Archive for April, 2010

  • Cata raid stuff

    Cata raid stuff

    Cata raid changes: for what I would probably say anyway, see Euripedes here. 10man raiding never really felt like raiding an instance for 10 players. Instead, we were traipsing through 25 player content that was lobotomized for us. It isn’t easy being a strict(ish) 10...

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  • Keeping what sticks

    Keeping what sticks

    Warning: navelgazing follows.

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  • The downside to raiding with bloggers…

    The downside to raiding with bloggers…

    … is that sometimes when you say ridiculous things in chat, they get screenshotted. And blogged. E-fame is, in fact, yours, Sloppies. I love this job sometimes.

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  • Raiding in a yellow submarine

    Raiding in a yellow submarine

    With thanks to @demeternoth and @stormcrack, and apologies to the Beatles, our take on going to Vashj’ir in a submarine. On the realm where I was born Lived a gnome who sailed to sea And he told us of his raids In the land of...

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  • Death Knight Cataclysm preview, much like everyone else

    Death Knight Cataclysm preview, much like everyone else

    I feel this dog pretty accurately sums up my reaction to the preview. The shaman preview made me have to change my pants with joy; the warlock preview kinda sucked until I realized it was mostly outright or stealth buffs to my all-time favorite tree,...

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  • Witty blood pun here

    Witty blood pun here

    So Tart was nice enough to shoot me a copy of the blue post featuring Ghostcrawler’s so called "Blood bomb" regarding DKs getting a legitimate tanking-only tree in Cataclysm. I wasn’t totally surprised – I’d already been hearing rumors to that effect for a while,...

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  • The slime isn’t flowing

    The slime isn’t flowing

    Really no content here: just a "Putricide down, hooray!" post. I’d put up a screenshot if I had one, but I don’t. I think Nibuca probably does. You could tell the moment where everything just sort of clicked – people were executing, everything seemed to...

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  • The Putricide tango; or, anecdotal advice on positioning the Professor

    The Putricide tango; or, anecdotal advice on positioning the Professor

    Professor Putricide is starting to be a fun fight for me. The first few times we were in there, even as late as last week, I felt kind of like I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. After looking at...

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