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Still Alive (No instance servers are available. Please try again later).

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

We've had more than our fair share of problems getting into raid instances recently. As we're a late-night guild, everyone else is already inside and we keep getting the error message that used to be familiar to players everywhere when ...

Arthas who?

Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

It's been a few days since 3.3 launched. Things have changed big time in the World of Warcraft. Sure, there's the new raid encounter (and a very fine one it is too), but that's not all. Three new dungeons, which link ...

How to tank, Part One – Positioning

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Class Discussion, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

In the course of running my many, many heroics on my druid, I've noticed something. Many of the people who sign up to tank the run can hold aggro fine. But beyond that, there's a whole bunch of finesse missing ...

On Raid Leaders

Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in General, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Matticus is searching to recruit a new raid leader for his guild. I can't help but wonder however if his search is doomed to failure. I've written in the past about what makes both a good raider as well as ...

No idea what happened there…

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

But anonymous commenting is once again enabled. Puzzled as to how that changed as I've never even been near that options screen before. I should have suspected something sooner -  my spam queues were suspiciously empty...

Let’s Go Farmin’ Now…

Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

For me, one of the gret mysteries of Ulduar was "How can the instance crash in such a way so much?" on Wednesday night. At least between the place being unplayable we were able to down the Flame Leviathan, which ...

Morons and Slackers Unite

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

The Greedy Goblin has discussed, in detail, his stance on Morons and Slackers, and while I think he might have a point that if he wants to get the furthest, he has to cut out what he calls the Morons ...

A Heroic Adventure

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »

So, since I hit level 80, what have I been doing with my time? The answer in the main, is Heroic Instances. Also, I have been breaking one of Namthe's Rules for a Strees-Free Life. I have been pugging a lot ...

Xenophobic Psychopaths

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

The Wrathgate questline is simply awesome. I'm not going to spoil it for those who haven't yet done it, but it's a very much far-reaching and vast line that has visible results on the Dragonblight zone when you finish it. ...

A Break from the Old Routine

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I'm off on holiday for a week or so, to the American Midwest, to engage some of my other enthusiasms, namely roller coasters and tall buildings. Updates will resume when I get back!