" There’s a lot of potential for fun here. Enjoy! (And many thanks to G2 NiGhtMaRe for creating such a neat add-on!) No Comments » PuGing Pays Off by Lassirra | Posted In: Gear, Raids So, I was, once again, on my rogue this afternoon. I hopped into LFG for BRD since I have a metric ton of quests in there that I need to do. And while I was sitting in the LFG channel, I see someone LFM for Kara, cleared up to Prince. I think to myself, “Why not. ” and send them a tell. A few minutes later, I’ve swapped over to my priest and gotten myself an invite. We head in, clear trash, and make our way to Prince. Down on the first attempt. drops, and I’m the only one that rolls on it. Jackpot! Thanks for the invite, hearth back to Shatt. Log back over to my rogue. Later in the evening, my rogue’s sitting in Shatt, since I was picking up some [Imbued Vial]s to make some pots. While I’m standing in Shatt, I see in General chat: “LFM Gruul’s” I think to myself, “Why not. ”, log back over to my priest, and send a tell. Next thing I know, I’m standing inside Gruul’s, buffing. We get our act together, pull Maulgar. First couple times we wipe, while folks try to get used to each other, etc. Third time’s the charm, and Maulgar eats dirt. [Light-Mantle of the Incarnate] with a roll of 83. Thanks much! Onto Gruul, whom we one-shot, nothing fancy for me. (Two pairs of hunter pants drop, [Dragonspine Trophy] drops, as well as a caster hat.) “We’re taking names, and those who came this week will get priority next Monday if any of you want a spot again.” Why, thank you! Don’t mind if I do. Two PuGs, two substantial upgrades. Not a bad day. 4 Comments » Getting there, slowly, but surely Thursday, 03.13.2008 by Lassirra | Posted In: Alt Spotlight Bredyn hit 52 last night, and put on her first piece of her dungeon 1 set: [Shadowcraft Bracers].

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wow gold I know the original dungeon sets are nothing to get too excited over anymore, but I can’t help but try to get at least a few pieces for my characters. I spent so much time trying to get Lass her dungeon set way back when, that it seems like neglect if I don’t at least try to get a few pieces for subsequent toons. (Until they hit 58, anyway. Then it’s “Screw that! I want some pretty greens from Hellfire!” /sigh) Yesterday, Bredyn spent some time in LBRS with some friends. I still can’t figure out why they wanted to go (they were on 70s), but I wasn’t about to question it. wow lvl service I was getting a free ride! As a result of the trip, I’ve got some pretty blues waiting in my bags: Plus, I have the [Unadorned Seal of Ascension] in my bag, along with the three gemstones, waiting for me to be able to get the quest for my UBRS key. I also happened to start the chain for the Ony attunement, more because I really just wanted a few quests to do (and I was in the mood for quick FedEx type stuff). Now, most of the quests I have are for zones I’m still too small for (Winterspring and EPL, to be exact), or for dungeons: BRD and Sunken Temple. I’ve got a boat load of quests for BRD (go figure), but only one quest for ST. The ST quest being the rogue level 50 quest, which I really want to do because the [Ebon Mask] reward is way better than the headpiece I’ve got at the moment. (Plus, it looks like a black version of the Defias Mask you get in Westfall in the teens, which I always liked.) Meanwhile, I’ve been ridding Sorrow Hill of nasties.

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wow gold Bredyn’s entirely out of rest now, so the going has gotten much slower (which is why I switched to questing, mostly) but I’m still trucking right along. I hope to have her in Hellfire by Wednesday next week. (Hope being the operative word.) 6 levels to go! " "I don’t respec very often, mostly because I’m cheap. In fact, since they applied the patch that caused the price of talent respecs to fall 5 gold a month to a minimum of 15g, I don’t think I’ve ever paid more than 15g to change my build. I’ve put up with some really … not very good talents in the past because I didn’t want to shell out another 20g to fix myself (a practice which I can’t in good conscience advocate — be a responsible respeccer!). wow leveln Llanion of Mooonfire recently wrote a post entitled, ""Fourteen Points about my New Talent Build"" which helped inspire me to cast Teleport: Moonglade and select the build that I’ll want to have in 2.4 (which, by all accounts, is coming ""soon""). At the risk of being a Copy-Conifer, I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you about some of the highlights from my new build: Restoration Improved Mark of the Wild 5/5: A waste of 5 points in my opinion, but I have no need for Furor right now. WTB Subtlety at Tier 1 of the Restoration tree! Improved Regrowth 5/5: This talent is pretty much the reason for my whole respec. Since I have the strong suspicion that the reduced-cost Regrowth will be a new bread-and-butter spell in my healing retinue, I needed its additional 50% crit chance. Empowered Rejuvenation 3/3: This talent being changed to affect the final bloom of Lifebloom helps to offset — but not completely compensate for — the nerf to Lifebloom’s bloom coefficient in 2.4. wow level service Because Regrowth is becoming so much more viable, I dropped all the talents related to Healing Touch and picked up all those related to HoTs instead. This freed up a number of points I could sink into the Balance tree for killing things that attack me while fishing. Living Spirit 3/3: My Spirit is pretty abysmal, but I would hate to think of how much worse it would be without this talent! Tree of Life: ZA gear is UGLY. Tree Form helps compensate for that. Oh, and the mana reduction is nice, too. Balance Brambles 3/3: I needed more points in Balance to get down to Vengeance. As I consider Brambles to be a raiding talent, this was an obvious choice. I hate having it, though, as it makes me feel extra guilty when I don’t maintain the 10-minute buff on tanks (more about the value of Thorns). Paladins got their base blessings bumped up to 30 minutes, why is Thorns still only 10. Insect Swarm: Probably my favorite damage spell. It’s so cheap and when combined with Lifebloom’s super-low mana cost, I feel very eco-friendly and ""green.""" .

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" management theory has followed a smooth trajectory, from enslavement to empowerment. The 20th century began with Taylorism — engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor's notion that workers are interchangeable cogs — but with every decade came a new philosophy, each advocating that more power be passed down the chain of command to division managers, group leaders, and workers themselves. In 1977, Robert Greenleaf's Servant Leadership argued that CEOs should think of themselves as slaves to their workers and focus on keeping them happy. Silicon Valley has always been at the forefront of this kind of egalitarianism. In the 1940s, Bill Hewlett and David Packard pioneered what business author Tom Peters dubbed ""managing by walking around,"" an approach that encouraged executives to communicate informally with their employees. wow gold In the 1990s, Intel's executives expressed solidarity with the engineers by renouncing their swanky corner offices in favor of standard-issue cubicles. And today, if Google hasn't made itself a Greenleaf-esque slave to its employees, it's at least a cruise director: The Mountain View campus is famous for its perks, including in-house masseuses, roller-hockey games, and a cafeteria where employees gobble gourmet vittles for free. What's more, Google's engineers have unprecedented autonomy; they choose which projects they work on and whom they work with. And they are encouraged to allot 20 percent of their work week to pursuing their own software ideas. The result. wow lvl service Products like Gmail and Google News, which began as personal endeavors. " "By studying how people behave during disease outbreaks in virtual online worlds, epidemiologists hope to uncover real-world epidemic insights. Two years ago, so-called Corrupted Blood swept the World of Warcraft. (Wikipedia describes the outbreak here.) A new Lancet Infectious Disease study found that players responded as they might in the real world: some risked infection to save others.

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Some fled. And some spread the disease intentionally. As the BBC reports, it's difficult to study real-world epidemics: She said a major constraint for epidemiologists studying disease dynamics at the moment was that they were limited to observational and retrospective studies. For example, it would be unethical to release an infectious disease in real life in order to study what the consequences might be. Computer models allow for experimentation on virtual populations without such limitations, but still rely on mathematical rules to approximate human behaviour. wow gold Of course, a virtual world is necessarily virtual -- but it's another tool in the epidemiological toolbox. " "I have been in the dark about Patch 2.4 for a while because I started to seclude myself from the WoW news while I was sick. I just didn’t care to follow anything. Now that has all changed. I found the changes they are putting into the patch and I’m totally stoked about some of it. Here’s my list: Magister’s Terrace - There’s going to be enough well-geared people in my guild to let me run along on such a nice 5-man instance. wow leveln I can’t devote the time to Kara, and I’m not geared for anything above that, so this is my end-game action for now. The end (finally!) to getting CC’d mobs broken with multiple mob actions, such as Cleave, Multi-Shot, Avenger’s Shield, and Swipe. This is going to be a major improvement in the terrible life of PUGgers who have to group with idiots who can’t play their class. For me and my pallies, I will enjoy Turn Undead working on demons, too. In groups with druids, everyone will benefit from 20% lower mana cost on Regrowth. wow level service Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers.

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Woot! From wowwiki.com, “A representative of the Keepers of Time has been spotted at the World’s End Tavern in Shattrath. Players in good standing with the faction will be granted ease of passage to the Caverns of Time.” ‘Bout time! I hate getting to Tanaris from Shattrath. Here’s to hoping it comes out Tuesday. Gitr is a full-time technical editor, database administrator, and husband... and a part-time University of South Florida student, and gamer by night. Gitr has been playing and blogging WoW since September 2005 and has several 60-plus toons and dozens of lowbies on 3 US realms due to a serious condition called ""alt-ism.""" .

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" Virtual bioterrorist Allen and his guild, domus fulminata, used a similar teleportation technique to spread an epidemic throughout in-game cities. Using a contagious curse called Corrupted Blood that could kill most players in seconds, Allen and his guild purposely infected other players and created a semi-permanent well of disease in cities' non-player characters. Allen and his group found the chaos caused by their actions humorous. ""It's just funny to watch people run away screaming,"" he said. Such actions bear telltale signs of terrorism. Allen's small group blended in with the general population and waited for a weakness in the system to attack. Just as in real life, such tactics can be effective in Warcraft. ""The advantage goes to the asymmetric actors who can operate under the radar,"" said Yale University terrorism expert Stuart Gottlieb. Like the Department of Homeland Security, World of Warcraft operator Blizzard Entertainment tries to foresee vulnerabilities and address them as they become apparent. wow gold After the company's initial attempt to end the Corrupted Blood attacks, players found ways to circumvent new security measures by using in-game pets as vectors for disease. Yet Blizzard is uncomfortable calling Warcraft players terrorists. ""As we have always stated, World of Warcraft is first and foremost a game,"" said Blizzard representative Shon Damron. ""It's never been designed to mirror reality or anything in the real world."" Whether the game's operators want to admit it or not, Warcraft does mirror reality to some extent. Perhaps the game's biggest weakness as a model for studying terror tactics is that death in World of Warcraft is a nuisance at most. Because the stakes for both terrorists and civilians are lower than they are in the real world, Yale's Gottlieb said he remains skeptical that the game could shed much light on the deeply complex social, political and cultural causes of terrorism. ""This is very interesting and relevant to the times,"" he said, ""though I wouldn't base a new counterterrorism strategy on the nuances of a videogame."" " "Virtual terrorists blowing themselves up and spreading disease inside World of Warcraft could provide counterterrorists with a window into real-world plots.

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wow lvl service Such activities in the massively multiplayer online game bear an eerie resemblance to actual terrorism, and analyzing terror tactics in Warcraft could prove more enlightening than current computer simulations used by counterterrorists. ""People got really smart about figuring out how to cause the most damage to the largest number of people,"" said Robert Allen, a level-60 mage and self-admitted virtual bioterrorist who purposely spread an in-game contagion to kill other players. Scientists have already noted World of Warcraft's usefulness in studying how diseases spread. The game's network of 10 million players -- each capable of making decisions, either logical or illogical, rational or irrational -- gives scientists a ready-made virtual world to scrutinize that's not based on computer models or artificial intelligence. wow gold The game could be an invaluable tool not only for counterterrorists and epidemiologists but also sociologists and economists. Charles Blair, deputy director of the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies, said he thinks the game could provide a powerful new way to study how terrorist cells form and operate. His organization already uses computer models to study terrorists' tactical decision-making, but World of Warcraft's army of players adds a realistic dimension that might prove more enlightening than even the best baked-in artificial intelligence. ""The main strength is that [Warcraft] involves 'real' people making real decisions in a world with some kind of [controllable] bounds,"" said Blair, who said studying players' actions could prove useful to military intelligence analysts. ""To put it academically, you have both dependent and independent variables."" Warcraft has a history of in-game terrorist activity. wow leveln Early on, players found a curse in a high-level dungeon that would turn them into living bombs. They would then teleport to major cities and detonate themselves, killing nearby players. These suicide bombers gradually began to target areas where large number of players gathered, usually at auction houses or banks.

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"I'm sorry if this question had been asked many times before, i'm just wondering...What are the best professions for Warlocks. (I'm pretty new from this game)...oh I've read somewhere that it is very important to have alot of money at lower levels to save up for a mount or whatever. as a warlock, you get a mount for free at lvl 40. lvl 60 mount however you either buy outright (for 540g iirc), or do the quests (last one requires a group), which drops the cost down to 156g or 406g (depending on if you know a warlock with the summoning materials or not). as a warlock, especially when you're nearing level 60+, tailoring is simply the best. at lower levels though, I'd suggest taking gathering professions (like mining and skinning) & sell all the junk on AH. or you could take herbalism and either sell the herbs, or get an alchemist to make you potions to use while levelling. avoid enchanting (at least for now), it's very expensive to skill up for limited gains. I reccomend tailoring and herbalism, enchanting is expensive but can be taken later. Tailoring for me is a must for any cloth wearer, the epic sets are too good to pass up and buying BoE blues and epics is too expensive. Herbalism wins over skinning (and youll need farmed herbs and dragonscales for your epic mount) for the sheer amount of cash it brings in. wow powerleveling The other gathering professions make manufactured goods that get used and vendored once outgrown, but everyone needs herbs for one use consumables." "I started a new character a Night elf Rogue and choos ethe mining and engineering as professions. So when I got the money I started to look for the Mining and egineering profession in Teldrassil and to be honest I have not found them.

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The guards can show me to the other professions but not minining and egineering ad I think even Blacksmithing. So I got in to a group with people - went to Ironforge and go the skills there. But now when I have mining on I am not seeing any ore in Teldrassil, so the question is is there or for mining in Teldrassil . Teldrassil is not really Mining friendly, just because the Night Elves are not keen on delving. wow honor There is some ore, but really not a lot. It gets better when you're in Darkshore. You didn't have to go to Ironforge to learn the professions, though. In Auberdine, Darkshore there is a mining trainer (and also a journeyman blacksmith trainer) among the dwarfs that stand near the big building. cheap wow gold I can't check at the moment, but I seem to recall there is also a gnome who teaches Engineering. And otherwise there is always the Exodar if you have the expansion, which is still a fair trip but not as far as Ironforge. I've never seen an ore node on Teldrassil. Wait till you hit lvl 10, go to Auberdine, pick up your professions, and then get to work. You'll have a hard time reaching the ore in Darkshore anyway, until lvl 9 or 10. If you really want to start working on mining/engineering sooner than lvl 10, I recommend heading over to Azuremyst Isle, as it's a 5-10 zone with ore nodes. wow honor You'll have to go back to Darnassus for Rogue training if you actually try to level there, however. " .

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