Monthly Archives: August 2007

Welcome (Again)

Well, I went ahead and moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress, hosted on my guild site server (which I own). Unfortunately, the utility to import from Blogger to WordPress seems to be broken. Originally, I created a blog at WordPress, but I like the thought of hosting it on my own site. However, I’m…

Home is where the blog is…

Well, I went ahead and moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Unfortunately, the utility to import from Blogger to WordPress seems to be broken. It may be a few days before I decide to either continue here, or host the blog on my guild website. So what you see now is liable to change…

Ouch! — Spanked in Botanica

As you may know, last night we planned to tackle Botanica, in Netherstorm. Our GM is an alchemist, and our goal was to help her complete her potion spec quest (or is it elixirs? I can’t remember). Our group included a Fury Warrior tanking, BM Hunter (raptor bird pet), Combat Daggers Rogue, Frost Mage, and…

And this is why I blog for the "casual player"…

…or perhaps more accurately, why I am a casual player: Over at Priestly Endeavors, Kirk’s put up three articles comparing the relative merits of (1) Divine Spirit (and ImpDS) vs. Empowered Healing; (2) Improved Power Word: Fortitude vs. Silent Resolve; and (3) Holy Concentration vs. Healing Prayers, in the context of developing one’s Holy Priest…

Best of the Blogs

…or, what I’ve enjoyed this week. And wow…LOTS of good stuff to share! (Note to bloggers: my intent is to use trackback links wherever possible. If you notice that I didn’t in referring to an article of yours, please let me know so I can correct it!) Priestly Endeavors had a lot of good stuff…

About my characters…

I started playing WoW during open beta, in a guild made up primarily of forum moderators and staff members from IGN’s Vault Network, where I was a moderator/forum manager. When WoW went live, the guild was established on Icecrown (Alliance). Around January 2006, a few of us had serious problems logging into Icecrown when we…

So you want to modify your UI? Part 3: Your first macro.

Elsewhere on this blog, I’ve pointed you to WoW Wiki’s “How to write a macro” and in future posts, I’ll link to specific macro sites (for hunters, rogues, etc.) and other pertinent blog articles. But today, we’re going to keep things simple. Really simple. Even simpler than “your first macro for your Rogue/Hunter/Priest/Whatevah”. This is…

So you want to modify your UI? Part 2: Your First Add-On

Over at Priestly Endeavors is the article I wanted to write to introduce add-ons, but Kirk did a much better job than I could, so check out the link and then come back here. Go ahead…I can wait. Welcome back. Hope you bookmarked that blog–it’s a good’un–even if (or perhaps especially if) you don’t play…

So you want to modify your UI? Part 1: Key bindings

First, I’m going to assume you’re familiar with the basic WoW interface (hereinafter called the “UI”). If not, go play with the different options to see what they do. One much-overlooked aspect is the ability to bind keys to almost everything. Personally, my key-bindings are pretty extreme: I start with remapping the directional keys–WASD, etc.–to…

So what’s a "casual" player, anyway?

That’s a very good question, and is debated ad nauseum on the official forums, as well as on unofficial forums. My working definition is in the first post here: A player who is not committed to the rigors of 10- and 25-person “endgame” instances. In other words, a “non-raider.” Believe it or not, we make…

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