From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Audio in WoW: How I Listen to Two Sound Feeds

January 26, 2009

This morning on Twitter, I happened to mention that during raids, I have game sounds coming through my speakers, while I listen to Ventrilo (and Skype) through my headset. A couple Twitterati, Kadomi, who tanks like a girl, and Stoppableforce, who is a Stoppable Force, asked how I manage that.
It took me a few minutes, [...]

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Once Again, BA Chat Saves the World

January 26, 2009

(11:31:18 AM) Kestrel: Matt, allow me to catch you up:
(11:32:19 AM) Kestrel: *yaaaaaaawn, streeeeeeetch* I’m awaaaaake! Alert everyone! (Matticus 11:25 via TweetDeck)
(11:32:22 AM) Kestrel: (11:26:56 AM) Kestrel: Warning! Warning! Warning! Matt is awake and on the loose!
(11:29:00 AM) worldofmatticus entered the room.
(11:29:09 AM) worldofmatticus: LOOK OUT WORLD! I’M AWAKE!
(11:29:41 AM) Bellwether: /headsot
(11:29:45 AM) Bellwether: headshot^
(11:30:01 [...]

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Anonymous Commenters: Unwelcome, and Not Allowed

January 24, 2009

I was going to post a comment in this regard to another blog, but I thought that might be creating more drama than it’s worth.
I love comments on my blog, even if I don’t agree with them (or if the commenter doesn’t agree with me). It means I’m being read, and what I had to [...]

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Naxx-25 Starting to Jell; OS-25 Almost There

January 23, 2009

The Oroborus hit the Plague wing tonight, our second night in a row in Heroic Naxxramas. Last night was a fairly straightforward clear of the Spider wing, although we were pretty sloppy at the start of both of the first bosses, and wiped on Maexxna the first time at just under 30 percent. It didn’t [...]

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Patch 3.0.8: Some Undocumented Good Things

January 21, 2009

Author’s Note, 1/22/09: Last night, I came to the realization that my earlier joy in what I thought was a change to herbalism was only a change to questing. (Even though the mushrooms in the Dalaran Underbelly show up as herbs if you’re tracking.) My apologies to everyone for not better verifying this supposed change [...]

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Is Greater Heal Dead?

January 19, 2009

Over at the PlusHeal forums, a poster I’ve come to respect very much both for her knowledge and her eloquence is Beneficence. She started a most interesting thread in the Priest Forum, stating the following:

A combination of improved efficiency and more consistency on flash heal, higher server latencies post-wrath and better reaction times have really [...]

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The Aerie’s Nest

January 16, 2009

Earlier today, I mentioned in BA Chat that I was about to assemble a new dual-monitor stand, and Matt demanded pictures. I didn’t think to take any “before” shots, but here are a shot of the assembled stand sans monitors, and couple shots of both the finished product, and some close-ups of my new Microsoft [...]

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Naxx-25, Take Two: Good, Bad, and Ugly

January 13, 2009

On Sunday, The Oroborus returned to 25-man Naxxramas for the second night in a row. We got started a bit later than planned, and headed to the Plague Quarter. The healing corps consisted of myself, a Disc priest, our most-excellent Healadin, and our equally capable Resto Shaman.
The Good1
First up was Noth the Plaguebringer. With [...]

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The Oroborus Returns to 25-Man Raiding

January 11, 2009

Saturday night, we were hoping to get enough people together to run Heroic Obsidian Sanctum and at least one wing of Heroic Naxxramas. At 7pm server time, we had 41 people on, and almost all were Level 80. W00t!
It had been a while since we did a 25-man, so putting the raid together went rather [...]

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Holy Mutagens, Batman!

January 10, 2009

Tonight was our third successive night in Naxx-10. For the third night in a row, we cleared a wing: this time, the construct wing. The past two nights, and in our pre-Christmas venture into Naxx, we’d had three healers. Wednesday and Thursday, two holy priests and a healadin. Tonight, our second priest was nowhere to [...]

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