Tale of Two Guilds

For those of you who don't know I am the Guild Master and the Raid Leader of my guild, Three Score. Although I find it hard to believe that you read my blog and don't know this, but that is beside the point. Anyways, once a month I am not on for a raid and to deal with general guild stuff. Now I have officers that I trust, and no doubt in their abilities to take care of things for a night. Sometimes when I am gone things go perfectly everyone shows up and does their thing without a hitch. Other times things happen like last night. People find a way to pick a fight over the stupid and most retarded things possible. Things they would never think about doing if I was around.

Now this gets me thinking. Do they not do these things because they respect me, because they are scared, or just the need to be an asshat when I am not there. Now if they are scared that is really not what I want my guild members to think towards me. Now if they respect me I would think they should respect those I put in charge when I am not there. I have been doing this for a long time, but honestly need a way to break this substitute teacher attitude that comes out.

Maybe it is sort of an accomplishment that I am everybody's glue. I don't expect anyone to be me when I am not there, but I do expect people to act the same as they do when I am. I am also curious if this is an isolated thing with my guild or if it is something which happens all around. Is it actually that it is a Tale of Two Guilds.

You Fail At Halls Of Reflection If...

New month and a new raid week in the same day. Doesn't happen all that often not that it is anything special to begin with. When I was thinking of what to do for this week's weekly taste of fail new beginning was what I was thinking of. You see I still have no idea why I do my daily heroic. I don't need badges or anything. It is like I do these heroics because I know something will happen to drive me insane or make me laugh hysterically. Halls of Reflection is a special place though, shall we see why?

You Fail At Halls Of Reflection If...

• You are wearing any BoA gear
• You are tanking and anyone has more HP than you
• The concept of LoS is foreign to you
• You say sorry to the people in your group before you begin
• You decide not to heal the person the rogue Shadowsteps too
• You complain that tremor totem doesn't work on Falric's fear like other fear breaking abilities
• You are that Pally that gemmed agility instead of strength, but yet didn't have the agi meta
• You still try to tank the chase phase behind the Lich King
• You got out dps'd by the person rezed as a ghoul
• You are killing the mob out in the middle of the room while everyone else is in the corner
• You believed me when I said you could kill LK during that little event
• You dps the abomination from the front while they are spitting on you
• You get stuck in the icewall
• You try to be cool at the end and jump on top of the Gunship only to miss and fall to your death

and finally

• You don't find "Dis' Pear...So delicious" funny

That is it. Maybe this will make your HoR pugs more exciting since you can now point all these things out to people.

Enjoy your Free Loot Tuesday!

Guild Member of the Month

So I wanted to take this time to recognize the fact I was voted guild member of the month of a guild I am not even a part of. Truth be told this has never happened to me before. Truth be told I have never even been voted guild member of the month that I have actually been a part of. Maybe mostly because they never had guild member of the month, but whatever. Let's all agree that this is a cool thing. Even better was that I was voted guild member of the month of an alliance guild. You know the people that I attempt to kill every time I see them. The people I plot and scheme in order to find new and inventful ways to attack and kill them. The people I constantly poke fun at for rolling races that are well too "pretty" for my liking.

So even with all of this going on I walked into the zone in Dalaran known as Gauss' Mailbox and began my daily quest of sorting through all those special mails. "OMG IS THIS GAUSS", "You have gold to spare?", "I heard I could be invited to your guild", "What does I have to dos to get you to run with me", "I know you hate pallys but I do 3k dps", "Do you honestly think people care what you think?". So even going through all those and more I came upon this:

It is a custom at Spectacular Death to recognize one person a month for outstanding service to the guild. It's usually a guild member but, by popular vote, YOU, yes you have been voted our Guild Member of the Month. Now, don't bother pointing out that you're not a guild member. We're making you an honorary one for this month only. We all chipped in and got you some really nice gifts, things every warrior could use. Congratulations. You bring such a cheer to SD. This is well deserved.

Gimm

So I would like to say thanks and I guess I will keep on keeping on. To all my American readers enjoy your Memorial Day and have it be celebrated the way it was intended. /Salute

Ask Gauss

If I had a cat maybe today would be it's birthday. Since I hate cats and frequently try to run them over I probably will never have a cat, meaning my cat would never have a birthday. So that was pretty random, but I was at a loss of how to open today. I could have said something about tomorrow being Memorial Day or crap like that, but that would be to expected. So back on topic. Today is Sunday, which is not my cat's birthday, so it means that I attempt to answer the questions people have asked me throughout the week.

Are you going to miss the way the zones looked after the Cataclysm happens?

I think change can be a good thing. I also know that I will miss certain zones for things which went on there while I was leveling or just exploring around. Azshara is a zone I have always loved the look of. The whole eternal autumn thing was just something I enjoyed looking at. Although changing it into a tourist type place and a home of the goblins is cool. I think I will miss the feel of the zone. Thousand needles is also a place I have many memories of, but I look forward to being able to say to new players "When I leveled we walked around thousand needles not swim!"

So as I will enjoy the revamped zones, I also have taken the time to go around Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms and take massive amounts of screenshots. So I will actually have a piece of what it looked like before. Maybe I will even do a before and after thing who knows.

I know you are into Lore. How does this effect you and your raid over vent and such?

Well in simple terms I tell people to shut the hell up. Honestly, though that is what I do. Many people play the game to see this lore and how the game is progressing. Now everyone should take it upon themselves to respect that. Yes lore can get bothersome when you have seen the same thing over and over again. Like pulling Illidan "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED" became this joke all around the WoW community. But if I can teach people anything would be to be respectful of people that first time so others who are not as forward as myself and won't say "Shut the Hell Up".

I heard you were race changing to a goblin in Cata.

I am also leveling a pally and faction changing to alliance...

So that is it for this week's questions. Keep on sending them in. This week's reader post I want you to list who you think are the greatest Lore Characters in WoW. Give me your top 5 or top 10 and I will compile a list to get the "Gauss Nation's" picks for the best lore characters.

Maybe It Is Time...

I wanted to take this opportunity to list a few things I have that may have offended, hurt, or otherwise ruined someones gaming experience

I'm Sorry For

• Killing the quest giving over and over you are trying to turn something into
• For driving up the price of enchanting mats
• Standing next to you holy pallies in my pally set which out gears yours
• Informing you after I buy out your auctions which were below vendor price
• Telling you are horrible in a not so polite way
• Explaining the reason Bladeward sucks after I enchant it on your weapon
• Asking you over and over how is it you are so bad
• Selling you a tank gun
• Summoning you off a boat
• Referring to you as a ret pally as "Fail"
• Facepalming at your gem choices
• Having an open arguement with you in trade you cannot win
• Sending you pointlessly to Silithus
• Assuming you are fail because you are from Ragnaros
• Wiping you for wanting to do optional bosses
• Running over your corpse, then backing over it to make sure you know it wasn't a mistake
• Making you believe you could learn to speak common

There are probably countless other things, but really I am not sorry for any of them. In this spirit I thought this would be the perfect time to release an idea for a Gauss Nation T-Shirt.

Me and My Mods

It be Friday and another insanely hot day outside. Almost too hot to do anything, almost being the key word. I am inside nice and cool writing this so of course I can do something. It is Friday, so there is a lot of copy and pasting going on, but regardless it is something. This week's reader post for all who didn't participate or those who could careless is about those mods that you cannot go without. I really didn't go into much detail about how I wanted people to present said mod, but it worked out pretty well without a lot of direction. So congrats to you all for doing your own thing and having it work out. So here goes maybe all you default UI people will learn something.

DBM: do I really even need to explain.

Grid is a life saver. I use it to see my entire raid and can pick out anyone in the raid very quickly. It can be small or larger. I can set it to see debuffs if I am healing or just the group if I don't care about healing them. It really is an addon I cannot live without.

Prat is the greatest addon this game has. I never used it until I saw you post and talk about it. It makes the chat in WoW so much more manageable and of course appealing and easier to read. I would say everyone would get it and even go as far as say Blizzard should really take a loot at what this addon has done and make it part of the primary interface.

IceHUD is probably the best HUD around. It has a serious of options to customize everything you want to be see or anything you don't. I know HUDs aren't liked by everyone, but if they are something you like to use there is nothing better than IceHUD.

OneBag is the greatest and most obviously needed thing Blizzard needs to put into the regular interface. I understand the whole RP thing with not having one bag, but at least make it an option. It makes going through everything much easier and so much less time consuming

Power Auras Classic is the greatest Mod made for World of Warcraft. You can set anything and everything as a trigger to remind you to use cooldowns, abilities, or just random crap. You can queue it with sound, text, visuals, or even all three at once. If you have never seen it or used it I would say get it and see what you are missing.

I believe Postal is the mod I could never live without. No idea why Blizz makes you open 1 mail at a time or even 1 item in each mail at a time. Postal lets you go to your mailbox click open all and then leave and come back and everything is all well and good. WoW without Postal is like like eating without a fork, you can do it but why would you.

Auctioneer is the greatest addon ever made! Without it I would never be able to make any gold in this game. Sure it takes up a lot of space but the time and effort is worth it. I love you auctioneer don't ever leave me.

Recount lets me know how awesome I am at the game or how awful the people I am playing with are. Isn't that what playing wow is all about? I thought you would see it my way.

That is it for this week's Reader Post check out the mods if you so wish. Enjoy the weather and the weekend.

A New Raid Leading Strategy

Yesterday during my guilds raid I discovered something I wish I found out a long time ago. I always assumed the best and treat it as if they actually understood what I was talking about. When of course yesterday after there was a "mess up" with an iceblock I decided that enough was enough and we were going to pretend to do the encounter before we actually did it. Now of course this was rather humorous probably to partake in and everyone probably felt a dumbass, but the thing was the next pull was perfect. Everyone went where they were supposed to! I don't know if I should be happy or if I should be sad that it took this in order to execute something correctly. Now I guess I should always do things in this way. Assume everyone is a dumbass and success will follow you. I feel like I have been given the secret to WoW...

Other WoW Players Quotes

Anyone who has every played with me knows that sometimes I say things during that people tend to always remember. Be it for good or bad reasons. I actually even did a blog one day of peoples favourites. Since then readers have been sending me all sorts of things they have seen or heard. This was when I came up with this idea. I must say though there are some beauties here that will really make you laugh.

Disc: The art of binding 25 keys to 'Power Word: Shield' and dropping an angry weasel on the keyboard.

I keep Mortal Strike bound to Q partly for the convenience, but mostly for the irony.

You know what sucks about applesauce? It's not apple pie. And it never will be. Man, that pisses me off.

I like the fact that the Shadowmourne questline punishes the healers, and not the one on the quest.

Fighting a warrior is like fighting a blender. You can easily unplug it from feet away, even shut the power off, but if you stick your face into it, you're going to lose.

You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it.

Sitting there helpless as a bunch of alliance crowd around me like I'm a japanese girl in a bukake video is soo much better

Playing a warrior is easy Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Mortal Strike, Execute.

I want a trap that throws bears at people. We will call it Bear Trap. It will be slightly misleading, but still awesome.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but I feel some of you abuse the privilege.

PvE is like playing Chess against a retard who will make the same moves every time you play against him. PvP is like playing Chess against 2 retards who will make the same moves every time you play against them.

We'll just kill the biggest tree we can find in there. Then, we will come back later and do it heroically, because you find better magic swords stuck in trees if you kill them heroically.

Easy classes attract idiots. This does not mean that all hunters are idiots, but that most idiots are hunters.

You realize how lucky it was that The Exodar landed in a level 1 area.

Arena is not pvp. It's counterstrike for people who can't aim.

$15 dollars a month buys you a login. Nothing about that fee buys you a win.

Locks are like the Fox News of WoW. They claim to be fair and balanced, but we all know that's a load of crap.

Hope you all enjoyed those as much as I did. Have you heard someone say something funny? Feel free to share it. Happy Wednesday!

You Fail At Guild Banking If..

So happy Tuesday! Icecrown buff goes up again today at least that is what I am being told. So which probably means people will be killing shit they haven't yet. Whatever that may be. Tuesday is of course Fail Day, and this week's post is something which is near and dear to me. We all know those people that some how some way find a way to screw it up.

You Fail At Guild Banking If...

• You have tabs named Stuff 1, Stuff 2, and Stuff 3
• You alphabetize everything across all the tabs
• You arrange things in rows instead of columns
• You have so much junk you have to use the guild bank to hold it
• Anything ever put in the guild bank is just crap no one will ever need
• You have an endless supply of mana and healing injectors which are now obsolete
• You wonder why no ones wants the Dalaran clam chowder
• You put your pink shirt in the bank when you were putting pots and flasks away
• All the smoke you keep is white
• You put flasks back in the tab made for food
• You put 111g instead of the required 100g because it is easier for you to press "1" three times
• You think guild bank tabs are too expensive
• You fill out the notes on each tab thinking that people will listen to the "accepted" tab items
• You let people prone to being hacked have full access

and finally

• Your banks needs is based on that of a ret pally

And there we have it. Enjoy the buff kill, kill some bosses, make professor plum proud, and celebrate your Free Loot Tuesday.

Happy Victoria Day!

Victoria Day you say? Learn to be Canadian people! So what is Victoria Day? Well it is a holiday which was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday and the current sovereign's birthday. It is now also known now as the official kick off to the Summer season. All around the country it is a day worth celebrating. All the winter type stuff closes up and it is time to get down to the summer stuff. It is always a good way to celebrate with fireworks and of course the drink of choice being something from a "two-four". That would be Canadian slang for a 24 pack of beer.

So what does this have to do with WoW? Well the kickoff to the summer season is a big deal. Reminds us of all the holidays players will have coming up. The breaks people will want to take along with the mass recruitment that generally happens. Many players now have the opportunity to play more so many will be looking for new guilds trying to get more out of their game time. Also it is a time where many players can suffer a burnout because there is many more things to be aware of and do.

So I guess it acts as a warning to be prepared for what is to come. But sit back enjoy yourself and relax for a day, because tomorrow is when the fun will begin and you will have plenty to deal with.

Ask Gauss

What a beautiful day outside today. Maybe it seems like a better day because I know it is a long weekend and there is one more day left. But long weekend or not it is Sunday, which of course means it is time to answer those questions sent to me I didn't have time to reply within that one day period. I mean...the questions I chose because I thought maybe more people would like to know the answers to them. Good save on my part there. Here goes!

Do you think inflation will be a major problem in Cataclysm?

Well first of all they are raising the gold cap per toon, which means they think it may be more of an issue. That doesn't mean inflation is the problem just that gold will be easier to come by. Now the fear is does this mean the gold you currently have collected will not take you as far. The problem with a game like WoW is that people have something known as "old money" meaning they have played for awhile and been able to collect on it. Also at the end of expansions like we are coming to now prices drop by a significant amount and therefore everyone's "stockpile" rises. Old money inflation causes problems with new players, which in turn makes Blizzard have to make obtaining gold easier. This then causes even more inflation. Do I think there will be a large amount of inflation come Cataclysm? Yes, I think it will probably even worse than the two previous expansions. There are more players, two new races, and of course the new secondary skill which everyone will be involved in. Now will this be a problem? Inflation has never truly been a problem for the average player except during the first month of the expansion. So do I think all the crazy panic I am hearing about is worth it? Not at all.

What are your thoughts on the Death of AVR and AVRE?

Now Blizzard has made their encounters based on the fact that they know raiders will be using something like DBM, Bigwigs, or any other boss mod. Now I do think that it scared them having to design encounters around the use of AVR. Let me show you what I wrote on my realm forums.

"I am not going to argue that it made things easier, because obviously when I can say so and so with the "X" goes here with the giant "X" on the ground it makes it easier. The range finder on AVRE can be argued is no more useful than DBMs range finder. One thing I will miss and something Blizzard should really think about is how it can be a benefit for explaining strats. If there was some way it could be made to only work out of combat. Yes one could argue you could just watch a video, but most people seeing is believing. Maybe this will make blizzard put something in the game to better explains strats without just using smoke."

I believe there is something to say that AVRs range finder is not much different than DBMs. Arguments could be made for the "Friendship Circle" around you, but how much different is it than a list of names who are in range of you. Both are in effect doing the same thing.

For explaining fights though AVR was a great tool. People could see exactly where they were supposed to go in a very simple and easy manner. Now having this active during the fight I think where the problem was, and I understand that. Now having it just not active during combat is an idea Blizzard should think about. If encounters are going to visual and spatial this gives us something to help explain those things. Smoke isn't always an effective use.

If you and a Ret pally were on an island what would you do?

Shoot myself before I was killed by his non stop complaining.

That is it for this week. Next week's Reader Post will be about the Mod you cannot live without.

I Need A Healer

So I know I haven't done a parody in awhile so for all of you who have waited paitently you will now get what you have asked for. "I Need A Healer" is taken from Bonnie Tyler's song "I Need A Hero". Hope you enjoy it and tell me what you think.

I Need A Healer

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Where have all the good toons gone, and where are all the old gods?

Where's the raid-wise disc priest to fight the rising odds?

Isn't there a blood knight upon an epic steed?

Late at night I toss and I turn and think of what the raid needs.

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I need a healer, I'm holding out for a healer 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be gemmed and hes gotta be fast

And he's gotta be flasked for the fight

I need a healer, I'm holding out for a healer 'ti the morning light

He's gotta be buffed and he's gotta be bright

And he's gotta top up that life, top up that life.

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Somewhere after raid night, in my wildest fantasy

Somewhere just beyond guild reach

There's someone responding to me

Raiding on the server and put in the hot seat

It's gonna take a kingslayer to sweep me off my feet

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Up where the tanks meet the bosses above

Out where chain lightning hits me.

I could swear there is someone somewhere, who could heal me

Through the goo, and the gas, and the fire, and the frost, and the flood

I can feel his heals, like the fire in my blood

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I need a healer, I'm holding out for a healer 'til the morning light

He's gotta be buffed and he's gotta be bright

And he's gotta top up that life

He's gotta be gemmed and hes gotta be fast

And he's gotta be flasked for the fight

I NEED A HEALER!

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Well that is it for today. Plan is to do an Ultimate For The Horde tomorrow. So if you are on Llane that means 3+ raid groups to take over the cities after we are done killing the leaders. Enjoy day two of the long weekend.

Take My Quest

Friday before a long weekend(at least here) and just like any other Friday it is a Reader Post day. This week's post is about that quest that you love or hate doing. So sit back and remember the joy or the incredible amount of pain from doing these quests.

One of my favourites is the one that starts with that boat wreckage in Un'goro Crater. "It's a Secret to Everybody" I think its called, goes on from level 47 to level 56, lots of different parts. Probably a lot more fun to those that get all the references in the quest, which I did not, but still, one of my favourites. Gotta love Legend of Zelda.

Kodo roundup is very fun, I do that one on all my characters, the Deeprun rat roundup is a laugh as well. The ones from the mad dwarf in Burning Steppes are kinda fun as well, they're fairly standard quests but the text when talking to him is very funny. Oh and Are We There Yeti - great one for a laugh, I really must get to the end of that chain on my alt so I can do it again.

Fordring quest line in EPL is also my current favourite; I'm now going to have to go to Stratholme to "see" the painting on my own eyes. Another very nice quest chain that ends in EPL is to kill Nathanos Blightcaller - raid quest. When I was doing that with my first lvl 60 char I was so scared because of what everybody writes on the internet. I couldn't get enough people from my guild so I was asking people in IF (it was before the global LFG channel) and was constantly told "you need at least 25 people" and "how many people do you have? 15? That won't be enough" etc... Finally we decided to go in about 17 people and as my toon was hunter I got to kite one of the dogs. Before I got out of sight with the dog, Nathanos was dead. It took maybe 10 seconds.

The Battle for Undercity is the greatest quest WoW has ever made. There is nothing more epic and I don't care what anyone says. If you haven't done it you are missing out. Fighting besides your faction heroes to kill the traitors is unbelievable. I hope they do something like this again in the expansion it was just so amazing.

One of the absolute funniest quest lines I have ever done in World of Wacraft is the Redemption chain, it's like seven tough quests and a nice reward afterwards, it has a good story and it's not too hard, but it's tricky from time to time, for everyone who haven't done it, do it as soon as possible. Another very interesting and one of a kind quest is Cortello's Riddle, it's basically riddles who lead you to different places around azeroth, I enjoyed this quest very much, but I thought it was too easy and too short. If there's a quest that I would like to be expanded it would be this quest!

Pristine Tigris Fang... I hate this quest more than anything in the world. I spent close to 3 hours trying to get this damn thing and wanted to kill myself over and over again.

"Shizz Work". This is one of the funniest quests so far progressing into Outlands. You are required to summon a fel hound (provided) and kill a boar. Then the fel hound eats it and poopies on the ground and you click on it to find the key. Got mine on the first try. Later you get a debuffed "Stanky; You smell funny." which gives you a green smoke cloud around you.

The quest in Zangermarsh where you release the murlocs. I never laughed so hard in my WoW career. Also it was a break break from killing all those annoying ass broken who make you want to end your life.

The Darrowshire questline is by far the best questline in WoW. I am not one to read quests or pay much attention but I did so here. I would completely advise anyone to do the same.

(He really didn't do much justice explaining it. Let's have Cranius do it)


That is it for this week thanks for all the submissions.

Enjoy your weekend!

Account Hackers

So like anyone who plays WoW I can name a bunch of people I know who have gotten hacked. They may have got hacked in a variety of ways. Go to websites they shouldn't have, guild website was logged, bugged addon, keyloggers, bought gold, or even responded to an email they shouldn't have. Now I don't think I have ever heard of someone who has been hacked because they believed one of those whispers everyone is sent in game. Why? Well I think you all know the English is absolutely horrible and even someone who only speaks broken English can obviously tell it is fake. Think for a second, if the language made sense would you think twice about it? Now I would tend to argue many would. Regardless, you might pick up on the name and clue in to the fact that why wouldn't Blizzard just cut off your account. The point being some people are idiots, but even idiots can tell when someone cannot speak English.

So what is this all about? Well I fear for the day that these account hackers learn how to at least type sentences that make a moderate amount of sense. Also this brings me to the point that, they should know this. They should know that you could basically fool 50% of the WoW population by typing in a form of English that at least that 50% would see as correct enough. They would of course get the result they were in fact looking for.

Guess I just gave a pro tip to the hackers. Long weekend starts tomorrow!

Female Worgens

Since Blizzcon people have been wondering what the female worgen model was going to look like. Since all the shots were of male worgens. We saw of course male and female goblins so why such the wait? It was obvious to me Blizzard was holding back for a reason. My guess was they wanted to get the "feral" look but as well as something that was I guess "not bad" or "pretty" to look at since of course it was female, and well alliance. Blizzard has this thing that all alliance races have to be "pretty". You could argue that that the Draenei are not, but I would argue otherwise. From the description of Draenei in every Warcraft novel they were "prettied" up. I am sure it was on purpose to make them more "playable" by the people who want to play toons that are "pretty". Did I really say "pretty" that many times.

Blood Elves aside who were overdone to the point of it is even being part of the jokes Blizzard has put in the game. The question should be "why is this so important to people?" This is a game of fiction and fantasy and is unneeded. All I can think of could it possibly increase the player base? Because people don't want to play a game where everything is "ugly" to look at? This of course could be done with architecture, and not the characters, but hey that is just my opinion.

Oh ya this post was supposed to be about Female worgens. I would just like to say I dislike the model for the very point stated above. It is too "pretty" for me. You be the judge.

That is it for today. Insert grandma's house joke here _____. Reminder that tomorrow is the last day to get in your quest likes and dislikes and of course the stories along with them.

You Fail At Wiping If...

Happy Tuesday, otherwise know as Fail Day. Seems last week had a theme so I decided to incorporate it into this weeks fail post. Something, which holds dear to everyone's heart. Now I give you what you all are waiting for.

You Fail At Wiping If...

• It was only a wipe because you forgot to bubble
• You taunted the boss as DPS
• You thought an army of iceblocks was code for awesome
• You confuse "Skull" with "Box"
• You heal people standing in Death and Decay
• You are unaware of the fact dragons cleave
• You keep dpsing when wipe is called
• You are unsure what tank the beam means
• You go on with healing the tank if a wipe is called
• You don't have a hearthstone macro
• You are unaware of how to "hug a crusher"
• You never have attempted hardmode trash
• Your best assisting happens on MC'd targets
• You interpret "Stop DPS" as "Blow all cooldowns mindlessly"
• You DI the mage

and finally

• Your wipes are pointless because you never kill the boss

That is it for this week. May your wipes all have a purpose!

FAIL! F-A-I-L

So I get a requests a lot of the time to showcase videos, artists, or machinimators. I turn most of them down. Although every so often someone comes across that I didn't know about and I like what I see. Not that my opinion is worth more than others, but people tend to like to hear what I say or think. So what is this all about?

Well, there is a new song just released by Blood Type and Lionsface entertainment. It is a WoW Hip Hop song called Fail. The video is done by Gary Hartmann a machinimator I was unaware of. Of course how could I not love something about fail. Leaving that out it is well written, put together, and of course flows nicely. Most importantly it is not sung by a blood elf, becasue that is getting beyond old.

So without me not talking more about it. Checkout the video and make your own decision.



You can download the mp3 here

Hope you enjoyed it. Good Luck on the last day before reset

Ask Gauss

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope your weekend has been a good one. Mine could be topped off by a new boss kill tonight, here is hoping. It is Sunday though meaning you came here to see what questions I would be answering or you are here for some other reason, but that doesn't change what I am going to post about. So off to the races we go.

It seems my battlegroup loves to run heroics killing every boss for "more emblems". What should I tell them to convince them this is a bad and time wasting idea?

Now he wanted to know specifically what to tell them as a healer, but I will mold this into anyone. You can explain to them about how completing the instance quicker meaning less work and getting the bonus badges quicker, which would actually mean more badges for less time invested, and of course less work. Sometimes though you get those players that don't get the point and this is where I find taking more time to prove the point is worth it in the end, if you can teach them what they are doing is wrong. Saving WoW one noob at a time.

As the Tank this isn't as fun because well you could just go wherever you want and they can't do anything about it, this also means with the diplomatic approach you just have to convince the tank. So sadly it is hard to teach people a lesson. As a healer you have several options. You can just not follow them and watch them wipe on trash. This is not only effective, but funny as hell when they die and complain they got no heals, "that's because I didn't heal you". You can also DI the tank, BoP the tank, pull and fade, or DPS with the excuse "You all are being stupid I thought I would join in". As DPS you can pull trash until the group wipes. After accomplishing this task they will either leave, or of course just give in. In your eyes this is a win-win situation. The hope is next time they enter said instance they will know better.

Now some may think this is stupid and unfair, and I along with others should just suck it up. My view is if said people want to do the extra bosses be considerate and do them after the people who are in there to get it over with are gone.

What is the craziest thing you have done lately?

Well yesterday we decided again to take up the Tyrande kite once again. We decided this time to find the path down the World Tree before we brought her with us. We did find a perfect way down with branches all the way, in addition to arranging how we would heal the Fatigue across the sea. We brought Tyrande with us for a couple of attempts, but it was obvious with only 1 person who could slow fall/levitate it had to be flawless. With the kite path set down and the strat all good it is only a matter of time now before we pull this off. Now if we could find the time to attempt it more than once every couple months then we would be set.

Since you have tanked all the heroics in the Fury style tanking are you going to be attempting a raid boss?

Actually if Naxx is the next weekly this is going to be attempted to see if it is in fact possible. So look for it.

That is it for this week. Thanks as always for all the questions and for being patient waiting for my reply. Next Friday's Reader Post is going to be about that quest that sticks out. It could be a horrible painful one or one you enjoyed. You have until Thursday to get them in.

Enjoy what is left of the weekend!

Trolling Da Forums

So my guild is currently looking at fixing the summer jinx and inviting a couple people in order to maximize potential. With that in mind and the lack of unguilded and geared players on Llane I tend to explore off server. This took me to the Horde Recruitment forums where I saw such classics as

• 4900gs Resto/Bear looking for guild 10/12 HM ICC
• looking for highly skill raiders
• MM Hunter LFG have done all fights on my Shaman
• LFM to join the party
• LF Serious RAF Partner
• Weekend Raiding guild looking for Weekday Raiders

Those were just some of the beauties I saw. Also what is with people posting all the symbols and such. It doesn't make me want to click on your thread it makes me wish I could slap you upside the head. Another thing that bothers me is people who post in a recruitment thread on an alt. Does that even make sense? You think I want to waste my time replying to your thread if you could be crap? Of course not, it is a waste of my time. More things that bug me are people who are looking for a guild way beyond there gear level and experience, honestly you just are making yourself look like an idiot who has no clue. There is also the people that log out in PvP gear or naked so you can't even look at their crap on armory. All of these things even if they bug me at least they lower the number of people I actually have to reply to or check out.

So to all the others trying to fix holes with people wanting to explore the outside with the nice weather at least the Recruitment forums will give you a good laugh, and I feel your pain!

Loose Ends

So it is Friday so time for the weekend to kick off. It is actually supposed to be nice this weekend, not rain like crazy. I know what you are thinking, "Outside? What the hell is that?". You know that place where you go out to get the mail? That would be the place. Or that place where the guy delivering your food is standing when you pay him. Yes, I just did the typical gamers have no life joke. I didn't have a good intro. Regardless, today is Friday which means it is time for the weekly Reader Post. This week was about Lore you want to be taken care of before or at the start of Cataclysm. To all you people who have said there has been too much posts about lore lately, you are probably right, but live with it. On with the show!

So didn't we discover Mal'ganis was behind the whole Scarlet Onslaught thing and then we heard nothing about him when he vowed to make the Lich King pay. What is up with that? I would like some response from Blizzard besides he will still be in CoS.

I would love to know what happened to Maiev Shadowsong after the whole Illidan thing. I know it was her purpose to find and kill Illidan, but with Cataclysm supposed to have a large Nightelf focus I would love to see her back.

The Naga. I want to know more about them, and it really is one of the major reasons I am looking forward to Cataclysm. I want Azshara to make some sort of appearence even if it isn't as a raid boss. Long live the Highborne, and praise to Azshara!

Who is behind the Infinite Flight? Are we ever going to find out? Nozdormu seems like he would be the only one, since they are of course time travelers. Two aspects one expansion is probably asking for a lot, but just thinking about a fight involving The Timeless One would be awesome in so many ways. I would settle for just finding out who it was in the next CoT instance, who knows it could even be Deathwing in some way.

If Azeroth is going to be forever changed will this mean we will finally get to interact with some Pandaren? I am not even asking them to be a playable race I would settle for the same treatment as the Tuskarr. The have a very interesting culture and by how much everyone likes the pet they put in game I can only imagine how much they would be liked.

This isn't a request to finish, but a request to do it well. When Malfurion comes back I don't want it to be "OMG HE'S AWAKE". I want to be something, which is epic enough of a reason that this guy has been stuck sleeping for years. This is of course the first and greatest druid ever to live who has saved the world countless times. Please Blizzard give him the respect this character deserves.

How is Nefarian not dead? Is he just going to come back to life? To me it is baseless and it better be better than just you just killed a shade of the real Nefarian. This isn't a soap opera and people just don't come back to life when we saw them die.

With the Battle for Undercity we saw that Sargeras still has some influence over Azeroth. I would love to see more of this and what he has himself locked into. Could this be Azshara? Could this be the Naga in general? Or is he part of the plans of Deathwing?

It seems many of you have some questions you want answered. Here is hoping that they will be!

Enjoy your weekend!