Swine Flu
I saw it last night in trade channel, was wondering who made this up. But today I browse through wowinsider and saw it.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/30/breaking-news-swine-flu-strikes-azeroth/
Not a bad week at all. We went to pay a visit to Uldar -- the newest raid instance in the game this week.
Tuesday: After a one shot kill on Flame Leviathan, we wiped for 3 straight hours for the next 2 bosses. Wipes fest!! It doesn't look pretty
Thursday: Since Plunk was going to be late, we went back to do Malygos first. Then we went on to do 2D OS. Guess people still sleeping and can't stay away from the flame waves. Geez, how long would it take these people to stay out of bad stuffs? Don't hit by waves!!!!
After we downed 2D OS, we shifted our focus back to Uldar. The first attempt at XT-002 started off pretty good. After a few tries, we finally made it before the old enrage timer(old timer was 6min, Blizz hot fix it yesterday to make it enrage at 7min mark) by 2 sec.
Next we tried Razorscale. First we tried to single target and interrupt the chain lightning. Didn't work too well, so we moved the pack together and AOE them down. It's much better and able to take a few swing at the boss. At our last attempt of the night, somehow people staying alive without standing in WW or fire, we able to took the boss down to 50% in his 2nd landing. There after was the final phase and adds wouldn't spawn anymore. 2 tanks took a tons of damage and didn't realize they need to kite the boss until the very end. Kudos to Plunk realized that and withstand for a long while after Jorge went down.
Good stuff. That's OSRT style killing boss on the very last attempt.
Razorscale is pretty easy, after we took the right approach.
Logs for Thursday:
Malygos
http://wowwebstats.com/zhidciflwijzg
http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/log/614274
Sartharion 2D
http://wowwebstats.com/1gxbl4ggv6qgc http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/log/614281
Ulduar - XT & RS
http://wowwebstats.com/hvpetq5uikouo http://www.wowmeteronline.com/combat/log/614290
Note: all the above links to Stratfu.
You can go to tankspot to watch their awesome video on the strategy.
Queues in Windows Communication Foundation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731089.aspx
What's WCF? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731082.aspx
Want to learn WCF: http://www.thatindigogirl.com/LearningWCFCode.aspx
I have that book, I would recommanded you to get it from amazon. It's under 30 bucks.
WCF on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663324.aspx
Comparison messaging vs WCF:
http://blogs.msdn.com/motleyqueue/archive/2007/09/22/system-messaging-versus-wcf-queuing.aspx
book preview on google:
http://books.google.com/books?id=fDykmoWpjzEC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=Queues+in+WCF&source=bl&ots=XW3MXr94Cr&sig=xtL7hvJ0CRRbIWwqSoKv5cPxAwM&hl=en&ei=y4HvSZebNsuLtgfC6NzGDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPA251,M1
sample: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFMSMQ.aspx
Or just google this http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ITVA_en___US240&q=queues+in+WCF
The long waited Pach 3.1 finally arrvied. The most anticipated feature is the dual spec. I don't care much about the new Argent Tournament, especially those dailies, it gonna be a gank ground there. The dual specs is just so awesome with 1k gold. You can change your spec with a click of a button.
Last night was a expected bad night for raid with all the lag and server instability as we have seen that before back in the good old days when we tried to raid in Black Temple. It's more a night for people to get their addons fixed and get used to new spec. We ended up calling it a night after we got booted several times by the server.
All the glyphs are sold like hot cakes. It's the best time to sell glyphs and herbs as people getting dual spec and need to get glyph for the new spec. I dumped quite a few TBC herbs on the AH with a markup price. =) Gems also sell well in AH. Just not as good as I expect. Potions probably will sell well also since people want to see the new Ulduar raid instance.
I am not quite prepare for the dual specs. I was respeccing on the fly last night. I already dropped 2k gold on my warrior and pally to get their dual specs activated. Another good thing is I got free respec. But it also sucks that I lost the spec I've already had before. Wish Blizzard let us choose to get free respec or not.
Most of the addons actually still work properly. In the past, it's a big hussle that none of the addons work and people would QQ for that.
Another new feature worth to mention is the new turtle mount u can get from fishing. But what's the fun with fishing? I don't really like it. But with the turtle mount that would drop, I may once again think about leveling my fishing skills.
Hopefully the server will be stable tonight so I can go pewpew with my fury warrior. I still want to tank through, but it's easier to get in horoic and people can take on less geared dps than a less geared tank.
Rotation for leveling build
Quoted from my guild forum by Mike:
Learning from actually playing the class for quite some time, I'm sure some
of the other rogues would agree this basic leveling build would be best with
minimal downtime...http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=f0ec0egoiboIuho0xMZbb
as far as poisons are concerned, I would use deadly mainhand and wound
offhand with the build. I would hold off on replacing wound with Instant till
you are around 2200 ap or so. I believe that was what was determined the
crossover point between the two with imp poisons. Rotation should be something
along the lines of Cheapshot, Mutilate, Envenom, mutilate, kidneyshot, dead. I'm
not a big fan of HfB since it is easily overlooked, even though the 15% damage
is nice.
Another comment by Derek
I use wound poison on both blades (wound poison's damage at 50% application
chance is greater than instant poison's at 20% and it has a better chance to
proc before my first mutilate, boosting its damage) and do the following:Cheap Shot, Mutilate, Eviscerate, Mutilate
- or -
Cheap Shot, Mutilate, Kidney Shot, Mutilate, Eviscerate
If the first mutilate and melee during cheap shot reduces the target to ~50%,
I just eviscerate. If not or if they deal a lot of damage, I use kidney shot.
One more mutilate and the following eviscerate is usually enough to finish them
off. If they have a lot of health or armor, I might throw a second mutilate in
to get a full 5-point eviscerate. Also, I don't wait for 5 CPs before casting
kidney shot or eviscerate. I just blow them at 4. Since you have Relentless
Strikes and I don't (yet), you might want to try Cheap Shot, Mutilate, Kidney
Shot, Mutilate, Mutilate, Eviscerate on everything. I used to wait until I was
at full energy before using Kidney Shot in order to maximize my damage with the
9% bonus, but I quit and now I take less damage.
Addons:
I would suggest the following addons, not just for rogue, but for every class
All you need for cooldown, damage, crit, incoming heal/dmg,
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5153-MikScrollingBattleText.html
This one is extra on the side if u want to see your cooldown
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/classtimer.aspx
HUD
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11167-DHUDfor3.0.html
Rogue site:
http://oneroguesjourney.com/
This guy has video on how to setup your classtimer addon
http://oneroguesjourney.com/2009/03/06/friday-morning-mod-classtimer/
I went to play bball on Friday night for the first time since Feb. Oh boy, after 2 full-court games, I was exhaulted and had to sit out for the next 2 games. After that, we played half court games until 2am. O_O
Next day I woke up I felt sooooo sore and tired. But my friend called me to go play outdoor. WHAT? Outdoor? Oh well, since the place is closed by. I played for 2 hours (sigh).
Somehow I survived for the whole day until 4am with my body broken down completely. I even got my tanking trinket from Hall of Lightning (FINALLY) after at least cleared it 8 times. Thanks to guildie Coda help me out.
On Sunday, we friends came over to chat work lunch talk until 4ish. After they left I jumped on wow and I started doing my dailies. As I kept playing, I started falling asleep. I was able to hang until WG finished then I jumped into my bed around 6.
I was totally past out. I woke up like 10pm and remembered I had to finish my daily quests in wow. I logged back into wow and shortly after friends whispered me and asked me to go raid. I was like SURE!! I quickly fixed my sandwich and drank up enough water and played till 2:30. woho!! Way to be Jon.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/03/around-azeroth-multiplicity/
Man, it was crazy. I got home late last nite, probably 7:30, log on wow and tried to do the Son of xxxx Dailies. I flew around and couldn't find any mobs to kill. Then I tried to turned in a quest I completed earlier, the NPC just not there.
I thought it's just that zone has problem, so I log on my warrior and checked out what's going on in Dalaran. Oh boy, there's no NPC, can't pick up the cooking daily, the portal to major cities were gone, can't access the bank (b/c the cashier not there!!).
Then I asked in Guild chat what's happening, it apparently the whole Northtrend server having problems. So I log on my shammy in TBC, which is fine over there. But then I don't feel like leveling, so I just went on to fixing something to eat.
Log on later for the 10pm raid, at least the instance server was up. We finished up the Naxx we left off from Tuesday. Then went to do our 2 Drake Sartharion. After a few wipes and learnt. We saw the server announced there would be a reset in 15minutes. So we quickly buffed up and tried to squeeze in 1 more attempt. I don't know if it's b/c people knew it would be our last attempt of the night or not, we somehow pulled it off.
With less than 2 minutes left to hand out the loot, we quickly roll for the Dragon Hide Bag and some other loots I don't care about. But the most important loot, Illustration of the Dragon Soul which I finally got it. I quickly equipped it just in case Blizzard took a snap shot of what I've been wearing before they restarted the server. Shortly after that (less than 30sec), the server restarted and kicked everyone out of the game.
I logged back in after 5minutes later and luckily my trinket is still there!!! Our raid attempted to get in Melogos but the instance server couldn't bring back up. So some of us decided to raid the horde cities to get our Black War Bear. Every horde cities we went were pretty much empty. Must be people didn't even border to log back on. Perfect time to do For the Alliance!.
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Article written by Andrew Connell
link on AC's site:
Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites
MSDN link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd571480.aspx
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2009/03/gallery_ewaste_recycling
Good article. These people not sending junk to asia country to "recycle" where they just pill the shxt up in empty land. Instead, they do it in the right way.
If you don't feel like to read, at least look at the photos!!!!
Coming this summer, your best friend when you are hungry. Here it comes Hungry Man tv dinner.
http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/04/01/hungry-man-beer-basted-boar-ribs/
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