Armaggedon's coming!

You know how I’ve started the last couple of Gnome Weekend posts with something along the lines of:

It didn’t start well and I had the overwhelming feeling it wasn’t going to be a good night…

Then follow up a couple of paragraphs later with:

… then it all came together and it was a great night

Well this isn’t one of those posts.

The night started feeling average, and nothing stopped the slippery slide into the nightmare.

If we were a guild you would call it a guild breaker… we aren’t a guild, but it was still a group breaker
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Ever read or heard:

• I jump on for 15 minutes a day and do my Auction House business
• I jump on for 1/2 an hour and do all my dailies
• I jump on for 20 minutes for a quick WSG
• I jump on for 1/2 and hour and knock out a quick VH, CoT, VoA etc

Do you?

Do you believe others when they say they do?

WoW is a game that caters for both casuals and hardcore, but generally that definition reflects how many nights/days per week one raids, or plays at least.

For some of us the moniker of casual also refers to the size of the blocks of playable time. For instance, I am more likely to have 2 or 3 blocks of 1/2 hour per week than 1 block of 1.5 hours. This can make things difficult in WoW, because as much as people like to tell you they can beat the game 1/2 hour at a time, I just don’t seem to find the same magic.

What I find in reality is there are only a few games where one can truly play in short sharp blocks, and even then time can get away.

For instance my wife is a hardcore solitaire player. Pretty much the only game she plays is solitaire, good old stock standard Windows solitaire (more…)

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DECURZ ME PLZ!

Yep, even this Gnome cops the healer’s bane occasionally.

This was heard during our Friday run.

I felt guilty for a second or two, then I realized I was decursing as fast as I could.

As I piped up in Vent assuring the decurses were being dished out, another voice, that of Mr. Gloom called out that he too was decursing as fast as possible.

Needless to say, my long past healing memories snapped into gear and Mr. Decurz Plz dropped to the bottom of my decursing priority list (more…)

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WoW, what a weekend!

In many ways it was just another weekend, but in others it was awesome. What’s more it’s ended with a dilemma… and we all like a dilemma don’t we?

Where to begin… Maybe the beginning…

8 man OS+1

Ok, that didn’t happen, but we did try! …and try again, and again. We were close, but there was no Cuban cigar.

But, I get ahead of myself… Last time we hit OS, it was with similar intentions, but we were filled out to a 10 man with a couple of PuGs. We took down 2 drakes then failed a few times at the boss. The PuGs then exploded, told us what they thought of us and dropped group.

Of course we went on to finish the boss off after taking his mate down separately.

So this Friday, as we downed the 2nd drake down in preparation for our Boss+1 kill, we got a little unexpected joy (more…)

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• If you have ever gone anywhere near the official WoW forums, you will have encountered them.
• If you have read blogs, you may have encountered them.
• If you have read just about anything on the Internet, you have most likely seen them.

Forum Trolls

They are nothing new. They existed long before WoW and they will continue to exist long after WoW CDs are gathering dust in the back of your cupboard.

Euripides was a forum Troll that evolved to provide a channel for Trolls to flock to.

But back before Euripides read his first forum, maybe before he was born, before online forums themselves were born, there was a bunch of Poms that defined the art of Forum Trolling (more…)

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