December Blog Posts

Who hasn't seen the hilarious raiding incident of a mage hitting mirror image and then having "Surprise! You've got aggro!" as the invisible buff wears off and a dragon goes charging for his throat?

Up until today mages have had to pre-emptively invis (not really an option during Tenebron and Shadron on Sarth3D), beg for hand of salv's, or just generally squeeze their eyes shut, hover a hand over iceblock, and hope.

Today after a bit of begging, a friend of mine released an update to his mod:

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Sorry for just a string of AddOns lately, but I've been spending all my free time finishing up my latest addon and haven't had a lot of free cycles for strategies or movies.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10296-Antislack.html

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Running efficient raids is so important to me that I wrote a whole article on it. But that's not the topic of this entry.

The topic is an addon I wrote over a year ago to actually help track how efficient your raid is: DownTimer.

Most of the "lost time" on a raid has nothing to do with DPS, and everything to do with spending too much time out of combat on loot, moving from place to place, assigning targets, etc. (it's all covered in the article above.)

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http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11461-BadgeBlocker.html

Lets you block the spam from people looting things like badges and stonekeeper's shards.

From the author on WoWInterface:

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This is my latest favorite mod for raiding: FailBot

Quoting from WoW Interface's page:

Add some public humiliation to your raid!

Displays in raid chat whenever a raid member "fails." Will report when someone...

* is hit by an eruption on Heigan
* misses the jump on Thaddius
* crosses 3 or more opposite charges on Thaddius (so 1 person hitting 10 people would display just the one person's name)
* is hit by a frost breath on Sapphiron
* is hit by a void zone on Kel'Thuzad

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We got our achievement for the Immortal when only four other guilds in the world had done it. (part of that is not having a laggy server, yes!)

I've since heard of a couple of guilds now failing the immortal simply because they didn't have "safe" Naxx strats, they had "Naxx strats that mostly work."

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Interested in crashing through the content at 80, but aren't sure you can do it with zero knowledge?  Want to refresh your mind, or just remember the good old days?

I will keep the Sunwell strats around indefinitely:

http://strats.fusion-guild.org/strats/Category:BossStrategies

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