We weren’t able to take the Murloc Mom’s advice on Tuesday as (seemingly) *all* of the European servers were largely unavailable. I’m still not exactly sure why — apparently TeliaSonera had some general connectivity problems in northern Europe, but we experienced the most drawn-out disconnect process I think I’ve ever encountered, resulting in 7 multi-hour… Continue reading Thanks, Murloc Mom
Category: General purpose whinging
Deja vu and stuff
Writing this is giving me a strange sense of deja vu. Not quite a year ago, I was writing about how I really wanted do some raiding. About how I’d geared my main about as well as as possible from heroics. I’d built a healing set out of spare triumph badges which I was terrified… Continue reading Deja vu and stuff
Cheap-ass Paladin: Enchants
Update 22 Feb 2011: This post seems to still grab the odd hit so it’s probably worth pointing out that, thanks to the devaluation of haste and the promotion of mastery/crit, you should be keeping that in mind when choosing your enchantments for retribution. The mastery boot enchant might well be worth a look now,… Continue reading Cheap-ass Paladin: Enchants
Dear healers, dear tanks
A slightly tongue-in-cheek response to Syl’s post over at Raging Monkeys. Sorry Syl, I just couldn’t help myself! — Dear Healers, Dear Tanks I appreciate you’re busy people and I thank you for your attention. It’s not often a lowly DPS receives this sort of personal focus from the raiding deities without a “FFS” prepended,… Continue reading Dear healers, dear tanks
On “fit”: part one
We had a guildie quit recently because we thought we were casual but really we were hardcore1 which left me foaming a little, mostly because I particularly hate the terms “casual” and “hardcore”. But it did get me thinking about the notion of fit and guild culture, particularly as we also recently asked a trial… Continue reading On “fit”: part one