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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's not the problem though. The issue now with SoO especially, is that LFR (and Flex) gear is better than normal mode ToT gear and you have a shot at getting both. So now, if you don't get it in your normal, it's still good for you to run a flex for a shot at it and then if you miss it there...
  2. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I do know that I constantly try to improve my gear with only one end goal and that is to be viable in my guilds raid progression. We mostly do normal mode, so it's not like I *have* to go balls out and min/max everything but when things like trinkets and tier bonuses from the current tier in all...
  3. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Has anyone tried flex through the in-game raid finder? I hate oQueue. I enable it on Tuesday, do Ordos and Celestials, camp and disable it before I do anything else.
  4. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's mostly gear to be honest, especially if you have a lot of Timeless. The cloak ups your DPS quite a bit just on it's own and along with tier bonuses and the huge stat increase from having worthwhile gear (with gem slots and that you will actually want to enchant and reforge) and it's not...
  5. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A connected realm is more like a merge in the traditional sense. The realms you are connected with can be in the same guilds, share an AH, do normal / heroic mode raids together, etc. CRZ's are just people from your battle group appearing in lower level zones at the same time as you. You can...
  6. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can get MoP and all previous xpacs for 15 euro right now. You could try playing on a high pop US server, but realistically unless you are going to be on in the mornings and early afternoon it probably will still feel pretty dead. Oceanic might suck even worse since Aussie time is like 10...
  7. alavaz

    Its a time for sharing holiday cheer. Free + nets til X-mas

    Hanukkah nets for all.
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    True, but playing whack-a-mole with HP and procs just seems less fun to me than the fluid 9-6-9 of LK. Ret is even worse because it's gone from waiting on cooldowns ala Cata to huge amount of haste causing me to have too many shits up at any given time. DPS wise, I have no complaints but the...
  9. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Really you like the new combo point prot over the 9-6-9 rotation? Ret and Prot are... almost the same? I'm not sure how ret is so gay now but prot is not?
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Let the prot paladin return!
  11. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    ToT was brutal for drops when it was current. I rolled religiously on teir dropping bosses, Nalak, etc. and didn't even have 2 piece until like a week before 5.4. Now you can buy the mogu runes for 1k timeless coins and I went in there with my alt and 10 coins and got multiple weapons, tier...
  12. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think it may be bugged though. I've only ever initiated a kick one other time that I can think of and everytime I tried to on an AFK last week I got the two hour thing.
  13. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    LFR is confined to the dregs of WoW society these days. Anyone who can follow instructions does Flex so there is no incentive whatsoever to do LFR except maybe a handful of people who are looking for their last few stones for the cloak quest. -edit- I did not intentionally word-for-word...
  14. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Assuming it can be purchased online, I will definitely be getting a $10 MoP and the time cards so that I can RAF myself.
  15. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It makes sense to me. Starcraft isn't sub based so they don't really make any money outside of the box fees (and maybe micro-transactions?). So if you buy Starcraft, cash in your free WoW time and end up resubscribing that's money in their pocket. If you don't then it's no loss.
  16. alavaz

    The E-cig Thread

    I don't really care what you choke on champ, just die doing it.
  17. alavaz

    The E-cig Thread

    I see you are one of those "I'll side with whatever evidence affirms my opinion, no matter how little there is, 1 small nugget of "maybe" from some credible organization and I'm right, you and everyone else are all wrong," type of folks. I fucking hate you.
  18. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think Death Knight is probably the most forgiving tank to play and probably the least gear dependent.
  19. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Don't buy a weapon. Just do the scenario for the 450 or a 2 second heroic for a 463 (you can even use JP to upgrade it) and that's all you need for ToT LFR at which point you can get a 502. If you want to spend coins, buy the Mogu runes for 10k each and get extra rolls in ToT. SoO LFR is still...
  20. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah I really think that just time spent logged out contributes to drop chances. My alts seem to get tons of shit meanwhile my main gets gold, gold and more gold.
  21. alavaz

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    So you are saying that given a situation where you were able to focus your energy on the prevention of rape and murder or vehicle vandalism you'd go ahead and dedicate your money to the anti-key-my-car task force? Makes perfect sense. Bitches don't go for fucked up rides.
  22. alavaz

    The E-cig Thread

    Want me to mail them to you frugally mcfrugalpants? Dry burn clean your vagina and don't worry about what the fuck I do.
  23. alavaz

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Hey hey hey, anywhere from nothing to a couple hundred of each of our dollars are going into welfare programs every year. We've earned the right to dictate that people on welfare be healthier than people not on it.
  24. alavaz

    The E-cig Thread

    Vodka or Everclear (or any clear flavorless alcohol) do great at stripping away old flavors. Take it apart and let the glass and the metal parts soak. Tobacco flavors unfortunately suck (at least everyone I've tried). I did find though that "richer" flavors like peanut butter, coffee and...
  25. alavaz

    Windows 8

    "Classic Start" does the trick (go to ninite.com - it's under Utilities). You only have to see metro right after boot at which point you can click desktop and be done with it.
  26. alavaz

    NAS for torrents

    If you know Unix, or are willing to do a lot of googling to figure it out, try to score a recycled Sun/Oracle SPARC server (T5xxx models preferably the sunfire shit is pretty old). I have a T5220 I got from work that was surplused out during a hardware refresh. It came with 6x 300GB SAS disks...
  27. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Since I'm pimping Sen'jin here is the relevant info: WoW Realm US-Sen'Jin :: WoWProgress - World of Warcraft Rankings Sen'jin-US - 25+10 Raid Progress - GuildOx - WoW Rankings
  28. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Join a Sen'Jin guild. Pretty much any one should have 100% less screeching than Big Clits.
  29. alavaz

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I do rationlize it, just not in the way you think I am. The thought process is more like - hey my fat ass is going to pound down 1500+ calories for lunch and I'd way rather have it in tortilla, meat and nacho cheese form than soda form.
  30. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm on Sen'Jin horde and have been since TBC so it feels like I know everyone on horde. Horde side is fairly active and even has a handful of 25 man guilds. Most are pretty casual though (i.e. will complete normal and maybe 1-5 heroics in a given tier) with the one exception being Big Crits the...
  31. alavaz

    Ever, Jane: A New MMO Set In The World Of Jane Austen.

    Slow gameplay, forced grouping, social text chat, I think this is it. Oh and harsh death penatlies too!
  32. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think the only add-on that would majorly fuck with me if I was missing it at this point is unit frames (or an add-on to move the target, health and buff bars). Everything else I could turn off and be within 95% of (my) optimal play. Got my 4 piece this weekend finally so now I won't feel...
  33. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you are planning on using a roll, you can change spec for that while the roll window is counting down.
  34. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I surprisingly queued in for LFR with a group that was on their second attempt of Garrosh and we got it without a single death. Feeling good about this, I queued for the 3rd wing. 4 stacks of determination before Malkorok, the easiest boss in the entirety of SoO (except maybe Immersus) went down...
  35. alavaz

    How would you re-socialize MMOs?

    See to me (and likely a lot of others) my friends list was more of a tool to get something going quicker and I think pretty much anyone who raided with a top tier guild would agree that the real sticking point of those guilds was efficiency and not so much friendship. Of course I had some great...
  36. alavaz

    How would you re-socialize MMOs?

    To clarify that even further, you mean content that can't be defeated without a group or a class structure that's balanced towards group play instead of solo play. Because when you just say mechanics, that leaves a whole plethora of WoW and WoW clone offerings that could fill that criteria -...
  37. alavaz

    How would you re-socialize MMOs?

    Find a machine that causes a rift in the space time continuum that resets the world to 1999. I mean seriously, I don't understand how all of you social butterflys can't make friends in WoW. Especially being that it is the ONLY game that actually has enough people playing it to even meet a...
  38. alavaz

    MMORPGS, what do you miss?

    I miss the days when people actually played MMO's and didn't bitch about how bad they were all the time.
  39. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Grid is both raid and party frames - it's not necessarily more effective than the default ones, I just find it more efficient and less cluttery. I don't use Clique, but basically it's an addon that allows you to rapidly configure mouseover macros and set them to a keybinding - actually a mouse...
  40. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You quoted me, though I am going to assume you meant it for the guy I wrote it to. But, for those who want to heal with keybound mouseover macros, I will second your endorsement of Clique.