Gitr Knows WoW

Archive from Gitr’s Blog:
Josh Dura has a great idea on his blog: An Idea … A Blogger Guild?

WOW!! Not WoW. That is so cool. I’m pumped for that idea. We are all end-game capable, some with MUCH better gear than others and some have gone much deeping into MC than me, but this concept is blowing me away. I’m ready.

Bloggers, sign up on his blog. It was his idea, so he should get the traffic.

I got Insomniax last night. I love it! I’ll write more later.

Edit 3-2-06:

I played WSG with a re-specced Gitr with the new interface. It’s best feature is that it clears up so much of the screen for my poor 1024×768 resolution. It is actually in interface mod AND a compilation of some great add-ons. The only ones I don’t use are the couple of professions I don’t use for each character, MonkeyClock, and CT Timer.

I especially like Call to Arms, which logs the current requests for groups or members and lets you reply without being in that channel to look at all the scrolling requests. MonkeyQuest is MUCH better than UberQuest. I’m also a big fan of the font change and the single bag for everything. It seems to be working with CTRaid and Titan just fine.

Here’s why I like Tomas (WoW: Sequoia) for his in-game class and his great blogging and real-life accomplishments. He’s in the reserves, has a family, and still finds time to be a GM on a PvP server.

I surprised Gitr the other day by logging in to the Kargath server and sending him a /w as he lead a guildmate through Uldaman. We chatted for a bit – he invited me apply to his guild and offered to help me stomp any boss in the game that dared get in my way. I was wandering around Teldrassil with a hastily constructed ALT and wondering if this might be a home away from home and the stresses of PvP on Twisting Nether. Unable to bear being away from leveling Wardance on TN – I ended up fleeing back and partaking of some trolls and wolves in the Hinterlands.

Gitr was amazingly friendly and helpful and in my absence from writing while playing guild leader – his blog has absolutely begun to thrive. It looks good – he updates frequently – and seems to be enjoying both his game time and blog time. I haven’t gone back to my alt on Kargath but it’s good to know that I’ve got a friendly place to land.

Looking at the silly cartoons I posted earlier seem really silly when a guy gives you a compliment like that. I’m really looking forward to spending some time on Kargath with Tomas, once I get Internet back and he visits us again.

I’d never heard of this cartoon before my co-worker sent it to me last night. I came into work today and started rolling on the floor. The strip is called User Friendly and these are the last 2 days’ cartoons:

Edit: …and March 1st

It seems nuts, I know. I’ve gone on and on since I started my mage about squishy not working for me. That was largely solved with the voidwalker use with Lockr, whom I enjoy playing a lot, too.

I’ve noticed a real void in-game for healers for parties. I like druid a lot because of the versatility, plus a good bit more armor that it offers, but what the game really needs is a good priesthood.

According to Wikipedia:

Priests are much sought-after for pre high-end raids (Stratholme, Scholomance, Blackrock Spire) but are very rarely played as of early 2006. Priests are perhaps the least commonly played class, although Warlocks are also rare. [1]

This can be attributed to the perception that sitting back and healing other party members is not as fun as other classes’ play experiences. High-level priests are quite popular however for PvP. The Priest is a very strong class for PvP and can decide the outcome of a battle if not dealt with correctly. Because of their dangerous use of area-effect fear and healing they are considered to be the primary target in any party.

The popularity of Priests may increase after the changes to the Priest class in the forthcoming 1.10 patch. Priests will gain several enhancements to both their healing and damage powers that are expected to make the Priest a more viable character.

I will be in more demand as a priest and have enough friends at this point that I should always be able to group with people to help them out by healing and to get their assistance with DPS and tanking.

If I gain some ground on some alts, we can level together. He will be bank-rolled well enough to buy good gear that adds shadow damage until it’s necessary to respec to Holy for 10- to 20-man raids.

I just moved out this weekend and into a fabulous apartment 1/3 of the distance to work. It took me exactly 15 minutes to get to the office this morning. That was wonderful.

I’ve been without Internet since Saturday morning and it won’t get connected until Wednesday evening, so there won’t be any game content posts until then 🙁 but I’m going to try to keep trying to put up some topics of discussion until then. You can tell that my last topic really got everyone’s attention and they’re all jumping in to get a work in on THAT topic. Heheh…I’ll try something else then.

Until next time.