Martok

The hateful raid has lost a good portion of its hate. Hmm.. Someone will have to make up the difference. Thanks for the work you have put into the raid, keeping it going, doing all the boss info/lookups/assignments etc. Raid leading is a mofo, thats why everyone doesn't do it. You will be missed from the raid, and I"m happy you are only taking a break from the raid and not the game. We have had lots of differences recently with rotations and future planning of the raid, etc... but you are still my favorite lootwhore. I'm glad this isn't a good bye.

*eats someone's soul*

DPS is not being asked to sit. Tanks are not being asked to sit. Its only healers "at this point". That is where my problem is.

I think all the healers are on the same page (though not all might voice their opinions) your plan sucks. Nobody wants to sit. Period. You can give it any type of spin you want but thats the bottom line. The "if you are sit out be available for 30 mins" ya right. I let you crap on my head in SSC days to rush home just to be told "sorry, we don't have a spot for you". I'm not even going to entertain the idea this time. If I am sat for a night, don't expect me to be sitting around just waiting for a possibility of a spot. You seriously need to think out before sitting the healers out. I can tell you, if this sitting thing becomes a regular occurance I will solve the whole situation by removing myself entirely from the raid. Plain and simple. The healers are fighting for much of the same items the DPS caster classes are now with the changes to spellpower. So healers get the short end on the DKP. Thats great. Yes, I did read you would "throw us a dkp bone to shut up". Didn't work. Sorry. The idea was to keep you from looking for replacements. The wrench in the plan is that all you have accomplished is pissing lots of people off, and if we don't sit and wait for "the possibility" of getting in on our off nights....you are back to looking for replacements anyhow.

I would like to bring Uglutz along, and then eventually either Kimpek or my DK.

Feral is lots of fun! For tanky builds, check out Kimpek's on the armory (level 80) or Hoofstomper (level 70) Orcala and Eigun are set up more for kitty dps spec if you want to go that route.

Wow. Rem, I can't believe you have 30 exhaulted reputations. That would make me go insane...but going for 40! EGADS!

This is one of my favorite weekend treats. Problem is, it takes a week to work through my system. Bad gas! But YUM its goooood!

Crockpot Beans! Ingredients: 1 lb of Bob Evans bulk sausage (Original) 1 lb of bacon 2 lb can of pork n beans (Busch’s preferred) 16 oz kidney beans 16 oz lima beans 1 cup of Heinz 57 ketchup 1 cup of light brown sugar 1 tablespoon of stadium mustard Preparation: Step 1: Brown and crumble sausage in pan, then drain Step 2: Cut bacon into 1 inch pieces and brown, then drain Step 3: Open kidney and lima cans, then drain Step 4: Open pork n beans can but do not drain Step 4: Mix all ingredients in pot Step 5: Cook on high for at least 4 hrs

Wow! Great job PGoH!!! This brings a tear to my eye! Its been so long since I have been in the realm... I hope Martok's old tower is still somewhere in the layout. I can't remember where exactly it was placed, I hope Borg was able to turn it into something useful for the guild!

Wow. Those rep changes are tasty!

Meh. I really want one....but I can see myself out traveling with the laptop, and not taking it with me.....or losing it...or something. Keep it on my keychain you might say.......but isnt it somewhat large? I don't like all kinds of dangly crap hanging from my keys! Just 4 keys and a beer bottle opener!

Heyas! Don't worry Smed. When you decide to log in, I'll still be in low 70s. I haven't been in the new lands but for maybe 5 hours! Work work work. *sadness*

Syban: Thanks for heading this venture. Our two most successful guilds post UO were ITC (Galaxies) and Clan Skullcrusher (WoW)- the reason for this was simple....TONS of pre-planning! I could go either way as far as what side to play. The only downside to playing Sith is that it will most likely be the population heavy side. (lots of little kids wanting to be Darth so and so...) I will have to read up more about the game so I can find some "background story" stuff to add for an opinion. I look forward to it!

I am so there.

You should move to CT.

I think I got them all cleaned out. If I missed some, please provide the links. I banned both accounts and ip's....not that it matters...i'm sure they have a way of getting around it.

I stopped by Stan's place (morgh's) Thought I'd share some pictures. http://www.houston-imports.com/dirty/dirty.html

LOL! CLASSIC! Orcala and Ryuk hold up the scryer bank!

So, this girl I have been seeing has a 4 year old. And did this for a school project. She was pissed, but I laughed my ass off. For some reason, this reminds me of Kalea! MUHAHAH!

I'm a victim of the latest patch "can't log in problem" that is affecting lots of people right now. Their solution is to plug directly into your modem and not use your router. Wish I could. My modem is a built in modem/router for my verizon dsl. Hope it gets fixed soon!

I've been thinking a lot about healing assignments and what not during this fight. I really think these changes will help us if we stick to them. This is a hard ass fight to learn. We'll get it though!

Thanks for the info so far all! I plan on using my current case. Here is a list of what I'm thinking on so far: Processor-AMD Phenom X4 9850 Motherboard-Asus M3n-HT Memory OCZ SLI Ready Dual Channel 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800mhz (2 sticks for 4 gig total). I'll eventually up that. HOLY COW has memory gotten cheaper than I remember???? Video Card EVGA GeForce 8800GTS KO (2) Thinking of 8800GTX's as well. Haven't decided yet. GTX doesn't seem like much of an improvement over that 8800GTS KO Power Supply Ultrax3 Ult40064 1000watt I'll eventually upgrade my hard drive, but that doesnt seem like a need at the moment.

Its almost time for some upgrading for my rig. With my current motherboard, I can't plug in an 8800GT. *sadness* Here is my current specs: Processor Name: AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor 4000+ Memory 2 Gig or 4 x DDR512PC3200XMSX Motherboard Information A8N-SLI DELUXE Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (2 in SLI) Adapter RAM: 128MB Hard Drive NVIDIA STRIPE 138.49G If I have to upgrade my motherboard, I was thinking of getting a new processor at the same time. Something like: Asus M2N-SLI Motherboard CPU Bundle - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ I am guessing I will need a new power supply as well. I believe mine is 450watts. Guessing to take it to 600w. And if I plan to do all this upgrading, I'll certainly be upgrading to Vista as well. With a new processor, mobo, power supply, I can then check into video card options. Any tech advice out there? I have never changed out anything much more complicated than a video/sound card and a few fans, but if I end up ordering all this stuff, I hope it goes well!

Warlock info: Soul Well will have 25 charges in the next patch. Druid Info: The design is for bears to be viable, end-game main tanks. The design is for cats to be viable, end-game melee dps. In both cases you are going to need the right talents, good gear, skill and companions who can back you up -- I don't mean to imply raiding will be easy. If you want to do a little tanking and dps, you probably won't be as optimal at either, though you'll probably always be better at switching between the two than other classes. In order to be as good at tanking as the other classes, you might have to give up a few talents that maximize your dps, and vice versa. This is a good thing -- it lets you choose to actually be a main tank. We are adding a new class to Lich King, as well as improving the raid viability of specs such as Arcane mage, Survival hunter and Balance druid. That means you have 30 available specs for 25 slots. There are two ways to design around this problem. One is that there are 25 mandatory specs and 5 that shouldn't be raiding. Boo. A more fun, interesting and ultimately fair direction is that you actually have some choices in who to bring. Imagine running a raid with no warrior tanks at all. Don't worry about your bears. The armor and other changes were done to fix itemization issues, not to nerf druids. You've already gotten the ability to drink pots in bear form and benefit from weapon enchants and windfury. We have plenty of knobs to turn to make sure you can do your job even better than you could in LK. On Death Knight Tanking: Part of the reason we chose to add the death knight to Wrath of the Lich King was because groups seemed to have trouble getting tanks. We think tanking in general will be more popular if it's more fun. Improving the dps of tanks will certainly help, which is something we're trying to do to the 3 existing tanking classes through talents and gear changes. With death knights, we are taking that a step further and trying to allow death knight with different specs to still be viable tanks. Maybe a death knight tank won't burn out if they can try a completely different tree without giving up their tanking role. Maybe death knight off-tanks can still contribute decent dps and utility when not tanking. Maybe it will just be more fun for everyone if you see different abilities getting used depending on who you bring along as a tank. We admire the valiant attempts to come up with specs that cherry-pick every single tanking talent, but really that's not what you should have to do to tank. If Frost Presence reduced all damage by 95% and generated 200% more threat, it's pretty clear that a death knight could tank any boss in the game, probably trivially, with no talents spent at all. That is clearly a silly example, but my point is that there are lots of ways we can adjust the base class to be an exceptional tank without you having to be dependent on keeping Blade Barrier or Bone Armor up 100% of the time. Should you get talents that help you tank? Absolutely. Will a paladin be a better Ulduar tank because she spent 20 talents on tanking and you only spent 6? There is no reason that has to be the case. Is that fair? I think it can be. The paladin will still be a better tank for some encounters and as long as she doesn't totally gimp her dps or healing abilities in order to take those tanking talents, we think the design can work. Profession Changes: -Looks like potion sickness was removed. Yay! Hope they really do intend to do away with that.