First Door on the Right

Don’t you just hate those days where you wake up in a bad mood *and* it turns out to be a really shitty day. Really nothing quite like it. Woke up this morning with a splitting headache and a muscle in my neck so tight I can’t turn my head to the left.

Got to work to an AIM propogated virus ravaging the company computers. This virus spreads itself by latching onto AIM and sending a link to itself out to all the buddies on that list. Our employees here have become pretty savy at not clicking on emailed links, but links sent to them from co-workers — why not? Brilliant, whoever wrote it should be shot repeatedly in the knees and left to bleed to death or dehydrate, whichever comes first. You see what I’m talking about? I shouldn’t be this angry — but I am.

As the day has progressed there have been a series of otherwise mild to moderately annoying events, all of which have made me feel like putting my head through a wall (or in some cases someone else’s head). Stressful week? Sure. This stressful? I didn’t think so. Maybe I thought wrong.

This one’s mostly just for my reference, but feel free to comment if you’re in our little WoW group.

Possible specs for Omasu:

Probable To-60 Build

Burst PVP Build

Best Defense is a Good Offense Build

The last one would be alot of fun, but isn’t really viable in our current group, I don’t think, since I’m our only healer.

Another birthday come and gone.

If it wasn’t for my wonderful wife, I probably wouldn’t have even noticed this one. I’m a lucky guy.

Birthdays, I think, are an odd tradition. For one day out of the year you’re singled out as special - in some sort of nostalgic reference to the moment you came into being. Not that you remember that moment, nor do the vast majority of the people who celebrate it. All in all, I suppose people need an excuse to put others on a pedestal - birthdays serve nicely.

Anyway, back to the grind and all that.

Finally get around to using my blog again, and this is what I use it for. *sigh* Oh well, I am what I am.

This is an attempt at ranking classes in WoW at their strengths, first chart has a pve slant. The second chart has a pvp slant. Higher score is better.

Note: This is not intended to reflect what any single actual character is capable of. It is based on maximum potential of a given class in each individual area. For instance, a warlock cannot achieve the level of survivability reflected while maintaining the killing power reflected.

Tanking: ability to take hits without dying
Agro: ability to keep mobs in the desired state of hitting/not-hitting you
DPS: ability to do damage
Healing: ability to heal
CC: ability to lock down mobs (crowd control)
Utility: ability to do useful things out of combat
AE: ability to utilize area effect abilities, healing or damage

Survival: ability to keep oneself alive, escape, etc
Killing: ability to keep others from surviving, en masse or 1vs1
Defend: ability to keep allies alive, allow them to escape, etc
Control: ability to lock down or control enemies, offensively or defensively
Scale: ability to scale well with equipment upgrades, life after 60

Had the worst night in WoW last night. The guild decided to do BRD at about 8:30. A half dozen random deaths and lava dives later, at around 9:45, the three of us that had been waiting for 45 minutes at the entranceway decided to go ahead and start clearing. Things were going ok, for about 10 minutes.

Then we had our first entire group add on Matri (this would go on to happen quite a few more times). For those of you not familiar with dungeon crawling in games of this nature, generally having an entire group jump on your party in the middle of a fight spells party wipe. On the bright side, I got to use my jumper cables XL (for the first time) to bring Dailia back who rezzed up the rest of us. At this point we decided to wait for everyone to actually get there before really clearing anything more. Fast forward 10 minutes or so.

Everyone buffed, back to full mana, so on so forth. We succesfully clear the first room (3 groups). On to the second room, two mobs freeze trapped, one mob torn down fast. Everything going well, until Dailia tab targets and accidentally casts shadow word:pain on a nearby fire elemental. That fire elemental has 4 friends. Commence first party run all the way from searing gorge.

After regrouping, rebuffing, and heading back to where we wiped, we really start to get our shit together. Three groups in a row go down like clockwork, no one comes close to dying. Our momentum comes to a halt this time because Dailia needs an extended AFK. We spend the next 15 minutes throwing leather balls around (Thank god for leather balls!). Dailia returns to us and we continue, smoothly taking down another two groups. Then we reached the dreaded deadzone hall.

Our group has two hunters, as our only level 60’s mind you. This hall is nearly impossible to find a good place to fire from. Over the course of this ridiculously long fight in the hall, Matri gets agro from a nearby group, we wipe again. At this point I went AFK for a while, when I returned the party had cleared two groups without me. I thought “Great, we’re really getting rolling now.” The next pull was a clusterfuck of non-assisting, but we somehow managed to survive. We decided to clear the two dwarves necessary to get through and skip the first boss, since we obviously didn’t have it together enough to take on a relatively difficult boss fight.

The rest of the night was a blur as to what happened when and why. Suffice to say that we wiped no less than two times more without reaching a single boss. We decided to call it quits and I switched to Jori for a while to get some small sense of accomplishment.

Just testing the waters on this whole blog thing.