Frostmourne – for real
2008-03-15 at 21:28:41 | In World of Warcraft | Leave a CommentTags: World of Warcraft
A company called “Epic Weapons” is actually trying to sell real metal Frostmourne replicas.
Hmm…
I like swords…
And you do not have to do the auctioning, you can just get a normal one. Although, I have to admit the auction is a really nifty marketing idea 
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What a disc priest really is
2008-03-15 at 13:12:04 | In World of Warcraft | 1 CommentTags: discipline, priest, World of Warcraft
I just stepped across a post by someone who calls himself “BattlePope” (yeah, finally got around to correcting that one 
) . The post has an awesome quote in it, which really describes what a discipline priest is all about:
“A Priest is a battle-scarred cigar-smoking battle-pope with pure testosterone in his veins taking your best shot and then punching his fist down your throat.” – Shaithara
I think I like that quote… Maybe I will put it on my “about” page
2.4 getting closer & a hair bug that is bugged
2008-03-13 at 15:37:32 | In World of Warcraft | 2 CommentsTags: 2.4, dionadar, patch, World of Warcraft
“The first part of the patch 2.4 is now available from the background downloader on live servers.” (mmo-champion)
Something else that a blizzard cm said drove me to wonder:
This is a bug fix to prevent clipping of hair through the front of the helmet. We currently do not have the capability to turn off part of an avatar’s hair, it’s all or nothing and the item designers make a decision on which one is most attractive to the largest number of hairstyles. [...]
*hem* not true.
I don’t have a picture floating around with dionadar with his s3 helmet on, but his beard definitely gets cut off… Looks kinda sad really…
Akismet spam
2008-03-07 at 20:48:29 | In Uncategorized | 2 CommentsTags: blogging
WordPress.com has an integrated spam protection engine they call akismet.
Now, Akismet catches a few spam comments every day – some are quite obvious, i.e. online casino ads.
However, I have a nugget to share which I simply do not understand:
oegxls yotaf rayczo vtabwhld zyahnuqx nrdfwb jruvt
That is a real comment I found in the akismet fishing net today – can someone explain to me just what the hell the spammer is trying to express/gain with that comment?!
I mean, this is a Business Model for those guys, so really wtf?
Priests rule 5v5 – Druids rule 2v2 even more
2008-03-07 at 02:05:08 | In World of Warcraft | Leave a CommentTags: priest, pvp, World of Warcraft
Blizzards own Kalgan posted a statistic on how the classes are distributed over the arena teams which managed to get over 2200 rating.
His chart is normalized to population – this means, if 10% of all players are druids and 20% of all arena team members are druids – there are twice as much druids as there should be if all classes were perfectly balanced (and perfect balance would mean EQUAL, which would mean that there is in reality only one class after all… So a certain fluctuation is a necessary evil.)
So, our numbers for priests are quite hot:
Priest 113.3% 164.8% 185.4%
The first number says, that we do better than average on 2v2 teams – better than pallys (19.7%) and Shamans (37.8%) but worse than our 2v2 kings, the druids with a whooping 276%!
The second number stands for 3v3 – here we are still topped by druids (184%) and rogues (175.1%) – something I would have never thought, if you asked me before! The other two healing classes, pallys and shamans are at 29.5% and 50.4%.
The 185.4% is actually a big statement: Priests rule 5v5 by a big chunk!
Well, we are not even close to what druids achieved in the 2v2 bracket, but still…
As I have been saying: Priests are imbalanced!
We rule!
Well, but still we get our focused will nerf, so no reason to pick on us any more than that
Mana Regen page up
2008-03-01 at 17:18:55 | In Guides, World of Warcraft | Leave a CommentTags: game mechanics, guide, World of Warcraft
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