OS: No, Mister Dragon, You Can Not Has Wipe

Almost my first 10-OS without one death, but definitely my first 10-OS without a wipe. Way to stay alive there, Squarepant. Trump it to a druid healer to leave the MT last man standing.

We had the dance down: an "IN MELEE" on /rw and we were in, an "OUT RANGED" and out we went. I worked on elementals, how I died was because the back group started getting spliced where OT was trying to grab elementals, but the ones I aggroed kept getting less and less interested in him. I like the left side of the back of the island where I can keep an eye on the melee wave and be right where I need to be for the range wave. The OT was pulling to the right and center of the back when elementals came, so that's where the splice started. It took about three of the fire buttholes to start to be distracting enough that I didn't see melee wave and I did some lava swimming. came out, only took one AOE for an elemental to one shot me around 20% left on Sarth.


I wish I was faster with screenshot, Squarepant had only 42HP when the dragon fell down and then his HP started coming back. Great job everyone!

OMGWTFBBQ, WHERE YOU IS

So I said I was going to type something here. Like, I don't know, words of some sort pertaining to this game I usually play. Lately I've been busy. Let's start up them excuses.

Work: I teach kids, and recently I've been enlisted as the go-to guy when it comes to the young, new recruits. We teach all ages at my tutoring center, but only a few of the several tutors we have can handle the bouncy, undisciplined younglings that tend to not want to do anything educational. In the last few weeks we just got a parliament of new owls (what we call them, our mascot's an owl, so in following, so are the kids) under the age of 12, so now I work quite a bit of hours.

Outings: I have gone out almost every night for the past 3 weeks. No offense, you WoWers out there who know me and play alongside with me, but if I had the distinct choice of going out or playing WoW, I go out. I'm a shatbag, I know.

WoW: Who dropped $20 about 2 weeks ago for the arena realms? ME. Blizz gets me fully tricked out in 25-T7 or Deadly gear, blue gems and high-end enchants galore, weapons I've never seen anyone have on the live realms, as well as the Amani War Bear as my default mount, all in the hopes that through $20, my would-be talent as a PvPer would shine so that they may reward me with up to $75,000 should I come out a golden god of arenas. Thus far, these are my woes:

Made a Warlock, realized I suck at Arena at my own class. Reconsider talent builds in the future on the live server. Started making a bunch of other classes I've always wanted to try at 80.

Pally: It's about as brainless at DPS could get. Holy, IMO, way too OP.

Rogue: Movement is my one true friend. That class is tough to perfect but easy to be an idiot at. Goooo Mutilate!

Mage: Too many abilities.

Shammy: Too many totems AND abilities.

Warrior: No. Just no.

Death Knight: Didn't get it when I made one, don't get it now. A melee warlock with a pretty sweet grab. That's all I can surmise.

Priest: Everyone's going Disc, but I'm having a hard time figuring it out.

Druid: I think I was more entertained that my AP was so high in feral and I looked so damn cute dancing in different forms. Resto? I'll leave the HoTs to my buddy, Joseph.

Hunter: Strafe, shoot, strafe, shoot, strafe. The one class I promised myself I'd never play because I always thought it was so OP and cheap, I'm actually having the most fun at.

Pretty much my entire guild has joined the arena servers, and I'm currently running three 3v3 teams.

On a more different note, on the live servers my three-guild accordance, with Hand of Doom and From the Ashes, has been making small steps to finishing Naxx progression, but because of everyone's schedule we've been having a hard time getting all of us together; the last two weeks we haven't been able to really get it down where all the organizers are present. Hopefully this week will be different.

OH! ALSO! I'm currently writing for the recently opened Blizzard Writing Contest! I'm taking my Hillsbrad idea to the Loremasters themselves, hoping I've got a shot at the trip to Blizz and Frostmourne. Once I've finished, I'll put a small preview of it here, then when I hear how I did in the contest, I'll post the full story. Wish me luck! :D

Once the story's done I'll be updating a bit more. Omg Frostmourne.

Three Point One: Warlocks, or Unpeaceful Keyholes.

Time for the shake down and my thoughts on the recent posts of 3.1.

Eyonix, Blue Poster for Blizz recently went down the line for some content coming up for the next big patch, 3.1. While 3.0.9 is on its way to fix the 3.0.8 debacle (Death Grip Wormhole, 2 minute cooldown on Satan TV with no Satan TV, amongst others), Blizz, teasing as they should, gave us a few of their definitive plans on THE patch. Let's admit it, this would have been in the expansion if they hadn't have been greedy little monsters trying to ship content out before Christmas 2008.

I'm sure you've read the posts yourself, so I'm just going to selfishly highlight some points I care about, because when I care about it, it's awesome.

I'm a Warlock. Let's talk Warlock. Zee Warlock changes!!!

* Improved Shadow Bolt – this talent now provides a 5% spell critical strike buff (similar to Improved Scorch).

Yea, because I've never understood the current Improved Shadow Bolt. When SB crits, my Shadow Damage is increased by 10% (neato)UNTIL 4 non-periodic damage sources are applied within the 12 seconds this lasts. What this basically means is that there can be N amount of DoTs, doesn't matter, but say Nightfall procs twice mid-SB cast, sending two SBs then proc, another two SBs, the 10%-bump gets scrubbed. Yea? Am I right? I don't know. With this new change, if it's anything like Improved Scorch, it'll be a ramping crit buff. If they're REALLY awesome about it, it'll get refreshed after each successive cast after ramping, staying on a plateau of crittackular rock and roll. I can only hope. Shadow Bolt is my number 5 key. I think in the new content patch, I'm going to break it.

* Improved Soul Leech – this talent now provides Replenishment (similar to shadow priests)

WHAT WHAT WHAT?! Sick dude! Now I'm not just an SS or a Soul Well or "Can-you-summon-me-because-I'm-lazy"-ticket-back-into-the-instance-guy. Why am I griping? I'm useful. Guess I'm going to try out Destruct.

* Drain Soul now has a chance to produce Soul Shards even if the target doesn't die.

Great, now I won't look like a retard when my fingers slips and I hit 6 instead of 5 in raids now (the 6 key is Drain Soul for me, 5 is SB). I'm trying to cast SB, finger slips, my tank (who's also got a warlock he's leveling) turns to me and goes, "Oath, he's not really dead yet, still has 1.3mil left."

Me: "Yea, well, I'm really confident about our DPS. QUIT HOLDING BACK."

* Siphon Life no longer as an active ability but the talent grants the old Siphon Life effect to Corruption.

Oh. My. GAWD. As much as I like DoTs like a Shaman Loves them totems, seriously, this rocks my gym socks to the stars. Afflict Warlocks, rejoice! Less crap for you to cast! now one DoT is two (only if you spec for it though).

* Curse of Recklessness and Curse of Weakness have been combined into one spell.

CoR makes them squishie (drops their armor) while hitting hard (ups their AP), something I used to cast only if I had a rogue or a hunter, though the curse itself wasn't really noticeable. Same with CoW, which made mobs or players hit like pansies. I can only assume combining the two curses makes the targets just downright feeble, less armor and less AP. Wouldn't it be awesome, though, if it did it straight up CoR then CoW with a residual armor debuff, with a ridiculous up and down of AP? It's like putting a backpack of bricks on their back, holding that hook-strap on the top for a while, giving them support for a brief second, then letting that bag drag them down. Then you do it again. What an awesome curse.

What to call it? "Curse of Hey-Quit-That-You're-Hurting-My-Neck."

* Consume Shadows – this Voidwalker ability is no longer channeled but has a cooldown.

Big Blue feel better? Tangtaz, you one bad mother. Yes you are! Yes you are! KIBBLER'S BITS!

What?! Tangtaz rules you.

But seriously, this rocks. I pop Consume Shadows, Health Funnel the rest, Tangy's good to go. Steamlining the farming, yea, Blizz?

* Several other warlock talents have had their ranks reduced, their effects changed or removed. This list includes but is not limited to Demonic Empathy, Shadow Embrace, Eradication, Suppression, and Pandemic.

The two trees I know and Love, Demo and Afflict, might get a tree revamp. Sadness, right when I was getting used to the new stuff...

* Additional new talents have been added.

...they put in more stuff. Am I excited? Yes! Let the darkness come, take me completely, so that I may share it painfully with the rest of the World (of Warcraft).

There's my thoughts on the 'Lock related jazz we've heard so far. I'll post more later on Ulduar, mana regen, mounts swimming, and dual-specs.

WTF WoW Armory?!

Seriously, start working. Everything I try to use works off of you. Warcrafter.net. Mobile iPhone Character Profiler. Your innovative .xml itemization is paramount to all, problem being YOU SUCK AND DON'T WORK. I just want to get some ideas instead of doing my blind heroics and hoping something on the loot table drops. Stupid crap.

Your websites reflect your patches, Blizzard.

Speaking of patches, it'll be a bit until I write that response to 3.1 stuff. My brain hurts and I gotta work then nap.

Whoops, here I am!

Sorry! I should be writing, shouldn't I? At least for this I should on occasion, since I play so damn much.

I've allowed myself to be taken up on the wave of heroics lately as well as IRL stuff such as writing, hanging out, working, watching movies, etc., you know, stuff where I don't have to cast Fel Armor every 30 minutes.

I was more or less prompted when I saw the barrage of new articles over the course of 2 days on WoWInsider about Blizzard's announcement of 3.1 content. What's my take on it all? I'll tell you today! Just give me a bit to wake up first. It's so damn early. Freakin' 3:30PM man.