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  1. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I had to do the same thing. Weekends generally were better for my server. I also finally just accepted the fact that I wasn't going to be able to just show up and win like I did on the horde side. I did random BGs for a couple hours per night and got close to a full set of 522 pvp gear. Then...
  2. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    I remember BR from EQ. They had it spelled Rain at first. I think they splintered off into The War Council and Heaven and Earth somewhat early on. Did Kahma play wow? I remember him from the early Grobb days.
  3. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    Can't forget the hill giants and Lake of Rathe. Man we spent a lot of time around there too.
  4. alavaz

    Fondest Memory of MMOs

    While I had a lot of fun in Velious doing NToV and Kael and what not (still some of my favorite raiding ever) I think the funnest I had was leveling up. I was in this all Troll guild and we used to run around with a pack of 5-10 trolls at any given time and we'd travel to crazy places like Halas...
  5. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A lot of people keep Garrosh locks on alts and stuff just for the sole purpose of farming heirlooms. You see a lot of farm runs on Sunday and Monday on openraid.us
  6. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yeah it's one shot per boss on any difficulty. So you could do like the first two bosses of a raid in LFR and then if you went and did flex the first two wouldn't drop, but subsequent ones could. If that makes any sense.
  7. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Now that you can buy valor with timeless coins I'd way rather save them for valor later on. That 483 weapon from the Sha I think is guaranteed (at least I've never NOT gotten it the first kill on my alts). ToT weapons also seem to be pretty forthcoming.
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Look around for the Dread Wastes 450 boa weapons too.http://www.wowhead.com/guide=1751#lost-weapons I don't think many people look for these anymore. I found 3 in one night when I went out looking for them a couple of months ago.
  9. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    double post... I should add that the dread waste boa's are useable at 86. Nice for alts when the normal looms stop working.
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    yep once you have a cloak you can hit ordos on any toon account wide.
  11. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That 500 stat gem only goes in the sha touched weapon from terrace so you may as well just destroy it if you have anything later on. The extra slot thing can go on a ToT weapon but not an SoO weapon. The legendary gem isn't too bad to replace at 5 primal diamonds so it's not that big of a...
  12. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guild pugs a person or two pretty often these days. If you are on Fridays and Sundays (or aren't saved by then) 8:30pm until Midnight CST add Alavaz#1973
  13. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The last time I did Thok LFR a troll tank pulled the bats and shit over to the sidewall and took out a good 12 people when that yeti came crashing into them. No one was even mad cause it was one of the funniest goddamn things I'd seen in a while.
  14. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I (and I think a good majority of the player base) actually enjoy levelling up through the expansion content. It kind of feels like taking a break almost and playing through a single player RPG for a week or two before jumping into dungeons and raiding. I agree though that every time past the...
  15. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Arms for sure until higher iLvl. I'm in the 540's on my warrior and I'm still arms. Fury will out-dps arms at about this point, but it's (at least imho) a lot harder to play. Plus you need 2x 2h weapons which I had shit luck on. I haven't really checked into what will be the better spec come...
  16. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Queue time homie. Queue time.
  17. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think it's probably still a better route than relying on LFR RNG fuckery. And queuing LFR as melee? Fugetaboudit.
  18. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Do you? I just bought them on my warrior... but maybe I had 7k honor already.
  19. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can buy the 522 pvp weaps for 1750 honor. Not sure how your battlegroup is, but on mine the horde win 85%+ of the random BGs I've done. If you side wins pretty often you can grind up that kind of honor in a couple hours or less. If you have any justice points on the toon already you can...
  20. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A lot of heroic guilds do Monday night normal Garrosh farm runs and list them on openraid. There's one guy who does like 5 or so runs all spaced about 20 minutes apart and has a really good success rate.
  21. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'd actually say that means you are ready to have kids. Let's face it, the majority of men never have a burning desire for children so when you hit the point where it's no longer the worst thing that could happen you are probably ready. It's a weird thing anyway. I know when my kids were little...
  22. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I thought about it. Many times. At this point though I really have no reason too. I don't need the looms before WoD so I don't mind just waiting for the nerf and the increased drops.
  23. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well after a couple weeks of not raiding, a couple of farm runs for more gear and a strat revamp my guild finally got the Garrosh kill on normal - I've been there for every attempt and have about 200 wipes logged. With that I am waiting until 6.0 when they nerf him and hand out free looms before...
  24. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    It's not as nice as you make it sound. They get the same holidays as any other government worker and while they technically get the summer off in the sense that they aren't in the classroom, they still have administrative work plus prep for the next year that they have to do. They don't pay into...
  25. alavaz

    Ravvenn is the Megan Fox of Hooking

    The only thing she's doing with that vicodin is selling it at the local high school for heroin money.
  26. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    So if this alpha male shit is all instinct, doesn't that by definition make it mostly unfakeable? I could see faking it to get laid a few times, but for the rest of your married life? That shit sounds like it would be exhausting at the very least and would probably lead to your marriage not only...
  27. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm sure the "resignation in life" factor is bigger than the gut factor. My purely non-scientific observation has been generally that man maintains weight (or makes a modest gain) after marriage and woman balloons up. If anything, the decline in sex is probably a lot more due to her self esteem...
  28. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Dumar busted out Leykis 101 on us. I'm sure all that shit will get you laid but you'd have to be a braver (or dumber) man than I to attempt to apply that to your marriage or long term relationship. If you've had kids and been snipped (as I have), or are trying to have kids, the consolation prize...
  29. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm going to say that's not a likely scenario. The point here is that they at some point had a decent sex life that went to shit. A body odor phobia wouldn't be some sudden development that was more important to her than sex is to a man. Most men don't try to fix what isn't broken so at some...
  30. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I think what he was saying is that a woman should be pretty familiar with her husbands sex drive well before marrying him as well as respect the fact that sex is pretty damned important to a man. Respect is usually the bigger issue anyway. She knows he wants to have sex yet going off her...
  31. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Bullshit that would absolve the other party. Is that how you approach relationships? Oh hey your effort wasn't good enough, it's your fault and I take no responsibility. Never-mind that your efforts were fine before, they aren't now and fuck you if you think I will actually tell you what I would...
  32. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    or at least bump it to 3k per week. I seriously hate getting a sidegrade now because I don't want have to spend a weeks worth of valor upgrading it.
  33. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It makes it easier to get your 1k for the week I guess... I have shit loads of timeless coins, so I just wait until the weekend for the buff buy 5 valor tokens and cap.
  34. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My guild is doing mighty shit-tastically at Garrosh with 150ish wipes... So I may be down to volunteer to tank/heal/dps whatever (paladin with 565ish tank gear and 550s for dps and heals) or if someone doesn't show on my guild's Friday/Sunday raids I could get you a spot with us. We're just...
  35. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    When I say tightly tuned I mean execution not numbers. Our numbers are fine, it's people handling the mechanics. It only takes one or two to fuck up and the whole thing is a wipe. And of course this is 7-8 minutes into the fight so that really doesn't help much.
  36. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I don't know what to tell you or myself. The strategy is fine and so is the DPS. We phase him after 1 or 2 empowered whirls usually. I think our healers are shitty to be honest with you but who knows. I'm getting too tired to troubleshoot it anymore. I just hate how tightly tuned the fight...
  37. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Normal Garrosh is turning out to be the game killer for me. I've clocked in like 150 wipes now, many sub 4 or 5%, and my guild just doesn't seem to be getting it. Yes we carry some mediocre players along with us, but historically we've been able to at least complete normal mode stuff without any...
  38. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Very true on Flex 4. The nice thing about 4 though is that every boss has a chance to drop tier so it's a great wing to gear up with.
  39. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    550 isn't crazy for normal honestly. If you have the cloak that should be attainable with mostly LFR gear and hopefully a couple of pieces from Celestials and Ordos. There are some weekend raiding guilds that just need a warm body and would probably carry you through the first 4-8 bosses on...
  40. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you use Blizzards grouping tool you will get picked up for a Flex without bloated gear requirements. Flex groups are a little thinner at this point in the expac, but when 6.0 hits they'll probably be going like crazy for heirlooms.