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Fists of Fun

Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in General | 1 Comment »

  Not sure what I'm going to do with my new-found [item]fist of molten fury[/item] and [item]claw of molten fury[/item] but they sure look badass. (Normal service will be resumed shortly - I've got a few ideas for my usual discussion-type essays ...

Namthe’s rules for a stress-free life

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in General | 6 Comments »

It occurred to me that I have a few unwritten rules that I use to govern my time playing WoW; they keep the burnout away and in a discussion with a friend the other day they were set down, more ...

Attitudinal Adjustment: How to Be a good Raid Leader

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Class Discussion, General | 3 Comments »

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too... - If, by Rudyard Kipling I've been a raidleader in ...

An Epic Quest Has An Epic Reward

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in General | 3 Comments »

The Midsummer Fire Festival has arrived! In previous years the whole event has been, for me, somewhat of a disappointment. The whole "visit four corners of the globe to touch the flames" with very little in the way of rewards ...

Viva la Renaissance!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Dungeons, General | No Comments »

So the group with which I conquered Kara a few weeks ago decided to take on Zul'Aman. It was fun, despite not getting past the dragonhawk boss. There's a few edited highlights below. It might be a while before we can ...

The View From Up Here?

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »

So, a month has gone by since our guild passed away. It's been an interesting time -I've been lucky enough to find myself a place in a guild that were running SSC and TK, and since the patch, Mount Hyjal. ...

So, was I right?

Friday, May 25th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

Patch 2.1 has arrived. How have my predictions for how it would turn out come true? Well, no new 5-man instances turned up, but that's hardly a surprise. It has, though, been nice to get some of my bag space back ...

The Skills Gap

Thursday, May 17th, 2007 Posted in General | No Comments »

More Heroics. Hard but utterly rewarding. The standard level 70 dungeons are starting to feel a bit easy - we know the tactics, we know how to pull. Heroics take that all away again. Every pull is likely to ...

A Study in Scarlet

Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Dungeons, General | No Comments »

No raiding recently; instead I've been busy helping others get geared up, that old favourite potion farming and playing on my alt, mostly pottering around the Scarlet Monastery as a tank to a somewhat... mismatched group. So, Montoya ventured into the ...

Hello from down here…

Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in General | 5 Comments »

Well, here I am again typing into a blogging window. This is a bit different, though - It's talking on a specific subject, one which will hopefully hold my attention longer than Fair and Balanced did, and with more content than ...