tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11257276187945627122024-03-14T06:56:00.371+01:00(Un)Plugged GamingGaming, either plugged or unplugged.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-42379955780767430892009-06-15T17:28:00.001+02:002009-06-15T17:30:55.273+02:00Just one last mention and then I will stop necroposting in here.<br />All of my WoW-antics and such are posted on my main blog now, due to the wonder that we call labels. You can find it at<a href="http://greaterthandividedbythree.blogspot.com"> http://greaterthandividedbythree.blogspot.com</a> or at <a href="http://greaterthandividedbythree.blogspot.com">http://gtdbt.blogspot.com</a> (a redirect) for short.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-38529203642850614312009-05-21T11:40:00.004+02:002009-05-21T11:41:50.632+02:00I'm playing WoW again, but I won't be updating this blog past this post. Instead I'm moving to a new blog; Shamanistic Enhancements. And no, the url won't be that long. You can find the blog (but with no content as of now) at <a href="http://enhshaman.blogspot.com">http://enhshaman.blogspot.com</a> So...Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-18806378426011834252008-11-02T12:25:00.004+01:002008-11-02T12:32:29.388+01:00Update and new directions.It's a long time since I've been posting here and a few things have changed since then. I quit WoW (surprisingly easy if you quit before) and I probably won't come back for Wrath.<br /><br />Also, my new site, I gave up on translating, since it isn't translating, it's rewriting. It took me ages to only get one post done, which isn't nice if you don't have that time. Therefore the site will only be available in Dutch. I'm writing there about Magic: The Gathering, My Xbox (and it's problems) and silly things that happen. Unfortunatly there is only a small chance that WoW will be found on it.<br /><br />Anyhow, if you're Dutch (or can speak/read Dutch) and interested, look it up at <a href="http://www.greaterthandividedbythree.blogspot.com">http://www.greaterthandividedbythree.blogspot.com</a> or <a href="http://www.greaterthandividedbythree.blogspot.com">http://gtdbt.blogspot.com</a> for short.<br /><br />So, um.... bye.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-53920650080018564632008-09-08T11:10:00.002+02:002008-09-08T11:12:29.872+02:00Yet Another Tiny UpdateMy new blog is coming along nicely... just have to translate the "starting content" and then I can get a posting schedule up... Coming Soon.<br /><br />What it will have:<br /><ul><li>Better Posts</li><li>Better tagging</li><li>better layout (as in shinier)</li><li>And not just WoW.<br /></li></ul>Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-53599331776708987862008-09-01T13:22:00.002+02:002008-09-01T13:26:38.902+02:00It's quiet.... Too quiet.It's been a while since I posted, mostly because I'm runnin out of things to write about in WoW. That and the new Soul Calibur have been keeping me from writing. And when I do want to write, I can't think of anything. Basically, this is an "I'm not dead yet"-post. Mainly because I'm setting up a new blog (unhappy with this one and I'd rather start with a clean slate), which will have less posts like this one and more quality posts. Unfortunatly, to do so, I'm writing in Dutch first and then translating into English, meaning that the English people will have to wait a day or two before they can read it.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-20463791140278606632008-08-21T18:09:00.003+02:002008-08-21T19:14:19.520+02:00"wna heal brd, gt grp"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlp-J8H64hqqPoeBIRD_VGIr9fHtyiIwZdV3S2qVtz5liMGhM8GSyKX1xodgI0SrUdA0rkFD7o0rctyiNbQXIEK4_sdMFd5rIelfhn17re7Veg7dkNFlVwabRTW7fe-U1Y24iVse1i4by/s1600-h/grammar-book.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlp-J8H64hqqPoeBIRD_VGIr9fHtyiIwZdV3S2qVtz5liMGhM8GSyKX1xodgI0SrUdA0rkFD7o0rctyiNbQXIEK4_sdMFd5rIelfhn17re7Veg7dkNFlVwabRTW7fe-U1Y24iVse1i4by/s200/grammar-book.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237020445813344034" border="0" /></a>When I am playing on my Shaman, I can enjoy the silence, only being whispered by gold sellers. Which is really annoying, starting with "hello", which gets them a response like "No, I don't want to buy gold.". Report'd. But still, it's nice and quiet. Not because no one wants me to heal for them, but my guild has the reputation of not liking to PuG. We didn't know at first, until people mentioned that when they applied. But there was a time that I got spammed to go everywhere.<br /><br />Nice, people begging you to go with them, to heal them. Problem is that they manage to whisper me when I am Enhancement. One of the Shamans from the top Horde guild at that time asked me to heal for him in Heroic Slave Pens. "No, I can't, I'm Enhancement", was my reply. No problem, he went to find a healer again. Next day, I get the same whisper from him, asking if I could heal Heroic SP. Again, I told him that I was Enhancement and that I didn't want to heal. Next day, he asked me again!<br /><br />Now, forgetting something trivial like some stranger's spec is one thing. Forgetting it four days in a row, meaning that you don't listen is another. So I declined again, only to get the question again the next day. Now I was getting annoyed. After letting him off by declining to heal again, I started to think of a scheme I had on my mind a long time before those whispers.<br /><br />When I thought of that plan, people were taking the healers for granted, only the raid leader and class leaders actually knew who was a healer. This was painfully obvious when a co-op raid between #2 and #3 on Horde side, both with MC on farm, wiped on Sulfuron Harbinger, due to setting an Enhancement Shaman on main heal duty (it wasn't me). Basically, the plan was to sign up as healer, while being specced differently. That never happened, I launched a "Healers are awesome" campaign instead.<br /><br />So when I got whispered the next day, which was as expected, I told him that I'd heal. Unfortunately, they caught me before I managed to wipe them, which was probably a good thing. Enhancement gear looks alot better than healing gear.<br /><br />But as our guild is known not to like terrible PuGs, people don't ask us for everything anymore. Exept for KZ pugs ofcourse (New guilds really need to talk to each other, not try to get the T6 guilds to help them). But on my paladin, I don't sport the Phoenix Legion tag yet. So, whenever I play, I'm bound to get asked to heal Sunken Temple (so awful... never again... hated that on my Shaman) or Blackrock Depths, which are both not the greatest instances. Added bonus: I'm playing Retribution.<br /><br />But when I play World of Warcraft, I usually take the time to type out my sentences, often even using punctuation and proper capitalization. I don't like 13375|>34|<, nor do I like people that don;t take their time to write out their question if they want me to help them. When I ask someone to help me, I don't write "help plz". When I help someone with questions about the guild, I use proper grammar. Others don't. So if you ask "wnna heal brd, got grp", I'm not gonna come.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-83132531302585047342008-08-19T21:43:00.003+02:002008-08-19T21:54:24.185+02:00Just our luckSo, we're attempting Bloodboil. 17% on our first ever try, we're getting the hang of it and.... We get lag. ALOT of lag. Then the realm dies. Wait, the entire battlegroup is dead! It's a shame, we would have gotten him down tonight, netting us a 3rd (!!!) first kill this week. Damnit. Now we're just making Gnomes on Bladefist, all named Bob, or Bób, or Bobthebuilder, Bobcheese, Bobjaws etc. etc.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-57782563721802850512008-08-19T19:16:00.001+02:002008-08-19T19:18:22.390+02:00Wrath Beta and meI am not in the Beta. And I'm happy that I'm not in the Beta, I don't like having things spoiled for me. So all that I know, when avoiding the nice parts of the news (meaning that everything but mechanics, nerfs and blatantly obvious things are passing by me), are what I can't miss or won't spoil it for me.<br /><br />The first thing I heard was: Death Knights will be awesome. The second was that greens will look shiny. Then I heard that downranking got removed. I fell off my chair laughing. Simply because everyone is making/going to make a big fuss out of it. Exept for me, although I'm a healer at the moment. I'm one of those people that just plays the game, not worrying about nerfs and fixes. My Class Leader, on the other hand, doesn't. He is already trying to figure out the best DPS rotations in Wrath, etc. etc. So he is really bummed about it, while I am laughing my @ss off.<br /><br />But that's not the part of the news which I like most. Neither is the fact that Agility is rumored to provide Shamans with AP instead of Strength, making Strength a stat for Paladins and Warriors. No, I like that Blizzard is looking into making unique items, like tabards and pets, retrieveable.<br />I like this because I was hacked a year ago, losing many tabards (I am a tabard collector) including the Argent Dawn one, the <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28788">Dark Portal opening event one</a> and the WoWTCG <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23705">Tabard of Flame.</a><br /><br />The chance to get those back is one that I'd love to take. The rest of the news: Meh.<br />By the way, I need to start inserting pictures again.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-54494515917364825502008-08-19T16:20:00.002+02:002008-08-19T16:24:08.897+02:00Teron Gorefiend is DEAD!Yeah! Phoenix Legion killed him on the first try last night and thank DAVE I wasn't picked for construct duty by Teron. It was tense and <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32329">Cowl of Benevolence</a> dropped. Nice for the priest that got it.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8429/wowscrnshot081808223802oq3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/8429/wowscrnshot081808223802oq3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> Nice, on to Gurtogg Bloodboil.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-77447556820312440062008-08-16T11:21:00.002+02:002008-08-16T11:44:09.878+02:00Free to playAs a member of various free to play websites, like AeriaGames, ijji.com etc. I sometimes get Beta Invites for their closed Beta's. Which can be fun, don't get me wrong. But not today. I got a mail from AeriaGames about their new game, croNous. I was in their Beta. Okay, let's try it out, if it's any good, I might have something to blog about.<br /><br />After downloading the game, which took all morning, I got to play. Immeadiatly I saw the horrible graphics, tiny fonts and Chinese mythology which is the standard for F2P MMORPGs. You have four classes, being Fighter (how unusual), Magician (original.), Savage (Big Shiny mallet!) and Valkyrie. All were decked out in awesome armor, until you selected one to play with. I picked Valkyrie and I began. For a ranged class, you might expect that it has a ranged weapon. Even Hunters in WoW start with one.<br /><br />And even after 5 minutes of play time, it was obvious that the only goal was grinding, as usual. That may work in Asia, but in Europe and the US, we don't really like grinding that much. But all free to play games have grinding in them. Even ijji's puzzle games. Some of my friends love it, 2 of them play Flyff and the other one is always playing a new MMO.<br /><br />To the free to play publishers, it's normal to have ranks etc. like in Halo, where you get XP for every match won, which advances you to the next rank. It's only good for showing off, but even the simplest puzzle game has it. Okay, if you like that sort of thing, go enjoy it, but to me it feels out of place.<br /><br />In games like Halo, it makes sense that you advance when you win. You do good, you get promoted. CoD4 rewards you with new and shiny weapons. But with puzzle games? Congratulations, you advanced to Sudoku Master by defeating iliekpuzzle999? New mouse cursor unlocked? +2 bonus to red blocks? Sudoku stat increased? It's just silly.<br /><br />But then there are the fake games. Take SoldierFront for example. You need to stop terrorists from planting a bomb, by either killing them, defending long enough or defusing the bomb. Where have I heard that before. Oh, yes, Counter Strike. The only difference is that you have a stable connection, better graphics, nicer players (yes, really) and better maps in CS. Add one of those annoying item shops, where you pay real money to buy coins and then you buy items with those coins.<br /><br />Which gives players an unfair advantage. I don't spend money on those F2P games, so I don't have a shotgun in WarRock, or improved armor in GunZ. It's just not worth it. Why pay money to play a hacker infested game with a QQ-ing player base?Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-55485594445094459752008-08-16T10:03:00.003+02:002008-08-19T16:24:34.796+02:00Archimonde is dead. Yay?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/830/wowscrnshot081508211246oy4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/830/wowscrnshot081508211246oy4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Last night, my guild killed Archimonde. Only downside: I wasn't there. While I was playing Magic at a friend's place, they killed him. WoW and a life don't go together.<br /><br />WoWjutsu hasn't updated yet, so we're still 21st on realm and 6th on Horde. Speaking of which, apparently I'm still Enhancement. I wish.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-43509548395901098042008-08-16T08:19:00.003+02:002008-08-19T16:24:59.464+02:00I can has Guest Post?I've written a basic shaman guide for BBR over at Random Ravings of Warcraft, <a href="http://rrvs.blogspot.com/2008/08/guest-post-shamanism-for-dummies.html">it's over here</a>.<br /><br />Larger post coming later today.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-79745344336981624732008-08-12T17:09:00.004+02:002008-08-19T16:30:44.506+02:00Victory (sorta), broken computers and spammingI've been playing my Rogue deck again, after a long time and I actually won 2 out of 4 rounds at the local FNM. Which is nice, considering that I have never won a round before, let alone with a deck of which I forget half the abilities (I have to stop forgetting to put counters on my creatures... +1/+1 ones are good. Very good).<br /><br />And now some bad news: My little brother's computer is broken. This means that I cannot play arena matches with him, cannot level our alts together or do dailies together. He wasn't too worried when it comes to viruses, even when his computer composed several songs solely by the antivirus's BIOS driven soundeffects. His computer didn't want to start anything other than his wallpaper, task manager is unavailable. The easy solution is to reinstall Windows ofcourse. Problem is that his version has some legality issues and that he lost the CD. Problem two is that he is too lazy to fix it.<br /><br />Also, I went to Hyjal yesterday, with a mission: Get 1000+ Chain Heal casts. A raid usually lasts 3 hours, but this was an extra raid, which lasted 2 hours. I managed to get 821 casts in, landed higher on the healing done, percentually less on the overhealing one (higher on absolute numbers though. But then again, I did more healing), so I'm satisfied. If it was a 3 hour one, I would have had around 1400 casts, so... I think I pulled it off. I've got a guest post to write now, so I'll stop here.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-58737855362116238312008-08-06T11:22:00.003+02:002008-08-19T16:31:12.830+02:00So.... 5th place yesterday. Of the 8 contenders. Luckily I got to play the first round against my "nemesis", the annoying guy that doesn't know that basic lands are colorless, that mana burn exists and then starts to get angry at *you* for trying to teach him such things. Anyway, first round I had to take 2 mulligans, leaving me with 5 cards to begin with. Needless to say, he won. Second round went better, I had a good hand from the beginning and milled him to death. 1-1. The third round, I got a good hand and started milling him. He had 7 cards left, I had 2 <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=142005">Drowner Initiates</a> and one <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=scalpelexis">Scalpelexis</a> on the table. I casted a small <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=slippery%20bogle">Slippery Bogle</a>, payed 2 extra and got him down to 3 cards. Then I attacked with Scalpelexis, removing the last cards. Instead of ending my turn, I used <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=jace%20beleren">Jace Beleren</a>'s ability and everyone had to draw a card. I won. My goal was achieved.<br /><br />Second match was played against Zyco (Yes, that is his actual name), a 11-12 year old of which I can't imagine him making his own decks. On top of that, he is the shopkeeper's pet. Anyway, we got playing, I had a good hand, played as usual. Until he started using <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=oblivion%20ring">Oblivion Ring</a> on all of my good cards. <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=boomerang">Boomerang</a>'ed it, then <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=cancel">Cancel</a>'ed it as soon as he tried to play it again. Only to have him trying again, but this time I didn't have any counterspells. While praying for a <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=boomerang">Boomerang</a>, I drew a <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152087">Fable of Wolf and Owl</a>, which I played to get me a few blockers. Unfortunatly, he played a creature that removes a creature from play when attacking and the creature returns at the end of turn. In short, he managed to burn through my 1/1 Owl tokens faster than I could get them on the field. 0-1 for me.<br />Second round, I got off to a good start, managing to <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=boomerang">Boomerang</a> and Cancel my way to turn 5, with a nice headstart on mana. In the end, I lost and he had 10 cards left.<br /><br />Now our group, we were with 6 of our M:tG group, wasn't too happy with the smug little bastard winning. Luckily, Eliminator won from his own brother, placing him against Zyco in the finale. I had to play against Cold Hand, who has a better history of winning with his Elf deck than me. He managed to place second in the Shadowmoor release event at the store with a similar drafted deck. He also won last time's Gateway tournament. He burned through me twice in a row, as he has a very fast deck to begin with and in the later turns, his creatures just grow. The fact that he uses the oh so annoying <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=oblivion%20ring">Oblivion Ring</a> too often ("How many do you have?" "Two. Oh, look, here is another one! I thought I only had 2 in there.") also works in his favor.<br /><br />Once that was over, we went to see how Eliminator was doing against Zyco. After a very long battle, it turned out to be a draw, ending in 1-1. Eliminator won after the tie-breakers and we were happy, atleast it was someone from our own group. He took home 3 Eventide boosters and a M:tG jacket. We'll make him wear it everytime we come together to play, just like Eliminator with his cap.<br /><br />Once Iron Man gets home, I'll have to make a vicious Treefolk deck with him (a bit of an oxymoron, isn't it?), but for now I'm waiting for my Sanity Grinding in the mail. Atleast they were impressed by my deck, it isn't worthless like the last decks.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-57907284914301932982008-08-03T19:27:00.003+02:002008-08-19T16:31:33.592+02:00Since my last real post, I've almost only worked, eaten and slept. Exept for Saturday evening, when a friend of mine invited us all to play Magic at his place. I got to test my new and improved "milling" deck. I won all of my matches, exept for one against one of the newer players. He claims that he got lucky, but I made some stupid mistakes, like casting a huge milling spell opposed to playing a creature for defense, which killed me. He had 14 cards left.<br /><br />It's quite humorous though, to see the person sitting across the table getting more nervous as time passes. The entire group is scared of my deck, which isn't something new, as they get scared of strange things easily. Before this, they were scared of an infinite combo deck... Which was stupidly easy to counter. Tuesday, I'll have a good chance at winning the tournament, aslong as I don't fall asleep or get mana screwed. If I do well, I'll be going to the FNM with the same deck on thursday aswell.<br /><br />I've finally gotten my mining back to level 325, which I neglected for a year, it's so boring. Yay!<br />Also, there is a scammer on Eonar, whispering guild officers with the "guild master's" fake bankalt, trying to empty the guildvaults. He tried that on our guild aswell. Problem is, he asked his girlfriend, he was sitting next to her and he was tanking Zul'Aman on his paladin at the time.<br />Also, goldspammers are taking on whispering people. Instead of just firing a selling spam, they start with "hello". So when a level 1 Blood Elf whispers me like that, the only response he gets is "no, I don't want to buy gold". If it was a player, he'd respond, but they remain silent.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-46276411782149065312008-07-31T21:53:00.001+02:002008-07-31T21:54:18.938+02:00No posts till sundaytoo tired to do anything. Have to work alot tomorrow and saturday, so no posting till sunday.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-3568032886834376282008-07-30T00:26:00.005+02:002008-12-11T19:12:50.590+01:00Yay! M:tG again (also with some WoW)!So, first a bit of WoW and then some M:tG. I've finally seen Archimonde, I have 45 badges to go (as I write I'm also getting ready for a ZA run... which will last till maintenance starts) till a <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34896">sweet healing mace</a>. I have been instructed to cast more than 1000 (that is a thousand) chain heals next raid, I'd better get an achievement for it :P. I'm just hoping that my CL isn't going crazy because of me already.<br /><br />So on to Magic: the Gathering. I've ordered in 61,50 euros worth of cards via the internet for a tournament next week. nothing big, nothing grand, just a Gateway tournament. Gateway is for beginning players, by the way. I know the rules very well and as such I am the referee for my Magic-group, but I'm not a terribly good player. But there are two things that bother me:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1: </span>Will I get my deck set up properly before next tuesday? Will it work properly? My best spells cost 5 mana, which also is the highest mana cost in my deck.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2: </span>Will I have to play against "the Infidel"? We have an unwritten rule at both our Magic-group and the gaming store where we play, which is that you respect each other, play nice and don't ruin each other's fun. "The Infidel" broke that rule, hard. I was playing against him and he played a <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=157878">Drove of Elves</a>. He immeadiatly claimed that it would be an immense 8/8 creature, due to his Forests (Drove of Elves gets +1/+1 for each green pernament). Problem is that the basic lands are colorless. I knew that, because the developers actually stated that Swamps are colorless (they were talking about Drove of Elves and it's cycle), so I knew that Forests were colorless aswell. So I said to him that Forests were colorless.<br /><br />He actually got angry. He didn't believe me and went to the front of the shop, where the referee/shopkeeper was and after he came back, he claimed to be right. I still think he asked if Forests are permanents insteas of asking if they are green, or even didn't ask anything at all. He still claimed he was right, so I went to look it up on the shopkeep's laptop, since he was busy. I remember reading it in <a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/dl34">the explaining of Shadowmoor's mechanics</a> (which was the new set at the time), so I went there to look it up. I returned and wanted to show him, but he said that it was alright and everything. I also got told by my friends (we were with a group of 6 or 7) that he had been yelling that I don't know the rules, etc., when he got told by everyone, even the ones that I didn't know that he should stop and that I do know the rules and that he was wrong. Since then I don't like the guy, for trying to cheat me and then being snide about it when it fails.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7jN4LNJLroG223CiMT5bwik73diRgCgNRBv40fBkc2PyDtXEaYeCqUOSfYEor-LnM60g_QlTbWu_xnQsxAOofWN3xrfGSNymix8_a31YSyhr7BphyphenhyphenR5nduydYBYABF1GrCqQawRHa0aA5/s1600-h/Card29928.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7jN4LNJLroG223CiMT5bwik73diRgCgNRBv40fBkc2PyDtXEaYeCqUOSfYEor-LnM60g_QlTbWu_xnQsxAOofWN3xrfGSNymix8_a31YSyhr7BphyphenhyphenR5nduydYBYABF1GrCqQawRHa0aA5/s200/Card29928.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228712376345610770" border="0" /></a><br />But, you might think that I don't want to play against him. Infact, I do want to. My new deck works in a way that he might not even know that you can win that way. My new deck is designed to take out your deck before you even draw the cards. By using cards like <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129774">Traumatize</a> (can you guess the bulk of the 60 euro order now?), <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=158759">Memory Sluice</a> (usually 8-12cards if done correctly), <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=142005">Drowner Initiate</a> (2 cards on each blue spell) and <a href="http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=29928">Scalpelexis</a> (which can go on and on aslong as there are 2 identically named cards. 2 mountains are the same...), aided by counterspells and bounce spells. My friends fear the deck, even if they win. Playing against it is totally unpredictable, because it depends on what I pull and play. On the other hand, bouncing and counterspelling correctly is an art aswell. But... it isn't finished yet, as the rest of my cards still need to arrive. I just want to beat him like this, because I'm certain he will whine about it.<br /><br />Even a friend of the little brother of a friend can use a lesson once in a while. Maybe it'll teach him to play nice.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-48534732799114209492008-07-28T21:50:00.003+02:002008-07-28T21:54:46.292+02:00Good News, Mediocre News and Bad News.The good news: all my friends are returning from their holidays, which means that I actually have something to do other than my job and WoW.<br />The Bad news is that I have to return GTA4, which gives the mediocre news: I can't finish the achievement guide, so I'll post what I have and then update, with the friend's help.<br /><br /><a href="http://unpluggedgaming.blogspot.com/2008/07/achieving-gta-iv.html">Zee link ist heer! (the link is here)</a>Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-59575968873652731912008-07-28T12:16:00.010+02:002008-12-11T19:12:52.068+01:00The Meta Knights (+UI screenshots)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRBe5t_aA4Pq1_i9Ufj3U1-t_iaW6NuArVWQ2lk1JkgIegNu1EhOUwOMNAU7cvBHd1XTLQJCtQ8Qb8BzjzMndSeiumOYAmSlKIuHsh0ek7aaNRUBc58Abchx1EeMdXOvlA7Cx-kXX9fpD/s1600-h/Maceknight.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 99px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRBe5t_aA4Pq1_i9Ufj3U1-t_iaW6NuArVWQ2lk1JkgIegNu1EhOUwOMNAU7cvBHd1XTLQJCtQ8Qb8BzjzMndSeiumOYAmSlKIuHsh0ek7aaNRUBc58Abchx1EeMdXOvlA7Cx-kXX9fpD/s200/Maceknight.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228011066572970114" border="0" /></a>So, me and my little brother are embarking on an adventure which is bound to go wrong. We are going to do Arena in the 2v2 bracket. My little brother gets stressed easily and I get annoyed easily then people don't do what they're told. Which makes a nice combination. We will have to work together for this, but we have one advantage, our voice chat has no lag, since we'll be using the RL one. We have our computers in the same room for now.<br />Anyways, the unveiling of our team name:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPRBe5t_aA4Pq1_i9Ufj3U1-t_iaW6NuArVWQ2lk1JkgIegNu1EhOUwOMNAU7cvBHd1XTLQJCtQ8Qb8BzjzMndSeiumOYAmSlKIuHsh0ek7aaNRUBc58Abchx1EeMdXOvlA7Cx-kXX9fpD/s1600-h/Maceknight.jpg"></a><blockquote>The Meta Knights</blockquote>I can hear you think, there is only one Meta Knight, isn't there? The Meta Knights are actually Meta Knight's elite team, which also gets wiped out easily by Kirby. There are 4 types, Axe,<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qIXH3SfnC87e9GqOWh0SBGqRNzNiYtZLoRhoSMdLoa-LRmWVyhy7lhfkLeMNMkDtrDVc6Q-VVvCr7vMVWoU5Vw5PtMpcAikGgGX5KtZzaQzXHVEKM-o3qe4KHhihkQvR17hDPlXxPtRw/s1600-h/Axknight.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 109px; height: 67px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5qIXH3SfnC87e9GqOWh0SBGqRNzNiYtZLoRhoSMdLoa-LRmWVyhy7lhfkLeMNMkDtrDVc6Q-VVvCr7vMVWoU5Vw5PtMpcAikGgGX5KtZzaQzXHVEKM-o3qe4KHhihkQvR17hDPlXxPtRw/s200/Axknight.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228008841272867938" border="0" /></a> Javelin, Mace and Trident Knight (all to the right), more often called Meta Axe, Meta Javelin and so on. The other idea was "Better than a Prius", but that would mean that we needed only Hybrids. Now we can take w/e we need. but why the name? Well, I'm a big fan of the Kirby games, my favorite character in SSB:Brawl is Meta Knight and I even have a Kirby UI in WoW. Which I promised to post for a while now, but I'm not statisfied with the bottom panel. Using eePanels2, cyCircled, Bongos and Grid, I managed to make an UI that I like. It looks even better on my Paladin, so that's another plus.<br /><br />EDIT: We also played 2 matches already. Problem is that my little brother has the crappiest computer ever. The first match was between us and a hunter rogue combo. Needless to say, I got stunlocked and died before my bro got his cyclone on the rogue. The second match was better, we survived against a rogue and a druid, but we died because I couldn't heal my bro. I had the rogue targeted to Frost Shock him, but needed to heal. I use Auto Self Cast, which is useful in PvE and solo, but not in PvP. We lost alot of rating already, but we're learning. Too b<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4k8y5b1ZJOhzWXwYKtU9yEAEEXaBM6EJ9Ep0lj5zoRwBvFclptjCDr1OMGOecm5nL5MXCtt4iebkNUxutCZRiFSDwbf3ft1Dp-10xp4nZoFFKuT8Mk2I_sbWIFaOD13h37cLym_eQs4m/s1600-h/Javelinknight.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 85px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv4k8y5b1ZJOhzWXwYKtU9yEAEEXaBM6EJ9Ep0lj5zoRwBvFclptjCDr1OMGOecm5nL5MXCtt4iebkNUxutCZRiFSDwbf3ft1Dp-10xp4nZoFFKuT8Mk2I_sbWIFaOD13h37cLym_eQs4m/s200/Javelinknight.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228009100880371202" border="0" /></a>ad I only have Enhancement PvP gear and that my brother only has one feral and one healing piece. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuj4LKd6_FEIfX2STmB1PnTmHvWS6cKC5Y6iaKBri5CbB9QvotV1T8qnuqEjYL58RmPWEZvbeW5flM2iSsZ-FUD9jOb2_2wrJt0-DAdT4ne1EuE084ZQo3fQjXg668K480VFveXETXXz6/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_072508_205006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMuj4LKd6_FEIfX2STmB1PnTmHvWS6cKC5Y6iaKBri5CbB9QvotV1T8qnuqEjYL58RmPWEZvbeW5flM2iSsZ-FUD9jOb2_2wrJt0-DAdT4ne1EuE084ZQo3fQjXg668K480VFveXETXXz6/s320/WoWScrnShot_072508_205006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228011953773617762" border="0" /></a>Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-23652675288364640622008-07-27T23:06:00.002+02:002008-07-28T00:02:48.914+02:00Karazhan, my fave PuG... Not.Okay, it's Saturday, a full week of playing is behind me. I've finally seen Mount Hyjal and even got <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30887">some loot</a> to bring home (and a pug'ed warrior friend of mine <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30874">got some</a> aswell). And I've been playing with my Pally, together with my little brother on his Mage, which actually was fun to do. Lots and lots of AoE damage... Well, most from him ofcourse, but still.<br /><br />But I've also went on a PuG Karazhan run. I didn't want to go, but a guildie asked if I could come, sonce they needed a healer. It took about 30 minutes before they managed to find the second tank. The main tank was someone that was looking for a guild in the trade channel earlier, with a very subtle and modest "3/5 T5 tank looking for guild, was in <number>". The rest were random people, with the exeption of a Balance Druid from my guild and I also knew some of them from before I took my break (just vaguely).<br /><br />So we wait in the gatehouse of KZ and almost immeadiatly the MT says: "a shaman with [Light's Justice] thats a new one". Nice. I know what kind of person is this. Someone like me, who sometimes feels that he is a bit better than the rest, but with the snide comments. I don't like the kind with snide comments. The last time I left a guild over that, because that priest was mean to everyone on a daily basis. I replied that if he thought that I am a noob, that he should think again. "nope, u noob, i pro" was the answer.<br /><br />So with the tone set, we started on the Attumen trash, which was going really slow. DPS was lacking. Attumen died, but we managed to wipe on Moroes trash. Meanwhile, the MT was complaing all the time about some music that was playing. Some vague and strange Swedish song, which cracked up the other 7 members. Me and a hunter didn't have a clue as to what they were on about. After dying again on Maiden trash, because the t5 tank can't keep aggro, the guildie left. Apparently he was sick and he had just thrown up in the toilet, so he had to go. I'm still not sure if he was fed up with the group, with the oh so annoying MT who couldn't stop about the musics, or that he was actually sick.<br /><br />The other healer was offline. And stayed offline after Moroes. So they got a replacement, who was another shaman. The first thing he asked was: "who do I heal". Karazhan is a mere 10 man. Which means that you don't need to use designated healing. It isn't a 40 man raid like Molten Core (good times <3), but that you need to think for yourself. He couldn't appreciate that I assumed that his brain worked and that he should decide who, what and when he should heal. Especially since he had some Zul'Aman epics.<br /><br />So after I got ressed, I found out why the annoying MT didn't turn his sound off or closed his browser. Apparently he was on some Teamspeak server, what was obviously more important than the KZ run. Random, non raiding, chatter on VoIP is the number one priority ofcourse. Finally, after whining for the entire raid, he turned his sound off. I had to work the next day and I couldn't take it anymore. I mean, a t5 (well, the equivalent of it on some places) Shaman wiping on Moroes trash? Last time I wiped there was when KZ actually was a raid, not the 10-man instance it has become now, just like UBRS became a mere PuG. Instead of just ripping the wireless adapter from the side of my laptop, cutting the internet off, I went honest. I told them that I needed to leave at 11 o'clock, because I needed to work.<br /><br />The raid wasn't led by the sharpest tool in the shed. There is a certain group in KZ, in Maiden's hallway, which consists of 2 Sentries. Easy. On the opposite side there are 4 demons. Usually, we take both groups out. Can you feel it coming? They only took the sentries out and we were supposed to run past. Okay, hug the wall... carefully... don't aggro... sneak behind the lion statue... Damn. I'm stuck. Let's jump past. Still stuck. trying more, trying more, oh shi- overshot. Cue me jumping right into the aggro range, wiping the raid.<br /><br />In my defense, I'm not a professional walljumper, nor am I usually in a raid with people that use the least obvious, most likely to pull aggro routes. When I do a guild run, we clear both groups and move on, withing the same timeframe as the noob group. everyone was blaming me, claiming that I'm the total idiot for pulling the group etc. etc. Well excuse me that I actually do know how to do the instance how it was intended to and that I don't use shortcuts. I had it with the group and it was 22:45 so I thought, let's leave. I've had it.<br /><br />So I stated that I left and the entire raid was as if they saw water burn. Especially the MT. I said that I was going to leave at 23:00, and seeing as the raid consisted of not the quickest people, I couldn't do much in those 15 mins. So I just left, didn't feel like taking more bitching from them.<br /><br />I'm not pugging Kara again.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-53378586322685109362008-07-27T18:19:00.004+02:002008-08-19T16:29:59.200+02:00A cardboard terraceI work at a supermarket, it's a job, I make money with it, so meh. So I often see things that you wouldn't see everyday, both in costumers and what we sell. Often I wonder, who the h3ll made this up? I've seen all sorts of strange things, like the homebrand of our store's coffee on sale one week and the really expensive one the next. It makes me wonder, do you even sell something that week? I mean, I've seen people taking enough to last them atleast a month. But the one thing that puzzles me the most are the cardboard boxes.<br /><br />Some people think that it's just a box and in many cases it is. But from some companies, they send us the craziest boxes. Paturain has one of those boxes. Instead of a normal box, it's made of flimsy cardboard. And it tells you to pull this flappy up and then these 2 to the sides an- Damn. All of the stuff lies everywhere. That happens once. Then you've learned to just rip through the box, instead of following the instructions.<br /><br />Magister's Terrace is one of those boxes. Each boss is a smaller version of an earlier/endgame boss, like Curator or Warlord Kalitresh. And as such, they have similar tactics. The tactics can be seen as the instructions. You wipe once on them and then you realise that you can also nuke everything just as easily, like ripping through a cardboard box. Which makes me wonder, is this how Blizzard designed it?Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-58830494646588097212008-07-26T14:16:00.000+02:002008-07-26T14:17:43.850+02:00Big post tomorrowToo tired to do anything right now and I still have to go to work. So, blog post up tomorrow... About Hyjal and MgT and cardboard boxes.Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-7332650849934434962008-07-24T12:46:00.001+02:002008-07-24T12:47:28.821+02:00Something seems wrong.ALL of the fonts in my browser are fucked up and appear very tiny.... WTH?Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-39106636110031860142008-07-24T12:07:00.006+02:002008-07-24T14:28:31.192+02:00OMG, it's a theorycraft post!Yeah, it's a theorycraft post. Someone said to me that it's better to use a lower rank of Healing Wave than a Lesser Healing Wave. So basically, I'm going to find out if that's true, and at which ranks it would apply. These are my initial findings and it's not 100% accurate yet. It needs testing in practice. Armed with DrDamage and no gear equipped, I noted all of the Healing per Mana stats of LHW, HW and Chain Heal. Note that I still have <a href="http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/shaman/talents.html?tal=0000000000000000000050000000000000000000051232051355313515321">this talent build</a>(any flaws in it are blamed to me being rusty and cba to respec everytime I make a small error). CH is only there for completeness of the table.<br /><style> <!-- BODY,DIV,TABLE,THEAD,TBODY,TFOOT,TR,TH,TD,P { font-family:"Arial"; font-size:x-small } --> </style> <table rules="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="4" frame="void"> <colgroup><col width="86"><col width="133"><col width="93"><col width="86"></colgroup> <tbody> <tr> <blockquote></blockquote><td width="86" align="left" height="18">Rank:</td> <td width="133" align="left">Lesser Healing Wave</td> <td width="93" align="left">Healing Wave</td> <td width="86" align="left">Chain Heal</td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">1</td> <td sdval="2,1" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,1</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2</td> <td sdval="3,5" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,5</td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">2</td> <td sdval="2,3" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,3</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2</td> <td sdval="3,6" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,6</td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">3</td> <td sdval="2,4" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,4</td> <td sdval="2,2" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,2</td> <td sdval="3,8" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,8</td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">4</td> <td sdval="2,5" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,5</td> <td sdval="2,3" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,3</td> <td sdval="3,9" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,9</td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">5</td> <td sdval="2,7" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,7</td> <td sdval="2,5" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,5</td> <td sdval="4,1" sdnum="1043;" align="right">4,1</td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">6</td> <td sdval="2,8" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,8</td> <td sdval="2,7" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,7</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">7</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3</td> <td sdval="2,9" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,9</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">8</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">9</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> <td sdval="3,1" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,1</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">10</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> <td sdval="3,3" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,3</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">11</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> <td sdval="3,4" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,4</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1043;" align="right" height="17">12</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> <td sdval="3,7" sdnum="1043;" align="right">3,7</td> <td align="left"><br /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><br /><br />The higest rank of HW has a HpM of 3,7, where the highest of LHW has a HpM of 3. Please note that the HpM is noted without wearing gear. Also, you can get a higher HpM on all spells if specced for it. I accidentally put points in cheaper totems, but cba to pay alot of money for that 3% less mana cost. Coincidentally, rank 8 of Healing Wave also has a HpM of 3. Let's compare the spells in detail.<br /><br /><style> <!-- BODY,DIV,TABLE,THEAD,TBODY,TFOOT,TR,TH,TD,P { font-family:"Arial"; font-size:x-small } --> </style> <table rules="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="4" frame="void"> <colgroup><col width="96"><col width="96"><col width="86"><col width="86"></colgroup> <tbody> <blockquote></blockquote><tr> <blockquote></blockquote><td width="96" align="left" height="17"><br /></td> <td width="96" align="left">HW12</td> <td width="86" align="left">LHW7</td> <td width="86" align="left">HW8</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18">Mana cost</td> <td sdval="720" sdnum="1043;" align="right">720</td> <td sdval="440" sdnum="1043;" align="right">440</td> <td style="font-weight: bold;" sdval="440" sdnum="1043;" align="right">440</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="17">Casting time*</td> <td sdval="2,5" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,5</td> <td style="font-weight: bold;" sdval="1,5" sdnum="1043;" align="right">1,5</td> <td style="font-weight: bold;" sdval="2,5" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2,5</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18">learned on level</td> <td sdval="70" sdnum="1043;" align="right">70</td> <td sdval="66" sdnum="1043;" align="right">66</td> <td style="font-weight: bold;" sdval="48" sdnum="1043;" align="right">48<blockquote></blockquote></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" height="18">Avg total**</td> <td sdval="2650" sdnum="1043;" align="right">2650</td> <td sdval="1304" sdnum="1043;" align="right">1304</td> <td sdval="1304" sdnum="1043;" align="right">1304</td> </tr> </tbody> </table><br /><br />This, I didn't think I'd find: Lesser Healing Wave 7 and Healing Wave 8 only has one difference between them: the casting time. Okay, there are a few talented differences, which I'll go over in the next paragraph. But the 1 second casting time means alot to me. When healing, I often find that the 2,5 second casting time is really long, especially compared to the quicker priest and pally heals, but that's not what this is about. It's hard already to keep someone up with only Healing Waves, if taking really heavy damage, especially if you have other people to keep up aswell, but you'll have assistance most of the time, since that's almost only in raids or instances gone bad.<br /><br />But the long casting time also has an advantage to it, or rather, the fact that it's Healing Wave and not one of it's lesser brethren. It's the way of the Healing Wave, called <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=29202">Healing Way</a>. Which is the bonus! If you heal with a lesser rank, you still apply the buff, meaning that your big heals will heal more if they land within the buff's duration. So in a way, Healing Wave is more efficient, if you can cope with the longer casting time. Which you use is based on preference. But, everyone's HW gets bigger from Healing Way.<br /><br />Ofcourse, LHW scales differently. With gear, my HW had a higher HpM.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">*With Improved Healing Wave talent maxed out.<br />**According to DrDamage, without gear.</span>Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125727618794562712.post-11511137464425683852008-07-23T17:31:00.003+02:002008-07-23T18:03:24.425+02:00Zzzzz...Finally time to write something, I've been in instance after instance since my last post. First Black Temple on Monday, which was my first BT raid ever. Slain Naj'entus and Supremus, even without knowing too much detail of either fight. Naj'entus dropped a sweet healing helm for me, but since I just started again, my raid points weren't high enough to win it over another shaman. Meh, my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=29174">Watcher's Cowl</a> is shiny anyway. <a href="http://quincey-backstab.blogspot.com/">Quincey</a> did feel the need to point out the fact that I use pre-kara blues in BT though. Once we were done at about midnight, we started a Zul'Aman raid, which ended at 4 in the morning. My first Malacrass kill aswell, but no new gear, only plate drops. Luckily I didn't have to work the next day.<br /><br />Since I wasn't geared for healing and got most of my gear just a few days ago, people asking me questions such as why I don't have a 2nd healing trinket was inevitable. The person asking me that question in ZA was very puzzled when I told him that I only had one because I was Enhancement, heavily. Like Netherbane and Claw of the Phoenix heavy. The guild master came to my aid, explaining the situation, being that I was t5 geared, but that I loved the guild too much. So much that I would even go Resto to play with them again. Luckily everyone knows that healing is just temporarely, until an Enhancement position opens up. Don't get me wrong, I do dedicate myself to the healing bit now.<br /><br />On tuesday, I woke up after barely 4 hours of sleep and immeadiatly I got asked if I could work. When you expect a day off and anticipate on that, you're not amused with such a question. they wanted me to work from half 1 till 6. Not that they like to make such calls, but one of the cashier's was sick and they needed a replacement (I work in a supermarket). In the end, I agreed on working from 3 to 6. And then BT part 2. We killed Shade of Akama, again a first for me, but not for the guild. And then Teron Gorefiend. I had no idea whatsoever to expect. I was told there was a minigame, but I couldn't find it and I only got one try on it while we were getting ready and buffed up. Thank DAVE that I wasn't chosen by Teron to play with constructs. We didn't get him down.<br /><br />After BT, we continued on the ZA run of monday, since we only had Zul'jin left. Which was also a first. I got some <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=33471">nice boots</a> and had another first kill for me. Again, it got late, we ended at 2 in the morning. I'm living on energy drink since sunday.<br /><br />I was supposed to work today, but I was given today off by my boss, because I wouldn't have a single day off this week otherwise. Which gave me time to work on my Kirby UI, made with eePanels2. It's still not what I want, I wanted to make a classic looking SNES-styled UI, but I can't find any good screenshots and I can't be assed to take the illegal way. I''ll post screens later.<br /><br />You can blame my sleep depriviation for the lack of concistency. Having to pay attention will 4 in the morning, getting up relatively early and living on energy drink doesn't do my focus any good. Maybe Karazhan tonight. Hoping that it doesn't take till 2 to clear it (mental note: don't allow the raid leader to consume alcohol).Obunajihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15020215452785368461noreply@blogger.com0