Slack - how do I hate thee

/rant

There is a lot of things I can forgive. Seriously. I usually am very good at ignoring failures of others as long as they do not impact me directly. But if they do, I have to deal with it.

Everybody makes mistakes. I make tons.

However, there are 2 things that piss me off if people do it:

- being inconsiderate of others

- being a slacker and impacting others with that attitude

Hey, if you are on your own, do whatever you want. I do not care. If you are supposed to be part of a team however, don’t slack. You are wasting the time of others.

One example: Karazhan.

These days, Kara is pretty much understood as a badge-farm-lets-get-it-over-with raid instance. You can clear that instance in about 2.5 - 3 hours flat with a good + geared group, with the only boss left being the animal boss/es. 22 easy badges.

If you are in a group that really cares and focuses.

Plus, unless you hit some bad infernals with Prince, or Shade is grumpy, you don’t wipe.

We wiped over a half-dozen times last night. This was one of the most frustrating raids I have attended in a long time. I had to fully repair twice (went with Lock). One death was my fault, I was a noob and pulled aggro at Attumen. There were wipes based on early pulls, undergeared healers running out of mana, tanks dieing in the middle of fight. 1 or 2 may have been just being unlucky.

I understand that sometimes, people have a bad night. There are nights were you shouldn’t raid. Farm, grind, doing AH or just plainly watch TV. I think yesterday was one such night.

I do have that sneaking suspicion that people don’t take Kara seriously anymore. Some may do other things while they raid, like watch TV.

If I would watch TV, I wouldn’t raid. Hell, I can’t even farm while I watch TV. That’s my problem, but I know about it and I deal with it.

I do still take Kara serious. Kara kicks your ass all over the place if you don’t pay attention.

I understand if we had a bad night. But then, for example, one hunter thought he is so uber, he MDd some mobs to a buddy of his while we were on the way from Maiden to Opera. He thought that because 90% of the raid is still in the Maiden’s room, and him and his buddy are by himself, he could pull it off. Well, it so happened that his buddy didn’t click off the MD, someone else got killed, somehow the mobs were kited back to the group and the group had to deal with it. This is crap.

Now, I know that this is something that the group didn’t think was funny either. At the same time, I have a feeling that they just don’t care about Kara anymore.

This is were slack and half-ass-ness (making this a word, this is my blog, so put up with it. ) comes into play. We spent about 6 hours there. I was drained after about 2.5, did not even care about the remaining 15 badges anymore. I basically felt like I wasted my Sunday afternoon and evening because other people did not pay attention or just did not care. I did not want to leave the raid though, as there were not really anybody else available and I did not want to kill the raid for the others.

I think that if we would have been fully focused on it we could have gotten this done a lot earlier.

Now, I can waste a Saturday no problem. I hate wasting Sundays, because the workweek starts on the next day, and I want to have the feeling that I enjoyed myself. I did not yesterday. In fact, I was so annoyed that I am considering taking a week off ‘the game’.

Rather than getting frustrated about the game .. and yes, that is where all you ‘ITS JUST A GAME’-nubcakes come in and get their 2 sec fame.. I should just take a breather from it.

BTW, DPS-wise I did good. I was in the top 3 that night I think. I usually reset my damage meter multiple times during a Kara raid, as either certain aspects of the instance are not caster-friendly and do not count (e.g. room after Curator), or because I want to single out boss- damage from trashmobs. At any given point my dps was shown as being between 800 and 1200 DPS, so I am going with 900ish raid-buffed. Not too bad.

Good times.

Life is good. I <3 Destruction.

For Sandra

INDIGO GIRLS
Closer to Fine 
Words and Music: Emily Saliers

I’m trying to tell you something bout my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you’ve ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It’s only life after all

Now darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
And lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I’m crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin, and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry, or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
I got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I stopped by the bar at 3 am
To seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
I went in seeking clarity

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountain,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains,
we look to the children, we drink from the fountains
We go to the bible, we go through the workout,
we read up on revival, we stand up for the lookout

There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive

The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

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Zerstoerungswut Teil 2

I did get the hood crafted, equipped it with 3 x +8 spell crit (Gleaming Dawnstones). I am at 24.75% spell crit now with Adept’s Elixir + Skullfish Soup. I love it. Spellfire Infusion + Shiffar’s Nexus Horn proc + Arcane Revenge (I think it’s called, from the Robe) all going off at the same time, I think I was hovering at around 1400 bonus spell damage. o.O

Ran ZA last night, I almost pulled aggro many times. That is a good sign dps-wise. Gotta keep that threat under control though, it will get me in trouble!

Good times. This is the spec the Warlock is intended to be.  With Succy sacrificed, +15% spell damage, with Felhunter sacrificed, 3% of total regen every 5 secs, which translated means, you never ever run out of mana. I use the Felhunter DS when I farm. I never have to lifetap.

Good times.

Deutscher, 70 Warlock

Oil exec was not aware of Bush’s speech - yeah RIGHT

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/30/shell.qa/index.html

“John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., the U.S. division of Royal Dutch Shell, addressed rising gasoline prices during an interview Wednesday … HOFMEISTER: If the U.S. set a goal to produce 2 to 3 million barrels more a day in this country, we would send a shock around the world that would immediately say to the speculators, hey, U.S. is serious. President [Bush] said something yesterday about this. I didn’t hear him, but I think that’s good news. But we should set a specific target. “

You know, I know that sometimes I am naive and maybe even oblivious to things going on, but I can smell this kind of bullshit from about 20 miles away.. are they seriously trying to convince us that the timing of this interview and Bush’s speech yesterday are pure coincidence?

I am not much into conspiracies, but think about this scenario for a second: US oil companies increasing prices to force people to rethink their stance on not allowing them to drill for oil in Alaska, while at the same time lobbying Washington to prepare the public to change their mind.. because clearly, right now EVERYONE wants to have that gas price go down, so who cares about Alaska?

Please, PUHLEASE, lets at least be honest here. Don’t say “I didn’t hear him, but I think that’s good news”.. this is just wrong.

Yeah, you guys have an awesome control over the market: you can raise prices whenever you feel like it, there is a need for it so people pay it. But let us just be honest about it, and not try to make this shit up. Sorry for the cussing, but come on!

Insanity? Possible?

A thought I had last night:

• Deutscher’s chestpiece: Robe of the Elder Scribes.. chance to add bonus spell damage (procs quite often)
• T4 2 set bonus: chance to add bonus spell damage (only have 1 piece, so not sure how often that procs.. lets say he would have the gloves and the shoulders (still needs the shoulders from High King Maulgar)
• Spellstrike Infusion set bonus: chance to add bonus spell damage.. will know how often that procs after I get it made tonight..

What if everything would proc? And I use Scryer’s bloodgem? And I would crit? Would I cry? And dance?

I don’t know.

Guess I need to find out.

EDIT: I think I would scream like a little girl. And then my dogs would stare at me and my wife would literally ROFL.

202 is the magical number (that brings on the PAIN) :-)

Alright.. I went and got Spellstrike Pants crafted for Deutscher last night. I gemmed it all up, my spell hit is 203 now baby! Just 1 over the required 202 rating to never have a boss resist my Shadowbolt love.

The GL and RL decided last night that they are bored with Mags and Gruuls (Mags dropped Eredar Wand of Obliteration for me ), and there will be more pain involved in getting a run going in the future. Which sucks for me, as Deutscher and the upcoming priest would certainly appreciate getting all their T4 gear, but I definitely understand where they are coming from — they have been doing those clears for almost a year now, for me its still new, and the world does not revolve around me (ZOMG UNFAIR! ), so I’ll just deal with it.

I’ll spend another fortune tonight to get the Spellstrike Hood crafted for me, replacing the Battlestrike Hood he has been wearing for AGES. There is no stopping now — I tasted the 6k+ Shadowbolt crits, the 2-crits-in-a-row with Backlash.. it is so beautiful it makes me giggle like a little girl. LOL.

So the plan is to get the hood crafted, replace some of the +hit gems with +crit and +damage (since the hood provides PLENTY of hit) and push Deutscher’s DPS up a notch. Sounds like a plan.

No dailies during weekdays 4 U (me)

I actually have to restrict myself to not to dailies during the week. With only limited playtime (evenings) and one full round of dailies taking up 2+ hours, I found myself struggling last night completing them and still enjoying it (and not getting the ‘I just want to be done with this’- feeling). It is a game, I don’t want to stress, I want to enjoy it. Game= fun?

So, no dailies during the week, only playing on Priest or raiding on Lock/Druid. I think tonight we have Mags/Gruuls (I really want to go on Lock, I hope I can).

Memo to self to upgrade Recount and Omen yet again. They get patched every 10 minutes. :-/

Disc/Holy again - awesomeness

So, I respecced Heilerin to 25/29/0 disc/holy last night since I was asked to heal a SP run. And she ruled. Only time mana dropped below 50% was at the 2nd and 3rd boss who do TONS of nature damage to the whole group. Had to let a 61 rogue ‘go’ (ie. stopped healing to preserve mana) during Rokmar’s fight. Meh, enough of them out there anyway. )

I never really dropped below 90% mana until we hit the mobs before the 2nd boss. I actually told the Pally that I am bored and that he needs to make me work more. So he tanked 2 Myrmidons, and after the fight he asked me if that was better. I just told him “look at my mana pool” — I was at 98%.

Love it.

He hates questing too, so I think we could make a good team leveling up. He is already at 66, Heilerin is at 63, but I seriously doubt that there is any lack for healing assignments 63 and up, so I will get to 70 soon enough. In fact, I need to purposely take time, because he also happens to be an officer who is playing a shammy with 2k + healing and he likes my healing style. This means that I may be relegated to healing in the raids, rather than tanking or DPSing on the Lock. I like healing a lot, I like tanking, but I also like nuking on my Lock (especially ever since I respecced to Destro), so I just have to make sure that I pace myself and am in charge of my game.

On another note, I didn’t realize that you had to heal a member to full to get rid of the poison dot that Rokmar debuffs you with, since I never healed that boss before. So, I was rezzing the rogue after boss was down, was out of mana, mana pots on CD, Symbol of Hope on CD, and Pally tank (guildie) says “HEAL ME”, I see his health go down. I heal him as much as I can (not much, since no mana ;-0), then he Lays Hands on himself to heal himself. Calls me a noob for not doing it, I only lol’d at him.

Which led me to have a good idea: since I will be running this instance a bunch of more times, if there will ever be the case that I am in a bad PUG with one or more jerks, I will just let them die from the dot after the boss fight is over. This is fun. I am bad. Heck, even if I can’t be shadow, I can still have an evil mindset, can I not?

Anyway, long story short, disc/holy 1: shadow 0.

BTW, critted a mob for 1200 Smite in SP last night as well, so I think this may be good enough for soloing whatever I will solo during leveling up.

The People in Your Raid Guild « The Holy Light

The People in Your Raid Guild « The Holy Light

This is hilarious. Read it and tell me which type you are.