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I just dinged 58 at 5:35 AM and hearted to UC to train, repair and hopped on a bat to Stonard. I’ll ride down to the portal, switch resolutions, pray I don’t get ganked, and fly to whatever the horde base is called.
Pictures going up after I get to work.
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Since my WoW resources are so limited at work, I have a couple of unanswered questions that I’m too busy leveling at night to research. Please give the priest a hand and shovel some info this-a-way.
Wish me “luck” in getting to 58 tonight. I’m leaving work after a mere 8 hours to play a while before my wife gets off work so I can try to get to 60-70% before my nightly playing time.
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:
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
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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:
Great addons:
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.
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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.