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Google, Yahoo, Warcraft and You

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If you’re a Google calendar user like I am (because I want Google to know everything about me, and some day, if the government needs to compile a Foton dossier, they can just go to Google and pinpoint the exact location and time where I’ll be so they can serve me with papers), you probably know that you can subscribe to any number of public calendars, which will add their events to your giant calendar too.

For example, below is the World of Warcraft Google calendar containing the Darkmoon Faire dates and locations, the PVP battleground holidays and the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. The calendar could really use the raid instance reset dates, especially Onyxia, but eh, can’t have everything. (The subscribe link is at the bottom.)

Several guilds have set up their raid schedules in Google, as have a few Everquest raiding guilds — not mine however, we don’t want the government to know our raiding schedule, nosey bastards.

On to Yahoo. If you’re widgetized — the desktop doohickeys — there are a few Warcraft widgets available (gallery of Warcraft widgets), including an RSS Breaking! Warcraft! News! feed, item search widgets connected to Thottbot or Allakhawhatsit, and several realm status widgets. Not available yet: a World of Warcraft in-game weather widget or a World of Warcraft Faked Patch Notes widget.

I didn’t find any EverQuest widgets, but there are a couple for Second Life — an auction widget, a brothel location search and news feeds. Not available yet: a Vanguard in-game Beta Cam (view the vast and empty landscape) or an EQ Day/Night Clock for noobs without adequate monitors or night vision.

Bringing this all full circle: a Yahoo widget for your Google calendar. (Note: a new version is expected shortly as the current one is … bug-riffic.)

Harness the power of the new technologies so that wherever you are, whatever you’re supposed to be doing (but aren’t), know what’s going on in your better other world.

Rogue Talents v1.12 RC2

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Warcraft rogue talent review RC2: Rogue Talent Review – Second Sight. What looks good on e-paper: “Garrote, Eviscerate, and Rupture now all scale with Attack Power. The previously announced Eviscerate book will still be made available in an undisclosed location. While we had always planned to scale these abilites at a point in the future, we felt that the rank upgrade for Eviscerate and damage increase for Garotte would provide a well needed boost in the current game and carry these abilities until the scaling mechanic was implemented. Our ultimate goal to scale the abilities in a future update was decided to be moved ahead, and the current plan is to implement scaling for these abilities in 1.12, instead of in a later update.” Rogues are reportedly cautiously optimistic.

Yes, You Must Have Voice Chat to Raid

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Warcraft Forum Post #Gajillion3 about groups/guilds that require voice chat (Ventrilo or TeamSpeak) to run instances or for raiding: Vent/TS are now must haves to raid? I can sympathize, truly I can, and I don’t necessarily agree with requiring voice for little instance runs unless it’s a 45-minute Strath Baron run where people have to be on their game — but for DKP raids, everyone must be in Vent. And I’ll tell you why: who has the energy, or the WILL, to type out instructions for an encounter that’s been run 39 times before? This isn’t EQ (in this manner) where warriors hit Autoattack, lean back in their chairs and do whatever … ahem … they would do while slapping some sense into Lord Nagafen. This is Warcraft where warriors hit attack, and then use every other trick in their bags to hold aggro — only one of which is taunt, thankyouverymuch — and there’s little spare time to type out: CLOTH BACK OUTT HE CLEAVES!!!! or my personal favorite: FUKIN ROUGES VANISH!! Can it be done without Ventrilo/TeamSpeak? Of course. But most of us prefer taking the shortest route between the boss engage and the loot.