gdp's Comments

Bubble Hearth : The Ethical Alt

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:15:47 +0000

I'll be following this one for sure. :) Maybe maybe not roll a toon with yah. Though, I'd be interested to roll a Villainous Alt.

Kiss My Alas : A totally scientific look at why mages rock

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:06:56 +0000

Warlocks can cleanse all debuffs. It's called using your soulstone. =P

Kiss My Alas : Tugging threads

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:58:43 +0000

Even though I realize I'm a bit more than a bit baaaaaaaad myself, I love this post.

Righteous Orbs : Tam continues serious, introspection from the southwest, becoming northerly

Fri, 21 May 2010 22:09:47 +0000

Most of the heroic moments I've been on the receiving side of (as in, I was entirely grateful to the other person and felt honored they were even standing within ten feet of me) have been things as banal as a complete stranger offering me a hug when I looked sad, and that hug comes and goes with no words and lasts all of ten seconds maybe. Then we part ways and never see the other again. So, yeah, maybe now there's not many "Heroes" who suffer through long hardships and questlines to kill huge monstrous dragons that threaten all humanity, who are faerie-tale, fantasy-ideal Heroic. But, in my opinion, those aren't the Heroes that matter most, anyway. My recent post Changing Directions

The Stoppable Force : Clearly, I need an addon for my addons

Fri, 21 May 2010 02:13:00 +0000

Huh. Weird. =/ Well, I hope you find another addon that works. Shouldn't be hard, though.

Aurdon's World of Warcraft Mage Blog : Four PuG Habits I'd Eradicate Forever if I Could...

Thu, 20 May 2010 03:09:51 +0000

Sadly, my shaman had an 80 pally tank decked out in badge / raid gear say that he couldn't rez. I left that group with an "omfg," because I had no other words to describe my facepalming reaction to that.

The Stoppable Force : Clearly, I need an addon for my addons

Thu, 20 May 2010 02:07:00 +0000

Mmm, have you been using an older version of ACP? Mine works fine, and I use several sets across toons (AHing, one for raiding that's stripped to what I need to raid, leveling, etc.). They all load fine per toon (like my hunter perpetually has the leveling one loaded, whereas my warlock will still be in a raiding setting when I log back on). =/

Righteous Orbs : The Unnatural Axe

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:08:54 +0000

Declare what you're rolling on and win & lose like everyone else; the only difference is it's impossible for a single-role-spec player to declare any role other than what he already plays. I think loot throttling per *player* is fine, but per *spec* is just stupid and greedy. For true hybrids who play both roles fairly often, I tend to assume the role you're currently performing is MS for the loot rolls. I mean, for single-specs, we have to perform our "main" spec to get our main spec gear, so to treat everyone as equally as possible, you should play the spec you wish to upgrade. Perhaps I'm a bit harsh, but the guild doesn't push the Switch Spec button for you. Just like they don't press the "Enter World" button when you choose which toon you're going to play. You do those things. You can always play a certain spec of a hybrid class because you find it interesting and dedicate yourself to that spec and refuse to play anything else. Or you can play both specs, but please make it clear to your guildies that you intend to build both roles. Just because you choose to gear up the equivalent of 2 toons at the same time doesn't give you any special pass to gear. It just means you're gearing up 2 specs at once, rather one then the other, and that you don't have to have a distinctly separate alt-toon to play another role. Respect others in the same loot fields as your wanted gear is in, and work with them to get loot for them too, and they'll probably cut you more slack than if you were just a greedy jerk who swipes and hoards rolls. My recent post It’s VH Heroic For Fuck’s Sake

Righteous Orbs : In lieu of actual content...

Mon, 10 May 2010 22:28:19 +0000

Carpets rock. My recent post It’s VH Heroic For Fuck’s Sake

Righteous Orbs : I Gerald, Chapter 3

Wed, 5 May 2010 13:40:12 +0000

Today was going to be a bad day, but then I read this when I woke up, and now it's going to be a good day. Thank you. :) My recent post It’s VH Heroic For Fuck’s Sake

Righteous Orbs : Confessions of a Stormwind Rentboy

Tue, 4 May 2010 14:52:34 +0000

"... a lol-drooling plzmonkey." I need to remember that phrase. XD I also try to pay attention to what mats they put in to make sure it lines up with the enchant they want. I've had people argue with me that I'm a complete idiot and these are the mats for the enchant they want, when I'm staring at the freaking enchanting trade window. Numbnuts. Once, I did accidentally run off with someone's mats. It was something expensive like a weapon enchant, too, if I remember correctly. I did the trade, the trade completed, but the enchant didn't go, and I got summoned off to Naxx right then and there without really thinking about checking it. Meanwhile, I'm standing around at the Naxx stone, helping to summon my other guildies, when I looked into my bags for something and stood there horrified that I still had all the mats the dude had given me. I whispered him to exclaim "OMFG I'M SO SORRY I'll hearth right now," and I did, went back to him in IF, did the enchant, and tipped *him* for nearly causing him to go off and buy more mats and find another enchanter, etc. He thanked me and said he now trusted me more as an enchanter since I dropped everything to come back for some dumb weapon enchant. Hooray? I do free enchants for guildies. Well, they bring their mats to me, if they're missing one or two mats, I'll supply them from my stash, but mostly they bring the mats to me. Which means it probably isn't free at all. Dang. My recent post It’s VH Heroic For Fuck’s Sake

Righteous Orbs : A very srs quandary or How I Made Myself Unhappy With Every Mount In The Game

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:59:03 +0000

Lol, I meant Tuskarr are "round" like, you'd poke their bellies and they'd laugh. Like jolly tubby. I can't really go visit the Tuskarr and be in a bad mood. Dwarves, on the other hand, are "boxy" because they're mostly shoulders and muscles, y'know, not just jolly tubs. Like a dwarf would smack your face off if you tried to poke him in the tummy to make him laugh. But dwarves do make me happy, like Tuskarr. =P

Righteous Orbs : A very srs quandary or How I Made Myself Unhappy With Every Mount In The Game

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:03:45 +0000

Personally, I love hippogryphs. And carpets. Don't know how a dorf would do on one, though. Also, I figure nether rays might be like dragonhawks? Maybe? Maybe not. A dorf riding a turtle would probably look cool. Like a Tuskarr, but a bit boxier (as opposed to round) & shorter? My recent post Shaman Healing Blows My Mind

The 'mental Shaman : Share the Love

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:32:20 +0000

Awww, ele leveling is so much fun...(level 72 atm)

The Stoppable Force : Keeping what sticks

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:35:00 +0000

I go back to my roots whenever I start to get burnt out on a toon. My roots being when I was leveling my warlock and didn't know about Elitist Jerks or raiding specs or raiding stats or which zone is the fastest to level. I just followed my gut and explored things. Not just exploring zones, but picking talents by myself, figuring out the rotations by myself, doing quests without things like Lightheaded to guide me. It's kind of fun, actually, to talent yourself by your gut and end up, once you ding 80, being pretty close to the actual "accepted" talent spec. Right now, my ele shaman is about to do Wrathgate, and it's totally more exciting than when my druid (2nd 80) did it. When my druid did it, it was more "oh yeah, epic quest chain that rewards a cool cinematic and a lot of experience." My shaman's busy enjoying the journey. And she's sticking like a cinema floor to shoes. My basic advice when trying to level a toon is to forget about endgame completely. Stop trying to grow up, enjoy the kids' meals, etc. So what if you level slowly, at least enjoy it! Don't think about what she'll do when she's 80. Don't go peeking onto sites of how to properly level a class, and don't go looking for specs until you're in your 70s. Just do it your way. For mains, I do classic/BC achievements solo, specifically the dungeon ones. LBRS was actually fun on my lock trying to figure out the map and how to get to places.

Righteous Orbs : What’s my job?

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:57:33 +0000

"the warlocks who treat your mana bar as their own." ^ Those are bad warlocks who deserve death. But what gets me annoyed is on my druid when I tell the lock they can life tap and I keep tossing Rejuvs (y'know, green stuff all around your body, it's OBVIOUS PEOPLE), but they don't tap until after the HoT has expired. And then they tap until their mana bar is full, which generally leaves them at around < 20% health. For. Fuck's. Sake. People. Even when I'm trying to be nice...complete and utter morons. My recent post Raid Prep

Righteous Orbs : What’s my job?

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:51:53 +0000

Mmmm, I'd have Heavy Frostweave Bandaged him after his outburst. Just to be an ass. Dear people who demand I buff/heal them the second I get off the loading screen: I need mana after I switch from kitty to tree. Seriously, fuck off and eat a strudel. Or go pull shit and die while I drop group and go back to the dailies your sorry ass interrupted. TYVM - Pone's druid As for the mage who didn't want to waste a GCD...well, let him die next time. When he protests at his death, tell him, gosh darn, you couldn't spare the GCD to throw him a HoT. That's my rule when people treat me like their decursing bot. My recent post Raid Prep

Righteous Orbs : I Gerald (Chapter II)

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:41:05 +0000

XD More! More! More! My recent post Raid Prep

Righteous Orbs : Confirmation Bias in Action – Some Thoughts on Gevlon's Ganking Guild

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:03:28 +0000

Mmmmm, this is why I don't read Gevlon. I don't care for those who use distorted logic just to preen their egos and then parade around so very pretty pretty peacocky and 'successful.' My recent post Cataclysm Warlock Stuff

Righteous Orbs : Alternative Advice For Gearing a New 80

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:10:37 +0000

"who knows, the blue could last for a while (trinkets for example, can be awesome, even if they're blues and ilvl200 epics) " This is so true. My warlock hit 80 around mid-December 2008, and soon after I started with some of the easy heroics like Nexus and VH. I didn't replace Mark of the War Prisoner (blue off Cyanigosa, H-VH) until after Tier 10 had barely broken out and I had saved enough triumph emblems to get Shard of the Crystal Heart. That's what...a year's worth for a measly 200 blue? Oh yeah, these blues can last a long time. My recent post Cataclysm Warlock Stuff