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It would be pretty amazing playing WoW like this

Last night we did full Blackwing Lair clear and part of Ahn’Qiraj (first time I ever see a guild doing that, usually when they are done with an instance that’s it for the night).

[item]Arcane Infused Gem[/item] — Razor
[item]Bracelets of Wrath[/item] — Razor
[item]Stormrage Bracers[/item] — Razor
[item]Belt of Transcendence[/item] — Vael
[item]Waistband of Wrath[/item] — Vael
[item]Mind Quickening Gem[/item] — Vael
[item]Netherwind Boots[/item] — Broodlord
[item]Sabatons of Wrath[/item] — Broodlord
[item]Venomous Totem[/item] — Broodlord
[item]Netherwind Gloves[/item] — Firemaw
[item]Scrolls of Blinding Light [/item]— Firemaw
[item]Ebony Flame Gloves[/item] — Ebonroc
[item]Gauntlets of Wrath[/item] — Ebonroc
[item]Taut Dragonhide Belt[/item] — Flamegor
[item]Herald of Woe[/item] — Flamegor
[item]Dragonstalker’s Spaulders[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Dragonstalker’s Spaulders[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Chromatically Tempered Sword[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Taut Dragonhide Gloves[/item] — Chromaggus
[item]Breastplate of Wrath[/item] — Nefarian
[item]Bloodfang Chestpiece[/item] — Nefarian
[item]Lok’amir il Romathis[/item] — Nefarian
[item]Pure Elementium Band[/item] — Nefarian

Wrath night, huh?

[item]Leggings of Immersion[/item] — Skeram
[item]Boots of the Redeemed Prophecy[/item] — Skeram
[item]Creeping Vine Helm[/item] — Sartura
[item]Thick Qirajihide Belt[/item] — Sartura
[item]Hive Tunneler’s Boots[/item] — Fankriss
[item]Robes of the Guardian Saint[/item] — Fankriss

By the time we reached Fankriss it was very late and it was basically called. Guess who got the [item]Creeping Vine Helm[/item]?? Moi! ^_^ The other three druids didn’t want it, so they passed to me ^_^ Right now my druid’s healing power is +831 (from +825), and I still need Zul’Gurub‘s Enchant ([item]Animist’s Caress[/item]) on it ^_^ (the +825 was with a [item]Stormrage Cover[/item] and an [item]Animist’s Caress[/item] enchant) I need to work on my mana regen, I dropped to 28… hehehhe… I’ve always worked on Healing Power, and for some reason I’ve had bad luck with MP/5 items T_T (like [item]Shard of the Scale[/item], which drops off Onyxia, I’ve only seen it dropping once, and a priest got it).

It’s usually harder to gather a good MP/5 set, at least for druids, in comparison to priests. This is because there aren’t many of them, plus, those that can be found a lot, like rings, necks, cloaks and trinklets, have a high demand by other classes.

Oh, and who said you couldn’t play World of Warcraft without some style?

Edit: I just read this on a fansite:

An experience curve that does not require “grinding” outdoor mobs. So long as you are always questing through your leveling experience, we’ve achieved our goal. If you ever need to “stop” and kill creatures to open up quests, then we have more tuning to do. We will not require people to go into the Dungeons. HOWEVER, dungeon exp will be very rewarding for those who choose to attempt the added challenge.

My plans on The Burning Crusade will be instancing. For a while I’ve known druids working on their feral gear, but on these last weeks, since I’ve been applying to guilds, it would take too much DKP to gather too many sets at this point. Plus, I never really had problems being a healbot and leveling from 1 thru 60. So now with that news my plans of being a healbot might work out pretty good ^_^ I do have a feral gear, tho, but it’s not as good as my healing gear.

For some strange reason lately I’ve been lagging badly; not referring to internet lag, but more like graphic lag. A perfect example would be running to Ironforge’s Bank and freezing on the way there. It shouldn’t be happening, considering that my new computer (iMac 20″ 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) is new and when I first played WoW on it, even with max settings, I wouldn’t lag. This time I had to lower the settings and I would still lag.

What could it be? Addons, was the possible answer. Now, I don’t have a ton of addons, but I do have a number of them. After taking out the WTF, WDB and Interface folders, I managed to get my FPS back. I could also replace a few of them with better things. I opened a thread in WoW forums about it, but basically, after cleaning, I ended up with this:

CThunWarner
avbars
BattlefieldCommander2
TitanMoney
oRA2
TitanHonorPlus
TitanClock
Titan
TitanPerformance
!OmniCC
TitanAmmo
TitanRepair
Blizzard_AuctionUI
ItemRack
Blizzard_BindingUI
MonkeyQuest
TitanCoords
Blizzard_CombatText
UseByName
BonusScanner
CharacterProfiler
Decursive
TitanItemBonuses
BigWigs
MonkeyLibrary
sRaidFrames
TitanBag
CleanPlayerFrame
TitanXP

I can’t remember exactly what I took out, but some of the stuff was this

DruidBar
Scrolling Combat Text
Scrolling Combat Text – Damage
SWStats
Pe rl Classic Unit Frames (I got to separate the first word because my server blocks it for some weird reason)
HitsMode
CT_RaidAssist
Natur EnemyCastBar
MobInfo-2

On the thread someone posted a nice tip about CT_RaidAssist, which basically was replacing it with two addons, which weight a lot less: oRA2 and sRaidFrames. To tell the truth I mainly used CT_RaidAssist for the raid frames, since I already use BigWigs for the boss announcing stuff. This is how sRaidFrames looks like, after I changed a couple of things.

I’m not sure if you can notice it, but some names (like Katherinee, Stanima, Patricless, Fruitloop and Touf, among others) are slightly faded, it’s because sRaidFrames has a range checker, and I always wanted to have that in my CT_Raid ^_^ It a couple of other cool things ^_^ Another new addon I’m using, which is mainly for player/party frames, is one called Clean Player Frame, which is very simple: it just modifies the default one with a couple of extra stuff. It might not be fancy as the one I used before, but it’s a lot lighter.

Hmm, thinking about it, I might change Decursive for another addon that is called Detox. Anyway, I could also lower the Memory Usage, from over 20MB (or so) to 16MB, which is pretty good IMO.

Other than that, it seems I’m back to business

[item]Cryptfiend Silk Cloak[/item] — Anub
[item]Desecrated Wristguards[/item] — Anub
[item]Widow’s Remorse[/item] — Faerlina
[item]Desecrated Bracers[/item] — Faerlina
[item]Desecrated Sabatons[/item] — Razuvious
[item]Iblis, Blade of the Fallen Seraph[/item] — Razuvious

That’s a run I made a couple of days ago (they also took down Maexxna, but I wasn’t there, hehehe), right now I’m applying to a guild called Pulse. There’s some awesome people I know in that guild, like Phigan (noobest rogue ever), which I knew in my very first guild in the game, and Mitril (very prominent member of the French Mafia). So far everything seems nice.

Slightly moving offtopic, these days are national holidays on my country ^_^ Ohh, and something is happening in 11 days…