Rename paladin abilities NOW

Divine Sacrifice? Divine Intervention? Divine Protection? BUY A DICTIONARY, BLIZZARD. It’s no wonder you have Ret paladins haplessly casting Divine Intervention on one of the tanks by accident. *ahem*. Like running Ruby Sanctum blind isn’t tricky enough already. Sorry Vae. *shamed*

This time, it’s *not* personal

I’ve realised, or perhaps just internalised, the awful truth that in a raid no performance is truly personal. Particularly in 10s, one person having a great night (or a terrible night) can be the difference between jubilation and frustration for the whole group. Last Tuesday (a week ago today), we faced Professor Putricide. Or “that… Continue reading This time, it’s *not* personal

Life interrupts

Just a quick advance warning. I’m heading off to beautiful Lisbon (yay!) to work on a conference (boo, hiss) for the next couple of weeks so there’ll be none of the usual insightful (ha!) content you all (HA!) come here for (HA*coughsplutter*!). Just to keep the cobwebs off, I’ve taken a quick trawl through my… Continue reading Life interrupts

Nice tanks

Sorry, that title was just a ruse to lure you in.  They were actually awful. Originally, it was supposed to be a run where two of us (both DPSers) with recently-dinged 80s could scrape up some loot. Another guildie, a shadow priest who does fairly hefty DPS, was coming along, which was handy – he’d… Continue reading Nice tanks

Clever spammer, have a biscuit

Hmm. Checking my spam queue the other day I found these two plausible-looking posts. When I read the first, I almost reflexively hit the “approve” button before two things happened. Firstly, the comment seemed very familiar. Eerily so. Secondly, my eyes tracked down the page and I spotted the second, identical post from a different… Continue reading Clever spammer, have a biscuit