Confessions of a Warcraft Guild

the snarky ramblings of five guildmates
 

Patch 4.0.6 arrives!

Patch notes went up this morning for 4.0.6.

The short version:

Hey Casters!  We forced blue gems on you, here let us change that.

Nyah, nyah, Holy Pallies.  You topped healing charts so nerfs all around!  (Okay, seriously trying to reserve judgement until I actually test.)

You know all that PvP gear you ground your little heart away for?  It sucks now.  Hahaha, we got you back for the epic honorfest of TB.

Because you idiots keep standing in Ring of Frost after you see the HUGE CIRCLE ON THE GROUND we're going to give you 3 seconds to move.  Go!

We've finished playing hide and seek with your equipped gear and you can have it back.  Oh sorry, it looks like some of the numbers fell off in the process.  /oops

Posted February 8, 2011 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

Vashjir = Underwater Hell

Forget fire, hell is full of underwater combat.  

This is all.

Filed under  //   Warcraft zones   Vash'jir   WoW  
Posted December 13, 2010 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

Hey, is that cake?

Best. webcomic. panel. ever.

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 You can check out Arthur Orneck for more. :D  Thanks for the awesomesauce.

 

Posted July 6, 2010 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

And now a deviation from normal humor...

I must say, thank you Ghostcrawler.

Normal humor I'm betting will return over the holidays. :)

Source

I don't think it's that players are necessarily trying to pad the meters (though I'm sure that does happen). I think the risk is misinterpreting "highest damage ever" as some kind of metric of how *you* do in your raid. The goal here is not to break the world record and win a gold medal. The goal is to defeat the boss, and it's probably a boss you are going to be fighting week after week. Consistency is generally more important than occasionally achieving huge numbers. 

Consider two players below: 

Player A has a damage range of 8000 to 12,000 dps. His average is 10,000 dps and 90% of the time he is near 10,000 dps. When the stars align, he can reach 12,000 dps. He sometimes drops to 8000 dps too. 

Player B has a damage range of 10,000 to 11,500 dps. His average is 10,750 dps, but he still hits 11,500 quite often. 

Now who would you rather have with you? Probably B. Yet when you look at a "Highest damage ever" list, you'll see A pegged at 12K and B pegged at 11.5K and worry that "A wins."

Ghostcrawler 
Lead Systems Designer

Posted December 22, 2009 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

Walk into a bar...

Gratia: A druid, a death knight, and a mage walk into a bar...  

Moriturus: the mage shoulda blinked through it...

Gratia: Five minutes later the bar is a crater.

Kaisura: bodies maimed with an ax too

Gratia: Was thinking they were disintigrated by a mage :P

Kaisura: mages don't hurt people...

Gratia: They make people cease to exist.

(Gratia = druid, Moriturus = Death Knight and Kaisura = Mage)

Posted November 30, 2009 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

misplaced vowels

We never claimed to get them right...

11/23 23:11:51.853  Gratia pets you.
11/23 23:11:55.344  Gratia: Ack
11/23 23:11:56.250  Gratia gently pats you.
11/23 23:12:00.937  Kaisura: GRATIA!
11/23 23:12:13.338  Gratia: That a became an e...
11/23 23:12:14.051  You bite Gratia.  Ouch!
11/23 23:12:17.522  Kaisura: no kidding!
11/23 23:12:26.381  Gratia snickers at you.
11/23 23:12:27.744  Kaisura: mind yourself would you
11/23 23:12:36.184  Gratia: My vowels are all over the place...
11/23 23:12:43.859  Gratia: I think it be time for bed
11/23 23:12:47.103  Kaisura: he did /pet rather than /pat :P
11/23 23:12:52.544  Atalya: lol
11/23 23:13:00.226  Gratia: Hey... you do that to me ALL the time :P
11/23 23:13:07.368  Kaisura: You're a KITTY
11/23 23:13:09.544  Kaisura: doh
11/23 23:13:10.710  Atalya: lol
11/23 23:13:14.436  Gratia: *snicker*
11/23 23:13:14.642  Kaisura: okay don't say it
11/23 23:13:23.273  Kaisura: I give

Posted November 24, 2009 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

skulls and crosses

[Kaisura]: take it off

[Direumbra]: Sorry... I don't undress in public

[Kaisura]: -.-

[Kaisura]: take the damn skull off my head

[Kaisura]: ya brat

[Direumbra]: Hold still... this may hurt a bit

Posted October 9, 2009 by Michelle Wolverton 
 

/rude

Direumbra: Only reason Kai's alive is that [Dark Command] isn't on the global cooldown :P
...
Kaisura: I can't help it she liked me this time
Direumbra: Must have been all those rude comments you were making 'bout her before she got there
Kaisura: couldn't have been the ones that I made about you

Posted October 9, 2009 by Michelle Wolverton