That said, Nightwish was all over the map at times in the first place, so I can’t exactly judge off a few tracks.

In actually decent news, new PvP trinkets! They all have an on-use of +1750 max health and you get your choice of a passive: 47 +Damage, 40 +Spell Crit (or regular Crit) Rating, 80 AP, or 88 +Healing (I assume it will also have 29 +Damage). They will certainly replace my current second trinket.

I don’t like the quiet. It lets me think of her… or the myriad other things I regret.

That’s really as both profound and lacking in angst as you’re going to get out of me, sorry. Anyway, I’d update more, but I’m horrendously boring… and angsty (probably). Also, college, but yeah, mainly the boring.

Oh, that useful thing: WoW Reputation Calculator (it’s really awesome, seriously). Just type in your name, server, and region and it auto-magically tells you how many instance runs/quests/days worth of daily quests you need to hit your next rep level. (from WOW Insider)

Also, as a side note… Armory + WordPress is apparently too much AJAX for one browser to handle *sigh*.

Anyway, we’ve got a decent amount of the guild on Rupture now, it’s sort of like mySpace for Gamers, although specifically for WoW at this point. It’s pretty spiffy, and using an IM client it updates automatically. It was awesome (it blew CTProfiles out of the water on gear alone)… until Blizzard launched The Armory. It’s basically everything WarcraftRealms could ever ask to be, it has info on individual reputations, gear, buffs, arena rankings, guild statistics, except the whole census thing.

Actually, it seems like that’s the only thing The Armory doesn’t have is a full census section. For guilds, it’s really, really cool. Here’s our guild’s stats, all updating as soon as you change a parameter, and looking very cool to boot.

We’ll see what they add to The Armory, it’s really impressive for a start.

Anyway, I updated the links section a bit (notice one thing in the pimpage section ?) and finally added that link I said I was going to… a few months back. Apart from that, not much going on, bouncing between both my characters as of late and have finally taken the plunge and picked up X-Perl, my interface is significantly prettier now.

Oh, and planned Druid talents, although the points in Imp LotP and Nuturing Instinct are basically preference (although I really like Imp LotP). +Healing is more of an endurance stat versus a power stat, so getting +300 on a nearly full heal isn’t that great sounding. Survival of the Fittest is nice, but I may end up swapping the points to Primal Tenacity and either Brutal Impact or Shredding Attacks. It really depends on how useful those talents become, but they’re all quite nice.

A certain someone doesn’t look like she’ll be on tonight, so I’ll probably continue the Druid stuff… next month or so?

Oh, and I found this just now (found at, which I ran into because of my search for an ASCII heart):

Kinda cool, might add it to the sidebar (the smaller version of course). Just so it can match my CC license and really get Random Federal Agency of TERROR on my ass .

In WoW news, I show myself as mildly retarded and then redeem myself in Tier 1, Level 70 Stuff, and Item Levels. And the end of this post can be considered my love letter to Exploration, and then the average level of Economics education in the country makes itself readily apparent.

(Oh, and Google Toolbar is rather finicky with Wordpress’s editor, which makes me a mildly sad panda.)

Oh yeah, and Kyo’s back and stuff. Yay.

That being said, PvE Healing in World of Warcraft is boring as hell. Why? Beacuse it’s just making the bars go up. To be more correct, PvE Healing sucks… hell, for the sake of screwing my point over, PvE sucks as a whole.

Ok, so that being said… can you make supporting abilities more interesting (although healing’s pretty interesting as it is, better then being a DPS bot), possibly better then straight healing at keeping people alive (that whole “Ounce of Prevention, Pound of Cure” thing doesn’t really apply in MMOs). Still, you’re treading on the ground of the TBCs, so that way indeed lies madness.

Honestly, healing in PvP is slightly more interesting, although it really depends on communication (i.e. Teamspeak) and telling the person soaking up the damage to not be retarded. It really comes down to teamwork and not really based on the mechanics. The whole responsibility for keeping people alive is the attraction, and if you actually care about the people you’re working with, that helps… a lot.

Still, if you look at an example of a game without healers like RFO… well RFO’s problem is that Consumables > player abilities in terms of keeping people alive, so that’s kinda fucked up. Rather similar to the debate over Health Pills being nearly as strong as Patcher skills (in the hands of a mediocore player) at keeping someone up. It’s outsourcing in games! (Although it stems back to D&D healing potions being called “Clerics in a Bottle”.)

Don’t know, I’ll have to think over this one, but I’m not sure how you work on making “support” a better “supporter” then a straight healer (just look at CoH with groups really asking for “Empathy” over dedicated Defenders in other areas like CC or buffs) without making the proper healer completely worthless. I think some CU SWG comparisons between Combat Medic and Doctor may be useful here (I’ll have to look the math up again later today).

In other news, I got 60 like… a couple weeks ago, and have now gone and lost my mind with my UI.

I’ll do a full list of mods once I get done, but so far a couple things that may cause me great insanity. I love MobInfo2 / Archaeologist / ArcanePartyBars from Cosmos. Now, I’d love to play around with Discord Unit Frames, but I hate to lose those mods. I’m sort of in the same boat with TheoryCraft and CooldownCount for Discord Action Bars, although CooldownCount is supposed to work with DAB… but who knows.

Still have a TON of work to do on DAB, and then getting it all squared away with CTRA. Then of course there’s the tweaks I need to make to ItemSync… but apart from that… nothing much .

Correction: DAB has a Cooldown thing built in, and I only had to disable CooldownCount proper to get it to work.

On the WoW front, got my shiny Idol of Ferocity yesterday, so I’m now “complete”. In news that won’t get me to 60 any faster, Dragn got us to make Hordies on Wildhammer, just claimed the names and logged off for now (Elecktrofyre = Troll Shammy and Candar = Troll Hunter)… for those paying attention, yes I did just steal my old guild leader Aenene’s other name for my Shaman.

(My excuse is officially, “Shamans = elements, and well, elecktrofire’s a fine name, just a tweak there, and done.” That and Antara will probably be making an apparence as a Blood Elf Priest, Psychic Scream + Mana Tap Racial = fun.) Might be playing on them after I get 60 on Antara, since I’m all of 3 levels away.

Also, TMBG’s She’s an Angel popped up on my playlist and… “When you’re following an angel / Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?” Yes Thera, bad I do have it…

Anyway, good song by the own band, so aquire!