November Blog Posts

TL;DR summary of this entry: This system combines all of what I hated about Algalon and ToC and makes it worse. Raiding used to be relaxing, the most frustrating thing was losing a few hours to bad internet -- when did Blizzard decide they needed to force 9-10 guilds in the world to get out of the house more?

Not looking forwards to dreading server instability and key people DC'ing again and ruining the week.

Summarizing this post from Daelo: Icecrown Citadel Raid Access Progression

First off, there's multi-week gates for normal mode icecrown. So your raiders will be bored. The good news is, this means we can probably get past the holidays without hard-mode raids, so holiday schedules will be easier.

The unlockings are (with "several" week breaks in between):

1. Lord Marrowgar, Lady Deathwhisper, Icecrown Gunship Battle, and Deathbringer Saurfang
2. Rotface, Festergut, and Professor Putricide
3. the Blood Princes and Blood-Queen Lana'thel
4. Valithria Dreamwalker, Sindragosa, and the Lich King available

The reasoning? Very clear this time, no beating around the bush: they're playing nursemaid and mommy:

"We believe a staggered release of the content will allow players to experience Icecrown Citadel at a sustainable, measured, and ultimately more enjoyable pace."

Unfortunately that's all the good news.

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Thanks to the folks in #stratfu on gamesurge for sending this along.

Apparently it also works in the lagoon right before Anub, if you want to torture your guildmates who went AFK there.

From the YouTube information:

Song used: Yoshi's Island - Super Smash Bros. Melee

1. Pick up the daily quest "What Do You Feed a Yeti, Anyway?" (Note: Only obtained if Exalted with the Sunreavers or Silver Covenant)

2. Pick up LOTS of Fresh Chum(You can grab as much as you want)

3. Use the Fresh Chum in ANY spot where you may swim (Not sure if lava works).

4. ????

5. Profit

Click the 'more' link to view the embedded video.

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It's been a long (but fun) road and I'm please to announce that the new version of StratFu is launched as of today. There are still plenty of rough edges, but no show-stoppers remain.

The new StratFu:

• Allows much heavier community participation
• Encourages others to contribute strategies and videos
• Is entirely "database driven", so articles can be related better
• Allows you to edit your comments ;)

I've been working on the design for the past year, working pretty seriously for the past six months, and doing little other than coding for the past two months. The result is almost 22,000 lines of PHP that are now running this site on top of the Drupal CMS.

Comments, feedback, and complaints are welcome.

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Those who have been around WoW for a while may remember one of the most entertaining threads on the WoW forums where people were exploring the limits of their chat censorship system. At the time (and perhaps still) they prevented topics via substring-matching. Which meant that, since "rape" was blocked, you couldn't talk about the "Drape of the Faceless General" without talking about the "D*#$& of the Faceless General."

This lead to a very amusing thread where people found a variety of words that were innocuous but blocked due to substring matches.

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I will paraphrase this story that I heard tonight -- it's from one of the top US guilds. You've heard of them if you follow the top ~25 or so. Out of respect for the, umm, dead, their guild name will be omitted.

It was an Anub engage where one wipe would bump them down to the next tribute chest level -- so killing him right then was very critical. Unfortunately, at 40%, while trying to promote someone else to raidleader, the raidleader accidentally kicked the main tank from the raid.

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