http://www.lgcoding.com.au Not quite as evil as an Evil-Murloc-Pie. Mmmmm, pie ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:56:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alot of people around the intarwebs have seen the WoW Web Stats website, and you have probably seen the level of detail it can go into. What's not that evident, from their website, is how to heck you use it. This is something I hope I can help with. I'm going ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/08/30/howto-wow-web-stats/ No, Shastarian hasn't become an axe-wielding maniac. How cool would that be, though .... *dreamy look* Shas hasn't done much this week. A few dailies here and there have been the highlights of her WoW-time as we get into baby delivery mode on the RL front. Last night, however ... Step through ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/08/28/legacy-raiding/ For all of these, click the image for the full-sized version. The very first time I go into Alterac Valley My Hunter's Ghost Cat takes the lookout! My Rogue, LeGhost, finishes a questline from LBRS and comes face to face with a dragon who he though he was Honoured with ... My Dwarf Hunter ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/08/26/random-screenshots/ A few notes on the week just gone: Broke again: after purchasing my epic mount and training, I then proceeded to trade Badges for nether Vortexes, and got a tailor to make Belt of Blasting for me, replacing an old Moroes drop. Re-gemming so that I'm not abominably over the spell-hit cap ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/08/17/the-week-that-was/ OK, ok, so maybe I'm not that great at fitting WoW-related lyrics to popular songs (did anyone guess the song I was thinking of?), but the sentiment is a valid one. For awhile now, I my trinket line-up has been my Icon of the Silver Crescent and Quagmirran's Eye. The Eye ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/08/07/so-bye-bye-quagmirrans-eye/ It's been awhile since I posted about macros. The main reason is that I haven't written any for a long time, and I don't really like posting someone else's work as my own. Having said that, these macros are by no means my personal intellectual property, and you are free ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/27/my-favourite-macros-4/ Knowing how much the Rash of the Itch King (thanks, Saresa!) information is likely to change over the coming months, I'm loathe to make any 'OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG' posts about any talents/skills/etc that come out of the beta. So I wont (except to say that this is my proposed WotLK level 80 spec ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/25/rotik-fg-and-sharing/ Gah! I hate Drama. Kinda thought that I had left it behind when I left school, you know, but mustn't be just a kid-thing. I totally wish I could set images as my /afk or /dnd message for when WoW-drama affects my gametime. I'd use this one: Image courtesy of http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/cf-archive-bin/5193-emus-kangaroos-cannot-walk-backwards.html/ Bonus ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/23/i-hate-the-drama-llama/ Friday night saw yet another Karazhan run for us Void-ies, but a little differently this time. Instead of going with our usual group makeup that consists of Group 2 having alot of the people who need gear from Kara and only a few who don't, we decided to run one ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/21/veterans-run/ As I was RSS Reader-hopping this afternoon at work to make the day go by faster, I noticed a post on WoW Insider about the WotLK beta Patch Notes. I have made an effort to wipe up the drool and copy for you here the part that pertains to Warlockery (any ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/18/before-the-storm/ On the Warlocks Den forums, I found an interesting post the other day that got me thinking. The forum post is found here: http://wowmb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=26423&highlight=Affliction. Essentially, CanadianPimp talks about using WWS to work out where you are lacking in a fight, what you missed out on doing, etc. I wanted to ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/15/classroom-dot-uptime/ As you may have read around the internets, the biggest DPS spec for raiding warlocks is the DS/SnF spec. This goes into the Demonology tree far enough to get Demonic Sacrifice, and takes the other 40 points in the Destruction tree, ending up with 5/5 in Shadow and Flame. The ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/15/spec-vs-spec/ Newly-minted level 70 Warlocks are generally wanting to run Karazhan and Heroics straight away, in order to get "teh phat purp lewtz". But unless you have been doing your research and gearing for these events in your travels to hit the level cap, you aren't ready. It's been explained in ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/14/hell-yeah-id-hit-it-all-the-time/ Sorry for not writing much of late, have had things crop up both at work and at home that have prevented me from doing anything interesting enough to write about. Sure, I could describe how I do my dailies, since that's about all I can commit to doing on WoW, ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/07/02/still-here-2/ Since hitting level 70 with Shastarian, I have been looking forwards to raiding. Having never had to opportunity to raid pre-Burning Crusade, I was very excited about seeing Karazhan: not so much for the loot, but for the chance to see content that some people wouldn't see. Obviously, Karazhan is ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/06/10/gearing-changing-focus/ Last night, I went through Zul'Gurub on my level 64 rogue with his guild for a non-serious, fun raid. We had a few level 70's, and a mish-mash of people from 62+. It was more focused on giving people who haven't had a chance to raid yet a chance to ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/06/06/i-have-heard-of-melee-hunters-but-melee-locks/ Sorry for the lack of posting of late, we have been kept quite busy on the home front, and when I get a chance to spend some time on the computer, I tend to actually play rather than blog. Hopefully, I can change that situation in the near future. With the ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/06/02/oh-no-im-a-blueberry/ I was running Heroics with some guildies the other day, and we were in Slave Pens. I can remember doing this instance pre-70 on Normal, and thinking it was abig blah, to tell the truth. Anyway, Heroic isn't much better, but we got through it OK. The end boss decided that ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/05/20/quagmirrans-eye/ Hi Everybody! Your favourite friendly druid is back, feeling much better, thanks for asking! Oh Boy, have I got some news for You! When I was feeling better, I went to Stormwind to see what those old guys could teach me. One of them, when I asked him what he could ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/05/16/tales-from-the-one-with-a-tail-sometimes/ It never rains, it pours. I've been asked to pass on a message from Shasmo, who has been sick lately, and so hasn't been playing at all. Here is it: Hi! I've been quiet lately, as you may have noticed *giggle*, that's because i've been sick, and can't come out of the ... http://www.lgcoding.com.au/2008/05/01/my-two-shass/