On bullying

Completely non-wow related other than I picked this up on Lady Jess flagging up a short by Ellen on bullying in the US

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B-hVWQnjjM]

Which I so happened to read after seeing a dear_gnome on a similar subject.

Bullying, for whatever reason, just no.. never.

Kid of Speed

I reckon it’s time this link (http://www.kiddofspeed.com/) did the rounds again, the foul up at Chernobyl is something which should never be forgotten, a reminder that we all are only human and that reaction times and human arrogance is something which has to be factored into any design decision, whether it’s for a garden, kitchen, baby stroller, car, phone network or a nuclear reactor.

Design the system with the basic assumption that homosapiens is in the loop, with all the faults inherent in the species.

Please.

Beta: Paladin levelling

Only a few quick comments at the moment.  The tag team paladins have teamed up on the Beta and are trying a prot/ret approach to the wrecking ball (we rolled through Wrath as Prot / Holy), it’s working well.  As ever two paladins are a awesome combination, we turn up and things die, what I am having to watch more than in the past is my health, the mobs are hitting hard and to be honest I’m out of practice in keeping a eye on my health having been out of the levelling game on him for 18 months or so.  Doing dungeons and raids does actually require a certain degree of “other than when my health alarm pings I do not worry about my health, my job is keeping my mitigation and threat up to stop the mobs eating the healer, the healer is focused on my health”.  So I’ve died more while levelling than I should due to a “I’m a tank, of course I can… ouch”.

Anyway, Deepholm is nice, pretty and it’s good to see a horde airship smashed into pieces, just as things should be.  The story in the quest lines is working, I’m looking forward to running through it more once the final, non-bugged, version drops in the shops.

So, that release date

We now have

  • 2/Nov
  • 11/Nov
  • Early Dec
  • Jan 2011

Which I think translates as either

  • No one has a clue

or

  • Blizzard are putting out all sorts of disinformation to confuse the hell out of everyone

Easy gold, Brewfest

Direbrew is a faceroll this year, I think he spent the period since the last Brewfest sampling his own brew rather than in the BRD gym working out.  Anyway what this currently means is a LFD queue of no more than 2 minutes on any alt, boss death within 30 seconds (typically within 15) and 20g and the chance of epics.

Currently I’m clearing approx 140g / day for 30 minutes of alt hopping.

Team Pirate : Reminder

The weekly is Flame Leviathan, do not pug this on the toon you’re bringing to the ongoing Ulduar 10 clear or you’ll be locked out of this week’s attempt on Yoggie and possibly block us from even attempting it.

We’ll try and arrange either an alts run, or an attempt at 10-manning the 25-man version of him (how hard can it be…)