OMG, They Killed Kalimdor!

I hear tell there was a smidgen of a problem with the World of Warcraft servers last night, henceforth known as The Night Kalimdor Died. All I know personally is that I downloaded the minipatch, said hey to the guild, server crashed, logged back in, said hey again to the guild and was that just me, heard that it wasn’t just me but I should be glad I didn’t log in Kalimdor (as if!) because those poor SOBs are truly fucked and would I be going to ZulGrub with them assuming the server holds up.

Explained I, no, won’t be wasting my time going to ZG I had bigger fish to fry, namely a rather large download and a rather annoying patch and a rather lengthy login process and weren’t they kind of jealous and indeed, they were a little jealous. HA!

Hell, I just told them what I was up to, bragging rights and all, but I can’t tell you because thugs would show up at my door and beat my kneecaps with a bat and one thing I’ve learned is that I really need my kneecaps. So some times, I’ll be busy with that other thing that I can’t tell you about and some times I’ll be busy with Warcraft as usual.

I can tell you this about the other thing, I’ve already made some new friends. And when I say “friends”, you know I mean people that I hate.

(EDIT: Haha, I just remembered this one idiot from last night, who said (paraphrasing, but accurately), “I’ve been in a few endgame guilds that would kick you for profanity of any kind in guildchat or voicechat, top of the server type guilds”, which I figure is a COMPLETE fabrication. Try again, noob.)

Loot and Luck

A short while ago, World of Warcraft began their Guild Relations program, an invitation-only guild think tank. We had told one of our officers to check into app’ing, aka auditioning, for this — he probably didn’t — no matter, doesn’t seem like a lot of benefit to participating. However, there is one good thing that has sprung from this program: The Guild Relations forum, which is just about the only forum with thoughtful game discussions. Inside the 234,678th thread about the evils of DKP, I found this study of DKP loot distribution versus /random loot distribution in a (hypothetical?) raiding guild of 150 members. If you look at the “Lady Luck is a Bitch” /random chart, the one hypothetical member attended almost 50 raids before scoring some loot. This is how I know the /random chart is simulated: that guy would have quit after the tenth raid or so.