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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.

A New Blizzard MMO

January 26, 2007 By Gitr 12 Comments

Empire magazine interviewed Blizzard’s Vice President of Development, Itzik Ben Bassat, and got some juicy information for all of us drooling, game-thirsty geeks. Read the interview here: Empire Interview

Now that you’re back, or still here if you’ve already read it, I want to speculate. I saw the interview in RSS, and then had the benefit of seeing some links on other blogs today. I have a slightly different take on this. Does Blizzard have the kahones to break out with something completely new at this point?

To bust out with a Starcraft MMO game is not really fitting in with the claim of bringing “entertainment to another level.” Another level is something that hasn’t happened since MMOs went to graphics. To go from Ultima Online’s old 2D engine to what we play today is not as big of a jump as the leap from text to graphics.

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You Have a Friend in Us

January 26, 2007 By Gitr 3 Comments

I noticed during my wait outside my local Best Buy when buying the expansion, that World of Warcraft is a community. Wikipedia describes community as

a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group

I walked right into the middle of a community, and kind of joined them. Kind of, as in they were weird. They all looked like they were taken from the same set of mold pieces. Here are the requirements for WoW, according to that group:

black hair
chalk-white skin
bags under your eyes
overweight
nothing better to do on a Tuesday than stand at Best Buy and go back home

I didn’t really fit in with that group at all. I am the opposite of all of those points, including going to work before 7am and going right back to work for a full day before going home. But I was allowed to stand and listen, because they knew I was one of them.

World Servers Randomly Down Last Night

January 26, 2007 By Gitr 2 Comments

I had a heck of a time getting anything done last night because of the world servers going up and down like yo-yos. I tried logging in to Deadr, thinking maybe maybe maybe I could level him out if sleep didn’t overcome me. I logged in fine, but after the loading screen, it said the world server was down. I tried 2 more times to no avail.

Time for Gitr to get some playtime, then. I got on him just fine. I went to the east first to kill some orcs to get a Cursed Talisman for Ill Omens [58]. That was fine and all, until I aggroed to many after I already had the drop. I corpse-rezzed and turned it in. The next quest, Cursed Talismans [58], looked like I needed to kill a lot of those guys to get the drops I needed. I really need to level some before I start into like-level mobs. My gear really, really sucks. I suppose I could go finish some old-world stuff for XP to get another level under my belt.

Who Is #1 in Google Now? WoW Blogs = Gitr

January 25, 2007 By Gitr 16 Comments

I am estatic! I was poking around my Google webmaster panels and saw a couple of coveted #1 spots based on certain search terms, but no search term beats what I saw today. Thanks to all of you for making this possible.