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A fishing WII will go.
I’ve heard of some crazy things in my time, but this might just top most of them.
A person has managed to integrate a WIImote into his computer’s controls for fishing in wow.
I was cruising around El’s Extreme Anglin and was browsing their equipment section. Fishing is one of the areas in wow that i’m very deficient in levelling. I just haven’t bothered doing it. One of the tabs caught my eye. Automation – To me the fishing interface is a bit clunky, having to position your pointer over the bobber to right click at the correct moment. and being largely unable to chat with your buddies during that time. (except over vent and then you have to have it voice activated..)
The page talks about some macros, then at the bottom… a seperate heading for WII remote. Being something of a technology geek, I had to follow the link to this post. I bet something similar could be cooked up with a PS3 control, which also has motion sensing tech built in, and operates over bluetooth.
One of my thoughts on this, was what a great way to let younger children play for a bit on the game that we slightly older children spend so much time on. They may not be able to read the chat, or follow vent orders in a raid. but they can hold a remote and fish to their hearts content, (and the limit of your bagspace whichever comes first)
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Random Screenshots
I found these in a dusty old yahoo group that I moderated and nobody ever came to. 
I hope they get to see the light of day here.
Wish I could say I was part of this team.. I still think that would have been an awesome setup.
My hunter alt still has his transformation rod.. couldn’t bear to turn in the quest.
Again, wish this were me… but who could resist a Ninja Turtle.
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Wow-Ku my first meme
To anyone not familiar with a meme, it is a phenomenon where someone has an idea, and asks others to contribute and feed/expand the idea.
Well, I’ve been asked to join in on the latest meme from Fimlys by the one and only Big Bear Butt Blogger.
Well here goes..
Feathered with antlers,
Moonfire, Wrath, Eclipse, Starfire,
Must out-crit the gnome.
now.. who shall I tag to continue this?
(will edit later with links)
sadly i don’t have time to read enough blogs to tag anyone elses site yet, Aspect of the hare, BBB and BRK are the only ones I normally read right now. Guess it’s time to find me a BRK fill in
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The End of an Era
It is sad to report that one of the most outspoken, knowledgeable, and well known of WOW hunters will be leaving our ranks possibly permanently. We all face the challenge and decision he has faced and will all make our own decisions. Me, I think he is doing what is right for him and his family. If we allow it to, WOW can consume us and bring us down as any addiction to drugs or alcohol can. BRK chose wisely, Family first.
Here is his farewell..
Anything in excess can be very bad for you, limit yourselves in how much you play. Instead of spending all your time on the computer go outside and see daylight once in a while. Do some creative writing, inventing, learn to play an instrument. You will find that you do enjoy your wow time just as much as ever, but you have other things that will also make you happy.
To BRK and family, I wish you the best for your future. Mrs. BRK the digital mistress (WOW) is gone, you remain, it’s a major statement of his feelings toward you in how he chose to respond to the situation. BRK you hang in there, you gave hunters a great foundation to build on, we can take it from here. We will miss you.
To anyone else struggling with the same issue of family vs. wow games. WAKE UP.. Your family needs you, junior’s t-ball game might not be as exciting as downing the lich king with 24 buddies.. but, at the end of the day, it’s a lot more rewarding. I count myself fortunate, I grew up in a two parent household full of love. My mother could not work after severe medical problems in the mid-80’s so my father worked to bring in the sole income for our household as a machinist for about 40 of his now 70 years.. At the end of the day (some of them 10-12 hours long of standing at a machine making sure the cutting tool bit into the metal in precisely the right manner) he would come into the house grimy, greasy, dirty, and exhausted. After a quick shower and some good food, he would still, tired as he was, try to play some basketball with me, or attend a play, a ball game, or whatever I happened to be doing in school. That was part of his job, as much as turning metal at 10000 rpms. That is what it means to be a real father, you put your family first. Your responsibilities do not end when the paycheck clears the bank. Bowling night (or now in our generation Wow night) is a luxury when you stop and look at the big picture. You may not get epic loot from being a good father or husband, but then again, the rewards can be legendary.
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The egg of the oracles
I’ve been keeping the oracle eggs warmed up (what better for a space chicken to do eh?) and have hatched out a couple of the white tickbird hatchlings, a tickbird hatchling of normal color, and a protodrake whelp. I have found the oracles to be an interesting faction. The little war between them and the “puppymen” is amusing. Eventually, I will have the green protodrake mount, and will fly off and leave the oracles to their business, or perhaps I will stick with them and provide mounts and pets for the rest of my crew. I haven’t decided yet.
– Edit –
Well, i’m on my 3rd white tickbird, second normal tickbird.. i still haven’t gotten a protodrake mount.. I need to get back to doing daily quests and hit exalted. maybe i’ll have a better chance at exalted.
– Another Edit –
Lost track of the number of eggs, but I have now gotten both types of tickbirds, the protodrake whelp, and now the snake.
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Katt’s in the Kettle
I came home from work today, and this sight greeted me.
I had to photograph it, and it reminded me of a song I heard a long time ago.
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Back to boomkin basics
I was off reading my favorite blog (written by someone other than myself) and came across a request for boomkin info. I realized that lately my posts have been a bit lean on useful information, and heavy on opinion. So.. I will try to (in this and the series of posts that I intend to follow this) lay out some good general guides to being a fine feathered friend.
Leveling your druid
1-20 – This is probably the most tedious part of the level grind. I vaugely remember this portion as it was so long ago. Questing and not grinding is your focus. I will link my thoughts (y’all are welcome to comment and tell me i’m an ID10T if you want.) about talent picks for both a feral -> moonkin path and a straight balance path.
at 20 you should have cat, bear, and angry seal form and be in a position to be a nice little sneaky PITA. Here is my suggestion for lvl 20 talents for both feral and balance
LVL20 Suggestion – this gives you reduced pushback on your spells, improved rage/energy on shapeshifting, cheaper cost to shift, and Omen of clarity. (even now at 80, OOC is crucial to my mana pool)
21-30 – you are starting to get into the meat of the game, at 30 you now get your mount, you also get travel form which is almost as fast, and has other benefits (no dismount to herb anyone?)
LVL 30 Feral – reduced cost to main abilities, better prowl, increased damage/crit strike
LVL 30 Balance – reduced cast time for wrath. (main attack as it’s a faster cast)
31-40 – more of the same you do get a massive armor boost at 40 with dire bear form
LVL 40 Feral – more damage, improved movement speed, an OS button, and an armor boost.
LVL 40 Balance/resto – Nature’s reach.. wonderful talent, increases range and reduces threat. One could also alternately respec totally to get moonkin at lvl 40 if they wished. Following my balance/resto path would take till 56 to get to moonkin form. up to you how you do it.
LVL 40 Pure Balance – Moonkin form at it’s earliest
41-50 – no major game changers here.
LVL 50 Feral – here’s where I stop feral talents and respec to pure balance.
LVL 50 pure Balance – (31/0/10) Going back for the resto talents we dropped earlier
LVL 50 Balance/resto – (26/0/15)
OK after this point, things should soon be back on track to a single branching path.
51-60 Last push before outland
LVL 60 Pure Balance (34/0/17) My various branches meet up at lvl 60
LVL 70 Build (44/0/17) Typhoon and Force of nature. Typhoon is a great AOE Cone attack.. just be careful the knockback can annoy your furry companions.
My current lvl 80 build – theorycrafters have been going back and forth about the benefits of eclipse, you will note that I don’t have it. In my current setup, gear/talents solo I’m good for 1600-1800 dps, in raid that’s more like 1800-2100 which is adequate. I’m sure that I could min/max things to improve it. I’m still trying to gear up, but have several nice peices from naxx 10/25 and heroics.
The best advice I can give to prospective or curious boomers is to just do all the quests you can. A boomer is really a support character, so you need to build up a nice group of friends to run with. They will be your lifeline, as well as you theirs. (Battle rez + non-com rez is a very nice feature to bring to the group.) I hope this has been of some use to you. check back for more later. I think my next post will be a number cruncher with stat priorities, things to aim for, and how to get them with the gear you can get.
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A case of alt-itis.
Most of the time, I’m completely happy floating around northrend or sometimes even outland as a stormcrow. Breaking stride to drop down and attack something unaware of my presence above. Being a bird of prey has it’s advantages.
Raiding can be fun, questing as well. But there are times, times when I want to go do something different, either new or old doesn’t matter to me as long as it is different from what I have been doing.
One of these days, I’ll summon up the nerve to try to sneak into orgrimmar and do some fishing and run RFC under the noses of thrall and his adventurer friends. (might require a momentary respec to get the feral skill to make my prowl harder to detect.) But, eventually I will do those, and also will join a raid to take out the horde leaders.
One of the easiest ways for me to see different sights is to hop on one of my many alts. I have my crew on Kul Tiras (9 plus a bank) I also have a few scattered on other servers mainly for when my main area is down. (hasn’t happened in months) I still have a hunter on alexstrazia server that is lvl 16 and has been that lvl for about 3 years.
Right now my favorite alt is my deathknight. I enjoyed the starter area very much, had no problem whatsoever with the morality of the things my dk was asked to do as a minion of the LK. Once freed I consider my dk to be a smelly animal that helps protect the good people from other smellier animals. Essentially a dark version of the rangers of hobbit legend.
Among my other favorites are my gnome mage (very close to starting northrend now), and my two hunters. (both dwarf and nelf) Many of my guild mates asked me why I wanted/needed two hunters. I have no real reason other than I enjoyed my first hunter, and made a second to directly compare different ways of doing things. (since we don’t have dual spec yet this is still somewhat valid in thought)
I recently started a shaman again. I had long ago made one, scrapped him, made another, scrapped him, made a third horde one, scrapped him eventually from lack of playtime. This shaman is part of a 2man pair that will be levelling up together, we only play these when the other is on and willing to play our lowbies. So the shaman and his hunter friend are exploring bloodmyst isle right now. And having a blast doing so instead of pure solo play. This is afterall a multiplayer game right?
I have a warlock and a paladin that havent seen the light of day in a long time. and my bank is a rogue. (only use i was willing to put a rogue to. as who better than a theif to protect things from theives?) hm, by my count that’s only 9.. I must have one more somewhere…
Oh yeah.. /snap my shadow priest was hiding there. I always forget that one.. (therefore gets little time in the sun)
I am anxious to get my DK, mage and at least one of my hunters up to 80. (tough choice there, dwarf engineer or nelf leatherworker) I want to still map out how to unlock all of icecrown. I have a fair idea on that now, having unlocked and completed much of it.
Well, back to work I go.
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The wonderful world of raiding.
Ok, solo play can be really fun, you can mess around with your abilities and see what will and won’t work against this critter or that. But, If your guild can get to the point where it can start raiding, whole new worlds open up to you.
To be a successful raider, you have to learn to play well with others. (unless you are the guy playing 26 accounts at once so he can soloraid with a full group.)
There are a lot of group dynamics that have to be examined. Racial and class abilities that synergize well, the skill and attitude of the various people, and of course time committments.
A typical run through Naxxramas can take anywhere from 3 hours to 3 days of 3 hours depending on the speed of the pulls, the dps output, the deathcount, and the way looting is handled.
Progression guilds might find it takes even longer as they may not be up to the full run yet. My guild is in the progression mode right now, we have fun and are learning the fights.
Our 10 man group has successfully cleared Naxx and has attempted malygos.
Our 25 man group has cleared 3 wings, and the first two bosses on the construct wing. Gluth was really hungry the last time we faced him… But, having done it on 10 man, we know a bit better what we need to do on the 25 man version. And I just know that Thaddius will be a real blast on 25. I enjoyed that fight in the 10 man. People have to learn to be aware of their surroundings and know where they are.
The one thing that causes friction in a raid group, or even in a 5man if it’s not done right is loot. There are lots of systems of deciding who gets the goodies, anything from simple need/greed rolling to Master looting and letting one person decide who gets it, to full blown DKP/EPGP systems. The DKP systems take the human decision element out of the equation so that it’s just numbers deciding. (other than the decision to pass on the loot in favor of someone else or another item leading to people hoarding their points)
From a moonkin’s perspective, raidgroups love having one, the moonkin aura grants extra crit, Imp. Faery Fire grants extra hit and reduces armor, Insect Swarm reduces the boss hit ability slightly, you have a battle rez and an emergency healer all wrapped up in a feathered package.
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Icecrown unlocked
I must say that Icecrown is probably the most dynamic zone I have encountered yet. You really get a feeling of accomplishment as you unlock each little subzone and open up new quest hubs and flight points. The amount of lore packed into this zone is incredible as well. This is a zone well worth questing even after you hit 80, actually especially after you hit 80 as many of the mobs will be 79-80 already.
So far, I’m about 70% through the zone’s quest line judging by the acheivement. I have unlocked 3 flight paths, and 4 quest hubs. I could probably fill my quota of daily quests just off what I have available in icecrown now. The quest rewards are hit and miss especially if you have ducked into naxx 10/25, OS 10/25, and VoA 10/25 at all. I was really happy with my last naxx 25 run, got a very nice helm, and the caster fist weapon that just reeks of moonkin drool. And on my last naxx 10 run, I was asked to pinch hit for a replacement on 4 horsemen fight. (my first time on that fight) and the t7 chest peice came up for grabs. To my delight nobody else rolled.
I must paws and thank my guild mates for their patience with me, I had just got home from a lukewarm blind date, and a different match called me up and was chatting my ear off so I had vent muted. I think it took us 5 tries once I got there. But the horsemen went down finally.
Back to the post..
My favorite moment was the fall after the explosion and the chain that starts from that. You get to see and even control the lich king on a couple occasions.
My next toon to go through will document what quests unlock what areas. I’m still going through exploring everything and geeking out about all the subtle things the programmers did. Speaking of my next toon, I will put that into a seperate post, but I have a bit of a soapbox rant about my toons.
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Tags: Icecrown, Lich King, Unlockable
