What's in an honorable kill?
Pending me not being lazy and turning on the floating combat text that tells you what an honorable kill is worth, I am resorting to old-fashioned math. The gods at Blizzard have told us that in 3.3.3...
View ArticleTis Official!
No, not Glory of the Hero...though Moorabi finally gave up his mammoth dreams and got me that this morning as well. Yesterday Ihra /gquit in the middle of the afternoon, and in the evening became GM of...
View ArticleOn Networking
In not-so-funny news today, apparently Blizzard accidentally deleted my realm from the battlegroup, so we could not*raid*do dungeons*do arenas*do BGsThis led to a lot of bored people city raiding and...
View ArticleEye of the Storm : All in the Title
Do you know what the key to winning Eye of the Storm is? I'll tell you : it's The Eye of the Storm! Right in the title, crazy I know! Let me illustrate what I mean, using stick figures of meditating...
View ArticleAnd just in case
You were doubting my credentials to write the previous article, I finally got this last night!Go me!
View ArticleThis just in : WSG still sucks
Despite the temptation it provides me to slit my wrists, I bravely ventured into WSG over the weekend to gather data for you, my lovely readers. (Lies. I did it b/c my mind would explode if there was a...
View ArticleDid WSG Dye Its Hair?
...because apparently it is no longer the redheaded stepchild. Picking up SOTA Holiday numbers over the weekend, WSG, though it lags behind, is not nearly the joke-far-outrunner that it used to be....
View ArticleWow.
This blew my mind, courtesy of Gnomeaggedon -- apparently people in BGs are NOT sheep...they're fish. I am resolved to take a few people into some BGs and try this "mutual support" thing out for myself!
View ArticlePvP Talents?
ETA: I am a total n00b because apparently you can already queue as a raid...the "Join as Party" button being somewhat misleadingly named!Looking ahead to Cataclysm it is clear that Blizzard wants to...
View ArticleA Picture is worth a thousand words!
and I lack the words to express my head-shaking outrage, anyway, at Blizzard reintroducing the snare to Tree of Life form. Like...wtf. No, actually, WTF doesn't begin to cover it. Tree of Life needs to...
View ArticleHoliday EOTS Paint By Numbers
WARNING : If you don't like numbers this post is not for you!I gathered data for EOTS(H) over the weekend...it's up on the Updated Holiday HPM post I have linked on the right, along with SOTA &...
View ArticleAV : Fail At Failing
The title reflects the trouble I had with AV over the holiday in trying to lose, where unfortunately my side was not in the mood. Consequently, going 9-1 makes my AV potentially skewed in the same way...
View ArticleHow to Run a Premade
Why wait for Cataclysm? There's nothing stopping you from running an organised group into a battleground now (a "premade"). A premade is to PVP what a guild raid is to PVE -- or described on the flip...
View ArticleMore Updates
I do not, regrettably, have good IOC numbers for the holiday, having once again gone streaky (2-5), and on top of that, not finishing my requisite 10 games. I'll tell you, informally, that it went :IOC...
View ArticleA Lovely Weekend of AB
I think I had the most amazing PVP weekend ever. First I found a (temporary, normal is out of town) 2s partner and we've smashed our way almost to 1400 with relative ease. I suppose there is something...
View ArticleWhat will you require?
This is not a long analytical post...it's a short, thought-provoking post. With luck, I will suffer the fate of Gnomeaggeddon and Cynwise will turn it into a fantastic post for me later ;-). Cataclysm...
View ArticleStay Out of BGs!
...if you're a healer, or a tank, or have an OS in either of those two categories. Having recently dinged my priest to 80 and in an attempt to gear her up rapidly for arena with Ihra's forsaken...
View ArticleTakin a Wee Break
Turned off my WoW subscription to go play LOTR Online for a little while pre-cata...didn't seem worth it to pay for thumb-twiddling. I will be back for the big world-shaker, and I'm still reading you...
View ArticleAPI WTF?
I don't know what an API Hook is, I'm just going to get that out there first thing. Today I'd like to talk a little bit about using our battleground scoreboard, as limited as it currently is, to pull...
View ArticleAn Announcement
No, not *that* announcement. Active January 1st, Ihra will be back on WoW...temporarily. When it came down to it it was just too hard to make a decision between WoW & LotRO so my wife and I have...
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