Black Temple Success…Screenshot Fail

So yeah, protip. If you’re using Fraps, two suggestions.

1. On windows 7…it ain’t gonna work right til you run as administrator. Otherwise your keybind gets screwy, it takes LITERALLY 10,000 screenshots while you play Dragon Age: Origins.

2. When you change your keybind, and try to take screenshots of something you have NEVER seen before. It doesn’t WORK if you hit the OLD keybinding.

So if you want to see screenshots, they are over at Bear’s Blog.

It was my first night back, and using my new machine and it was B-E-A-utiful. Max graphic settings for the most part (let’s face it some are just not needed at max), running no less than six programs in the background, no lag, it was amazing.

But the best part was walking up to that roof and seeing Illidan in the flesh. Hearing him in person saying “YOU ARE NOT PREPARED”.

And even better than that, logging in and seeing my guildies and being asked to go in the first place. I’ve missed WoW, and I’ve missed my Sidhe Devils:-)

Tags: WoW

From Me To You…

Pandaren Monk and Lil K.T. Pets Go!

I have been waiting FOREVER to hear news about the Pandaren Monk pet that was datamined a while back. Today, it went LIVE! And so did Lil K.T. And the awesome thing about it is, you can go to the blizzard store and buy them for $10 each! No farming, no grinding, no rare drops or rare spawns are difficult achievements. Just $10 of your money. to top it off, 50% of the proceeds from the Pandaren Monk, through December 31, 2009 will go to Make-A-Wish foundation. Woot! I got myself one of each! They are bind on account, so you have them for all characters past and present. However if you have 2 accounts or more under your Battlenet account, you must buy one for each account.

Screenshots!

KT is Number 99…

My little Monk friend is pet number 100!!

KT will freeze critters and laugh manically, and the monk makes Kung Fu noises on click, bows back if you bow to him, and man he has some moves!

Get you some!

Casual Guild Strolls Into Ulduar: 5 Bosses Die, Corpses Abused.

We Devils strolled into Ulduar last night to entertain ourselves for a while. Most of us were first timers, our had only seen Flame Leviathon. So you’d think we’d have a bit tougher time of it. But apparently, we are truly awesome. Shh! I don’t want to hear how it’s “easy since whatever nerfs” there will be no parade showers on this blog. So here’s how it went..

Flame Leviathon: 1 Shot!

Razorscale: 1 Shot!

XT Deconstructor: WHO THE HELL GAVE IT THAT VOICE??? 1 Shot. (And SOMEONE made me his Minion after I died)

Ignis: I can’t remember if this was a 2 or 3 shot, but he was the only one to give us any real trouble.

Kologarn: well hell, we didn’t expect to finish the first section of Ulduar, so why not go get this guy. We 2 shotted him. This is where the corpse abuse comes in.

First, we used a Gnome to pierce his nose.

Unfortunately that made his nose run, and another Gnome fell out.

And there were Achievements! (luckily MY eath on XT was to a light bomb)

Much fun was had by all!

We are the Sidhe Devils, Mighty Mighty Sidhe Devils. Yes, our tank IS wearing Bunny Ears…what of it???

Clique+Grid: Not JUST for Healers Anymore!

Everyone who heals is familiar with grid and clique. And if you’re like me, you forget to turn it off for your other toons. And why would you? I mean grid makes excellent real estate savings with it’s compact size, and for a DPS class, it’s really configured enough right out of the box. And Clique is so lightweight and out of the way, you don’t even notice it. BUT…did you know even as a DPS character, you can make use of these combined addons?

As I’ve been playing my hunter, I keep forgetting to readd my misdirect macro. So, when I realized I needed to MD in an instance, I panicked. Then I realized…I had clique active. I also was using grid for my party frames. So what did I do? I opened up clique from my spellbook, I found my misdirect spell, and I assigned it to shift+left click. Now I can use that button combo on my focus (or just on the grid bars even) and cast MD without having to change from my hostile target, and I don’t need a focus at all if I don’t want to set one.

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But wait! That’s not all. I can do the same with Master’s Call! And hey! Why not with my Rogue’s Tricks of the Trade? And while I’m at it, I bet I can use it on my Pally for Righteous Defense! How many more uses are there? I bet every class can find at least ONE. And Grid isn’t the only healthbar mod Clique works with of course. It works with all of them as far as I know. I just prefer the tiny Grid boxes. Your mileage may vary.

Thought I’d add some of the things I’ve seen in response as I go.

Death Knight: Raise Ally (Thank you Stop)

Draenei: Gift of the Naaru (Thanks Nibuca. Also, Nib is the reason I use Grid on all my toons)

From Aurik via twitter: "I found it handy for misdirects – much better than setting up a macro and then for Battle Shout / HoW and my DK self heal stuff"