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Gaming geek

Chris — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:04:14 +0000

Just sitting around before work, playing EVE Online with both accounts on both of my computers semi-AFK mining, while reading info on the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft… yeah.

I can’t wait for this WoW expansion. Among other things, shorter raids! I’m sick of 11-12 bosses, due to my work schedule it’s really difficult for me to be able to attend a full raid split over two nights. If I bother with my current guild (I’ve mostly stopped raiding for the last couple of months) I’m able to do the first half which is fairly easy for us at this point. And then not be able to work on progression through the last half :( At least I was able to get The Plagueworks (10 player) on my druid Dardia this weekend. Guild first for downing Putricide (well, with two pugs).

When I do bother to login to WoW (not often lately), I’m just killing time doing some PvP or leveling an alt. The usual pre-expansion boredom for me. My hunter (Dardremar) is nicely geared for it again at least, like he was at the end of vanilla and BC :) Well, except for one trinket still. I need to get more WG marks so I can get Titan-Forged Rune of Determination. Maybe I should see about getting into ICC on him to see about getting a better ranged weapon (and maybe regular weapon). Assuming heals are covered, of course.

I still don’t know what character I’m going to get to 85 first. At this point, I’m thinking it might be either my druid (essentially sharing Main status at the moment with my priest) or maybe my hunter. I’ll probably end up deciding once the pre-expansion class/talent changes are live. For now, I’m having more fun playing EVE :)

Apparently my LJ crossposting plugin added in some extra BR tags in between paragraphs… weird. Didn’t do that before, but I think I may have updated it since my last post.

WoW

Chris — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:38:31 +0000

So, I’ve apparently played a lot of WoW over the last 4.5+ years… a screenshot from the Altoholic addon, showing me some combined totals.

Actually, now that I think about it, I could add another 40 levels or so to that. I have a couple of other characters that I haven’t logged in with lately, since wiping the stored info for that addon after an upgrade.

Gear isn’t everything

Chris — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:00:29 +0000

I got bored this weekend, and finally got my hunter to level 80. And jumped right into some heroics. Here’s some proof about how gear isn’t everything – I have crap gear, yet did more dps than the warrior, and not too far below the ret pally. Both of which had quite better gear than I did. The screenshot is from a full heroic DTK run.

It makes me happy when I outdps people in better gear than me :)

Random amusements

Chris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:52:49 +0000

Just some random amusing things on IRC while I was at work…

[00:03:18] (Eeyore) hi bones :)
[00:03:22] (@bones) hi!
[00:04:19] (Eeyore) how was your weekend?
[00:05:43] (@bones) good
[00:05:47] (@bones) how was yours
[00:07:21] (Eeyore) still in it. i worked the entire time
[00:07:25] (Eeyore) still working
[00:07:37] (Eeyore) but i get to sleep for 4 hours on te plane tomorrow out of here
[00:08:13] (Eeyore) i have to be at the bus at 7:45
[00:10:29] (@bones) where are you going
[00:11:43] (@pygmy) hell, I hope
[00:11:48] (@pygmy) I mean hi alt
[00:12:12] (Eeyore) hee hee
[00:12:15] (Eeyore) home
[00:12:21] (Eeyore) i'm at Kemess Mines
[00:14:10] (@bones) ah
[00:14:12] (@bones) in a mine
[00:14:23] (@bones) is everything in british columbia named like final fucking fantasy
[00:14:34] (@bones) or are you somewhere else
[01:55:26] (Eeyore) bones: i'm in b.c.
[01:55:39] (Eeyore) "natie" names here
[01:55:44] (Eeyore) erm
[01:55:51] (Eeyore) and there are a lot of native names here
[01:56:12] (Eeyore) the other site i work on is Tulsequah Chief
[02:07:48] (@bones) heh

And I just ordered myself a 1 TB hard drive and external USB2 drive enclosure. My plan is to store my music on there, so it’s portable. Leaving me with a 500 GB to use for other things on my desktop :)

I’ve been working a lot of overtime lately, but pretty much just for the extra cash for my holidays. I just finished night 16 in a row, of a total of 19. Thursday morning I’ll be on holidays for 16 days :)

And no, I’m not dead or anything. Just haven’t been posting much on any sites. Playing WoW mostly, posting on my guild’s forums, and chatting with friends on there. And quite a bit of Rock Band since getting it way back in January or whenever… have hardly touched Guitar Hero since. I can do well on most expert guitar songs, and most hard drum songs. Getting better on expert drums – the songs are either a lot of fun to play on expert, or insanely difficult.

Respeccing my hunter

Chris — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:34:02 +0000

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for close to a couple of years now, I guess. Only one high level character, my level 70 hunter. All the way up to level 60, I was primarily Beast Mastery spec. Once I starting PvPing heavily, I switched to a mostly Survival build and really enjoyed that. A little while before the expansion came out, they changed the talent trees and that made it not quite as good anymore. Around then I was mostly taking a break anyway, because I was working crazy hours (I took maybe 5 days off out of 70-75 between Thanksgiving and Christmas) and never had a lot of free time. Once the expansion was out, it was time to level again. This time I went with a Marksmanship build. It was great. I’m about to change a few things that weren’t all that useful, now that I’ve been at level 70 for a while. So I’ll be going from this build (9/49/3) to this one (11/47/3). Not that much different.