The Quintessential Me
Giving the Affliction spec a drive around the block gave me much delight, but also confounded me. You see, I’ve long been of the opinion that Demonology is the quintessential Warlock spec, expressing...
View ArticleIn Defense of Damage Meters
It is all the rage these days to disavow any regard whatsoever for damage meters. One is expected to denounce their use, purge them from one’s system, deny them access to your chat window, and make...
View ArticleYou can’t bluster your way through a heroic
Pontificator In Chief what’s no longer doing MMO blogging Tobold went back to the well to pontificate, yet again, how DPS R Bad Peepuls, yawl1. If by the tone of my opening paragraph you conclude that...
View ArticleLies, damned lies, and forum posts
You may recall recently, a "blue" from "Blizzard" posted that he or she "had hopes" that "we" (warlocks) would be able to "run a quest" to "get green fire". And there was much rejoicing. Still, when...
View ArticleStarting on the Ground Floor
Resuming healing after two or so years’ idle time is a scary adventure. There has been some semi-serious talk of me coming back as the team’s "main" on Alleria and letting our long-suffering GM return...
View ArticleI have a solution
As long as I’ve played, I’ve seen a constant flow of envy from other classes. They look at our magnificent demonic steeds, and say "Hey, why can’t we have one?"1 They gaze longingly at our portals...
View ArticlePriesty PSA: Dispelling
Ever since I started running instances with the guild again, I’ve been running into a memory problem: I couldn’t remember which binding I had assigned to my dispel set up for in Clique. I’d see error...
View ArticleKilling them softly
Back in the BC days, the idea of a viable Holy or Disco DPS build was teased at by Blizz, and many of us spent countless hours trying to suss out what that build might BE. We never found it, and I...
View ArticleOppa Disco Style
I recently stated that Disco was an acceptable leveling build, and I stick by that, but one term in the equation that may need tweaking is "acceptable". Disco leveling is kind of like running a...
View ArticleNOW IS THE TIME AT GRIMMLABS WHEN WE DANCE
Everybody knows how awesome Hunters are1. But nobody’s actually put it to song, as far as I know. Until now. The merry miscreants at Warcraft Hunters Union2 have come up with a little something....
View ArticleRock out with your Lock out
Grimmtooth Actual’s first best love is Grimmtooth the hunter, no doubt about it, but one could argue that the Hunter is so second-nature at this point that it’s more like a Stay-cation than a true...
View ArticleAction Stations
While we were offline, events that affect us all took place. Our guild managed to get its first T141 boss down, without Jasra’s healing touch. The question came up, did they want her back, or a DPS?...
View ArticleJust because I can’t play doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion
Welp. Post-moving, we’re still playing catch-up with the bills. A gigantic phone bill was settled at the expense of cable and internet. It’ll be back on in a couple of weeks, and things should be...
View ArticleInteractive media – it’s the wave of the future!
When I get ranty, I tend to pound out around 2000-3000 words of pure snark and outrage, then spend several days tweaking and adjusting and, yes, most definitely, deleting. Because even though a good...
View ArticleAlexander the Great’s Chief Hunter has Finally Joined his Master
(Fifty quatloos to the person that knows where that title came from – no cheating with Google!) It is with a heavy heart we report the retirement of Warcraft Hunters Union and Frostheim’s time at the...
View ArticleI’m there for ya
The Godmother of ALT:ernative is cooking up some Hunter goodness, but, alas, she ran into some sort of obstacle and, sadly, was forced to present this on her site: [Please imagine that there is an...
View ArticleAn intervention is probably not out of the question
Every now and then it happens. I’ll be tending my auctions in Darnassus when the cry goes out: Darnassus is under attack! Usually I ignore it so as to not disrupt the flow of my auction-tending, but...
View ArticleThat’s my Jam
As I trudged over to the Timeless Yawn to do my penance for having enjoyed the game in a previous life1, I started to notice something odd. I was blowing stuff up. I mean, 60 to 80% better than any of...
View ArticleNOW IS THE TIME AT GRIMMLABS WHEN WE DANCE
Everybody knows how awesome Hunters are1. But nobody’s actually put it to song, as far as I know. Until now. The merry miscreants at Warcraft Hunters Union2 have come up with a little something....
View ArticleI have a solution
As long as I’ve played, I’ve seen a constant flow of envy from other classes. They look at our magnificent demonic steeds, and say "Hey, why can’t we have one?"1 They gaze longingly at our portals...
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