Resource Site Spotlight: Gear Wishlist

Today’s resource site spotlight will be going over a site that does a lot of work for raiders. Gear Wishlist is deceptively simple web app that tells you what you want. Seriously! Just give it your character and realm, and it will pull your gear and spec from the armory, and put together a list of upgrades based on the wowhead preset stat weights.

Here’s me: http://gear-wishlist.appspot.com/wishlist?character=euripides&realm=drenden&region=us

Now since the survival hunter presets on wowhead are actually based on calculations done on my character, this is a very good tool for me. However, for everyone else, bear in mind that your situation is not always going to be typical. When in doubt, double check with your existing tools. Still, aside from minor variants where the difference between you and the wowhead presets is enough to reorder your list a bit, this is a very nice quick wish list!

The resource site spotlight (aka wiki tiki utility posts) should happen every week, but is written by Euripides from outdps.com, and endeavors to fill your favorites bar with an unmanageably large quantity of WOW resource sites. So much knowledge that it hurts. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Episode 59 – #IBlameSyrana

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Another week of LIVE TNB! This week welcomes both Sideshow AND Syrana to the show. They are the husband/wife team behind the Sideshow and Syrana blog. We talk about Pirate’s Day, Raging Sheep and blame it all on Syrana. Don’t miss it!

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TNB Live Friday 9/25 8:00pm PST – Spooner

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Join us at our new night and time on Friday evening at 8:00PM PST as we talk to Spooner of Spooncraft. We’ll be doing our whole show live!

Listen in our LIVE chat room and we’ll take questions (and hopefully answer them if we can).

  • When is it?: This live show is scheduled for Friday September 25th at 8:00pm PST (11:00 am EST). Not sure what time that is for you? Use this handy-dandy time converter!
  • Where do I go? To participate on the live show, you will need to go to the TNB Live Show page to connect with the stream. See, totally easy. If you are having issues then go to the Ustream page.
  • Some general ground rules:
    1. Be nice. If you say very inappropriate things be aware you will be kicked from the room. We are doing this to have a great time, come with a beer, come during a raid, come how you wish, just don’t come to cause trouble.
    2. You may ask questions to the participants during the show, but we reserve the right to use them if and when we can. I will be monitoring the chat room and if I can I will use the comments during the show. We love that you are with us, but I will have to weave them in. Even if it isn’t asked, we all appreciate your questions

Outside of that, we will love to have you join us and partake in an enlightening discussion that is sure to follow! Hope to see you there!

Resource Site Spotlight: Elitist Jerks

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Today’s resource site spotlight will be going over the theory-crafting den that we all love, elitistjerks.com.

It is a few things, but publicly, and most importantly, it is a forum for theorycrafters to share and develop information about how the game works. This site is the de-facto standard for information, however it’s not for the faint of heart. The site is moderated by a group of players who have a very strict set of rules designed to prevent the place from looking too much like the official forums and keep the signal to noise ratio very high.

Every time you break a rule, someone will report your post to the mods, and they will give you an “infraction”, which prevents you from posting. If you get enough of these infraction points, you will be permanently banned.

To participate, click on the forums link on the top of the page. Find the forum that concerns you, and then get ready to read. Each forum has a wealth of information stored in threads on various topics. New accounts are not allowed to create threads until they have 10 posts that did not earn infractions (and posting something trivial to increase your post count will get you an infraction).

Generally, the first post in a thread is where all the info you need is, however if it is out of date (god knows mine need a bit of update love), you will have to piece together the information you need by reading through the thread. These are often 50+ pages. If you read the last few pages, you’ll have a pretty good idea about how things work, however if the mechanic you want to learn about is not discussed there, work backwards to ensure that you get the most recent information first.

Do not, under any circumstances, post asking a question that has been answered. Even if the answer was 3 months and 20 pages ago, you’re expected to know already. Unfortunately, their search bar is not very intelligent and limits you from searching for short terms, however you can always search a forum by going to google and searching something like “hit cap site:http://elitistjerks.com/f74/” which will give you fairly good search results for the hunter hit cap.

Do not, under any circumstances, start a post by saying “first time poster”, because even if you proceed to write the best post in the history of the site, you will get an infraction.

Once you’re comfortable with the site rules and maybe you’ve taken a look at their list of comments that got infractions to see the type of thing they don’t want, you can start participating.

They value original research more than speculation, and because of this, many of the bits of knowledge floating around the internet that we take for granted were tested on elitist jerks first. Just don’t poke the bear.

The resource site spotlight (aka wiki tiki utility posts) should happen every week, but is written by Euripides from outdps.com, and endeavors to fill your favorites bar with an unmanageably large quantity of WOW resource sites. So much knowledge that it hurts. Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Shared Topic: 10 Changes That Will Make [_________] More Heroic

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Once again, the Blog Azeroth Shared Topic has extended itself to over 2 weeks, thanks to a lazy administrator who couldn’t keep up with it all.  However, the extra long time has meant we have some truly fantastic posts written this week by a host of bloggers.

Gryphonheart of The Lion Guard suggested a great topic for this week.

Where "___" is an old-world instance (such as Deadmines or Shadowfang Keep).
Here’s what I had to suggest for Deadmines.  Feel free to be as serious or as humorous as you’d like.

Responding with some fantastic new looks at old instances are the following:

Relevart at Relevart’s Druid Reliquary on Rage Fire Chasm

Darkpurple at Druidic In Nature on Scarlet Monastery

Gryphonheart at The Lion Guard with The Stockade

Xeonio at Rez the Weak with Maraudon

Fuyuko at The Unconventional Priest with Dire Maul

Lissanna at Restokin with Sunken Temple

 

If you have a contribution to make to an existing discussion, or a Shared Topic of your own to suggest, don’t forget to head on over to the Blog Azeroth Forums!