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Last week, Oath from Dressed to Cuddle suggested that, as our Shared Topic, we should talk about conversations about WoW we happen to overhear in the offline world:
Sharing their experiences were: Jaedia from The Lazy Sniper Artie from Blade Barrier Glassofwater from Not So Overpowered Oath from Dressed to Cuddle Cranky Healer from The Cranky Healer Ophelie from The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon Next week, we tackle another topic that involves talking about WoW, but in a very different setting. Instead of WoW in the real world, we discuss whether or not we’d link to our blog in on our character’s WoW armory page. Other upcoming topics include: Moments of Awe in WoW (or, World of Awecraft) If you would like to take part in these or any other Shared Topics, please drop by the forum whenever! And even if you don’t want to take part in the Shared Topics, you are still welcome to drop by Blog Azeroth to say hi and chat with some very cool people!
First of all I want to say a big thanks to Fim & Nib for letting me shout out to the TNB listeners about the Big Crits show. I’ve always been a huge fan of the show and the work they do for the WoW community. Thanks for keeping us together and more importantly entertained! [Ed: Aww.. Thanks] As you may have read by now, I’m embarking on a new adventure. I’m starting up a new WoW guild, an end-game raiding guild called Big Crits. We’re going to start with a group of geared and experienced 80s from around the realms and dive in to tackle ICC. Here’s the best part: we’re going to record it all and make a web series about it. I’ve written a lot on the subject already; there’s the post at WoW.com as well as some posts on the Big Crits blog, so there’s plenty to read if you want to learn more about what I want to accomplish with this show. I kicked things off with a post on WoW.com and Big Hit Box about this project. It launched with a bigger bang than I could have hoped for, and I’ll tell you the weeks leading up to this I was freaking out. I’m freaking out because I’m…
Those were pretty much the thoughts I woke up to every morning and went to sleep with every night. When the recruitment video was delayed a week I have to be honest – I breathed a little sigh of relief. I thought to myself, “maybe I don’t have to take this chance. Maybe I can just stay in my safe, comfortable world.” Maybe maybe maybe. But no. I committed myself to this path because I believe in it. I believe it’s the right time, the right thing, and if I don’t do it I’ll never forgive myself for not trying. And so I kicked it off. Since Tuesday night my inbox has been flooded with apps. It’s been an amazing start to the journey. We should have a full guild by Monday and start raiding (and recording) after raid reset Tuesday. Now the next set of doubts creep in. You know that voice in the back of your head that does nothing but cast face-melting shadows. Come to think of it, taking chances is like fighting a Shadow Priest. There’s DoTs of worry and big critting moments of panic, Psychic Scream, Despair, and the Vampiric Embrace of self-doubt. The questions creep in:
What if. Fugit. Here in NYC there’s a highly respected CEO whose rally cry to his people through the last few difficult years has been: “lean into the pain.” Make hard decisions. Have tough conversations. Face yourself honestly. Definitely the hardest part of this journey was leaving my guild <Unorthodox> and those raiders. That was painful and a difficult decision to make. But it had to be done so I had to lean into the pain. Times are tough IRL for a lot of us right now. I work in tech staffing and have seen and felt it firsthand. My advice is to you, whether in game or IRL is: Lean into the pain. Then buff up, flask up, check your weapons, and ATTACK!! May all your hits be crits! -Stoneybaby
MMO Champion is a huge site with a lot of WoW-related resources, but we’re looking at a very specific one today, the Raid Composition tool. Using this can help you understand your raid group’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as possibly make changes to improve it. http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/ The mechanics are simple: drag a class/spec into the raid groups, and the chart on the right will tell you exactly which buffs you do and don’t have. Green checkmarks represent “assured” buffs (Ret pallies with replenishment, for example) while a yellow squiggly line indicates that a buff could be present, but won’t always be. Kings, Might, BoW are all yellow for the same ret pally, since he can only provide one. Another often-overlooked aspect of raid composition is at the bottom right, which tells you how many potential disease, magic, curse, and poison removers are in the group, as well as a few other useful bits of info. This can also be a valuable tool for potential or current raid leaders, since a good raid leader knows what buffs each class can or should provide, and can use that knowledge to maximize the group’s potential (or to identify lazy players who forget to buff). As a l33t hunter, for example, I don’t speak the language of Faceroll, so I need to research the abilities of the lesser classes (i.e. everyone else). To see this in action, let’s take a look at my guild’s regular 10M, which looks something like this: http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/?c=e5ohf98kj1000000000000000000000000000000 …and is lacking comprehensive caster buffs. As such, the physical dps in our group really shines. This usually isn’t a problem, but we do have casters that sub in every now and then, and their dps suffers because of this. 25M raids should never have such problems, but maximizing a 10M can be hard if certain buffs are not present. And this can help you identify those inadequacies, or just play around with groups to see how buffed they are. I have yet to find a 10M that can cover every single buff, even counting drums/scrolls for things like Kings, Gift, Fort, etc. Extra points if anyone else can. Installments weekly. Stay tuned. And leave comments! My self-esteem is a fragile, fragile thing. I need online validation every time I lose to a rogue on a damage meter (and about a dozen shots when I lose to a DK). The resource site spotlight is a “weekly” column about WoW resource sites/utilities written by Arthemystia who also sometimes writes for the Warcraft Hunter’s Union. Be it a website or a utility addon, you’ll never look at WoW the same.
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Monday, 15th of March 2010 at 02:22:35 PM
When we’re out and about the offline world, every now and again we accidentally overhear other people’s conversations. Especially when those conversations are about WoW… Our ears perk up and we feel the overwhelming urge to ask the ultimate question: “Which server do you play on?”
Hi all, Arth here again, and I’m happy to now be a full-fledged member of the Twisted Nether staff. Am I staff? Is that the correct term? Staff might imply payment, though, so it’s more likely that I’m the equivalent of a tree-cutting orc peon. But now I’m Twisted Nether’s own special tree-cutting peon. Zug zug!
