January 2012
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Don't cross the nerd streams.
I’ve been slacking in WoW-ness lately, mostly because Disgaea 4 and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon have been eating my soul. (Omnomnomnom) Yes, this part is relevant because of what I’m about to bust out in terms of awful mental images:
So I’m trolling Wikipedia to find a full Disgaea 4 cast list (specifically, I wanted to find out who got tapped for Zetta this time, even though nobody...
December 2011
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Reborn Machine And Four Point Three
O hi. I almost forgot I have this, but, uh, yeah.
Last month, I was levelling my cow priest via random dungeon finder, and idling in Org while waiting to get dropped into another group. I had Gurren Lagann running on my secondary monitor as background noise, and I tabbed over to check TweetDeck when all of a sudden everything froze up and closed, and I see something that resembled but clearly...
August 2011
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/moo = Mana, Out Of it :(
Because, you know, I’ve always associated /oom with dyslexic cows. Plus /moo is just a hilarious emote. (Doubly so if you pop it as a Tauren Death Knight since it uses the DK voice filter!)
Ahem.
Khadgar is now my “Kopii” server, since now I’ve rolled up Kopii Phil (or, properly, “Kophilionel”) as a Tauren Priest. As you can guess, he’s a bovine clone of...
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Blerp a derp derp
On Khadgar server, a Kopii Yoshi wanders in the Bastion of Twilight. Two successful runs thus far— three if last week’s raid hadn’t been cancelled, boo— and this time she got a minor upgrade to her offhand (Book of Binding Will). Still need a new hat like crazy, and the shoulders could stand an upgrade as well, to fix my bothersome low ilvl. :P
I started to doze off...
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Kopii War Machine
Derp. With boss gone for the foreseeable future, and my brother being just as flaky, I’ve been alt-ing it up as Kopii Yoshi on Khadgar server. Nice guild is niiiiiice. She’s already raid-viable, I just need to get her foot in the door.
…and wow, has it really been 8 months since I last did current-content raiding? Still kinda miffed I could never get Kingslayer. Maybe when boss...
July 2011
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Go Touch a Tauren or something
Summer is boo right now. I have this awful mystery bug that has given me a cough, the headache from hell and has further dropped my stamina. Oh, what I would give for a RL “Cure Disease” power right now… especially because I need to get to the credit union to break out a crappy CD that I stupidly let Evil Stepfather talk me into. (“They don’t have a website…...
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Landslide = Gryphon Poo
Power Torrent and Landslide, like other weapon enchants, put an aura of sorts on your weapons. For Power Torrent, it’s rather glowy and fiery and, to an extent, resembles the flaming aura on the Cataclysm logo. Landslide, as you can guess, looks like rocks and dirt breaking off. Makes sense, right?
Now, keep that in mind when you get on your flying mount and put on auto-run.
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Wanted: Nice people on Draenor (or, "TROLOLOLO")
Asking to play with decent or at least not-douchebaggy doods in WoW is like asking for fire to not be hot, I realize, but good grief people can be such jerks over the smallest things.
I’m bumming around as Phil to get him gear so that old man, too, can go raid. Unfortunately, with Boss once again out of the picture and bro often going AFK to watch TV (I swear, I am this close to getting him...
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Snakes on a Staff
Yoshi had DPS issues for awhile. She had switched to LOLFIRE for a bit at the behest of boss and bro, but after patch 4.2 her DPS, uh, went right into the crapper. I was getting kicked from LFD because I couldn’t quite break 6k. Oof. :(
So I’m all “screw it, I’m going back to Arcane,” because that’s a lot easier to pound out (blast x5, missiles almost always...
May 2011
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SK School
Take it from someone who’s been described as totally lacking in any kind of evil— when you roll with Shattered Knights, you either need a thick skin or you’d better be able to grow one quickly. Boss and bro don’t mince words, not even for me. Whenever I roll out another character for guild runs— and bless them for taking the time to even do what they do— they...
March 2011
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Space Goat + Chainsaw Sword = YES
Troll Butcherer, dood. Freaking WoW’s version of the Haseo-brand chainsaw sword. Old man Phil passed along a Massacre chant-on-a-scroll, for extra AWESOME.
If Hynderia were a Fury Warrior at 80, she could dual-wield it. But, this space goat is Arms, so she only gets one. Still, CHAINSAW SWORD! (Or at least looks close enough to one.)
Not sure if I’ll get her a Quel’Delar just...
A Fire Flower with Feet
Welp, I finally decided to, after being trolled for weeks by my brother, try a fire build on Yoshi. >_>;
Of course, I had to call him out on being a concern troll. He and mother share this extremely obnoxious idea— “if I harass someone long enough, they’ll actually do it” or something. There’s that kind of empty trolling (which you would be wise to NEVER EVER...
January 2011
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The irony of Blood Elf homophobia
Those who play World of Warcraft are all too familiar with the ludicrous amount of hate that gets flung around the playerbase. Misogyny, fatphobia and homophobia especially run rampant (as a woman of size, I am particularly bothered by the horrible things that are suggested to be done to “fatties,” on top of suggestions that I don’t exist because I’m female). We hear about...
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AMAZING HAT
Old man Phil. Lv. 85, punks. (Also hur hur Trifo— I mean Ramkahen tabard, wee)
But more importantly… LOOK AT THAT HAT. THAT HAT IS AMAZING.
It’s all pointy and stuff.
Also holy crap ow, I totally killed my wallet levelling tailoring. I’m totally going to farm cloth tomorrow. Ahahaha…
December 2010
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Awesome Paladin is Awesome
Leslie dinged 85. (Guild first FTW!) Sadly, it was about an hour after my brother left for work, so he didn’t get to see. Booooo!
I dunno if I’ma finish clearing Twilight Highlands and Uldum before I throw in Yoshi. I do need to max Leslie’s Blacksmithing, if only so she can make that badass sword… and shove all the excess craftables onto Phil for DE fodder. ;P
Levelling...
S.S. Hynderia
Despite Cataclysm having opened up lv. 80+ content, it seems we in Shattered Knights have decided to tackle this punk from the bottom up. Bro and many others rolled puppies… where I’m rocking out with my Draenei warrior because she’s such a freaking badass.
So, Hynderia is now 51 and got punted down to Bogpaddle in ye olde Swamp of Sorrows, and I find this Alliance (I’m...
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Tales of Hynderia
Three things, doods:
1) Dinah dinged lv. 80. Awesome! And… literally the day after? The aging laptop she was named after was replaced by a MacBook. Now, before you Apple haters get all up in my face, I’ve had the Apple taint on me for quite some time— since junior high school, in fact— and this was bound to happen at some point. I’ve used ‘em off and on since...
November 2010
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Frozen Throne is Purdy
First, “third-zerging” Sindragosa = no, does not work, ohgod my repair bill. (“third-zerging” in this case being “only let one person at a time be an ice block, don’t bother dropping stacks and just nuke the everloving smoo out of Sindy in the meantime) Oddly enough, this runs counter to all my previous Sindragosa posts that painted her as the Ridley of WoW.
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October 2010
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Ninjas on a Plane
*putt-putt*
Hi. Dinah dinged 60 earlier today (she’s now almost 62). And as any self-respecting robo-night elf ninja would do, she built herself a little flying machine. It’s so cute. :D It reminds me of the Sky Pop from Super Mario Land, in a way.
Once Dinah hits 65 and can max out Jewelcrafting… ohh yes, she’s gonna be raking in the profits for sure. Bwahahahaha~
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Everyday is Ninja Day
I’d left Dinah to charge for awhile so after I’d finished my randomsauce (and even got in on my first raid since 4.0.1 hit), it became NINJA HAPPY HOUR. She went from 47 to 50 (mostly in Searing Gorge) and, more importantly, I binge-leveled her jewelcrafting and engineering. Oh sweet mother of SMOO I always forget why I should never do that… I was supposed to go to bed around,...
Your world-ending patch is in another castle
Let me begin by saying that I started playing WoW literally the day after Wrath came out. However, I know the frustration that comes with major, systems-changing patches (see: City of Heroes).
That said, I’m also not the type to cry DOOM! the day after a patch laden with nerfs to my class smacks me like a freaking Mack truck. I mean, seriously, we’re only two days in and already there...
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Unchained Missiles
If you’ll indulge me a bit of absolutely nonsensical tinfoil hat-ness (and Metroid geekery) here…
I know I’ve mused on this before, but it must be said again: Sindragosa is the Ridley of WoW.
Think: big freaking bony dragon, penultimate boss, encounter is a great deal about crazy ranged DPS. Even her entrance into battle reeks of Ridley!
True, Sindy is significantly chattier...
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4.0.1, or "it's the end of world as we know it~"
Ah, extended maintenance. Usually the signal of OMG PATCH, and in this case, it’s the one that literally sets up for the END OF THE WORLD.
Cataclysm? Do want. Screw coordinating with my brother, if I can just buy the upgrade code at launch. I bought the activation codes for vanilla, BC and Wrath, so why change? Less waste of having all that packaging that I’ll never touch, either. :P
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September 2010
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Kill it with Holy (DPS)!
Phil is a Holy/Shadow Priest. I’m not too fond of the Shadow part; I only specced into it so he could DPS (and thus level). It’s not that I don’t want old man to DPS— though I GREATLY prefer healing since that’s his day job— but… does he have to do it with shadow? That just doesn’t suit him at all.
Yeah, priests can DPS with holy… they get,...
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Almost there...
You know how I said I tend to favor guild-dominated runs? I still do, but tonight was a reminder that they, too, are imperfect.
The team I was with was pretty close to ironing out the last burps and kinks in stomping Sindragosa in her not-Ridley face (no, really, she’s pretty much Ridley with a Rita Repulsa-like voice) and someone in the guild’s group ragequits so hard he also gquit...
"Maturity" is the penultimate weasel word
You’ve seen it before in trade chat and elsewhere… the same tired old guild recruitment message:
(Nonsensical/Clichéd Guild Name) is now recruiting for its core raiding group. We have six tabs and an awesome freaking tabard. Must be mature and have vent, PST for more information.
…UGH. This was a forgettable and inoffensive guild spam until I hit the “mature”...
I love guild runs~
I’ve pretty much made it personal policy that I will only PuG raids that are guild-dominated. At the very least, it is because they are highly unlikely to ragequit after wiping on the first boss or so.
But sometimes I forget… or rather, when weighing policy against “ooh, if I get at least two boss kills, I can get a new tier piece” the greed takes over. Boo this Yoshi....
Synonymous and GIMME KINGSLAYER
You’ll notice that I refer to my characters by different names than what they are actually registered in WoW as. Pretty much, this is because their original/root names were taken or otherwise couldn’t be accommodated (and I HATE that WoW disallows spaces, I like to use firstname + lastname whenever possible) so I had to, um, twist them a bit so they’d blend in. In a couple cases...
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Dragonstomper
This time it was Leslie’s turn to get thrown into ICC 10-man and this time she not only got stupidly lucky but also scored HUGE— new DPS bracers/gloves, healer sword and shield, and a crapload of rep/Frost cookies. She landed in a group of mostly people who had high gearscores (a rather failtastic means of measurement but one we must make do with since nobody can settle on an...
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Amazing Staff
To quote Meathook (Culling of Stratholme 1st boss): New toys!
Flung old man Phil into a 10-man that needed a healer. It was a guild run so I figured the odds of a mass ragequit after a wipe were pretty low. Turned out to be an alt run and very newbie-friendly… pity that it wasn’t a 25-man else I’d have tried to get these doods to bring in the other two guildies that were on at...
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Fire! Fire! Fire!
I can’t leave well enough alone. I was going to let Dinah charge to maximum rested EXP before I trot her out for levelling, but I had this ridiculous compulsion to crank up her Engineering and Jewelcrafting… which are REDONKULOUSLY expensive to level. :| Not only that, it’s also soooo time-consuming when you factor in having to log other alts to pass materials and such around....
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I'm on a horse!
No, really. See? Look at my horse, my horse is AMAZING.
I pulled more than an all-nighter blasting through… what, 5 levels on Dinah (the Night Elf Rogue, not the ninja laptop) so I could get her to level 40 and unlock the better ground mounts. I’d passed a mess of Wintergrasp honor tokens over from my 80s so Dinah could therefore pile up enough honor points to get the black war...
Avatar Space Goats From Krypton!
Space Goats Draenei, I loves me some. Second-favorite race after Tauren.
They’re huge (well, the men are, especially… but their women are pretty tall, too), they have these awesome pseudo-Russian accents, and when they’re kicking ass, all that yelling and such is so over-the-top and yet so very, very badass. It’s, like, you can tell they really enjoy a good fight! (Who...
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Here be night elves. Or something.
Greetings, AP visitor-doods. Surely if you are here you are probably interested in my shenanigans in World of Warcraft. Previously you would hear about them via Twitter or the main blog but I decided to just pipe much of it here instead. Anything that warrants a longer post may at my discretion go to the main blog, because I can. :P If you are too lazy to visit the Tumblr proper, it will be...