Dark angels follow me, across a godless sea

"A madman is not someone who has lost his reason. A madman is someone who has lost everything but his reason," wrote English writer G K Chesterton, adding, "Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."

Shut up when I'm talking to you!

Alright.

Now for your weekly Melvin story.

This one... I had to take a screenshot, I couldn't believe it.

I'm just gonna let you guys pick up the joke here... a hint, why go to kaliope, when you can just ask Melvin how to level crafting? In this case... leatherworking for his feral druid...

Rawhide!

Yep... I was there... Ima the one in the middle.






I mean, I like the shirts and all, but couldn't someone have been handing out pants? Some of these bulls are hung like orcs...





Lookit the hunter pets!
Oh wait... um... those aren't tamed, are they...

Reminds me of one of the funniest commercials I've ever seen, a cat food bit declaring a kitty's "instinctive craving for..." beef and tuna. Yeah, at the ranch, we'd lose a dozen head a year to house cats...


Reason #1,392 why the horde pwns the alliance. Much improved building standards... You think dwarves can build a roof that would hold 120 head of cattle?



Unfortunately, I had to leave early to join my guild at our first run into Mt. Hyjal... At the end my poor cow was still level one, and hadn't been killed... no thanks to a certain human pally who decided to take butchering as a profession...

You're intruding on what's mine...

Quote of the day...

"Is the glass half full or half empty?"

"Itsa bleeding shot glass! It's either full, or it's empty, or someone's not bloody well trying, are they?"

Why can't I be you?

Lunch with Melvin... he has expanded his general attitude towards tanking to include the provision that healers that pull aggro offa a tank must be doing something wrong...

"why can't they watch omen like everyone else?"

He's currently grinding CE rep for earthwarden. He invited me to join him... I ask, "SV?" he responds... "heroics."

I point out that I could just buy the coilfang armaments, skip the repair bill, and come out ahead.

He really is having a hard time understanding that the point of a tank isn't damage, it's threat. I kinda used Arms & Fury as an example...

Lookit Herk... he generates so much aggro, after he dies, the mobs spend 3 seconds kicking his corpse...

I dunno... its killing him to suck so much. He was so proud of the mage, just spamming scorch and watching omen, and believing that this was skill...

Cuz I'm a LIAR!

First, a shout out to Arms & Fury. Check this out, then pretend you can lose weight...

John McCain was in my dreams last night, offering me a job. God, I have weird dreams. And have been following the election too closely....

So I had to get my fix last night, logged in just long enough for an EotS daily on unbound.

First, I have serious mixed thoughts on Unbound. I really did used to love playing an enhance shammy... but I havent wanted to respec a character this much, ever. Unbound is goin resto, just a matter of when.

However, that aside, this was a very interesting EotS. The allies just... fell apart. Unbound was part of the group that rushed the flag. Unbeknownst to me... a season 3'ed out resto shammy had my back... I run in, rogue and warrior jump me... 10 secs, Ima still alive... good lord!

I HAVE THE POWER! Out comes the fire elemental, since Ima gonna live long enough for him to have some fun...

Let's see... rogue is gettin healz... why lookit the stupid resto druid hanging just a bit too close to the action... why was she stupid? With a sudden case of "enhance shammy on top syndrome" she decided to try to cast regrowth. AND she only had 6k life. Earthshock's a bitch baby. More than you can bear...

K. Healz done for other side. Rogue and warrior STILL on me. Time to kill mr. dual sword rogue. And he goes down... then the warrior...

You have to realize.. warriors and rogues are two really bad classes for enhance shammies to face. With my near immunity thanks to the heal master, it was time for revenge! Nay, for Justice! NO! DIVINE RETRIBUTION! FEAR THE SMACKDOWN!

So I tapped the warrior... then I hit him... then I hit him some more... and things got blurry, and he had to go live with a foster family for a while...

Its weird how some games of EotS get defined in the first coupla minutes. In this case, the allies poured reinforcements into the center, losing DR in the process... we got the flag out before the wave hit, and capped it with three bases controlled... then the allies capped. Then they grabbed the flag... and held it the rest of the game, while the able horde defended three bases easily...

Looks like ima gonna do a few 5 mans this weekend... current goals.. get Maj exalted with CC so I can get the Hippogryph mount. Get some more honor on Unbound for gear for the respec...

A point of contention between Melvin and myself. Melvin is very upset that Majeure hasn't upgraded her Bringer of Death yet. (Blue, level 70 caster staff...) I told him I was waiting for season 4 to hit, then was gonna blow my honor on the season 2 staff, and my arena points on the rest of the season 3 glad gear. At which point Maj would pretty much have the same gear as Melvin's beloved, and useless, POM mage. With a hell of a lot less effort on my part.

Sigh. And unbound whould have a nice mix of resto gear on the same day... she has about 3500 arena now, and 40k honor. Ima gonna go ahead and pick up the season 3 bracers and boots, since the season 4 look like they'll require arena ratings...

It's not a habit, I'm not an addict...

Ima jonsin... bad.

We had a ton of stuff due yesterday, and I got it all done. Haven't played since I hit exalted with SSO on Mabd monday night... and tonight I have to spend a coupla hours cleaning my apartment for an inspection tomorrow...

And here I am at work, nuttin to do, thinking about the morality of farming co-workers for cloth and money drops.

Oh lord, here comes the shakes.