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1 There is always someone running late for the Raid  Train.

2. In the mornings there is a boss at the end of the run.

3. You have to clear through trash mobs to get in the door.

4. If your lucky a seat might drop.

5. You need to avoid standing/sitting  in bad stuff

6. There may be a Heat debuff ( no Aircon in summer)  or a Raid wide Frost debuff ( Air con wayyyy to high )

Cozmo from GTFOOTF pointed out that so many of us bloggers are playing Wow in some new or different way to maintain our motivations to keep playing,   and speaking to Kiwired from One of these Alts who has rolled even more Alts with SAN  – how SAN  ( Single Abstract Noun )  has come about at the right time for him to fill in the gaps between now and the expansion.

Drink all day
Play all night
Let’s get it poppin
I’m in LFG Trick
Drink all day
Play all night
Let’s get it poppin I’m in LFG Trick

I told a LFG Random group  in party chat that if they wanted to kick the whiney ass healer in a random I was DPSing on my Shadow Priest in, that I would quite happily heal for them.

“You think I need badges”   Scoffs the druid who had been rousing on the tank. 

“Omg Guys..   The tank doesn’t even have offspec”

“Omg Tank .. Hold agro much…”

“He is doing fine” I said. ( and he was)

Healer pee’d ed me off. So I left group.   Yeah was not in the mood to be pee’d off.

Log off, to wait for my debuff to fall off, and

Enter My Holy Priest healing  a Random LFG

Me: to Dps Pally :  Did you know your missing a talent point.

Dps Pally:  Yes.

Me to Dps Pally: and that your also completely in tanking gear.

Right all wrong -  we all seem to have this  < 2k dps in a Northrend Dungeon and you fail  – which for the most is true.

Sometimes I struggle to reach that when I am running in a overgeared group when stuff just dies so quick.

Most of my circumstantial rotations start with dots – If there is enough time for me to stick dots up, maybe some mindsearing, and single target  then I am going to do awesome on actually dps measurement, and either come 1st or 2nd in the party , but well geared Aoe tanks – and 1 or 2 burst Dps in the party,  and I’m last.

So the real dps measurement when stuff is dying quick is not how much damage I can actually do,  but how much damage I can beat other classes to doing.  Eg I’m more likely to stick one dot on them,  Shadow Word Death / Mindblast on cool down, and mindsear where practical.  No point sticking dots on them if they are taking 5 seconds to die.

This blog wasn’t meant for confessions – if that were so I would be telling you all about my alledged thing for Pallys.

But firstly on GM request – I confess on that I DPS’d  our 3 attempts on Putricide last night in my healing set.  I had swapped into it to see if a piece of loot was an upgrade of my healing set – and never swapped back.  I should have picked up that I didn’t have a spikey black thing on my head – but being shadow form and all that  – it’s a bit hard to tell if your in the wrong gear.  We one shot all the bosses before which is pretty awesome,  he shall die tonight and throw mallable ooze at me no more.   ( Well at least this week)

But yeah…   I made 500.

Here’s a scenario that happens all to often: 

Someone from your guild gets hacked, and all of their toons are stripped bare.  If that weren’t enough, they took as much stuff from the guild bank as they could as well.  The guild is out whatever was stolen, and the players toons are usually left naked and sometimes guildless.

First of all, I feel for anyone who has had their account hacked.  I cannot fathom how I would feel if it were to happen to me.    I’m pretty good about safeguarding my account, so hopefully it won’t happen to me.  The only person other than me that knows my account information is The Mrs and  I’m thinking about using the iPhone authenticator as well.  Regardless, it does happen, and even with all those safeguards, it could happen to me as well. 

I’m about halfway done updating my blogroll at this point.  I’m thinking about separating out the active blogs into three categories: tank, healing and DPS, but I’ll need to have a fun name for each of those categories first.   Also, I’ve met some bloggers via Single Abstract Noun, and I’m reading more and more blogs that I’ve never come across before, so I’m sure that I’ll be linking some more of their work soon.

Don’t worry, when I’m done, I’m sure to give you another completely unnecessary post to let you know.

- Sam