Kids man. Seriously. Hard to deal with certain stuff once you get older.

I will be hosting an online release party and all day marathon live stream on twitch.tv. So if you want to join in or just watch let me know.

Basically trying to get through normal mode first day, help other players by teaming and trading. Communication will be down via Ventrillo and/or my twitch.tv chat room. These details will be handed out later.

Here is the plan: Game unlocks for EST at 3 am.

I stop raiding in WoW at 11 pm.

Release party stream will be from 11:30 to 3 am. I will be streaming Dark Souls mostly likely to see how far I can get in the time until Diablo III releases.

At 3 am will start the marathon stream. The goal is to clear normal and as much as Hell.

The next marathon will be Thursday night and all weekend. Hopefully I can get to 60 and start working on Inferno mode.

His gear is good, but man he put no effort in filling it out. Bad grammar and spelling. And dude is 35 years old. Here is a sample what he wrote.

How much do you play each week?:
depends on alot of things goin on my life at the time

Anything else you’d add about raid attendance::
no not that i can think of

What are your reasons for wanting to join Prime?:
Lookin for a good solid progression raiding team

I have so many questions. LOL! Usually I reject people that are too lazy to thoroughly fill out the application. But, I think I will grant this dude an interview and see if I get real answers there.

Playing Mists of Pandaria beta. Going to be taking screenshots and video of things I find interesting.

This is a new quest tracking icon. Basically this pops up on the map and over NPC’s heads if the quest requires you to talk to an NPC.

Bastard. Link me cool stuff to post on the blog!

I will do videos of anything I find interesting. Mostly thinking about doing the new 5 mans.

i am beyond jealous of you right now. D:

You will get to play soon enough. :)

Yup!

So I have not been excited at all about MoP. At this point WoW is just going through the motions for me. I’m just playing because I am paying for it for year with the Annual Pass. But, I caught a stream of MoP beta that Lore from Tankspot was doing last night on twitch.tv. Warlock tanking thanks to a new glyph they can equip. Gives them a taunt and damage mitigation.

If Blizzard keeps Warlock tanking viable then I will have total new found interest in this game. Seriously check out MoP Warlock tanking it looks fun as hell. But knowing Blizzard when something is too fun they take it out.

Video

Hardmodes next week! Good fight overall, but a little too long and intense DPS requirements. My freakin wrist hurts from doing my DPS rotation.

slashwho:

Night two of HM Ragnaros. We are capable of downing 6/7 HM in one three hour night now, so we’ve been working on that the following night. The prospect of wiping on the same boss for six hours a week was a little daunting, so we’ve dropped down to two raid nights.

I’m honestly having a hard time seeing the point though. There are guilds who’ve had 6/7 HM for a lot longer than us, and are still working on him. The patch is coming in soon, and I feel like maybe we should just take a but of a break on this content before it hits.

Our best attempt has been around 53%, and that was three healing. We end up losing it somewhere around the seed phase. When we were two healing it, we’d weren’t even making it that far on some attempts. Our bear tank gets hit like a truck, I don’t think there’s much we can do about that. My plan was to three heal it until we started getting to the last phase, and possibly dropping down to two healers if we didn’t have enough DPS (Everyone pulls 23-26k usually). The drawback is getting used to having that extra healer, I guess as a “crutch”. And then there’s the chance that the patch will hit in a couple of weeks and no one will want to do this anyways, kinda making it wasted time. Maybe if we were getting closer to a kill, but its not even in sight at this point.

A ton of guilds are in the same boat. Only some 2% of guild have downed HM Rag.

However, realistically speaking, 6/7 HM is completed Firelands for most. If you are 6/7 HM Firelands you are still better than the majority of guilds out there; about 75% of the guilds.

Also, even the most hardcore guilds took weeks to months to down him, both pre-nerf and post-nerf. So that is a gear difference too. The guilds that have downed Rag had every attendee decked out in all available heroic gear because they had been farming everything else for months. If you have only a couple kills on the later hardmodes in Firelands, your total roster is just not going to have the gear advantage.

My guild is in a similar situation. But, we knew this fight was not going to be a cake walk compared to 6/7 HM. So we take it easy. We pace ourselves via milestones we set each week. When we hit the milestone we are done for our heroic Rag attempts for the week. I think spending 3+ hours a week on this guy is pushing it, unless you are close to a kill.

Heroic Rag is an incremental fight. You do it in stages, as if each stage is its own boss encounter. Take it easy I say. New content is coming out soon where you can use your Heoric Firelands gear advantage do a  lot better in 4.3.

Yeaaahhhhhh

I am a gamer and only care about if the gameplay is fun. Dungeon challenge mode sounds fun. Maybe it will actually get me to run dungeons throughout he expansion instead of just to get raid ready at the start of the expansion.

My cynical brain says this won’t be much of expansion. Metzen said next two years. So two part expansion? Also, the announcement of the 1 year contract tells me Blizzard is expecting to have a player exodus in the next year. Let’s look at it. So many next gen MMO will be coming out: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, The Secret World, Soul & Blade, WildStar and Phantasy Star Online 2. I don’t blame them for coming up with ways to retain players. 

Offering Diablo 3 free, or 6 months of WoW free depending on how you look at it, for a year of contractual service is the same scheme wireless phone companies use. Then add in the the real money Auction House Diablo 3 that Blizzard will get a cut of. Yeah see this type of thing before.

I will most likely do this since I plan to be playing WoW and picking up Diablo 3 in the next 6 months anyway.

Fatboss Guide: Firelands Complete Guide under 1 minute!

ohyeahworldofwarcraft:

Shaman Tier 13 

It looks like something out of the Flintstones.

Tornado dodging goodness! lol!

tsurockets:

<symphony> passed the kindergarten final exam~

baleroc down

We just killed him too. But I feel we still don’t have the tank situation/strat down. Cause we just let a tank die then Battle rez them. Does not seem right.

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