Here’s probably the most concise and informative post about raiding as a Demonology warlock as we’ve ever read. We say “probably” because we don’t know squishies. It could be pure Fel-dung, we wouldn’t know.
But Bristinie is the one demo-lock that has caused us epeen-grief in 25-man raids. If he has an opinion, we’ll endorse it.
And if he ever makes a blog, it must be named BigGirlWand.
So sayeth BRK, so let it be done.
At has been brought to our attention that our sidebar links have some issues. Well it seems that that analysis is quite correct. For example, The Egotistical Priest has moved her place to a custom domain, and we just this morning corrected it. We’ll address the rest of those linkies as quickly as possible.
You know, if you happen to stumble over to her little web-abode, be sure to say hello and ask, “What’s new?”
Perhaps, just maybe, if you’re mannered and proper, she’ll even tell you what guild she’s in now.
Thank you to everybody for their condolences and donations, your kindness is an inspiration. We’re leaving the donation button on the blog through the Running of Da Bulls.
/moo
Random Non-Wow Thought Of The Day: One knows one lives in Florida when one is driving to work and hears, “Watch out for smoke on the highway; the marsh is still on fire.”
The PTR: Everybody has read about how a hunter pet’s Growl is no longer going to scale with the pet’s attack power, yes? Perhaps you’ve also seen where Blizz is instead going to have Growl scale with the hunter’s attack power, but only when the hunter’s RAP is above a certain level? Well, yes, that sounds pretty nice, but as with all things on the PTR, we prefer to remain silent until the stuff goes live. We dislike freaking out or singing the praises of stuff that may not even be a factor in a week.
Is the Running of Da Bulls really just one week away? Holy cow, it is! Next Saturday, 7pm EDT (11PM GMT) on Cenarion Circle!
We’re going back to Kara tonight for the first time in months. Why? Because we don’t need the Shattered Sun dailies anymore, we have broken the 5000 gold mental-barrier again so we’ve lost the need to farm, BRKTestBed is level 40 and has a mount, and we haven’t got the energy to roll a female gnome warrior.
If we couldn’t be a hunter, we’d be a female, gnome, fury warrior. Red-head, not pink.
The only class we’ve never tried is a warlock. You may read into that what you may.
Aetherial Circle cleared ZA, unfortunately we weren’t there. Grats folks, glad that’s finally done. /wipes hands clean
OH!! After we took down Al’ar the other day, our graphics got totally messed up. Our camera was “fixed” in that we could rotate our toon but the camera didn’t follow. It was awesome; we’ve been trying to figure out how to do just that for years!
But then we couldn’t get it to return to the normal state, and we had to exit the game to restore the camera to nominal condition. How the heck did we do that? And don’t say, “It’s one of those camera-settings, noob!” because it’s NOT one of those camera-settings, we’ve tried them all, hundreds of times.
Would it be wrong to publish on our blog the IP addresses of the two people we banned? Their comments have been purged, their IPs smacked with the BRK Ban Hammer, that’s probably enough.
Listen to us now and believe us later. If you’re a leatherworker, start stock piling the mats for Riding Crops. If the PTR change about Riding Crops becoming more like an enchant and no longer a trinket goes live, people are going to be buying the new Riding Crops for their epic ground mount. Don’t make the Riding Crops now, just in case that change doesn’t get implemented, but have the mats for the Riding Crops ready to go. There will be a limited-time to make mondo-gold on this change, so don’t dilly-dally.
New iMacs next Tuesday, foshizzle. Let’s see if we get a better video card in the next revision. We needz a new rig, pronto!
Can we add another Aetherial Circle member to our blogging universe? Of course; there’s always room for one more. It’s like Jello… but not really. Nope, not even close. Forget we said anything.
Did you forget it yet? Hurry up!
/waits
OK, so one of our raiding-mages has decided to get into the blog-act. Of course, he went so far as to make a blog so aesthetically pleasing that we really considered trying to hide his existence. But we’re bigger than that. Not much, but just enough.
And not like that! We’re totally bigger…
Well, just forget all about that too.
He’s going by the nom de guerre Spicytuna on his blog, so that’s how we’ll introduce him. World, meet Spicytuna the Frost Mage.
Spicy, here they come.
We loathe alts. Hate hate hate hate hate. Odio a los alts! Ich mag alts nicht!
So we rolled an alt a few days ago. A Paladin. Did we mention that we hate alts?
We leveled to 19, Retribution. Female dwarf, ’cause we love dwarves and we’ve never created a female toon before. Double red ponytails, non-demonic.
We twinked the beejezus out of her because we’ve got about 5000g in the bank with nothing to do. We got her a Searing Blade from the Auction House and bought the mats for the +7 Damage enchant, thank you Kel. We haz light saber! Mail armor, self-heal, two-handed sword, she should do fine soloing, yes?
She’s terrible. She has to body pull everything, can’t stop a runner, has no insta-heals, and has mana-issues that would make a hunter cringe.
Now it could be that she’s too low-level to make such a harsh judgement. Or perhaps we just stink. Every time we got dropped off the bird-bus, we thought our mount-macro was broken. It took until level 18 before we were able to remember that we don’t have a mount.
But she’s not long for this world, that’s for sure. We’re going to roll another hunter.
Why? To make a BRK at Level Ten Hunter Guide Movie! Why we didn’t think of this before, no idea. But it sounds like fun.
More fun that that stupid Paladin, that’s for sure.
“Often, I don’t even realize I have rogue support until they appear out the shadows and slaughter the mage that is counterspelling me or the priest that is keeping their team up. Even better, they appear after an engagement has begun and turn the tide of battle with a well placed ambush or cheap shot (no skill could be more aptly named). They choose their targets with care and choose when the best time to strike would be. They unstealth and say ‘Don’t worry Lightshield, I got this jerk - you just keep healing.’
“/love. /hug. You not only saved my ass, but the asses of everyone around us. Thank you for playing a rogue.”
We are introducing a new BRK Rule of Blogging: Anybody who pugs Zul’Gurub while writing Haiku gets a link.
Go say hi, be nice, wipe your feet, don’t drink all the beer.
And sign your credit card.
You want the link to our GM’s critkin blog? OK, don’t say we didn’t warn you, though.
The BoP FAQ:
Fiodrahal? Fiodraphal? Don’t bother; it’s just Fio, (Phi’-oh or Phee’-oh).
He has a propensity to discover alchemy recipes during raids.
Puns. Be innoculated and insulated or don’t visit.
Do not taunt the BoP. He controls the raiding schedule!
Do not let him feed his wife candy. A Squeekie Priestie on sugar… you should be afraid.
He cannot tank. He can Boomkin, he can heal. Tanking isn’t in his repotoire.
He is responsible for the lion.
He runs a mean guild-bank. Although most of the cloth-stamina gear we put in there has disappeared…
As always, not presented in any order. No satisfaction guaranteed. We may have accidentally linked to a gambling for p0rn site. Our grasp of your delicate and frail hold on sanity is skewed at best. Do not operate heavy machinery before, during, or immediately after reading. Side effects include nausea, headaches, jaundice, nail-biting, halitosis and wild hallucinations involving ducks, tomatoes, a Maytag appliance - probably a dishwasher but this varies depending upon altitude - and Dora the Explorer. You’re on your own, people.
BRK loves druid tanks but that in no way is influencing our demand that you read Big Bear Butt Blogger today. What that post, he’s now on our sidebar.
And as for the Squeekie Priestie mind-vision thing, a quick recap of the whole rigamarole.
Karazhan, after Curator, after the big mechanicals and the mana sparklies that we all have to gang up on but not really but we do anyway, up the curved ramp, another mechanical, into the room with the elementals, and now we’re at the bottom of the ramp leading to Aran, Illhoof, et. all. OK? OK.
Squeekie Priestie casts Mind Vision to mark the mobs for Tank, Off-Tank, Shackle and Fear/Banish/Whatever. Tank pulls ‘em down the ramp and ZOMGTHEYCAUGHTME the tank gets made a mess and the priest has to immediately heal him instead of shackle and the whole thing is a disaster.
Hunter to the rescue.
Put a Frost Trap on the ramp at the feet of the tank, run back down the ramp, get ready for the pull. Tank pulls and runs down the stairs. The four mobs trip the Frost Trap and get sloooowwweeed.
Tank makes it safely to the bottom of the ramp, priest shackles, MT and OT do their thing, Fear/Banish/Whatever is cast. Good clean fight.
/cheer Hunter
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