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No Google Adsense in Posts Now

January 29, 2007 By Gitr 1 Comment

I have removed my Google Adsense ads on my main page and my Commission Junction ads on my individual post pages for three reasons today:

It was really taking away from the look of the site that I worked so hard on.
Just about every ad was for powerleveling and WoW gold, which the latter I don’t condone.
Nothing was happening on the advertising front.

I’m not doing this blog for money, but as an excellent release of my fun, passion, and skills into something that I can share with the world. In the ads’ places, I put a PayPal donation link. Nice and simple, nothing gaudy or attention-getting. I don’t need the money, but who am I to say that people can’t give if they feel led to?

Thank you to all my loyal readers, from the bottom of my heart,

Jesse Petersen, a.k.a. Gitr/Deadr

Happiest Minimalistic UI in the World

January 29, 2007 By Gitr 11 Comments

I have finally found a UI that I love. The best part about it to me is that it’s my own creation, not a compilation. It has all the extra information that I crave, nothing is going to get in the way of clicking mobs in instances, and I keep guild/party/raid chat separate from system messages. The party portraits are set up to appear between the chat window and player/target portraits, making for VERY easy healing.

Everything you need is right there at the bottom of the screen where all of the action is happening, casting, spell buttons, the map, buffs/debuffs, and chat. It’s quite analogous to the dashboard in a car, which was my plan.

Edit: My biggest gripe about my system now is my framerate in WoW. It’s very poor: 9-12 fps in 1024×768 mode. I really have a hard time getting enough information on the screen at that resolution to boot, so that really makes me happy about this set-up, because everything is readable at 1024×768. I took this shot at 1600×1200, but nothing was going to kill me at the moment. 🙂

The only change I have made to this since the screenshot is that I made the buff area transparent instead of translucent, so it is less obtrusive when there aren’t any buffs filling the window. Here is the list of Addons:

UI-affecting:

Bongos
CT Core
CT BuffMod
CT MailMod
EnhTooltip
Informant
Titan Panel
vBagnon
VisualHeal
X-Perl

Great addons:

Auctioneer
Igor’s Mass Auction
EnhTooltip
Informant
Swatter

Gear Change, Outland Greens in the AH

January 29, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

Last night was my lucky night for gear. My ranged dps increased almost 30, my crit % increased 2%, and my mana went up 1000, just from gear and hitting level 57. I logged off this morning after messing around (unsuccessfully) with a quest with 2 hrs 39 min playtime on level 57 and was sitting at 42% complete. I went over 60% of a level (between 56 and 57) in under 3 hours 15 min. I need to find some more kill quests. When I get home, I’m going back to Silithus to grind the level 60 Twilight dudes for their texts and for massive XP killing 60s that I can cut through like butter.

Ding 57, Great Outland Gear, New UI

January 28, 2007 By Gitr 2 Comments

What a night! I went from 80% of 56 to 40% of 57. I updated my profile and took screenshots. Tomorrow will be some mighty good posting. It’s 11:30, so I’d better get to bed.

DPS Holy Priest Build Is Amazing

January 27, 2007 By Gitr 21 Comments

I found an article that really has my interest because of my newfound obsession with talent builds. Talent builds used to bore the crap out of me when I was a warrior. I didn’t want to go Protection because I wasn’t interested in competing with our GM for main tank duty. His gear was better and I wasn’t going to catch up any time soon. If it had STR, STA, or AGI, I wanted the piece. If the talent point said “damage” or “crit,” I wanted to spend the point.

Now that I am a priest, it seems like there are a lot more options, and even one that I had never considered before reading this article on a DPS Holy build. WoW Insider has been rocking my world recently with new in-game concepts that I was unaware of, despite my constant surfing. Maybe I should play more and surf less, but I do have a job. 🙂

Respecced Shadow Again, Only Darker

January 26, 2007 By Gitr Leave a Comment

Just a quick note to say I’m now 5/0/42. My only 5 points in Disc are for wand damage. I went to Eastern Plaguelands with Rhone, who is now a 70 Warlock, and we picked up some more quests and he helped me complete an elite quest from Commander Nethanos Blightcaller. I have about 8 quests to complete in EP now, so I think I will change my heart to Undercity tonight.

It was a very frustrating night because I was trying the Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch combo like earlier suggested, but it wasn’t working for me. Maybe it was because I was fighting 57-60s. I really, really hate EP and am not looking forward to these quests, but they should more than get me the next 50% to level 57, maybe even 58 by the time they have all run their courses.