Musings at 8:48 am by Nibuca
ZA last night. Quick downing of bear and eagle (we would have had two chests but we had an unfortunate “taunt” during the bear fight that killed a tank and forced us to reset and try it again).
At the beginning of the run “per usual” I set up a cookie jar. When the summon finished it “beamed in” the gasps on ventrilo were very cool. Even more cool where the gasps and comments when it got emptied and “zap-swirled” out.
Sometimes it’s the little things.
I do still wish that the different sized cookie jars were visually distinguishable. Oh well.
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07.15.08
Posted in Kvetching at 7:36 pm by Nibuca
[editing this to make it new for today's patch, I have this problem almost every time.. and this fixes it.. so setting it as today's date just in case anyone else is having this problem.]
So, every time there’s a patch I have to log in 10-20 times before my computer “figures it out”. For the first 10-20 times I log in and either I’m naked.. or everyone around me is naked.. and they’re all named “Unknown” and half my icons are “?”s.
So in desperation I logged onto the Tech support part of the World of Warcraft forums and found this gem:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778016229&sid=1
Thunderwulf on Bonechewer wrote:
Go to My Computer
Right click and choose properties
Hardware tab
Device manager
Network adapter
There may or may not be a plus sign, if so click it.
Right click the adapter and choose properties choose the advanced tab
If you have a Checksum Offload Option,Hardware Checksumming etc,disable it. You may lose your Internet for several minutes. If it does not come back try rebooting. Check under speed or media and make sure your Duplex settings are set to Full 100
Retry the game
It worked. I’m thrilled!
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Posted in Lilac, Warlocks at 10:00 am by Nibuca
So, for a lot of boss fights I, Lilac the affliction warlock, end up standing relatively close to the tanks (to make sure they get the imp buff). As a conscientious warlock I strive to be “just a little hurt” so that my mana pool stays up and the incoming health from my Siphon Life isn’t wasted. This means that I’m usually close enough to the tanks that the frisbee that the priests send at the tanks bounces to me.
UNFORTUNATELY, lifetap doesn’t pass the frisbee on. I feel really bad sucking up all the frisbees and not passing them on.
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07.14.08
Posted in Metablog at 9:50 am by Nibuca
Mystic Chicanery was mentioned on the “Twisted Nether” podcast. Specifically they discussed “How to annoy all the other healers (without even realizing it)“. I highly recommend you check it out.
For the record: it’s Mystic Chicanery (shÄ-kÄ?’nÉ™-rÄ“, chÄ-) Listen to Chicanery
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07.09.08
Posted in Musings at 9:22 am by Nibuca
For the first time -ever- West Kingdom (my guild) is recruiting. After a lot of soul searching, a little bit of grousing and a swift boot to the rear we’ve decided that we want to see end-game 25-person content. To that end we are recruiting and planning trial runs.
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07.08.08
Posted in Addons at 12:53 pm by Nibuca
I use Grid. I’m what you might call a Grid Zealot. I think it’s the greatest addon EVER for healing (or even for non healers to keep their screens decluttered in 10-25 man raids). Unfortunately not everyone is a convert.
It’s come to my attention that alot of other healers use healbot. That’s fine. It’s their UI they can do whatever they want (heathens).. but this also leads to a little bit of a problem. You see Grid and HealBot don’t really talk to each other. Or rather.. Healbot doesn’t really talk to Grid.
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Posted in UI at 9:11 am by Nibuca
Review of my UI. In combat:
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07.07.08
Posted in Lilac at 9:40 am by Nibuca
Yesterday we went into ZA. We did the Bear Boss and the Eagle boss. No problems. We didn’t one-shot them but the kills were fairly clean. No loot for Lilac from those fights.
The more I use Power Auras, the more I like it.. and the more I wish it had more settings to fiddle with.
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07.03.08
Posted in Tatia at 12:02 pm by Nibuca
On Tuesday Joe, of Shadow Warlords, logged into our vent to ask if anyone was interested in an SSC run. Of course I said I was. He asked if Tatia my holy Pally could come. Sure! I think this may have been my first time in SSC as a healer.
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