P4 before the Shattering is here.

Sadly, I have yet to see Azshara defend Thunderbluff. This event is already old.

On another note, I am now being informed of successful auctions! Since 4.0 hit, the message system failed to alert me when items I had for sale were bought. This pleases me.

It's been a while, some stuff has happened.

I apologize for the lack of new posts. My life has been pretty busy and I haven't been doing much in the World...of Warcraft. Seeing as Cataclysm is just around the corner, I thought it best to get back some solidarity of my characters. To do this, Drstamos transferred from Agamaggan back to Azshara...under the new name of Needleskane. For those of you who do not know, Needles Kane was the name of Sweet Tooth in the Twisted Metal series of video games. In my opinion, this name is awesome.

Now that all three of my level 80s are on one server, I expect to gain some profession synergy. Instead of vendoring greens, I can disenchant them. What sucks now is that I have two characters with Jewelcrafting and two with Blacksmithing. This redundancy in BS is a problem, as it is costly to level and offers only mediocre benefits. Thusly, Neutronstar needs a new profession. I believe Tailoring would be a good choice as it requires no gathering profession to fund. Cloth is always abundant and gets cheaper and cheaper as expansions wear on.

A fun little project my friends and I have been working on is a 19 twink guild where we participate in experience battlegrounds, but we never gain experience. To do this, one of us (usually Papasausage, the 1400 health warrior) gets the flag and holds it, never capping as it rewards XP. Seeing as we are twinks, we mow down alliance like they are nothing. It is not hard to one shot a level 11 with 200 health. As our teammates are usually morons, they can't be counted on to do anything, so epic battles of two on ten are frequent. This is very fun.

I now have all the necessary items to craft Sulfuron Hammer, I just need one more Ingot to be able to purchase the pattern. Hopefully the Eye will drop soon enough so the legendary will be mine.

Too cool to tank.

Since 4.0.1 came out, I have lost the urge to tank. While I pull even more damage now on Drstamos (sometimes upwards of 5k overall) it just isn't as fun. I credit this partially because DnD is now on a 30s cooldown instead of 10s, and also because I am capped in the Justice Points department. Therefore, I receive no reward for running an instance. Sure, I could buy some gems or gear (that I have no use for) but I'd rather just stay capped and skip tanking.

I have spent the majority of my playing time on Azshara where many of my friends have begun playing again. Los Chupacabras has been resurrected and will lead the Horde forces against Deathwing when the Cataclysm happens.

Neutronstar has gotten more playing time as well. While I don't want to drop the gold to regem or reforge her, I have spent the time to spec her Arms. Tearing up dungeons with Bladestorm is fun as shit. And yes, I do not care if I die from pulling aggro from tanks who now have no idea what to do. Heroic strike, heroic strike!

After running a 25 VoA on Saget, I came to the realization that I had forgotten to use my 20% extra damage ability as well as Backstab. This made me a sad panda, as using both would have rocketed my damage. Stamos was able to pull 13k in 25 VoA so there's no reason why Saget shouldn't be able to as well.

It's nice to see more players in the World...of Warcraft.

Well, 4.0.1 is here.

It's like Christmas except the presents being opened are broken and unbalanced. So far, I hate it. Homogenization sucks a big one. Kiss year(s) of muscle memory goodbye.

Vtskunk - Azshara

The problem: As Tuesday is raid reset day, VoA unlocked and I got into a 25 man group for it on my warrior. I will admit that I haven't spent much time researching how to play her (lol two button dps) but I can hold my own. There was another warrior in the group, Vtskunk, who had a little bit better gear than me. We both have Bryn'troll and the Battered Hilt weapon. Anyways, after the first wipe because the warrior tank could generate zero threat (wasn't using Heroic Strike at all) Vtskunk whispered me asking what weapons I had as I outdamaged him by quite a bit. Quite a bit is by 3k. "What weapons do u hav, Im jst wunderin why u did so much more dmg then me" are his exact words I believe. As using /inspect can easily obtain the information he requested, I replied, "Because I'm better than you."

This seems like a perfectly reasonable answer for me to give. It is true as well. It also got me ignored. The truth hurts.

The solution: Hopefully Vtskunk will read this as I am about to explain everything, well not everything as the list is probably endless, he can do to pull better dps. Firstly, his spec is terrible. He has zero points in Unbridled Wrath. Secondly, he was exclusively using cleave when the fight is single target. Thirdly, he is below both the expertise and hit caps. Fourthly, he is using the wrong Ashen Verdict ring. I think I'll stop there.

Gorregutzz-Wildhammer

The problem: With only Anub to kill in my random heroic, a dps left. The tank, Gorregutzz, kept queuing us to find a replacement. "Screw that," I thought, and ToT pulled. Of course he had to be difficult and kept canceling it, leading to my demise. It took some time, but they downed Anub. Afterward, Gor said, "Waiting five minutes for another dps would have been more beneficial."

Fail.

When it takes under five minutes to kill a boss, is it really beneficial to wait five minutes for a dps? No.

The solution: Die.

Criton and Yourlove - Kalecgos

The problem: Criton seemed to be in love with Yourlove, so they spent ten minutes jibberjabbering with each other in party chat instead of talking to Chromie and porting in to CoS. I was able to keep myself and the two other dps alive through three waves, but the fourth wave got us. Of course it took another five minutes for Yourlove to res me. By that time, I had started writing this blog post. Screenshots:

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I seriously believe that these two players were mentally retarded.

The solution: Double assisted suicide.