Economy, Schmonomy and Other Nonsense
Arcane Shot, properly employed, is OP. Problem is that not enough hunters have a dang clue how to use it. Thus the complaints remain minimal.
If one right-clicks on a soul well but misses and hits a Magtheridon captor, the event begins. That’s just the way love goes, sarsaparilla. The sight of 25 unbuffed, unready raiders begging to get through the gates won’t do anything but look pathetic. Die with some dignity.
Before you whisper anybody in game, do a “/who Theirname” first. Maybe they’re trying Magtheridon and really shouldn’t be disturbed. But if you do send a Hello at the wrong time and you get a “WTF! PLEASE JUST SHUT THE F-UP AND TAKE YOUR BUFFS, YOU OBNOXIOUS PITA!” response, don’t blame us or think we don’t care about you. Mistells happen.
When in doubt, listen to the healer.
Hunters have Freezing Traps. By habit, we’ve almost always got one at our feet. If you get something chewing your squishy butt, run to a hunter and avail yourself of our trap. It’s totally cool.
Why is it that federal employees can view 190,000,000 pr0n sites in 2007, yet we can’t play WoW from the NASA supercomputers? Got 52″ plasma monitors everywhere and fiberoptic networks underfoot and no WoW at all here. It’s a d@mn travesty, it is.
The news women on CNN have said “panties” and “pr0n” about 100 times. That’s pure win.
The chick on the cell phone who ran the stop sign at the 4-way stop on our way to work didn’t even blink at the pileup she almost caused. We really need a hood-mounted crossbow with “I’m A Total Noob!” arrows installed.
You want to know when your country’s economy is in the toilet? Look at the quality of the work performed by your favorite drive-through restaurant. If you get everything you ask for, the person at the window speaks your language, provides the correct number of straws, a spoon for your frozen chocolate sundae, extra napkins and ketchup without prompting, and looks as if they actually know one end of hand wash station from the other, you know the available job applicant list is huge. In other words, the economy sucks.
If you get someone else’s order, get the wrong drinks in the wrong sizes, no napkins, pre-wetted straws, they hand you a torn and soiled bag, and then slam their Window of Absolute Power when you raise a hand to ask a question, you know the job-pool is shallower than an oasis in the Gobi. In other words, the economy is going gangbusters. One could base one’s investment strategy based upon fast-food service. We should write a paper.
The Devil got to do The Aristocrats Joke - which you’ll have to search for yourself, we ain’t linking it - on Sirius’ Raw Dog comedy channel this morning. He totally rocked; we got a little nauseous.
Speaking of Sirius, the Playboy channel would be 100x better if they stopped taking calls, period.
Speaking of Sirius again, if you don’t have it and you drive a car, get Sirius now. Tell ‘em BRK sent ya.
We are so torn between getting a MacPro with the 8800GT card and building our own PC specifically to play WoW, we’re frozen and can’t make a move.
May we raid our 401k and buy a Porsche Boxter for our birthday? Hello, IRS?
We want the Gnaked Gnome race to be fun for boys and girls, adults and kids alike. When we really feel like shoving a Pike of Pestilence up our reader’s rears, we’ll hire every warlock on Drenden to help us do a Gnaked Gnome Race from Shat to the Dark Portal, foshizzle. Don’t think we don’t know how to Bring It.
Mrs BRK wants traffic on her blog. It’s become a nightly plea. OK, we surrender. You, gentle reader, are under no obligation to visit or comment whatsoever. There are no Gnaked Mrs BRK pics, or anything else you’re probably interested in over there.
We’re sorry, but Jimmy Buffet FTL. C’mon, can’t we agree on this by now? Every time we go to our new-on-the-rotation lunch place, it’s all they play on their PA system. Enough!
Winner of the award for best performer and musical artist who should get the kind of street cred that JB gets? No contest: Neil Diamond.
Lake Effect Snow. You poor, sodden b@stards. /opens door to lanai
All sympathies to the Heath Ledger family, of course, but supplanting Jack Nicholson as the Joker just seems wrong. We’re not mad or sullen, just a little confused.
In more movie news, Daniel Craig is making the next 007 movie, Quantum of Solace. Mrs BRK’s pheromones are accumulating at this news, we may have to get some big Tupperware containers to hold to overflow.
Mortal Strike is gonna get the biggest, baddest, meanest Blizz Nerf Hammer we’ve ever seen. We’re not the first to predict that, but we are the first to predict The Great Tank-Strike of 2008!
When we were a young lad, middle school-age, the BRK Mom posed in her homemade, pink bikini on her 1969 VW Beetle for a contest by a local radio station to win a car makeover. She won. Her bug was completely repaired, painted black, and had the radio station’s call sign painted in blazing orange on the sides. She drove that car for twenty years.
You think we’re nuts? Blame our genetics.
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Lake Effect Snow, FTL!
Rochester, NY here and I live the words thou speak!
This is the time of the year when I want to burn my electric bill in my fireplace instead of reading how many hundreds of $$$$ the bastids want to keep my house just above outside temp (at least that’s how it feels to my poor hands that are frozen and trying to play WoW).
Look forward to the nekkid gnome race.
Peace to Heath and shame on the doctors prescribing an abundance of medication without a clear knowledge of all medications he was on.
ZOMG YES! (On the car-mounted noob arrows). I have often fantasised about stealth mounted paintball guns that maybe shoot thru the grille of the car, and can be easily removed for when anyone official-like should investigate the engine bay. For extra coolness, I’d have a camera attached too, with a screen in the car, and the ability to aim {purrs contentedly}
Brk…. is that really the Mrs’s site? are you BOTH crazy uber-intellectual nerds? lol. how does she not play wow? You should show her the quests where cooking is involved so that she can rant about how those foods would make a person need her RL expertise.
hunters in general are OP… whenever i hop on my hunter alt, i run the same quests as my warrior alt… except the hunter’s 32, and the warrior’s 39.
it’s not even a matter of one ability… when i can easily kill 3 mobs 3 levels above me, i feel OP.
http://stayinfrosty.blogspot.com
Lake effect does suck.
Oh and…
“Screen shot of your mom or it didn’t happen”.
@Nick S. - While leveling my mage in Un’Goro over the weekend, I noticed two 48 Horde hunters killing 54 elementals. That wasn’t going to work, so I ganked them both. Ran into them a few minutes later, but they had 2 more people with them and I died. No biggie. Get back to my corpse, and the two 48 hunters are trying to camp my body. I rez and use some of my overpowered engineering tricks (skill 375 @ lvl 50) and kill them both again.
@BRK - “We want the Gnaked Gnome race to be fun for boys and girls, adults and kids alike. When we really feel like shoving a Pike of Pestilence up our reader’s rears, we’ll hire every warlock on Drenden to help us do a Gnaked Gnome Race from Shat to the Dark Portal, foshizzle. Don’t think we don’t know how to Bring It.”
Why use a ton of ‘locks when you could use one mage… =D
I want the modified laser from laser shows that will burn informational messages in offending a$$hats vehicle’s paint job, like “I don’t use turn signals” or “I make lefts from the right lane”. I work at a research institute that can do the mod, but I just can’t figure out how to keep the engine running after the laser fires.
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We need a new PC too, and want to know what specs you are considering for a PC.
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Our curiosity is tickled, I want to see a pic of Mom BRK in the bikini with the bug. (We understand if you don’t want to share….)
[quote]We’re sorry, but Jimmy Buffet FTL. C’mon, can’t we agree on this by now? Every time we go to our new-on-the-rotation lunch place, it’s all they play on their PA system. Enough!
Winner of the award for best performer and musical artist who should get the kind of street cred that JB gets? No contest: Neil Diamond.[/quote]
I just lost more respect for you than I ever thought I could BRK…
/fail
“Arcane Shot, properly employed, is OP. Problem is that not enough hunters have a dang clue how to use it.”
Very sad but true, especially in BGs. Here’s my favorite example:
My main is a Resto Shammy, but since I play a hunter as well, I feel obliged to give a hint. You can thank my hunter-toon for passing on this information.
Many hunters know that Acane Shot now dispells things, and that includes Earthshield. That’s the entire shield, no matter how many charges are left (assuming that AS doesn’t dispel some other buff — but in BGs I rarely have any other buffs up after the first death). That means you can dispel a very powerful and expensive spell for a ridiculously small cost. I laugh out loud when a hunter targets me and spams Aimed Shot or Steady Shot. Even better when their cat is scratching at me, proccing the heals from my Earthshield.
But here’s what even good hunters seem to miss: Earthshield can be dispelled off of any class.
Huh?
The fact is, I don’t always cast Earthshield on myself. Sometimes, I cast it on another player, such as a flag runner or a frontline warrior, and cast Watershield on myself instead. I get more mana regen and draw less attention, and I have NEVER seen a hunter, or any other dispeller for that matter, take my Earthshield off of another player. That means the toon with my Earthshield continues to get healed, even if I die or get out of range. I don’t get credit for the heals in the final score, but I don’t care if it helps us win.
Now that I have spilled the beans, “Blizz plz nerf Arcane Shot!”
@Boffors - I think this is what you are looking for:
http://www.wickedlasers.com/
As for the Gnaked Gnome Race, My wife, kids, and I are planning to run it as a team. I’ll be the guy with the string of gnomes autofollowing each other and jumping all the way. Should be an interesting run. We will run as a group and finish as a group so with all the deaths that I’m sure will happen, we will probably be the last ones to finish.
BRK - you can absolutely take the money from your 401k to buy your new porsche. unfortunately, you will be raped. hard. and. fast. as far as the early withdrawal penalties, taxes, and any other bullshit that they decide to throw at you.
With all the hacked systems in your guild, and you are still considering getting a PC?.. -50 BRK points to you. No too-sweet-fruity-coffee-wannabe-drink either.
Get the Mac.
You may be interested in the Big Mac Index or similar gages for measuring the power of a given currency.
It’s interesting because there are somewhat successful MaccyD’s in just about every developed country in the world. So by normalizing their currency by the price of a Big Mac, you get an idea of the buying power of their currency… Or compare it to the price of other foods and you may get a factor related to the quality of living.
But it’s all academic economic mental masturbation really… Which is basically like listening to media outlet ‘experts’. (Is there really a distinction between having your finger on the pulse of the economy and having your leeching worthless mouth sucking from a vein of the economy and therefore being able to comment on the economy’s pulse?) Interesting distraction without gaining any real insight.
iPod+audible.com>Sirius
I have the GeForce 8800 GTS (640 MB) and even with 2 huge fans in the Giant tower, the fan on the video card and all cabling moved out of the way, Wow will crash with the video card getting hot, I now have the side of my case open and usually after about 2 hours of wow play my system will reboot. I’m running XP since I figured it would be more stable, problem is Nvidia isn’t the best with getting drivers out that fix game related issues.
But when it’s working I get 200 FPS and even in town I get 130 FPS (but can you really tell the difference? I don’t think even my new monitor runs at those speeds.)
I don’t understand why more folks who read your blog are not also fans of Mrs. BRK’s blog. Obviously, a majority of WoW players are in need of obesity surgery, and would be fascinated by her views on the subject.
Got her bookmarked, and promise to read both blogs daily.
(Do I get points for that?)
Also, I had to look up FTL on http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ftl
to understand what you were talking about re. Jimmy Buffett. I am such a geek I thought you meant he was faster than light.
lol
Why is it that federal employees can view 190,000,000 pr0n sites in 2007, yet we can’t play WoW from the NASA supercomputers? Got 52? plasma monitors everywhere and fiberoptic networks underfoot and no WoW at all here.
It seems that GSA has over-budgeted your installation. I’ll make sure some of your resources are directed elsewhere, thanks.
Speaking of Sirius again, if you don’t have it and you drive a car, get Sirius now.
My experience with Sirius was not the best. I’ll happily continue plugging my iPhone into my R32 until something better comes out.
May we raid our 401k and buy a Porsche Boxter for our birthday? Hello, IRS?
The Boxter’s not a real Porsche. Get a Carrera 4S instead.
“We are so torn between getting a MacPro with the 8800GT card and building our own PC specifically to play WoW, we’re frozen and can’t make a move.”
Build your own. I did and i love it. Its a full Nvidia EVGA set up.
8800GTX with 680i MoBo. I even recently got a new case for it. the Coolermaster 830 evo nvidia edition. Granted i think im up to about $6k in computer parts, but i love it. I could have done it for less but thats not my style. As soon as i get everything switched over to the new case i’ll send you some pics BRK.
And remember JUST SAY NO TO VISTA. At least for another year or so. Like XP it will take a year or so for it to mature and be rock solid. I know more than a few people that have recieved free downgrades to XP from microsoft.
@ Conjode - Amen on Nvidia - My 7900 crashes often. Nice big blue screen. I reinstalled the drivers from both Dell and Nvidia without success. It mostly happens when loging into the game and gets better the longer I play.
/throw arms up
/pull hair out
/reboot
/raise bourbon
@ BRK - Nice on the economy. Pray for poor service. Want to really help? Go buy something. A durable good. Hmm, what could that be? Perhaps the Mac? It’s every consumer’s responsibility to stimulate the economy. Do your part. It’s your patriotic duty.
/salute
Except for the 401k/porsche thing. That toy would cost you $95-98k after price, taxes and penatly.
/smackdown by Mrs. BRK
Rochester, NY here too! Lake Effect snow sucks only because it’s pretty much unpredictable. When the weatherman says “…..between 2 inches and 2 feet of snow….” you learn not to pay attention to what they say pretty quick.
Sirius radio is the best thing ever! Of course if the merger goes through, I’m done. I’ll go back to listening to MP3’s and podcasts.
Quoted from Halabar
“With all the hacked systems in your guild, and you are still considering getting a PC?.. -50 BRK points to you. No too-sweet-fruity-coffee-wannabe-drink either.
Get the Mac.”
If your not entirely retarded as im 100% sure BRK isn’t then he’s not gonna get hacked on a PC. Common Sense = The Best Anti-Keylogger.
Also yeah Vista is pretty lame. Get it if your gonna get 2 or more gigs of RAM and want to stay updated otherwise XP is a whole lot better.
BRK;
Reference the new Mac Pro or a build it yourself system; IMNSHO go with the MacPro.
I run Boot camp on my sept 2006 MacPro and as a PC with WinXP SP2 it is the most trouble free windows machine I have ever used and lets me at things like Orange Box and LOTROL that do not ship for the Mac OS.
As A PC it is very fast and stable. the ATI drivers for ATI X1900 card just work for windows and let me overdrive the card which I can not do under the mac OS IT really is the best of both worlds OS X 10.5.x for almost everything and then a pc when you want to play with something not offered on the Mac OS X
BRK “We are so torn between getting a MacPro with the 8800GT card and building our own PC specifically to play WoW, we’re frozen and can’t make a move.”
If you are frozen it seems you already have the PC going.
I kid I kid
To give your sympathies for Heath Ledger’s family and slam his role as the Joker all in the same sentence is just plain wrong. Trying too hard to seem clever? Have a little respect. You make me smile, but right now I’m frowning. Yeah…go ahead and delete this you tool.
I remember when the McD’s around here were offering signing bonuses. Those were the days.
I’m a geek and a techie in training (2 semesters left for a comp sci degree) and I have a piece of advice if you build a PC.
Run XP.
If you buy hardware meant for Vista, with drivers ment for vista, and run software only meant for Vista, you may not have any more problems than XP. The overhead is higher, the software is newer(aka the buglist is still a mile long), and its not what you’re used to. I’m going to stick with XP as long as I can because I can train it to do what I want almost as easily as I respec my pet.
I’ve heard reports that vista should be avoided like the black plague. One of my fellow class mates has a Vista laptop and loves it. I can’t let myself get over how hideously inefficient it is, that’s just wasted resources.
Bottom line, upgrade carefully.
Ralowae and BlackTooth, Zangermarsh
iPod+audible.com>Sirius - Agreed!
Looking at a Mac Pro, even for a second, has me weeping over it’s power compared to my PC (single-core, 2GHz Ram and 7600 GT). However, there are advantages and disadvantages to buying a MP now, waiting, or building you own.
The reason I’m adding a third suggestion of waiting a little while to buy a MP is the nVidia 9800 is “scheduled” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_9_Series) to be released Feb/14/08. The MP currently only comes with the 8800, and while that is all well and good, to buy a MP now and have current best nVidia card outdated on Valentines day would be a tragedy.
To build you own is the “harder” of the options for a new computer, because sometimes, and unless you know what you’re doing or have a legion of loyal fan base to help you. Buying part A that doesn’t work with part B and needs special cable X to interface with peripheral C may be a little stressful and time/money consuming.
(my custom Mac Pro came to a total of $26,270.95! 32GB of RAM FTW! lol)
XP > Vista
period!
Also, to all you’re guildies and fans and whoever else visits BRK, a few program suggestions that may help with that hacker problem.
A-squared free. Avast! anti-virus. AVG Free edition. AVG anti-spyware. Comodo Firewall Pro with Defence +. Spybot Search and Destroy. Spyware Terminator. Windows Defender.
I believe they’re all free. Google them if you want them, some may be windows only though…
To give your sympathies for Heath Ledger’s family and slam his role as the Joker all in the same sentence is just plain wrong. Trying too hard to seem clever? Have a little respect. You make me smile, but right now I’m frowning. Yeah…go ahead and delete this you tool.
How? It wouldn’t be wrong to feel Heath Ledger was miscast as the Joker if he was still alive. Why the hell does it matter that he’s dead? It’s not like he’s saying the vile stuff that Fox News (”fair and balanced”) anchor was saying about Mr. Ledger.
@Shrike
“To give your sympathies for Heath Ledger’s family and slam his role as the Joker all in the same sentence is just plain wrong”
What, too soon?