Karazhan - WowWebStats

Here's the raid report from WowWebStats for Sunday's Karazhan attempt(s). I'm not an expert, but I think my hunter did well with 0 misses. Does our tank need more +hit? I think most of the rest of us are okay, although I think maybe +spell hit on the mages? I'm a big noob when it comes to WWS. If only BRK would read the blog maybe he could tell me what I'm not seeing. :o)

Sissy Fight!

TenTonHammer has an article on women in raiding which as linked by WowInsider.

I'm not going to add to the furor either of these two articles has caused. Instead, I'll just state how things go in my guild.

Our raid leader, when I'm not filling in, is held by a woman. She's awesome at ensuring everyone knows their role and what to expect. In fact, all the women in our normal Karazhan raiding group (we have 3) are awesome. Most of them play with their partners and so we avoid some of the "women as sex objects" drama. Actually, we avoid it all. We're an older guild and don't buy into the sexual tension drama that can escalate. In my guild, at least, there isn't ever any question about women knowing less, being less skilled, or any of that crap. We love our raiders - man, woman, gay, straight, old, young, black, white, Asian. It's really all about how effective and efficient you can make our guild and not about any artificial labels. So, if you're a woman (or a man) and looking for that guild where the artificial labels matter, c'mon over to Alleria. Send me a whisper in game.

The Great Hunter Experiment - Update

Welcome to a special feature of the blog. Weekly, for the next several weeks, we'll be doing an experiment in hunter spec. Please read on.

Honestly, not much has been done on the experiment. Which is sad because I'm going to run out of "experimental" images before we get this puppy done. I've confirmed the attendees, my only concern is Qerk as the healer. He's not playing as much these days, and if I need to rely on him I'm going to have to work around his schedule. I might have Kikidas replace with her priest as the healer in question. Which means I'd need to clear with Malignance to take the warlock spot. Also, I've had a bit of a cash flow problem this week in acquiring all the mats & pots I need to run the experiment. You may have read that I got my epic mount! Yay me.

Additionally, Qerk is away from his computer for the week, running in some silly marathon. Anyhow, the experiment will continue. Hopefully by next Thursday I'll have some more details.

All of 'em are good.

Thanks, Galadria for the post idea. She recently posted a /rant post on her blog that talked about excluding a class from a raid based on gear or spec. She went on to say it was the person on the other end of the internet that could make or break the deal.

I absolutely agree. I think good players are just good. I know there are some people that I know out there that I'd play with any of their characters. There's an understanding of the mechanics and knowing what a particular class can do that comes through when you've found one of these rare gems.

I know we all have alts. When you find a good (truly good) player, do yourself a favor and get a list of their alts. If the player is good, the build/spec/class of the character has very little to do with what you can accomplish.

Once, when my hunter was just barely 70, I got a comment from someone I played a lot with at the time. He said "It was cool to group with your hunter. You play him well - just like you do all of your characters." At the time, I took it as a compliment to myself. But after reading the above post, I'm beginning to see connections outside myself. Perhaps I'm one of those good players, whose good at lots of things.

Significant Milestone

On Sunday, my hunter plunked down 5200 gold at the place in Shadowmoon Valley and picked up this little beauty. All I can say is wow, this thing is fast.

And for once I was the one being cursed for quick mining and not the one doing the cursing.

For me, this is a fairly big milestone. Even though I had three level 60s when the expansion went live, only one (my warlock) had an epic land mount. I had just never really been able to save up that kinda of cash. Since then, of course, I've leveled four toons to 70 (the hunter was a wee level 37 at BC Go Live) and have purchased epic ground mounts and normal flying mounts for all of them. And now I have my first epic flying mount. (Astute readers will note that I said "first." I'm sure I'll get other epic fliers--probably for my other toons, but you know, a netherdrake is only some faction grinding away).

You Eye

Since I got a comment from yesterdays posting about the UI, I thought I could post on that. Here's another posting with another UI picture, this on in combat.

That said, I'll refer everyone who is interested to WoW Interface where you can search for MazzleUI. This is what it looks like. I don't really know what to say about it. I've been using it since beta testing (over a year for me now) and in the dark days when UI's break, I'm so ineffective I generally don't do anything of any consequence. The pieces of the UI that I'm most happy with in Karazhan are the respawn timers (Incubator from ACE, on the left side of the screen midway), the HUD (an integral part of the compilation), and the buttons (Bongos1 in the UI, but the cool thing is they skills & spells are placed automagically). I'm also fond of the Context Menu (that 4x4 block of buttons hovering above the maintank windows). The 3D models are also pretty cool-they pictures are animated and do semi-random emotes.

Next - A significant milestone.

'Nuff Said?

Guild First for us. Yay!