Cool Tools for Us Fools

Some cool tools to enhance your gaming life:

Antiarc’s WoW Armory Tools – My World of Warcraft guild is absolutely nuts for the sig generator, and more recently, we’re using the site’s Heroic Key Listing generator to apply peer pressure to the slothful among us. FCS, after four months, everyone should have their damn keys done, OR, be prepared to PUG it.

Here’s a sample of the sig generator output using one of my devoted fan’s characters:

Spoiler info is pretty hard to come by for Lord of the Rings Online at the moment, so Middle Earth Headquarters’ dynamic map is a must-use for those of us with shorter attention spans. I’ll spend SOME time exploring, but I don’t have all day to skip through meadows picking up twigs, hoping to run across the Black Fire Chest.

You’ll need to temporarily disable any browser no-script addons to enjoy MEHQ’s full ajaxy-java (whatever it is) goodness. If that’s too risky, there’s always the /advice channel, but I like to save /advice for charitable solicitations on behalf of the Buy Foton a Horse fund.

Stop Staring

I’m ok, you’re ok, they’re maybe not so ok.

I enjoy snooping around other Warcraft guilds’ recruiting forums for entertainment purposes. On the one hand, long and involved guild applications are hilarious, cuz they’re so damn stupid. On the other, the answers given can be both amusing and frightening.

TO WIT!

Subject: l337 hardc0re dude — level 70 mangina Shaman

Reported real life age: 20

What’s the purpose of a DKP system? Answer – ” … It allows for people that show up to earn the right for items for others that are either to lazy to log on or just do not care enough to help the guild or play their class appropriately.” i.e. you people with young children or JOBS or other real life obligations are lazy or don’t care about your guild.

How many hours a week do you play WoW? Answer – “Im usually pretty much on all the time from 2 pm server untill 11pm server then i ahve to take a break to see my future wife for about an hour and then im back on untill 1 or 2 am.”

Sometimes, these MMO games are like a freak show. I shouldn’t stare, yet who among us can look away?