Wow, it is Christmas time already.
I have been so busy as of late not really much time to blog or what not.
This has been an interesting experience this whole blogging thing.
But I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and maybe I will do some more blogs in the future.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Wrathgate - Therigwin's story
Many of you know Therigwin back when he was pre BC, BC, and pre wrath.
He was sporting brown hair in the monk cut with a full beard.
After experiencing the Wrathgate questline in game, I changed Therigwin's hair to what it is today, grey hair, scholar, with the duelist goatee. Why do you ask, well here is a story (not as nearly polished as my wife's various stories) of what happened.
Wrathgate - Therigwin's Story
It had been 3 months since the day Therigwin and the paladins of EM squad had descended on Light Hopes Chapel to assist Tirion Fordring in protecting the honored soldiers that had defended the land. The squad just missed the final confrontation, but Therigwin was able to dispatch his once pupil and brother of his banker, Tiorin and put him at rest. This was a great comfort to Druin and Merla that finally their brother was out of the Lich King's grasp. He was one of the few that did not turn and Therigwin blamed himself.
Now he stares out at Naxxramas, wishing he could take care of that place and rid this town of its filthy presence.
"Sir Therigwin, you have been requested to report to Bolvar up at Wrathgate." said a soldier delivering official papers.
"For that is Holy, we have this floating thing here in the city and they want me up there? Tell me why, there has been no indication that we can even breach those walls yet until we take care of this threat."
"Just read this note, it is from your wife."
It had been two months since he last saw Daraia. SI-7 had sent her to the Borien Tundra, while his commanders had sent him to Howling Fjord. Therigwin quickly scanned the letter.
"My Dearest Love, I have been assisting the Dragon Flights and they have agreed to assist us. Bolvar is ready to attack the Wrathgate and confront the Lich King. Make haste and join in the battle. I have asked Bolvar to authorize you coming. Make haste. I miss you. Daraia"
"This changes everyting, I ride out immediately."
"Sir Therigwin reporting for duty sir."
"Ahh good to see you again. Today we confront Arthas and demand justice. I will lead the first squad. Therigwin, you will be part of the second charge. Commander Daraia, I want you to wait back and make sure our Horde Friends don't do anything rash."
Therigwin turned when Daraia was mentioned and embraced his wife. "Daraia, I have so missed you."
She kissed his bald head and "Now is not the time, we have a battle husband."
They made preporations and Bolvar approached. The Horde joined in and they were finally at the gates. Scourge warriors pushed back.
Therigwin and his troups were at the back and the Lich King came out. He killed the horde champion.
Then the horde betrayed them. A plague of barrels dropped from the sky. Therigwin heard the call for retreat and began directing his men backward. He saw Bolvar, go down.
"Retreat, Retreat!" Therigwin coughed, but already he was breathing in the green plague. "If I can just call on the light....." and he passed out.
The red dragon flight came and burned away the plague. Daraia was able to get Therigwin away and got Merla and Syyiand working on him right away.
"He should recover my Lady, he only got just a little bit of it and he is strong in the light." said the dwarf priest to her commander.
"I must go and talk with the Dragon Queen" said Daraia.
Daraia left and was then sent with Bolvar's shield back to the King.
Therigwin awoke. He learned all that happened. He had aged that day. The combination of the light and the plague had bleached his hair grey and caused it to grow.
"Imma liking your new look mLord" said Merla.
"Thank you. I will wear my hair this day forward as a reminder of what transpired here. We will get the Lich King yet and find out what happened to Bolvar."
Thanks for reading.
He was sporting brown hair in the monk cut with a full beard.
After experiencing the Wrathgate questline in game, I changed Therigwin's hair to what it is today, grey hair, scholar, with the duelist goatee. Why do you ask, well here is a story (not as nearly polished as my wife's various stories) of what happened.
Wrathgate - Therigwin's Story
It had been 3 months since the day Therigwin and the paladins of EM squad had descended on Light Hopes Chapel to assist Tirion Fordring in protecting the honored soldiers that had defended the land. The squad just missed the final confrontation, but Therigwin was able to dispatch his once pupil and brother of his banker, Tiorin and put him at rest. This was a great comfort to Druin and Merla that finally their brother was out of the Lich King's grasp. He was one of the few that did not turn and Therigwin blamed himself.
Now he stares out at Naxxramas, wishing he could take care of that place and rid this town of its filthy presence.
"Sir Therigwin, you have been requested to report to Bolvar up at Wrathgate." said a soldier delivering official papers.
"For that is Holy, we have this floating thing here in the city and they want me up there? Tell me why, there has been no indication that we can even breach those walls yet until we take care of this threat."
"Just read this note, it is from your wife."
It had been two months since he last saw Daraia. SI-7 had sent her to the Borien Tundra, while his commanders had sent him to Howling Fjord. Therigwin quickly scanned the letter.
"My Dearest Love, I have been assisting the Dragon Flights and they have agreed to assist us. Bolvar is ready to attack the Wrathgate and confront the Lich King. Make haste and join in the battle. I have asked Bolvar to authorize you coming. Make haste. I miss you. Daraia"
"This changes everyting, I ride out immediately."
"Sir Therigwin reporting for duty sir."
"Ahh good to see you again. Today we confront Arthas and demand justice. I will lead the first squad. Therigwin, you will be part of the second charge. Commander Daraia, I want you to wait back and make sure our Horde Friends don't do anything rash."
Therigwin turned when Daraia was mentioned and embraced his wife. "Daraia, I have so missed you."
She kissed his bald head and "Now is not the time, we have a battle husband."
They made preporations and Bolvar approached. The Horde joined in and they were finally at the gates. Scourge warriors pushed back.
Therigwin and his troups were at the back and the Lich King came out. He killed the horde champion.
Then the horde betrayed them. A plague of barrels dropped from the sky. Therigwin heard the call for retreat and began directing his men backward. He saw Bolvar, go down.
"Retreat, Retreat!" Therigwin coughed, but already he was breathing in the green plague. "If I can just call on the light....." and he passed out.
The red dragon flight came and burned away the plague. Daraia was able to get Therigwin away and got Merla and Syyiand working on him right away.
"He should recover my Lady, he only got just a little bit of it and he is strong in the light." said the dwarf priest to her commander.
"I must go and talk with the Dragon Queen" said Daraia.
Daraia left and was then sent with Bolvar's shield back to the King.
Therigwin awoke. He learned all that happened. He had aged that day. The combination of the light and the plague had bleached his hair grey and caused it to grow.
"Imma liking your new look mLord" said Merla.
"Thank you. I will wear my hair this day forward as a reminder of what transpired here. We will get the Lich King yet and find out what happened to Bolvar."
Thanks for reading.
Patch 3.3 First Impressions
While I did not play overly much last night, I did like the following -
Updated Map with Quest Information (Good Bye Questhelper)
Quest query system (Hello EveryQuest Mod with Loremaster Mod) - I will finally find the last 99 quests I am missing for Kalimdor.
Things I did not like was a broken scrolling combat texts, bugged raid instance (Ony still flying with 1 life? AHHH), broken xperl and minimap and the constant prompting of bugs in my bug catcher and my bug catcher not fully working either!
So ya, I fought with mods mostly, but found a good replacement mini map, it is sexymap.
I got rid of a couple of mods and I helped my wife out with her computer and mods as well.
So game play, didn't see much.
Hope to see it all tonight!
Oh, and the Core Puppy is so cute!
Updated Map with Quest Information (Good Bye Questhelper)
Quest query system (Hello EveryQuest Mod with Loremaster Mod) - I will finally find the last 99 quests I am missing for Kalimdor.
Things I did not like was a broken scrolling combat texts, bugged raid instance (Ony still flying with 1 life? AHHH), broken xperl and minimap and the constant prompting of bugs in my bug catcher and my bug catcher not fully working either!
So ya, I fought with mods mostly, but found a good replacement mini map, it is sexymap.
I got rid of a couple of mods and I helped my wife out with her computer and mods as well.
So game play, didn't see much.
Hope to see it all tonight!
Oh, and the Core Puppy is so cute!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Slumps
There has been an interesting trend happening right now.
You see it in various blogs from my wife's to my good friend's (Enok) to other guild members, former guild members, and the basic Wow blogging community.
People are going into the Slumps, burn out, etc whatever you want to call it.
For me I see it as a natural cycle of the game. Even though we as a guild have not accomplished all our goals, the game is getting boring for many, myself included.
I have to admit, this past weekend we dusted off Sims 3 and I have been playing with that, raising up my little sim families and we have the expansion pack for sims 3 arriving at our house today.
But that all being said, it is a cycle, and we will see things kick back up with the Holiday festival in game along with the up coming patch.
Happy Gaming!
You see it in various blogs from my wife's to my good friend's (Enok) to other guild members, former guild members, and the basic Wow blogging community.
People are going into the Slumps, burn out, etc whatever you want to call it.
For me I see it as a natural cycle of the game. Even though we as a guild have not accomplished all our goals, the game is getting boring for many, myself included.
I have to admit, this past weekend we dusted off Sims 3 and I have been playing with that, raising up my little sim families and we have the expansion pack for sims 3 arriving at our house today.
But that all being said, it is a cycle, and we will see things kick back up with the Holiday festival in game along with the up coming patch.
Happy Gaming!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Proof is in the pudding
Ya, my blogging skills and consistency are incredibly lacking, but today I felt like blogging once more.
Last night I was faced with a tough or maybe easy decision.
We were doing Ony 10 and I had one of my new Off Tanks in there that I had been running with on instances on my shammie. He got himself to be crit capped and I thought sure, he can off tank Ony 10 with me, it is a simple enough fight.
Our first attempt I had him on the adds and well, the aoe threat was not there in his gear to compensate for the threat of the heals, etc. So I had him take over doing the single add.
We downed Ony and then the decision time came. The tanking Judgement Helm dropped. I will still sporting my T 8.5 helm, but my other tank had the crafted i200 epix tanking helm. Being that this was his first raid with us, he only had 2150 EP, so I easily out rank him on the priority list for loot.
So, eating my own message and doing the right thing, I gave him the helm. Then I promptly cut him a meta gem and epix gem to socket into the helm.
It was the right thing to do.
Last night I was faced with a tough or maybe easy decision.
We were doing Ony 10 and I had one of my new Off Tanks in there that I had been running with on instances on my shammie. He got himself to be crit capped and I thought sure, he can off tank Ony 10 with me, it is a simple enough fight.
Our first attempt I had him on the adds and well, the aoe threat was not there in his gear to compensate for the threat of the heals, etc. So I had him take over doing the single add.
We downed Ony and then the decision time came. The tanking Judgement Helm dropped. I will still sporting my T 8.5 helm, but my other tank had the crafted i200 epix tanking helm. Being that this was his first raid with us, he only had 2150 EP, so I easily out rank him on the priority list for loot.
So, eating my own message and doing the right thing, I gave him the helm. Then I promptly cut him a meta gem and epix gem to socket into the helm.
It was the right thing to do.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Life is a journey
So today I am going to be all over the place in my blog.
We discovered recently that our Kitchen floor was rotting out from underneath us. We had a contractor over that is a good Christian man that has done work for some of our relatives to find out the damage is gong to cost us the entire kitchen floor and dining area. the only thing keeping thing up at this point is the slate tile floor.
So our next battle is with our insurance to see if they will cover any of it and ask your prayers in this matter, cause otherwise we have no idea how to pay for it.
So life is a journey of ups and downs. A testing of ones character. Just when you think all is good, these things happen.
So I am attempting to stay positive and up beat for my wife, but it is going to be interesting for sure.
So lets move to in game news.
Recently, my Guild Eternity Matters has downed some new content for the first time. From ToC 25 man. Tonight we are going to attempt to finish off the Valkery Twins and Anuberak.
My Shammie got to go heal Nax 10 for the first time this weekend in an alt run and she came away with her Tier 7 helm! I almost have her fully epixed out in item 200s or higher. I still need an off hand and trinket replaced, but that will come with time.
Last bit of musing from me today during my lunch is back on the topic of ministry and criticism.
I find it very easy to criticize others for trying to do the right thing and then not doing it according to my standard. I recall growing up this phrase or question, "Why is that Christians only put on their armor to beat on other Christians rather than the true enemy?"
I had all but given up on ministry of any type this weekend because of the guild drama. My recent blog posts shows my shift in my thinking in that my guild was not a ministry. Well, God bless my wife and she challenged me on that. I had re-written the What is Eternity Matters section numerous times and finally we came up with one that we could both agree on.
This jist of it was Eternity Matters is not a church and it will never be one. It is not a street preaching ministry virtually in the game.
It is an organization of Christians that play world of warcraft to succeed in end game content. But being that we are comprised of Christians, it is a place of ministry among those Christians. God can still use us, despite ourselves.
I look at it this way, you get a bunch of believers together and you get 1 of 2 things.
If they are in tune with God, you get ministry because it is a natural part of their life. They just bless people by encouraging them, etc.
OR you get fighting, because everyone is entitled to their opinion and their is no harmony.
The problem I was facing was trying to overtly be a ministry and raid, and we could not do both, because of the perception of being uncaring that raiding guilds bring.
The question then became, Does God care that we play this game? That we raid? That we succeed at raiding?
I have been told that he doesn't care one way or another.
I happen to disagree. If God cares enough to keep track of the hair on my head, he cares enough about what I do with my time and how I spend it.
So I guess I am saying, that yes, you can Raid for God's Glory. That attitude is one of self sacrifice and not being one after the loot. And yes, Eternity Matters can still be a place of ministry, even with the changes it has had.
Thanks for Reading!
We discovered recently that our Kitchen floor was rotting out from underneath us. We had a contractor over that is a good Christian man that has done work for some of our relatives to find out the damage is gong to cost us the entire kitchen floor and dining area. the only thing keeping thing up at this point is the slate tile floor.
So our next battle is with our insurance to see if they will cover any of it and ask your prayers in this matter, cause otherwise we have no idea how to pay for it.
So life is a journey of ups and downs. A testing of ones character. Just when you think all is good, these things happen.
So I am attempting to stay positive and up beat for my wife, but it is going to be interesting for sure.
So lets move to in game news.
Recently, my Guild Eternity Matters has downed some new content for the first time. From ToC 25 man. Tonight we are going to attempt to finish off the Valkery Twins and Anuberak.
My Shammie got to go heal Nax 10 for the first time this weekend in an alt run and she came away with her Tier 7 helm! I almost have her fully epixed out in item 200s or higher. I still need an off hand and trinket replaced, but that will come with time.
Last bit of musing from me today during my lunch is back on the topic of ministry and criticism.
I find it very easy to criticize others for trying to do the right thing and then not doing it according to my standard. I recall growing up this phrase or question, "Why is that Christians only put on their armor to beat on other Christians rather than the true enemy?"
I had all but given up on ministry of any type this weekend because of the guild drama. My recent blog posts shows my shift in my thinking in that my guild was not a ministry. Well, God bless my wife and she challenged me on that. I had re-written the What is Eternity Matters section numerous times and finally we came up with one that we could both agree on.
This jist of it was Eternity Matters is not a church and it will never be one. It is not a street preaching ministry virtually in the game.
It is an organization of Christians that play world of warcraft to succeed in end game content. But being that we are comprised of Christians, it is a place of ministry among those Christians. God can still use us, despite ourselves.
I look at it this way, you get a bunch of believers together and you get 1 of 2 things.
If they are in tune with God, you get ministry because it is a natural part of their life. They just bless people by encouraging them, etc.
OR you get fighting, because everyone is entitled to their opinion and their is no harmony.
The problem I was facing was trying to overtly be a ministry and raid, and we could not do both, because of the perception of being uncaring that raiding guilds bring.
The question then became, Does God care that we play this game? That we raid? That we succeed at raiding?
I have been told that he doesn't care one way or another.
I happen to disagree. If God cares enough to keep track of the hair on my head, he cares enough about what I do with my time and how I spend it.
So I guess I am saying, that yes, you can Raid for God's Glory. That attitude is one of self sacrifice and not being one after the loot. And yes, Eternity Matters can still be a place of ministry, even with the changes it has had.
Thanks for Reading!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
A better understanding
I meant to blog at lunch today, but ended up reading a good book.
That aside, I just wanted to follow up from my previous blog.
Me and my former guildie has come to an understanding and I hope can still be friends.
We don't see eye to eye, but that is ok, diversity is part of God's creation.
That all being said, I think we have both moved on, both made some mistakes, and are both better for it.
For one thing, God has been working in my heart and mind about the concept of what ministry is.
For many, minisitry is what the church does, what a mission group does, etc. For a while, I thought my guild in a way was a ministry.
I have come to understand that is not the case. Ministry is not an organization. Ministry is what God has called us to do. That includes the simple things such as taking care of someone needs to the more blatent telling people that Jesus loves them. It is supposed to be our way of life, the way we give back to God.
So what is the Church? The Church is the place God uses to energize and equip his people for ministry. This is going to be my topic on next weeks Ventrillo Guild message for my guildies that are interested.
So my guild in all senses is just a group of like minded people, but we have the opportunity as individuals to do ministry, but its purpose is not ministry, but an organization for a game.
Now there are some legit ministry organizations out there, but they are not ministry, what they do again is similiar to the church, the equip the individual to do ministry.
Anyway, I will go more into that this up coming Tuesday, in my Vent Study on God's gifts to the church, how some minister.
As to fun game news, my main just got a new shield and tanking ring.
Therigwin is looking pretty good!
Have a great night!
That aside, I just wanted to follow up from my previous blog.
Me and my former guildie has come to an understanding and I hope can still be friends.
We don't see eye to eye, but that is ok, diversity is part of God's creation.
That all being said, I think we have both moved on, both made some mistakes, and are both better for it.
For one thing, God has been working in my heart and mind about the concept of what ministry is.
For many, minisitry is what the church does, what a mission group does, etc. For a while, I thought my guild in a way was a ministry.
I have come to understand that is not the case. Ministry is not an organization. Ministry is what God has called us to do. That includes the simple things such as taking care of someone needs to the more blatent telling people that Jesus loves them. It is supposed to be our way of life, the way we give back to God.
So what is the Church? The Church is the place God uses to energize and equip his people for ministry. This is going to be my topic on next weeks Ventrillo Guild message for my guildies that are interested.
So my guild in all senses is just a group of like minded people, but we have the opportunity as individuals to do ministry, but its purpose is not ministry, but an organization for a game.
Now there are some legit ministry organizations out there, but they are not ministry, what they do again is similiar to the church, the equip the individual to do ministry.
Anyway, I will go more into that this up coming Tuesday, in my Vent Study on God's gifts to the church, how some minister.
As to fun game news, my main just got a new shield and tanking ring.
Therigwin is looking pretty good!
Have a great night!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Drama Queens
I have always tried to be real with people, both online and in real life. What you see is what you get.
I am blogging today to sort out what just happened in the past day.
Recently I announced that I was going to change things in the guild to better accommodate things for me cause I was starting to burn out.
Now let me state this first, we have had little to no guild drama in the past few months. It has been really nice.
Ok, the major change I announced was I was no longer going to be doing the in game devotionals in say chat on Sunday. The primary reason for this is we started a Tuesday Prayer and Bible Study in Ventrillo where I feel I could do more. On top of that, the last Sunday Bible time we did in game, only 1 person showed up, while the Ventrillo meeting was getting a good following of people. But I believed both were sufferring in that I did not feel I had the time to spend on both. Now the Sunday Devotional used to be covered by 3 people taking turns. Jon and Chris cofounders of the guild helped out and they were the ones that suggested it. Well, they have left the game and left it entirely to me. When no one was coming any more, I felt it was time to stop.
Most people were encouraging to me. One person was not. They posted a nice long response basically accusing the guild of not caring about people anymore. It went to private PMs between my wife and him until it came down to a he said, she said. At that time, I had enough. This person was someone we had kicked from the guild once before because he was a problem and he was becoming a problem again. So with the agreement of our officers, we suspended his web account and put him in Time Out rank.
He then used his facebook page to post a picture of my avatar with a Hitler head and called my wife a female dog (b word). This was reported by one of our retired officers. At that point, the rest of the officers, even those that had met him in real life and liked him, called for him to be kicked from the guild.
We kicked him and in his spite, he continues to attack us.
It makes me sad.
All I ever really wanted to do was play the game and be a Christian at the same time. People have different ideas on what that means and I guess to them I am a hypocrite.
I got an email from him asking that I remove all his artwork from the guild website. So I have decided to do a full website purge, cause in honesty, the guild has changed, the members have changed, and he was one of the few remaining members that caused drama. He is now gone and I find it time to start over, move forward and not look back. The EM website will be a blank slate that the current membership can make their own, rather than having the negativity of the past cloud it.
To the member I kicked and his clan of supporters, I do wish you best. I do forgive you for the hurtful things you have done constantly and the misguided lies you believe to be truth. I respectfully ask that you leave us alone.
I am blogging today to sort out what just happened in the past day.
Recently I announced that I was going to change things in the guild to better accommodate things for me cause I was starting to burn out.
Now let me state this first, we have had little to no guild drama in the past few months. It has been really nice.
Ok, the major change I announced was I was no longer going to be doing the in game devotionals in say chat on Sunday. The primary reason for this is we started a Tuesday Prayer and Bible Study in Ventrillo where I feel I could do more. On top of that, the last Sunday Bible time we did in game, only 1 person showed up, while the Ventrillo meeting was getting a good following of people. But I believed both were sufferring in that I did not feel I had the time to spend on both. Now the Sunday Devotional used to be covered by 3 people taking turns. Jon and Chris cofounders of the guild helped out and they were the ones that suggested it. Well, they have left the game and left it entirely to me. When no one was coming any more, I felt it was time to stop.
Most people were encouraging to me. One person was not. They posted a nice long response basically accusing the guild of not caring about people anymore. It went to private PMs between my wife and him until it came down to a he said, she said. At that time, I had enough. This person was someone we had kicked from the guild once before because he was a problem and he was becoming a problem again. So with the agreement of our officers, we suspended his web account and put him in Time Out rank.
He then used his facebook page to post a picture of my avatar with a Hitler head and called my wife a female dog (b word). This was reported by one of our retired officers. At that point, the rest of the officers, even those that had met him in real life and liked him, called for him to be kicked from the guild.
We kicked him and in his spite, he continues to attack us.
It makes me sad.
All I ever really wanted to do was play the game and be a Christian at the same time. People have different ideas on what that means and I guess to them I am a hypocrite.
I got an email from him asking that I remove all his artwork from the guild website. So I have decided to do a full website purge, cause in honesty, the guild has changed, the members have changed, and he was one of the few remaining members that caused drama. He is now gone and I find it time to start over, move forward and not look back. The EM website will be a blank slate that the current membership can make their own, rather than having the negativity of the past cloud it.
To the member I kicked and his clan of supporters, I do wish you best. I do forgive you for the hurtful things you have done constantly and the misguided lies you believe to be truth. I respectfully ask that you leave us alone.
Friday, October 30, 2009
All Grown up
I have a secret.
I have an alt that is NOT a paladin.
On top of that, it is a girl... ya, I am a guy playing a female avatar...
Well, I refer to her as my baby girl. She is all grown up now. I got her to level 80 this week.
It is my Shammie I am talking about. Myriah. She has become my healer. As a tank, I love my paladin healers, but as a player, I love playing a shamman healer. The challenge is there to if I riptide, chain heal, or do that awesome healing wave.
I have healed a couple of heroics, a bit shaky at first with a couple of deaths occasionally, still learning the mana management, but overall, she is a nice break from all things Therigwin.
Speaking of Therigwin, he is going to be getting hit with a nerf bat in 3.3. They are taking away 20% of dodge to tanks. Kinda stinks since the librim I just got gives dodge and the T 10 set bonus gives dodge. Hope they change those things.
Anyway, my little break at work is over, have a great weekend!
I have an alt that is NOT a paladin.
On top of that, it is a girl... ya, I am a guy playing a female avatar...
Well, I refer to her as my baby girl. She is all grown up now. I got her to level 80 this week.
It is my Shammie I am talking about. Myriah. She has become my healer. As a tank, I love my paladin healers, but as a player, I love playing a shamman healer. The challenge is there to if I riptide, chain heal, or do that awesome healing wave.
I have healed a couple of heroics, a bit shaky at first with a couple of deaths occasionally, still learning the mana management, but overall, she is a nice break from all things Therigwin.
Speaking of Therigwin, he is going to be getting hit with a nerf bat in 3.3. They are taking away 20% of dodge to tanks. Kinda stinks since the librim I just got gives dodge and the T 10 set bonus gives dodge. Hope they change those things.
Anyway, my little break at work is over, have a great weekend!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
RL Weapons
So, as every boy knows, they love swords, maces, etc in real life.
In college I purchased my first sword. A nice Knight's Templar 1 Handed sword. The balance was great and I cut up a many a pumpkin, trees, etc.
When I got married and we had our first kid, I got rid of the sword because it was just not safe to keep around the kids without having a secure way to keep it (which we did not have).
Now skip ahead to today, I would love to get a paladin mace for Haloween to go with my renfair garb. Well, Blizzard today announced Musem Replicias had real life WOW stuff from Frostmourne to tabbards, etc. What was not said was the weapon was made of Latex.
And I found this cool hammer there, so my desire to have a paladin hammer in real life will soon be true come next year when we get some spare cash.
LARP Paladin Warhammer - MuseumReplicas.com
In college I purchased my first sword. A nice Knight's Templar 1 Handed sword. The balance was great and I cut up a many a pumpkin, trees, etc.
When I got married and we had our first kid, I got rid of the sword because it was just not safe to keep around the kids without having a secure way to keep it (which we did not have).
Now skip ahead to today, I would love to get a paladin mace for Haloween to go with my renfair garb. Well, Blizzard today announced Musem Replicias had real life WOW stuff from Frostmourne to tabbards, etc. What was not said was the weapon was made of Latex.
And I found this cool hammer there, so my desire to have a paladin hammer in real life will soon be true come next year when we get some spare cash.
LARP Paladin Warhammer - MuseumReplicas.com
Brains.....
Brains....
Me want brains!!!!
Ya, it is 3 AM, Sunday morning and I am waiting on a DBA at work to finish moving a database to hook up, so writing this blog about...
BRAINS!
Or Zombies.
Tons of Zombies.
This past week, I helped some guildies get the Zombiefest achievement.
Basically, you tank the second boss in the inn for about 4 minutes allowing all the zombies to spawn again, then kill the boss, go kill the third boss, then come back, gather the zombies and bring them to be killed in one swoop, this grants about 80 kills, then go kill 20 more in the remaining part of the instance and bam, achievement.
Here are some pics I took -
Me want brains!!!!
Ya, it is 3 AM, Sunday morning and I am waiting on a DBA at work to finish moving a database to hook up, so writing this blog about...
BRAINS!
Or Zombies.
Tons of Zombies.
This past week, I helped some guildies get the Zombiefest achievement.
Basically, you tank the second boss in the inn for about 4 minutes allowing all the zombies to spawn again, then kill the boss, go kill the third boss, then come back, gather the zombies and bring them to be killed in one swoop, this grants about 80 kills, then go kill 20 more in the remaining part of the instance and bam, achievement.
Here are some pics I took -
Thursday, October 22, 2009
4 set awesomeness
So yesterday was a great day in that I now have all 4 pieces I need for my T9 four piece bonus!
This bonus is great in that it reduces Bubble Wall to a 1 minute cooldown. This is very nice to have in some fights, taking the load off the healers.
But it got me thinking about T10 set bonus and again, I am not very excited. Dodge seems like such a poor thing to give as a bonus, sure it is lots of dodge, but what about those pesky spell casters.
I much prefer my T9 bonus of bubble wall every minute.
This bonus is great in that it reduces Bubble Wall to a 1 minute cooldown. This is very nice to have in some fights, taking the load off the healers.
But it got me thinking about T10 set bonus and again, I am not very excited. Dodge seems like such a poor thing to give as a bonus, sure it is lots of dodge, but what about those pesky spell casters.
I much prefer my T9 bonus of bubble wall every minute.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I was told.....
I was recently told I don't blog enough.
So while I was on a process for work, I decided to write a blog.
This is on the new T 10 paladin gear.
I love the look of T9. It is allaince, it is gold and shiney, it screams classic paladin.
I dread T10, because they will try to toss that undead theme into from Icecrown. COME ON! I AM A HOLY FIGHTER FOR THE LIGHT!!!! I DON'T WANT SKULLS ON MY GEAR!
That being said, I was pleasantly surprized by T10. I still like T9 better.
T10 has the good old red, purple, pink color scheme again, because don't ya know, the majority of paladins are BELF Chicks.
But overall it doesn't look too bad and the Judgement helm could work with it.
Tell me what you think?
So while I was on a process for work, I decided to write a blog.
This is on the new T 10 paladin gear.
I love the look of T9. It is allaince, it is gold and shiney, it screams classic paladin.
I dread T10, because they will try to toss that undead theme into from Icecrown. COME ON! I AM A HOLY FIGHTER FOR THE LIGHT!!!! I DON'T WANT SKULLS ON MY GEAR!
That being said, I was pleasantly surprized by T10. I still like T9 better.
T10 has the good old red, purple, pink color scheme again, because don't ya know, the majority of paladins are BELF Chicks.
But overall it doesn't look too bad and the Judgement helm could work with it.
Tell me what you think?
Friday, October 16, 2009
Blogging once more, guild dynamics
So work had turned off access to Blogsites, but quickly found that many in the company have need it. So once I got access, I am now blogging again as it was a lunchtime activity for me. Yes, I could have written it in email and sent it on that way, but ya, I didn't.
So it has almost been a month since I blogged and I wanted to write about interesting dynamics of a Christian based guild.
This came up with our raiding week. We had a raid with 10, count it, 10 paladins in it. Talk about pink power!
When looking at the guild make up, you will find we have more paladins than pretty much any other class.
What are we missing? Warlocks.
Now I find it an interesting dynamic. Christians are warned in the bible against demonology, the occult, etc. And while warlocks scream all of that, it is just a game (though I would never play a warlock myself). I think it is for that reason, Eternity Matters doesn't have many warlocks in the guild. This hurts with raid composition and the utilities they bring to raiding, but it is understandable.
Now paladins are the big protectors of light, the crusaders and angels (avenging wrath!) so it makes sense that Christians are attracted to this class. So it is kinda a light/dark issue :-)
So just a random thought as to why Eternity Matters guild is out of class balance with these two particular classes. What do you guys think?
So it has almost been a month since I blogged and I wanted to write about interesting dynamics of a Christian based guild.
This came up with our raiding week. We had a raid with 10, count it, 10 paladins in it. Talk about pink power!
When looking at the guild make up, you will find we have more paladins than pretty much any other class.
What are we missing? Warlocks.
Now I find it an interesting dynamic. Christians are warned in the bible against demonology, the occult, etc. And while warlocks scream all of that, it is just a game (though I would never play a warlock myself). I think it is for that reason, Eternity Matters doesn't have many warlocks in the guild. This hurts with raid composition and the utilities they bring to raiding, but it is understandable.
Now paladins are the big protectors of light, the crusaders and angels (avenging wrath!) so it makes sense that Christians are attracted to this class. So it is kinda a light/dark issue :-)
So just a random thought as to why Eternity Matters guild is out of class balance with these two particular classes. What do you guys think?
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Better Half
I would like to thank all the dedicated readers of this blog. I know I do not blog as often as I would like, but thanks for hanging out with me and all my craziness.
Today I want to talk to you about the most important woman in my life. This would be my wife. She writes this awesome blog about wow stuff from a rogue's perspective. I believe I have shared some of her fan fiction concerning our characters, how they met, fell in love, etc.
Well, the real story of Therigwin and Daraia began before we even met. We both had a connection to a Christian Camp in Michigan, Camp Barakel. My family has been working at that camp for many summers and attended it as campers as well. My wife worked up there as a teen as well. It was during that summer that she met my brother and future sister-in-law. They came away thinking that I should date this girl, even though I was in a relationship at the time with another girl.
Time passed and I found myself at college and not dating anyone. And I met my wife through the drama department. Now I had my eyes set on another girl, but she was not who God had planned for me. We worked on a couple of plays and dramas together, helping out the local Christian High School back staging, cueing the actors and helping with the set. All the kids could see the chemistry between us, but we did not, we were just good friends.
I remember we went rollerskating, and I did not do that well, but my wife helped me out. It was at that event my brother and sister-in-law found out that I had met the girl from Camp. They told mom and dad and everyone started praying.
Well, I was still fixated on this other girl in college, but she turned me down for the formal winter banquet. This was the "valentines" day banquet the college put on each year. So, all my friends were going and I really did not want to go by myself, so I asked her. She said yes and I got the best shock of my entire night that night of the banquet.
My wife is what she calls a "low maintenance" person. She doesn't wear much makeup, keeps her hair in a ponytail, etc. Your basic good looking woman that doesn't demand much.
Well I still remember how beautiful she was that night. All her girl friends had done her up to beyond what she normally was. It took my breath away and I got this thought in my head, maybe this was the girl I should look at for my wife.
Over the next 3 weeks we did various dates and the more I learned about her, the more I was falling in love with her. I asked her to be my girlfriend at the end of that third date. She said no. Man what a blow to me. She told me I was on rebound and I was not truly interested in her and told me to be just friends with her.
Nothing like a challenge to get you more interested. Well I told her she was wrong and asked her what I could do. She knowing that I was very much into Knights, fantasy, and all that stuff, she told me that I had a quest, if I could figure out the one thing she would be my girlfriend. She figured it would take me a year to figure it out. So over the next few days I tried various things, from poetry, flowers being snuck into her dorm room by her roommate for me, starting daily devotional with her, and pretty much romancing her entire dorm. They all wanted her to date me, but she was firm, I had to do this one thing for the quest before she would be my girlfriend.
That one simple thing to do, was to kiss her. She believed I was too shy to try that, and in truth I was very shy and insecure. As I have shared in the past, my previous girlfriend from highschool was a mess and used physical interaction against me to manipulate me. She was really messed up and I did not want my new relationship based on anything physical until we were closer to being married.
Well, I remember the night that I overcame this fear and whispered in her ear, "Is it a kiss?" and saw the hope and panic in her face. I attempted to kiss her 3 times that night in her dorm, only to be interrupted by people walking by, including her "dorm manager or dorm mom". So I grabbed her hand and we went for a walk. We walked over to the seminary on campus where there was a pond and willow tree. Standing under that tree, I looked her in the eyes, bent my head down and kissed her. We prayed after that asking God to direct our relationship. It took me 1 week to complete that quest and win my wife over to be my girlfriend.
A couple months into the relationship, I realized that I loved her, really really loved her and I told her. She said that was nice and she just wasn't ready. Oh the heart break. Then one day while we were walking around campus talking about "The Corner on the Truth", she blurted out, "I Love You". I was the happiest man alive. I remember the exact spot on campus she told me, though the landscaping has changed since that time, I will always remember where she confessed her love for me. She was scared that it would not last over that summer, but it did. We both went to two different camps to work, but visited each other during the summer.
Our love grew and I found out of a tradition of how the guy proposes to their spouse in her family. It was by presenting a teddy bear. We were working on the fall drama again. She was the backstage manager and I was in the sound booth. My parents were coming up and I was trying to stall her as much as possible to make sure all was ready. She was a wreck worrying about her responsibilities and the play. Well the seminar was where the stage was at and I had my parents put the teddy bear all dressed in armor with a pouch around his neck in the spot we shared our first kiss on a blanket.
I was walking her over to the seminar when I said, hey, whats that over there. She thought it was a couple, but I dragged her over there. Now she knew that eventually I was going to be asking her, because we had already picked out her ring and I had ordered it, she just did not know it would be so soon.
I remember her words so clearly..... "I hate you" "I love you" "I hate you" ya, she was a bit stressed. We dug out the ring from the under the armor and I got on my knees and asked her to marry me. She said yes and the rest is as they say history.
So now we turn full circle back to the beginning of the story. Camp Barakel. That is where my wife is presently with my sister-in-law at a Women's retreat. She has been gone since Friday and while I am glad she gets to get a break from the family and renew her spirit, I really miss my partner, my helpmate, my love. She will be back later tonight and then we will celebrate our youngests 5 year birthday.
One of the things I did for her when she was gone was completely redo her UI and I will now share her previous UI and her new one.
Previous -
New -
Today I want to talk to you about the most important woman in my life. This would be my wife. She writes this awesome blog about wow stuff from a rogue's perspective. I believe I have shared some of her fan fiction concerning our characters, how they met, fell in love, etc.
Well, the real story of Therigwin and Daraia began before we even met. We both had a connection to a Christian Camp in Michigan, Camp Barakel. My family has been working at that camp for many summers and attended it as campers as well. My wife worked up there as a teen as well. It was during that summer that she met my brother and future sister-in-law. They came away thinking that I should date this girl, even though I was in a relationship at the time with another girl.
Time passed and I found myself at college and not dating anyone. And I met my wife through the drama department. Now I had my eyes set on another girl, but she was not who God had planned for me. We worked on a couple of plays and dramas together, helping out the local Christian High School back staging, cueing the actors and helping with the set. All the kids could see the chemistry between us, but we did not, we were just good friends.
I remember we went rollerskating, and I did not do that well, but my wife helped me out. It was at that event my brother and sister-in-law found out that I had met the girl from Camp. They told mom and dad and everyone started praying.
Well, I was still fixated on this other girl in college, but she turned me down for the formal winter banquet. This was the "valentines" day banquet the college put on each year. So, all my friends were going and I really did not want to go by myself, so I asked her. She said yes and I got the best shock of my entire night that night of the banquet.
My wife is what she calls a "low maintenance" person. She doesn't wear much makeup, keeps her hair in a ponytail, etc. Your basic good looking woman that doesn't demand much.
Well I still remember how beautiful she was that night. All her girl friends had done her up to beyond what she normally was. It took my breath away and I got this thought in my head, maybe this was the girl I should look at for my wife.
Over the next 3 weeks we did various dates and the more I learned about her, the more I was falling in love with her. I asked her to be my girlfriend at the end of that third date. She said no. Man what a blow to me. She told me I was on rebound and I was not truly interested in her and told me to be just friends with her.
Nothing like a challenge to get you more interested. Well I told her she was wrong and asked her what I could do. She knowing that I was very much into Knights, fantasy, and all that stuff, she told me that I had a quest, if I could figure out the one thing she would be my girlfriend. She figured it would take me a year to figure it out. So over the next few days I tried various things, from poetry, flowers being snuck into her dorm room by her roommate for me, starting daily devotional with her, and pretty much romancing her entire dorm. They all wanted her to date me, but she was firm, I had to do this one thing for the quest before she would be my girlfriend.
That one simple thing to do, was to kiss her. She believed I was too shy to try that, and in truth I was very shy and insecure. As I have shared in the past, my previous girlfriend from highschool was a mess and used physical interaction against me to manipulate me. She was really messed up and I did not want my new relationship based on anything physical until we were closer to being married.
Well, I remember the night that I overcame this fear and whispered in her ear, "Is it a kiss?" and saw the hope and panic in her face. I attempted to kiss her 3 times that night in her dorm, only to be interrupted by people walking by, including her "dorm manager or dorm mom". So I grabbed her hand and we went for a walk. We walked over to the seminary on campus where there was a pond and willow tree. Standing under that tree, I looked her in the eyes, bent my head down and kissed her. We prayed after that asking God to direct our relationship. It took me 1 week to complete that quest and win my wife over to be my girlfriend.
A couple months into the relationship, I realized that I loved her, really really loved her and I told her. She said that was nice and she just wasn't ready. Oh the heart break. Then one day while we were walking around campus talking about "The Corner on the Truth", she blurted out, "I Love You". I was the happiest man alive. I remember the exact spot on campus she told me, though the landscaping has changed since that time, I will always remember where she confessed her love for me. She was scared that it would not last over that summer, but it did. We both went to two different camps to work, but visited each other during the summer.
Our love grew and I found out of a tradition of how the guy proposes to their spouse in her family. It was by presenting a teddy bear. We were working on the fall drama again. She was the backstage manager and I was in the sound booth. My parents were coming up and I was trying to stall her as much as possible to make sure all was ready. She was a wreck worrying about her responsibilities and the play. Well the seminar was where the stage was at and I had my parents put the teddy bear all dressed in armor with a pouch around his neck in the spot we shared our first kiss on a blanket.
I was walking her over to the seminar when I said, hey, whats that over there. She thought it was a couple, but I dragged her over there. Now she knew that eventually I was going to be asking her, because we had already picked out her ring and I had ordered it, she just did not know it would be so soon.
I remember her words so clearly..... "I hate you" "I love you" "I hate you" ya, she was a bit stressed. We dug out the ring from the under the armor and I got on my knees and asked her to marry me. She said yes and the rest is as they say history.
So now we turn full circle back to the beginning of the story. Camp Barakel. That is where my wife is presently with my sister-in-law at a Women's retreat. She has been gone since Friday and while I am glad she gets to get a break from the family and renew her spirit, I really miss my partner, my helpmate, my love. She will be back later tonight and then we will celebrate our youngests 5 year birthday.
One of the things I did for her when she was gone was completely redo her UI and I will now share her previous UI and her new one.
Previous -
New -
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Laughing no more, and improving failures
So we did Ulduar 25 last night. We were down some people, had a couple of pugs, but overall we smashed through the flame leviathan really fast.
And to my shock, [Titanguard] dropped. It was a very hard decision to make for me.
I had been using [Last Laugh] from KT as my tanking weapon. And while it was not [Sorthalis, Hammer of the Watchers], it was still an upgrade. But it was an upgrade for all the tanks going with us.
Then I needed to remind myself of our loot system. That it did not make sense to horde points. I was top on the list, so I needed to spend those points. So I spent them and got this sword.
It is not the best model out there, there are other tanking weapons that look better, but it was nice to be using a sword again. My hope now is that I will some day get a tanking mace instead, as paladins should be using maces. :-)
Mod Spotlight - EnsidiaFails
This is an awareness mod.
It spits out a report during and after a boss fight of all the things that people should be aware of during the fight. Like, get out of the fire! Stop casting!
It is a tool to help your raiders know what they need to work on. If there are so focused on one thing, then they may die or cause a wipe. It is an excellent tool.
And to my shock, [Titanguard] dropped. It was a very hard decision to make for me.
I had been using [Last Laugh] from KT as my tanking weapon. And while it was not [Sorthalis, Hammer of the Watchers], it was still an upgrade. But it was an upgrade for all the tanks going with us.
Then I needed to remind myself of our loot system. That it did not make sense to horde points. I was top on the list, so I needed to spend those points. So I spent them and got this sword.
It is not the best model out there, there are other tanking weapons that look better, but it was nice to be using a sword again. My hope now is that I will some day get a tanking mace instead, as paladins should be using maces. :-)
Mod Spotlight - EnsidiaFails
This is an awareness mod.
It spits out a report during and after a boss fight of all the things that people should be aware of during the fight. Like, get out of the fire! Stop casting!
It is a tool to help your raiders know what they need to work on. If there are so focused on one thing, then they may die or cause a wipe. It is an excellent tool.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ret DPS
Today I want to talk about my off speck.
Ret.
Wow, I never thought my off speck would be ret and not Holy. Who knows, maybe I will dabble back in Holy later on.
Anyway, back to Ret Paladins.
They can be either the most rewarding or most frustrating dps to run. The big reason is their spell rotation is a priority system, meaning based on what is available for you to hit, you should hit that.
For many, this can be very frustrating, never knowing which button to hit and their dps in parties and raids are very very poor.
Well, I am here to tell you there is hope!
First off, you need to make sure your paladin is geared correctly. You want to be hit capped (267ish). After that, it is all about Strength and Crit. The more the better.
Be glyphed. Make sure you have glyphs in each spot. I like the Divine Storm, The Judgement one and the Seal of Command one.
On trash, run Seal of Command. On Bosses, run Seal of Vengence.
Now for that tricky spell rotation.
Get this mod - clcret
It shows you what button to hit next.
There you have it, get your dps in ret where you want it to be!
Ret.
Wow, I never thought my off speck would be ret and not Holy. Who knows, maybe I will dabble back in Holy later on.
Anyway, back to Ret Paladins.
They can be either the most rewarding or most frustrating dps to run. The big reason is their spell rotation is a priority system, meaning based on what is available for you to hit, you should hit that.
For many, this can be very frustrating, never knowing which button to hit and their dps in parties and raids are very very poor.
Well, I am here to tell you there is hope!
First off, you need to make sure your paladin is geared correctly. You want to be hit capped (267ish). After that, it is all about Strength and Crit. The more the better.
Be glyphed. Make sure you have glyphs in each spot. I like the Divine Storm, The Judgement one and the Seal of Command one.
On trash, run Seal of Command. On Bosses, run Seal of Vengence.
Now for that tricky spell rotation.
Get this mod - clcret
It shows you what button to hit next.
There you have it, get your dps in ret where you want it to be!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
UI Mods Part ummm next? Raiding
Ok for those following my mod UI series here we go -Charming... Very Charming is all about Target Charms.
UI Mods Part 1 - Solo all about my solo UI and a full listing of Mods at that time.
UI Mods Part 2 - Continues talking about View ports.
UI Mods Part 3 - 5 man discussing my UI for 5 Mans.
Ok We also have my classic thread on my 3.0 UI
Oh ya, and we talked about Chocolate Bar here
Finally I did have a plug for Ampere an awesome mod for turning mods on and off without logging out of your character... that takes us to.....
DARE TIME!
Click the picture.
RAWR.
So this pic is a bit old, I have updated again since I took it, but WOW is down and I did not want to wait to blog. So here we go.
I am in a 10 man, tanking Hodir, for those wondering. Notice Xperl is now showing the two raid frames. I have debated getting rid of showing party and raid frames all together since VuhDo now does that much better than healbot, but ya, that is another blog for another time.
Lets talk about this picture.
You can see Mik's scrolling combat text in action.
You see Chocolate Bar with all the Broker Plug Ins.
Omen is going on along with Tidy Threat.
Yeah, lots of things going.... I know, how about an updated list of my mods and I will let you know which ones you see active in the picture.....
!BugGrabber This capture those nasty bugs, you don't see it active completely, but kinda, ya...
Acheron - I love this mod. You see the purple skull up at the top, it access it, but right now you do not see it up and active. I should blog about it later.
Achieved! - You don't see it on this screen shot, but this allows you to move the achievement windows.
Ackis Recipe List - This one tells you all about recipes and where to get them.
Ampere - Yup talked about this one.
Atlas - The classic map of the dungeons and raids.
Atlasloot Enhanced - Tells ya what loot drops from what, really handy.
AtlasQuest - Fan Update - Tells what quests are part of dungeons.
Auctioneer - A classic.
Bagsy - Hmmmm, I forget... Oh ya, I got this with Combuctor to help manage my bags.
Bejeweled - Fun game in a game!
Broker uClock - the Clock in the corner
Broker_CalendarEvents - the calendar in the corner
Broker_CPU Memory - The performance meter
Broker_Currency - My cash
Broker_epgp - Access to EPGP woot!
Broker_Location - where are you?
Broker_Recount - access to Recount via broker
BugSack - Get those bugs info from BugSack
ButtonFacade - Make the buttons purdy
ButtonFacade: Caith - The skin I use in the UI
Capping Battleground Timers - For my wife, I don't pvp
Chinchilla Minimap - How I made my minimap so awesome
ChocolateBar Broker Display - Yummie Chocolate!
ColorTools - Just found this one on wow interface, allows tweaking of colors even more!
Combuctor - Yup, my bag mod... LOVE IT!
CowTip - Tips of awesome! You see it in action in the picture too!
CurseProfiler 2.0 - Um, this is an evil mod... But it comes with the Curse Updater. I have it turned off cause it lags my system up.
DBM-Sarth-ShadowFissureWarn - Nice DBM addon for Sarth to let you know when the shadow zones.
DBM-VictorySounds - I missed my BigWigs victory song, I got it back with this.
Deadly Boss Mods - Yup, I am a DBM user.
Deadly Boss Mods - Burning Crusade mods
Deadly Boss Mods - LibDataBroker
Dominos - How I get my buttons arranged where I want them in my UI.
Dresser - A much better way to dress up when CTRL clicking items.
DualSpeccer - See that broker mod up top, one click and it switches my speck!
Elephant - Records all chat channels, cause well, ya... It is good to have it when people are stupid.
EnsidiaFails - This is a great mod that announces the failures to the raid so they learn.
epgp (dkp reloaded) - yup, our points system. I love it.
EPGPLootmaster - This makes epgp worth it, everyone has this installed and loot go so smoothly.
EWOlson_RealName - This is a classic mod I used to put my real name in Guild Chat.
Fishbringer - Great for the fisherman in you.
Gem Quota - Great for getting your meta active.
GuildBankSearch - Every want to find something in your guild bank? This helps you find it.
GuildCheck - This lets me know when people leave, join, etc when I am offline I get a report when I log back on.
HeadCount - Raid tracking and loot tracking awesomeness.
Hit Assist for casters and melee - Great mod to help with hit cap
InspectEquip - when you inspect someone, it tells you where they got that gear.
Learning Aid - Learn a new spell, a window opens for you to add to your action bar
Livestock - The cage, horseshoe and winged shoe icons in my ui. Brings out a pet or mount.
Macro Broker - This allows you to create a macro and put it in your broker mod. I used this to get VuhDo and Trinket Menu into a quick access.
Mapster - You saw this one before ;-)
MikScrollingBattleText - Numbers scrolling in the picture.
Misspelled - I LOVE THIS MOD. Spell checker for wow chat.
Omen Threat Meter - Yup... I am tanking and have threat.
OmniCC - The nice numbers on my buttons that count down to let me know I can push the button again.
Outfitter - Best equipment manager in the game. PERIOD!
Overachiever - achievement tools and tweaks - Revamps the achievement system to be more friendly.
Peggle - another game in a game!
QuestHelper - You all love it, you know you do.. .Just turn it off before the raid.
RatingBuster - While blizz has good item tool tips for gear compare, I still use this mod because it gives so much more info.
ReadyCheckAnnouncer - Lets everyone know when everyone is ready!
Recount - Please don't post the numbers to raid please lol
RecountGuessedAbsorbs - Hey, is that Disc priest really doing it?
RepairBroker - Time to repair, I guess. Nice mod.
Reputation Monitor 3.0 - Good rep tracking mod
SatrinaBuffFrame - Ok, I use this in conjuction with xperl It gives a few more visual identifiers so I can hit exorcism when it is an instant cast or keep Divine plea active for mana.
SharedMedia - Musics and fonts and images for mods!
Sunn - Viewport Art - Yeah, you have seen it before.
Sunn - Viewport Art Pack 1
Sunn - Viewport Art Pack 5
SustainedTps - This one I am thinking of dropping cause I never look at it... lol. But outputs to chat frame my tps after each fight.
TankadinTps - my gui replacemetn for Sustained TPS
TargetCharms - Charming, I know.
tomQuest2 - My replacement for QuestFu. I love it, cause well, my name is TOM! lol
TrinketMenu - A classic for trinket management. I still love this mod.
Volumizer - Best volume control broker mod ever!
VuhDo - This healing mod rocks. The next thing, replacing healbot for sure.. Even GRID and Clique I would say have a tough time holding there own this bad boy.
WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) v3 - PST me please! This is a must for those that manage tons of whispers.
X-Perl UnitFrames - So purdy
ZOMGBuffs - I have talked about this mod before and it keeps getting better. I recommend for all classes, especially paladins.
SO you have seen my UI and my mods. All my mods except EWOlson_RealName can be found on Curse.com or wowinterface.com
Over my next few blogs, I will hit some of these mods in more detail. ya I got lazy and stopped linking them at the beginning lol. But they are easy enough for all of you to find.
I hope my server is back up... Happy Gaming!
Monday, August 31, 2009
Charming... Very Charming
Today's Blog is on a mod that I believe is a must for anyone that is party leading or raid leading.
I think it is key to either have macros or an addon for you to perform the following two tasks -
Mark Adds with Charms (Icons on the head)
And perform Ready Checks.
I stumbled apon this mod a while ago, called Target Charms.
This is a very versatile mod allowing for custom size, shape, moving, hiding, etc.
If you look at my UI from prior posts you will see a Ready? button for the ready check and the icons listed just above my action bar for quick access of marking targets.
Well, that is all I have for today, time for me to get back to my job that pays the bills.
I think it is key to either have macros or an addon for you to perform the following two tasks -
Mark Adds with Charms (Icons on the head)
And perform Ready Checks.
I stumbled apon this mod a while ago, called Target Charms.
This is a very versatile mod allowing for custom size, shape, moving, hiding, etc.
If you look at my UI from prior posts you will see a Ready? button for the ready check and the icons listed just above my action bar for quick access of marking targets.
Well, that is all I have for today, time for me to get back to my job that pays the bills.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Follow up
Well, it appears that a blog post was pulled.
It is always a tuff decision or should be when people blog about stuff.
I know I always debate before I hist the Publish Post button.
My hope is that my blogs can be a source of encouragement, an understanding of who I am and a way to better play the game.
Off to Church
It is always a tuff decision or should be when people blog about stuff.
I know I always debate before I hist the Publish Post button.
My hope is that my blogs can be a source of encouragement, an understanding of who I am and a way to better play the game.
Off to Church
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