People with lives are not cut out for (being good at) MMORPGS. Don't feel too bad~

Well, I'm a good player. I've had people ask my why the hell I'm not in a big raiding guild. Simply put, I treat it as it is, a game. I don't treat it as some huge e-peen fest of having to have the best stuff and flaunt it around. (Although I wouldn't mind having me some of that T4 and 5~)

There's many reasons that made me quit, but the new 25 man raiding was amongst them, and also the fact that all the gear that I collected for more then a year was instantly crap. I mean at some point I had the best tanking gear around and then *poof* it's gone. I even had to stop using the Thunderfury because it was crap. ;_;

Constant warrior nerfs didn't help either, and my interest in general was rapidily decreasing.

Patch is confirmed to be tomorrow.

...Woo?

I think it's fair at this point to say ::noonecares::.

For as long as the patch notes are, this one just felt like a big tweaks patch of stuff that needed to get taken care of. Only this will likely include the "break all the mod functionality" just like every content patch always does.

All my mods worked fine.

Also, in other somewhat related news, my paladin did an almost full run of KZ on Monday. Aaaand since I've waited so long to do anything with my guild due to work getting in the way and what-not, pretty much everything was rot. I ended up with Boots of Valiance, Pauldrons of the Justice-Seeker, and the T4 helm. Not bad for my first somewhat full run of the place. Fun stuff.

Yeah I was completely astonished when I logged in and none of those crazy messages came up on how mod x couldn't do something on line 159495.

Grats on the loot!

I think I got into a "permanent" Karazhan group as an OT. This is my third time in the place and I fully understand I probably won't be a "main" goer, but more of a backup when that other's guild's other tank can't make it, but it's been pretty fun. We got to Attunmen but that's it. (really didn't have the healing nor DPS to do much of any damage) but that's all apart of learning the place. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I get "phat lewts". Next Kara run will put me at honored and if we can take down Attunmen, then I'll be able to purchase a couple of the epic blacksmithing plans from the stables.

Oooh! Has anyone started those new faction quests? I started on the Skyguard to get a Nether Ray. It's going to be tough since they're all being farmed to hell and back, but those Nether Ray mounts look cool as shit.

My rogue has a normal epic mount already, since I use it for farming herbs and mining. I think I'm going to get the Netherdrake for my paladin, though. I mean, everyone else will have the Netherdrake, but oh well. I think it's bad-ass.

My account lapsed about 4 days ago. I figured I'd be quick to load up the game card my sis got for me, but it's actually nice not to feel obligated to log in the game for once. I'm actually getting stuff done now :tpg:

Wow, I feel like I want to smash my keyboard whenever I face a pali and warrior combo in 2vs2. Just had to vent that D: .
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That new gold spam report function has really helped though. I don't have to use WRUGS anymore and I basically get 1 gold spam PM a day now, awesomeness.

Arright so I just got backin to WoW after some seriously long down time, and with all the changes, I've got some things to figure out. I haven't played since a good six months before Burning Crusade. Yikes.

Anyway, the UI mods are getting really hard to separate into good, bad, and ugly. I've tried Cosmos and Titan, and I prefer Titan just a bit more. But is there another UI mod that's a little more cleaned up and error-free?

Specifically, and from what I can remember about the mods before BC and before I took my break, I'm looking for mods that show where gather points are (mining, herbalism), reveal the whole world map even though you haven't explored it yet, and overall interface improvements without getting too crowded.

Like I said, the Titan UI mod comes the closest, but it's still lacking. Any suggestions?

Edit: Oh yeah, one of the features I liked from a previous mod was something of a quest helper. It pointed you the right direction for a specific quest, or something like that.

wowace.com is a good start for excellent mods, and dl'ing their updater makes, well updating, much less of a chore. FuBar is a great alternative to Titan, Cartographer should have all your gathering/mapping needs, they have an excellent quest mod there(can't remember the name ATM), and pretty much anything else you'd need.

I started playing again. This time I refuse to let the game control me like I had in the past. Since my horde guild is pretty much dead, I've been playing alliance and tinkering the idea of going to another server or just handing the guild to someone else and transferring my 70 orc tank to another server to try and get into some form of endgame (that will work around me and not me around the raiding).

Also, I finally hit Exalted with Darnassus with my Gnome, so she has her kitty mount now~

Does the game seem to be running a whole hell of a lot smoother now, anyway? I've been getting a good constant 20-40 FPS while running around and the game looks like a billion times smoother. Someone said something about Blizzard doing a tweak in patch 2.1, but I dunno.

I'm by no means alert of what mods are good and not right now, but cosmos is bad, it's horrible ditch that right away.

If you want to know where mineral veins and herbing spots are get gatherer, it records where you mined and herbed in the past. I'm sure you can somehow get someone else's data. I also noticed that since TBC it updates your guild members mine/herb spots, but I would assume only when they have it installed as well.

Fubar pretty much ditches the standard blizzard UI and makes it look organized and shiny. There's a shitload of other mods you'll want like SWstats, omni cooldowncount, etc, but you'll find those as you go along.

I just tried Fubar and I didn't really like it. Too many options cramping the top and bottom bars, just didn't seem very organized.

I used CTMod earlier, and they've got a very user-friendly setup. Coupled with a few other standalone mods I kinda prefer that to Fubar.

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Oh, and Gatherer was incompatible, so for now it's no good. I've used it before though, so I'll wait for an update.

Edit: Damn. Okay there's one mod now I'm specifically looking for, and I know FuBar had it. It was Fubar_PetFu, and possibly PetInfo. They allowed you to mouse over a pet and find out what trainable skills it had, among other things. I've got Fizzwidget's Hunter's Helper (which supposedly does the same thing) turned on, but nothing's coming up. I'm wondering if that's because I haven't started training pets yet...maybe I'll just try it and find out.

Get Ace, and use Bartender. It's the best bar mod I ever used. If you don't like it, you could also use Discord Action Bars.

I like ct-mod and titan panel, easy and light... Also, they update pretty fast, so if you get used to an ui and a patch arrives, one like the "before the storm", you'll be able to go on gaming as you always did...
I used discord before tbc, it took me a week to get re-used to the default ui when the expension has been released, i promised myself not to change it too much anymore...

I rerolled on the Lothar (OF THE HILL PEOPLE) server. My 70 warrior is now retired as I've handed the guild to someone who I think will do a much better job than I did running a guild. The guild I'm in over on Lothar seems to be pretty cool and some of them want me to bring my warrior over there. :P Dunno if I can just outright drop two years of history for a tanking spot though. :|

And I did... My tank is on Lothar. I hate the fact I transferred leaving behind my friends like that, but I hated to see him just sit there and rot too. I don't see my time playing too much longer anyway. I'll probably go through one more time card and call it quits after that.

My best friend convinced me to buy the game today. I'll be in Chromaggus or whatever it's called if anyone wants to hit me up and teach me how to play this damn thing. Me llamo is Luriden.

So, I just re-activated my account about a week or so ago. I had my level 70 Paladin ready for Karazhan in March, but since my guild wasn't moving so fast I took a break from WoW to hopefully get back into the game once again. I logged back in the other day and I'm now in the first Kara group (hurray!) starting next week. I never got much into hardcore raiding with MC,AQ, ZG, etc. so I don't know how log this'll last, but I'm starting to enjoy playing my frost mage (level 33).

I wasn't a hardcore player neither. I was part of the "die" in "RAID OR DIE!!!". I transferred and got into a semi-hardcore guild. No attendance policies and everyone is really nice. Yesterday they moved me to their Group 2 Kara and we did Attunmen, Moroes and Opera Event (Little Red Riding Hood~) unfortuneately the rifle I wanted didn't drop, but the tanking helm did and they were like "gratz man" and I was like "WTF are you serious?" "yea dude, upgrade. get it or it gets sharded."

We're also doing The Eye (I don't know why they're skipping Serpentshrine really, since going there first would make more sense.)

I'm having fun, but I don't know how long this will last. At least I'll have some pretty nice stuff for once before I call it quits.

If your guild doesn't raid with the same 25-30 regularly, Serpentshrine is basically not going to happen for you. Hydross is probably the 2nd hardest boss in the zone, and he's the first boss you fight.

Serpentshrine is what made me quit the game, and the guild I was in was, at the time, ranked in the top 10 in the world. Right now I think they've slipped down to 15-20. But, the amount of time and gold and effort it took to learn Serpentshrine simply isn't worth it for any guild, in my opinion.

So that could be why they're skipping SSC.