Heya guys!!
Sooo… I used to be loaded in game. Absolutely butt tons of gold. But I did something with a large portion of it that I’m not free to admit to here in the public eye. And then on top of that, I had to make that payout for the winner of the donations to Eleanor (lil girl with cancer, the daughter of an in game friend of mine). Plus, when I quit I sent off all of my stuff to my friends.
So now I’m poor. 
I’ve been trying to find new ways of making income. The gem market, where I’ve always traditionally made my income for the past 3 years is…different now. Ore prices are so high that buying ore to prospect is no longer efficient with the advent of epic gems. So that means farming. I hate farming. *REALLY* hate farming…
But, I did just so happen to come across a great lil video for helping you efficiently farm to your heart’s content. So I’m sharing it with you guys. I got it from: http://www.makewowgold.com/
I was pretty impressed by how well this video lays out how to use these addons. If you farm, this is a good way to go.
And for everyone else, if you’ve got ways to make gold without “farming” herbs/ore/leather gimme a shout. I’m curious. My old methods are failing me now, and I fully plan to get back to over 100k gold again.
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: Mods
Heya guys!! So my guild, Paragon, has been working on getting people their meta achievements for mounts before the 3.3 release. And I was lucky enough to come along for some of it. They’ve done Gen Vez before, but this was their 2nd Firefighter achievement. It was really cool getting to do that one.
Just dropping a fun screenshot post!! Catch you guys soon!! 
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: Raids
Heya guys!! 
What’s up?
So I’ve been going through a lot of WoW information recently and recently came across this quote in reference to Cataclysm, “”More raid content” than previous expansions.”
BC was the biggest raid content release at:
So if we count two 10mans as one 25man, then that would imply that we’ll be seeing 6+ 25man raids and 3+ single boss raids. Seems a little unbelievable to me personally considering that Blizzard seriously cut a ton of corners with the raid content in LK. But hey, I’m open minded. Maybe they’ll surprise me.
Outside of Death Knights, I’ve found all of LK to be lack luster. The two shining gems have been Ulduar and Wrathgate. For me anyways…
Speaking of WRATHGATE!!! Anyone feel like a gander? I sure do.
No breakdowns guys, just the down and dirty. These are my personal specs, not the ultimate end game perfect specs.
SJ’s 2.2 Unholy
SJ’s 2.2 DW Frost
Now these are by no means perfect, or even 100% matching to what you might see on my armory atm… >.< Heh. But at a glance they match basically what I did online, with maybe a minor personal change in there. I’m also not so sure about that SS Glyph…thought it still proc’d fresh diseases. Just noticing this added duration crap. Bleh.
Oh yeah, and I’m a selfish Frosty!! I don’t raid buff in that one. 
Uhm this has been more of an interesting point. If it’s an AoE fight at all I can hold my own and stay in the top5 so long as I don’t die or screw up. If it’s not, I’m in a bit of trouble. But on Heroic 25 ToC I was hitting the 9k DPS mark on several occasions at Anub’arak even with my crap gear. I’ve still got like 5 pieces of Naxx level gear on SJ (BISI for Naxx level, but Naxx level all the same).
It’s been interesting though… I’m used to seeing other DK’s out there and getting to stand there all “smug and snobby” as my roomie Garroc likes to say. He calls me a “WoW Snob”, lmao. But as I was saying, I’d look at other DK’s (on my server) and know I had better gear. Always. I had the very first Betrayer of Humanity on our server, and many other first time item drops.
But not no more!! I’ve seen random newb PuG DK’s who make my gear look bad, rofl. And it’s AWESOME!! I can’t express in words how much fun it is to finally have more content to tackle than I can dive into!! But more on that later. That’s a post all unto itself.
I’ve basically decided to not be as stingy on spending DKP like I normally am. But it’s probably going to be another 2-3 months before my gear is a proper level (at least in my eyes).
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: Cataclysm
Heya guys!!
So it’s not really my Ony cherry, but it was Skeleton Jack’s first time anyways. I remember the original bad a$$ Ony from back in the day after crawling my way through the massive quest chain referred to as Jailbreak for the old timers out there.
My first epic was the Quel’Serrar on Elorien. Which of course has lead to the more recent versions known as Gleaming Quel’Serrar and Burnished Quel’Serrar.
But I digress… Here’s good ol’ SJ earning his wings.
I’m not really so sure 6.6K DPS on Ony is all that great for me (I was in a PuG)… But I’m in outdated gear now, using a sub-optimal spec, and rusty as hell. So I’m happy with how the run went!
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: Raids
Heya guys!! So yeah, got WoW reinstalled last evening and I have to say it was far easier than previous efforts over the past years. Whether it was a fresh install on a friends comp, or just a reinstall on mine. Blizzard apparently got their !@#$ together and streamlined the patching system.
After I installed WoW + XPac’s I started up the patcher. Normally you’d patch the game a bazillion times. It’d patch once, you’d start up the game and try to log in, and then it’d kick you out to start up another patch. No longer!! Now you start it up to patch, and it just patches itself without any interaction all the way up to being ready. Damn it was nice.
And luckily I saved my WTF, Interface, and Screenshots folders this time around (unlike before) so that I didn’t have to reset the settings or deal with redefining all of my mods. 
I took a sec to read up on EJ Forums, MMO Champion, World of Raids, and a few other sites I peruse… Gotta say I’m not liking the current “ideal” 3.2 Unholy spec and rotation. No OB spec, gone… No Reaping and multiple SS’s, gone… Bleh. I’m not doing it I tell you. It’s gonna be a slight nerf to my dps, but I will not be using that rotation/playstyle. I’ll give you guys the digs later on with what I settled down with.
Also I’ll be doing my damndest to get my hands on some slow 1H weapons. I really really like the DW spec a lot. Tried it again last night (with admittedly far too fast weapons) and it still was just fun as can be.
Not sure how swift I’ll be back into raiding again. I’ve lost some credit with my guild since I was a new member before I quit WoW (being there for only 1 month, having previously quit SK where I had been for nearly 3 years). So we’ll see how long it takes me to earn my way back into their good graces.
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: /rl, Coming Soon
Heya guys!!
Happy Birthday to Skeleton Jack!! Yup!! I’m another year older. Which leads me to this story. Anyone still following the site (which surprisingly is a lot of people still considering how rarely I post) would have noticed by now that I have been having computer issues. Turned out that the video card and mother board went bad at the same time. Or at least, so my tech guy thought…
So my roomie’s brother (Tommy) came over to work on my computer again (he does my tech work) and used my roomie’s (Garroc’s) computer to test some things from my comp to narrow down what could be wrong. In the process something got snagged on my video card (which was too big for the case) in Garroc’s comp and the cord from the motherboard to the hard drive got broken. Nice…
So since we keep old computer parts around (just in case), Tommy went and looked for an old cable. And low and behold, what did he find? An old motherboard!! Garroc had gotten an upgraded processor from Tommy about a year or two ago, but needed a newer model motherboard for it. So Tommy stored the old one for him in the closet after Garroc bought a new one. And guess what! Garroc’s old motherboard is the same model as mine. >.< Inorite?!
So for the past few weeks the motherboard we couldn’t find in stock anywhere to order just so happened to be about 30′ feet away from me the entire time…
So for the past month and half to two months now I’ve been sitting here trying to trouble shoot what’s wrong exactly with the computer. The video card was fried for a fact. We tried it in another computer and it was just boned. So then after all of that, once I had the money I got a new video card. From there I personally thought it was a power supply issue, but Tommy was convinced it was a motherboard issue. Up with me so far?
So we install the new mother board and I cross my fingers. Does it work now? Nope. /cry /sob
So then finally Tommy agrees to try an alternative power supply. And does it work then? Yup. Happiness ensues? Nope… Sighs of frustration escape because I’m refraining from throttling Tommy while screaming, “I TOLD YOU DAMNIT (insert inappropriate expletives)!!!!”
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So what’s next? I go buy a new “gamer” 550 watt power supply by Thermal Take. Which is pretty f’ing sweet actually. It’s the new kind where you only plug in the power cords you need, and the cords are all wrapped in that mesh binding. Got the cords totally out of the way now and have way better air flow. Plus it’s got a 140 fan on it. It’s damn nice.
So, by this point I’m looking around at the chaos. I’ve got a new motherboard that is exactly the same as the one I had in it before. Check. We’re good there. I’ve got a new 1Gig video card that’s screamin’ hot. Check. I’ve got a new kick butt cool power supply, better air flow in my case, and everything plugged in properly. Check. And I’ve sat there like a good lil boy asking questions and learning how to do this crap on my own. Check.
We’re looking good here. Check the floor, desk, and table… What’s this RAM doing here? Where the hell did this come from? *scratches head* Garroc had 1 Gig of RAM in the old mother board that wouldn’t work on his new on. Hmmm…. Pop those babies in!! Boot ‘er up, and presto!! They work!! LED lights all working properly. New BIOS set to Raid 0 settings…reboots ensue…
*CROSS FINGERS*
And it works!! Yay!!!
So now I’m up to 3 Gig’s of RAM, holla!! Brand spanking new power supply, better air flow which I can already see my temp gauges in the computer are lower now. And a screaming video card that’s so sweet I can literally see the difference in just the printed words on the shortcuts on the desktop. Yeah, that sweet.
So I’m a happy SJ finally. Ready for gaming enjoyment!!
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Heya guys!! I went back to my old guild site at Paragon and was reading up a lil bit, while perusing MMO Champion as well. And sure enough something caught my eye. In response to some debate I posted this there and figured it might be something you guys would be interested in.
Oh, and I went with the PNY GeForce GTX 260 video card. Why? Because when I finally decided to buy one I found out that one was in stock at Best Buy. So I could but that one “now”, or wait another week for the evga one. I was impatient by that point… >.< But the card is awesome!! I still have some comp issues (mother board or power supply, think I just need a new mother board), but should have that fixed by the new year.
Blizzard’s model for WoW is actually pretty well established by this point. I don’t remember the links from before, but it basically comes down to their financial reports each quarter and year. For example, BC’s release date was highly debated as various sources claimed varying times no matter what Blizzard or other sites said. However in their projected profits for a specific quarter of that year they had BC sales listed. Sure enough, Blizzard released BC exactly when those quarterly projection reports claimed.
Two years later the same thing happens. Blizzard issues their projected quarterly reports and there is LK for their expected sales. Both times now Blizzard released a major expansion right around the end/start of a year.
Also Blizzard stated quite some time back they they’d like to release an expansion once per year (and they were very official about it, not just a random blue post that other blue posts apologized for). But they also said that it’d be more likely to take a bit more than a year each time due to constraints with content release, etc… True to point, it’s been 2 years for each new major release.
Due to Blizzard’s move to making WoW their “cash cow that allows them to now have fun making whatever they want to without worrying about profits” I’d feel it’s very safe to say that you can expect to see Cataclysm released between November 2010 and January 2011.
Past release dates:
WoW – Nov 2004
BC – Jan 2007
LK – Nov 2008
Personal projected Cataclysm date:
Nov 2010 to Jan 2011
Regardless of the speculation however it’s a pretty safe bet to assume that sometime next year someone will check out their projected sales on their quarterly reports. And when that happens you will have the release date.
When 4.0 releases you will see mechanics changes of course (such as Armor Pen, etc), but you will not see the new bells and whistles that are the hallmark of the expansion itself. With 2.0 that held true and with 3.0 that held true. There is no reason to expect otherwise at this point.
I think it highly likely for Blizzard to continue with their previous model. With regular WoW the major story was finished, but then there was the release of Naxx in the end. In BC the major story was finished, but then there was the release of SW in the end. And now Blizz is winding up Arthas to finish this story line…and I’d bet you they will true to form release yet again another Instance after that as well.
I’m separating raid content into 2 categories. Primary Content where it’s multiple bosses, and Secondary Content where it’s one boss. Vault of Archavon counts as Secondary Content imo b/c they just release a new tier boss as gear progresses. Just because they house them in the same building doesn’t change the fact that it’s just a single boss release.
WoW
Primary: BWL, MC, AQ20, AQ40, Naxx, ZG
Secondary: Onyxia
BC
Primary: Kara, ZA, SC, TK, MH, BT, SW
Secondary: Mag, Gruul,
LK
Primary: Naxx, Uld, Col
Secondary: Eye, Sarth, VoA, Onyxia,
My personal projections are that there will be only 2 more raid instances in LK that contain more than one boss. I think this is primarily due to the fact that Blizzard has pulled most of the original and best talent from WoW and put them to work on their new MMO (which they’ve released no information on to date). Sadly they’ve made the obvious move of less content art/work. From using Naxx again, no dungeon to explore in Col, and reusing mob models in Col as well… Hopefully the rewards of Cataclysm and Blizz’s new MMO will balance that out.
I’m thinking relatively soon. Preferably before the new instance releases. Again, not promising to be back for long guys. I’m going to post for fun, and if you guys enjoy it then awesome. But for now on my posts will be based purely on desire, and not feeling like I have to. Which means they will be less frequent, but higher quality. Take it for what you will. This one for example probably shed a good bit of light on when to expect the Expansion release and future LK raid content. Take care guys!!
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Heya guys!!
Wow…you have no idea how good it felt to say that, “Heya guys!!” My lead off to every post. Felt like coming home. So I’ve been out of a computer for nearly a month now. It’s sucked hardcore. Ugh, I hate it. You don’t realize how much you use a computer until you’ve been denied it for weeks!!
I’m currently pondering these three little lovlies for those interested:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127426
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133270
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130475
Waiting to hear back from my resident computer guru on these cards, but I figured this was the perfect opportunity to hear random feedback from other gamers as to what they thought, or if they know of another good card/deal out there. Must be over 512 MG, 256 bit, 120 core processors, PCI Express card while under $300.00. Dem’s de rules!!
No wai!?!?! Yeah actually, just not a full time deal. My roomie leveled his first alt to level 80. And it’s a wittle baybee DK!! Awww!!! Don’t mind the blood in the cradle, that’s normal!!
But he’s had to ask me several questions that I just wasn’t 100% sure about the answers anymore since I’ve not been keeping up on things. So once I get my new video card I’m probably going to reactivate WoW (for just a month, not promising more than that sorry) to say hey to some friends and goof around.
And while doing that I’ll probably put up a few posts about specs and rotations. If I’m going to do the homework for my roomie, might as well let you guys benefit some as well!! Besides, I feel the need for some PvP!!
I’m not sure there is much of one until the X-pac next Christmas 2010. The one thing about WoW I’ve missed is PvP. I’m really not missing the DKP/Raid grind at all. And it’s nice just reading a book or going out with my friends when I want to instead of scheduling around raid times.
But the new “rating system” for BG’s has me highly interested if they do it right. I had originally planned on working for Grand Marshall in vanilla WoW until I learned how the ranking system worked. Which basically meant if I wasn’t going to put in at least 40 hours in PvP a week, it wasn’t gonna happen. I didn’t want GM *that* bad, heh.
I always did really well in BG’s…phenomenally well actually. But Arena’s always posed a problem. I’d suck in many combos or just not play well with certain people. And the several teams I got into the 1900’s with always fell apart right before we made 2k+.
Supposedly in the X-Pac the new rating system in BG’s will allow people to bybass Arena if they really don’t like it (which I don’t). SO! If they implement the BG ranking system well, I will likely be making a more full time come back at that point and time.
Initially I rated it very high. And then within a week of it’s release I stopped playing. Read: “bad sign”.
I think eventually CO will be a great game. But at initial release it needs a lot of work still. More than anything it was the “bright shiny new toy” syndrome affecting me as I ran to anything that was not WoW. Forgive me please!!
I miss you guys and hope you’re well.
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: /rl, Coming Soon
Heya guys!! So I was looking for the new Rogue Pelicula link since they killed the old one. Something to share with you guys since it’s so amazing. But I’m tired and couldn’t find it right away. So in the theme of DK’s, I figured Zombies were a decent substitute. Enjoy!!
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: Fun
Heya guys!! How’ve you been?
So I skimmed through the comments and approved most of them. A few got deleted because…well…they were “trollish”. So go figure… Comments don’t automatically get approved people. It’s a case by case basis unless you keep using the same account info. *shrug*
So I played CO for some time, and it was cool. Their max level is 40 and I was at 30 within the first few days without really making extra time for the game (still working, etc…). I tried out the Beta and got active on the forums like one of my readers posted. But after about 2 weeks (Beta time included) the ”WoW burnout” returned.
So over the past week I’ve mostly ignored CO… I made like 2 1/2 levels in the past week, versus 30 in a few days…see what I mean? meh It’s a good game (CO), but the MMO grind I think is more what is bugging me. Level caps will be raised, new content will be released, mechanics will change, etc…
I’ve been hardcore MMO’ing between City of Heroes and World of Warcraft going on about 6+ years now. And that’s just the “hardcore” side of things. I played EQ2, DAoC and EQ as well from their inceptions as well, just much more casually. Is it that I need a break, or that I’m just done? No idea honestly… Atm CO is there when I’m bored and don’t feel like doing anything…
Been keeping at my D20 games on Fri and Sun like normal. Friday night is a high fantasy campaign centered around helping return an ancient kingdom (recently refounded) to newfound glory. Sunday night is also high fantasy, but deals with a city founded upon a necropolis and a rising civil war between the ancient undead families. We, the living, are trying of course to not die in the crossfire.
I’ve also been playing a lot more board games. No, not monopoly…sheesh. Things like Tomb, Android, and Runebound. There’s a ton of other ones, but those 3 are probably my favorite hands down. Turns out one of our gaming buddies spends a ridiculous amount of cash on board games… Who am I not to help him out by playing those games with him, heh.
The rest of my time is spread between movies, reading, and working out. Pretty boring, but it’s been relaxing. Really nice honestly.
So I saw the new expansion was coming out and how MMO Champion’s predictions were 100% dead on about the new races. I don’t care what people think, but that guy’s got some inside connections. No way you get that kind of information early and 100% accurate without knowing someone on the inside track. Must be nice!!
And Worgen?!?! Aw come on guys?! Who else’s first thought when they heard of Worgen were like… “WORGEN DEATHKNIGHT ZOMG!!!!” You’re second thought *should* have been how you were going to get a name change so your DK’s name would be on the Worgen DK!!
Goblins iz cool an’ all…but WEREWOLF DK F’ING PWN FACE!! Just sayin’…
Did I pull information from there? Oh but hell yes. Who wouldn’t?!!? That’s like accusing talk show hosts of watching the news… It’s stupid. It’s an open and excellent source of information for WoW players. Use it. I did. But then I also used plenty of random wow sources, in game testing, and just random info. In the end everything that I posted here I made into my own.
I’m proud of the fact that I often changed info to what I believed was best, regardless of what EJ peeps (or commenters) said. *shrug* Take it or leave it. I’m not making anyone read this site, now or ever.
Who knows? I’ve been thinking about writing that book. I’ve been working on a new story and plotline for a table top campaign. I’ve got it into my head to go back and fix Realms of Wonder, a table top role playing game I wrote and co-created with a friend. And do the game right this time. I’ve considered also taking a step back and considering blogging more.
But honestly I don’t know. Right now I’m focused on work, working out, and just enjoying life. Where that leads me is up in the air atm. Hope you guys are doing well.
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: Fun
