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Hotfix, Another

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There’s some sound fix available through the World of Warcraft launcher, I guess: “Tools Hotfix 12/12/06”. There’s a link in that thread for the manual fix, which may or may not help with post-patch framerate issues. I haven’t played Warcraft with sound enabled since December 2004, although I did run the Burning Crusade with sound for a few days until that damn cello music in the Blood Elf noob areas drove me to drink. I actually think the sound in Warcraft is done quite well, but enough already.

PVP Grind #2, This Time with Less Ego

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So I’m kinda getting back into the World of Warcraft PVP game. My rogue did the PVP grind under the old (heh, a week ago old) system and scored the black horse. Then they changed the mount system, and since I had deleveled from Commander of the Alliance, I had to do a mini-PVP grind to buy the black cat and dark gray ram. Anyways, been there, done that (twice).

As the new PVP system has had some reasonably priced rewards (nerf senses tingling), I figured I’d work on PVP with my priest alt. Holy priest, thankyouverymuch. (oh look, I was right!)

When I was rogue-PVPing, there was one thing in the battlegrounds more exciting than seeing a warlock pet … and that was seeing a KillMe stick. I’d be stealthing around wherever, looking for trouble, and out of the corner of my eye I’d see the bright yellow twinkles of a Benediction and woooo boy, I’m having priest for dinner tonight! If there was a warrior hanging out, I’d wait maybe 30 seconds for the warrior to get distracted by … I don’t know, an ice cream truck, an XBox commercial, it really doesn’t take much to distract a warrior … and then it was just the priest and me and an honor kill on the horizon.

That was my leet rogue strat for dealing with warriors … don’t mess with them if I didn’t have to. Here was my leet rogue strat for Thunderfury warriors … never leave stealth. Seriously. Too many bad experiences with that damn Thunderfury — I developed something of a phobia.

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Where in the WoW?

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Where in WoW?

This wasp packs a nasty punch.

Site Note: I can’t procrastinate any longer on this … the site template and code will have to be updated this weekend. Content and links should remain usable throughout, but you know me and my short attention span — there may be occasional error messages and general design wankery. All the dust should be cleared by Monday. I have a raid that night fercrissakes. If you notice an error or broken parts after Monday, do Uncle Foton a favor please and send an email. UPDATE: Home page and permalink pages near completion, except for rank-ass IE png bug. Subpages still a mess.